Marc Márquez wins the sprint and takes pole while Jorge Martín falls and misses Sunday's race due to a broken arm

Marc Márquez (Ducati Desmosedici GP26) has achieved victory in the sprint race of the Australian MotoGP Grand Prix, in addition to the pole position of the starting lineup, along with the Spanish Manuel González (Kalex) and the Indonesian Veda Pratama (Honda), in their respective categories.

Marc Márquez did not fail at the start, in which he took command of the race, scheduled for thirteen laps and in which Jorge Martín, who was fourth at the start, recovered two positions in those initial meters.

Both Jorge Martín and Marc Márquez began their particular fight for the lead of the race, followed at an increasingly greater distance by Álex Márquez (Ducati Desmosedici GP26), Pedro Acosta (KTM RC 16) and the Italians Fabio di Giannantonio (Ducati Desmosedici GP26) and Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia RS-GP), who despite going badly, knew how to overcome adversity. to recover ground throughout the test.

The overtaking between Marc Márquez and Jorge Martín became a constant lap after lap, until on the eighth lap, in turn eight, the Aprilia rider made a mistake, who crashed and had to be evacuated by ambulance to the circuit clinic. With a fracture in the radius of his right arm, he will miss Sunday's race.

Marc Márquez was only on the way to his ninth victory of the season in a sprint, with his brother Álex and Di Giannantonio accompanying him on the podium and once again the leader of the championship, now with ten points ahead of Martín and 50 points ahead of Marco Bezzecchi, who finished fourth.

In addition, Marc Márquez achieved pole position, his fourth of the season and sixth on the Australian circuit in MotoGP, despite suffering a fall just beginning the second classification at Phillip Island.

The nine-time world champion quickly returned to his workshop to take the second motorcycle and return to the track which, despite the poor asphalt conditions, allowed him to 'endorse' almost a second and a half difference over his closest pursuers, his brother Álex Márquez and the Frenchman Johann Zarco, who arrived from the first classification.

Marc Márquez lapped in 1:34.203, ahead of his brother's 1:35.697 and the Frenchman's 1:35.706 to achieve his seventy-eighth pole position in the premier category of world motorcycling.

The Spanish Manuel González (Kalex) returned to the Moto2 pole position with a champion's performance and after overcoming many problems, since he did so for the first and only time in 2026 at the Italian Grand Prix held in Mugello.

González, who signs the tenth pole of his sporting career, with a time of 1:30.122, will start from the first line of the starting formation, ahead of the Belgian Barry Baltus (Kalex) and the Czech Filip Salac (Kalex).

González's most direct rival in the championship, the also Spanish Izan Guevara (Boscoscuro), was also able to resolve his situation favorably by managing to finish sixth, after having been in very late positions for a good part of the classification.

The Indonesian Veda Pratama (Honda) achieved the first pole position of his sporting career, at just 17 years old, by being the fastest in the official Moto3 classification, which also gave Indonesia the first best training classification in the history of the category.

Pratama completed the turn to the Australian track in 1:35.299, a time with which he beat by barely 21 thousandths of a second the mathematical champion of the category, the Spanish Máximo Quiles (KTM), until that moment leader of the classification, and with 67 thousandths over the local 'idol', the Australian Joel Kelso (Honda).