Overview
- Marco Bezzecchi crashed during the sprint and then confronted track marshals, with stewards finding he shoved and struck a marshal and suspending him from the Sunday Grand Prix.
- Francesco Bagnaia won the 10-lap sprint, Ai Ogura took his first MotoGP pole with a new lap record, and Marc Marquez finished third in the sprint, shaping the immediate raceday order.
- The stewards' written decision cited specific FIM Grand Prix World Championship rules describing actions that 'harm the interests of the sport,' and Aprilia lodged but ultimately dropped further appeal.
- Other official rulings that reshape the weekend include Toprak Razgatlioglu’s three-place grid penalty for impeding and Moto3 rider Eddie O'Shea’s disqualification for a combined rider-plus-bike weight below the minimum.
- Alex Marquez withdrew from the weekend for medical reasons and teams dealt with extreme heat and mixed tyre choices, factors that influenced strategy and increase the title volatility caused by Bezzecchi’s absence.