Alex Marquez produced a dominant performance to claim a second successive Spanish MotoGP victory around the Jerez circuit.
Marquez was considered as one of the favourites ahead of the race and backed up his maiden MotoGP victory at the circuit in 2025 with his first win of the current campaign.
It was Marc Marquez who made a lightning getaway from pole position to take the lead into the first corner ahead of Marco Bezzecchi, who got the launch from the second row of the grid.
Alex Marquez then came through the order after starting fifth and produced a strong move on Bezzecchi to take second place.
The Marquez brothers crossed the line in first and second to end Bezzecchi’s 121-lap streak of leading races, with the Italian slotting into third.
The younger Marquez did not waste any time knowing he had the pace to lead from the front and swept underneath his brother at Turn 6 to take the lead.
However, Marc Marquez slid onto the curbs at Turn 11 while chasing his brother and crashed out of the race on Lap 3.
Fabio Di Giannantonio also had some early pace, and on the third lap of the race found himself able to get past Jorge Martin to take the final spot on the podium.
The order at the front remained stagnant throughout the race, although Di Giannantonio was running at a faster pace than Bezzecchi.
As the leaders remained fixed in position, there was jostling down the order for sixth place, as Raul Fernandez made his way through on Pedro Acosta.
Acosta began to struggle with the pace of the leaders and slipped behind Ai Ogura and Enea Bastianini – with both riders commencing a battle for seventh in which Ogura eventually won out.
As Acosta slipped behind Francesco Bagnaia and Fermin Aldeguer, he was provided some respite as Bagnaia ran wide at Turn 1.
It appeared the double World Champion suffered a mechanical issue, and was forced to retire in a double DNF for the factory Ducati team.
Out front though, the order remained as it was, allowing Alex Marquez to cruise to the line to claim his first victory of the campaign.
Bezzecchi’s run of race victories came to an end after the Italian picked up second place, with Di Giannantonio completing the top three.
Martin remained fourth, Ogura got the better of Trackhouse team-mate Fernandez on the final lap of the race to complete the top five – with all four Aprilias inside the top six.
Johann Zarco slipped back in the latter stages but still picked up a welcome seventh place, with Bastianini in eighth.
Aldeguer crossed the line to take ninth, as Acosta rounded out the top 10 despite picking up damage in the early stages of the race.
Brad Binder narrowly trailed his team-mate in 11th, with Sprint podium finisher Franco Morbidelli taking the flag in 12th.
Luca Marini dropped back on the initial start but recovered to 13th, while Fabio Quartararo bested Joan Mir to the line in the final points paying positions in 14th and 15th.
Alex Rins crossed the line in 16th ahead of Diogo Moreira in 17th and both Pramac Yamaha riders. 18th-placed Jack Miller leading Toprak Razgatlioglu, who served a long lap penalty for his Sprint crash.
Augusto Fernandez completed his wildcard duties for Yamaha by rounding out the standings in 20th.
Lorenzo Savadori joined Marquez and Bagnaia as the non-finishers of the Spanish Grand Prix.
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