{"id":365437,"date":"2026-03-30T07:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/365437\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T07:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:10:10","slug":"marco-bezzecchi-wins-usa-motogp-to-extend-perfect-start-to-season-motorsports-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/365437\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Bezzecchi wins USA MotoGP to extend perfect start to season | Motorsports News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">The Italian wins his fifth straight Grand Prix to take control of the world championship standings after three rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 30 Mar 202630 Mar 2026<\/p>\n<p>Aprilia\u2019s Marco Bezzecchi extended his perfect \u2060start to the \u2060year by winning the United States Grand Prix in Austin on Sunday for his third consecutive win of the \u2060year and fifth straight dating back to last season.<\/p>\n<p>Bezzecchi led all 20 laps at the Circuit of the Americas, where he \u2060crossed the line 2.036 seconds ahead of teammate Jorge Martin. Pedro Acosta, who finished third in Saturday\u2019s sprint before a penalty dropped him to eighth, rounded out the podium.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>Bezzecchi, racing a day after he failed \u200cto finish a sprint for the second time this season after a crash, also reclaimed the lead in the MotoGP standings with 81 points, four points clear of Martin, who won Saturday\u2019s sprint race.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, Bezzecchi became the third Italian rider to win five in a row after Hall of Famers Valentino \u2060Rossi and Giacomo Agostini. He is also \u2060the first rider to win the first three grands prix of the season since Marc Marquez in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is amazing. I mean, I wasn\u2019t expecting a day like \u2060this after yesterday, because it wasn\u2019t easy, and I made a mistake, and it was important \u2060to bounce back,\u201d said Bezzecchi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLuckily, my team, \u2060my squad, was very close to me, and they gave me the motivation to try to bounce back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut anyway, I wasn\u2019t expecting a race like this, and I\u2019m \u200cso happy \u2013 I really can\u2019t describe my emotion right now. Very, very happy and proud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Polesitter Fabio Di Giannantonio of VR46 Racing finished \u200cfourth, \u200cwhile defending Austin champion Francesco Bagnaia of the Ducati Lenovo Team was 10th.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4445396 size-arc-image-770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2026-03-29T225851Z_1739282212_MT1USATODAY28617585_RTRMADP_3_MOTORCYCLE-RACING-MOTOGP-RED-BULL-GRAND-.jpeg\" alt=\"Marco Bezzecchi in action.\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/>Bezzecchi took the lead after an opening lap clash with Pedro Acosta, right, in Sunday\u2019s USA MotoGP [Jerome Miron\/Imagn Images via Reuters]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Italian wins his fifth straight Grand Prix to take control of the world championship standings after three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,21061,43,2224,105,1032,1156],"class_list":{"0":"post-365437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-motorsports","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-sport","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-us-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}