Overview
- Fabio Di Giannantonio claimed pole with a 1:17.410 after advancing from Q1, as a crash‑filled Q2 felled Francesco Bagnaia, Pedro Acosta, Marc Marquez and Jorge Martin, with Turn 4 the main trouble spot.
- The Sprint start was pushed back by over an hour to fix a hole on the start‑finish straight, reported by some outlets as a sinkhole linked to a burst drainage pipe, before racing resumed.
- Marc Marquez took his first win of 2026 in the 15‑lap Sprint by 0.213s over Di Giannantonio, with Martin third and Bezzecchi fourth, while Fabio Quartararo secured sixth for Yamaha.
- Sunday warm‑up was led by Marco Bezzecchi ahead of Marc and Alex Marquez, with falls for Di Giannantonio, Franco Morbidelli and points leader Acosta as teams evaluated race‑stint pace.
- Michelin said both soft and medium rear tyres can last the full distance, with the medium emerging as the preferred option, as MotoGP returns to Brazil for the first time since 2004 and to Goiânia since 1989.