ROUND 6 / MAY 29-31, 2026
MUGELLO CIRCUIT / SCARPERIA E SAN PIERO, ITALY
ROAD RACE I FIM MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
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the penultimate circuit dashed
his victory hopes.
In his place, Uriarte forged
ahead, putting half a second
into the fighting pack halfway
around the final lap to ensure
no one could slipstream him
to the line. He took a maiden
win by four-tenths of a second,
with Alvaro Carpe (Ajo KTM)
rising up from fifth on lap 16
to take second from Danish
and Fernandez, just six-hun
-
dredths of a second covering
the trio at the line.
A rare 11th for Quiles (145
points) means his championship
lead was reduced, with Carpe
(93) now 52 points back in sec
-
ond and Fernandez (89) third.
or reason to affairs. But recent
work in the wind tunnel turned
the MLav Hondas of Joel
Kelso and Eddie O'Shea into
missiles, with the pair regu
-
larly making their way to the
front as 10 riders fanned out
when braking for San Donato.
Rookies Brian Uriarte (Ajo
KTM) and Hakim Danish (MSI
KTM) and Adrian Fernandez
(Leopard Honda) were other
regulars at the front.
Despite an indifferent week
-
end, Quiles was still a threat,
making his way into the podium
positions by lap seven. But for
once, the 18-year-old was out
-
fought and outthought. A mas-
sive rear slide through Bucine on
der Holgado through Bucine, but
the Spaniard outdragged him to
the line.
Gonzalez (129.5 points) ex-
tends his championship lead to
34.5 points from Guevara (95),
with Vietti (93) third and Agius
(78) fourth.
Moto3
Qualifying indicated Moto3
wouldn't follow the 2026 script.
With title leader Maximo Quiles
(Aspar KTM) 14th on the grid,
his title rivals sniffed an op
-
portunity. Problem was, so did
more than half the field with just
two seconds covering 18 riders
late into the race.
There was rarely any rhyme
There was only one man in Moto2
as Manuel Gonzalez slammed the
Italians in their own backyard to
take a dominant win.
