Marco Bezzecchi won the Grand Prix of Indonesia from Raul Fernandez, Jorge Martin and Ai Ogura, and motogp.com records that as Aprilia's "very first MotoGP 1-2-3-4 finish". The same report counts it as Italy's 300th premier-class win. Pedro Acosta was fifth for KTM and Marc Marquez sixth, the first Ducati home. Martin's 16 points to Marquez's 10 left the championship where it started the weekend, two points apart, with the names the other way round from Saturday night.

Lap 19 of 27

Fernandez started from his first premier-class pole, a 1'28.852 set on Saturday, per motogp.com's qualifying report. He had crashed out at the first corner of the Sprint a few hours later, and motogp.com says he rode Sunday with "not one, but two broken fingers" from it; Crash.net and MCNews report a single fracture, of his right index finger. He still led every lap until the 19th, holding Bezzecchi at half a second, then at four tenths. "Lap 19 of 27, the lead changed for the first time since Turn 1, Lap 1," in motogp.com's words, and Bezzecchi's lead was 1.4 seconds almost at once.

Along the way Bezzecchi lowered the race's fastest lap to a 1:29.991, and motogp.com says he set another on lap 19 without giving the time; the official timing sheet was not readable for this piece, so the final fastest lap is not stated here. His lead was 3.3 seconds late in the race, and Crash.net's results table has it at 4.260 seconds at the flag.

Martin's third, built in the opening laps

Martin was fifth after the opening corners. Fermin Aldeguer, the 2025 winner here, fell at Turn 16 on lap 2 while running ahead of him, which motogp.com says gave Martin "a free pass" into fourth, and he went up the inside of Marquez at Turn 10 for third. From there he rode the rest of the race alone, 2.4 seconds behind Fernandez at one point and 5.7 seconds clear of the group behind.

Marquez's sixth is the other half of the same sum, and motogp.com's reading is that he would have taken a two-point deficit if it had been offered to him at the start of the weekend. Further back, Pecco Bagnaia crashed out for a second straight year at Mandalika, motogp.com's Indonesian edition notes, and Crash.net lists Jack Miller and Toprak Razgatlioglu among the other retirements.

Ogura, Acosta and Marquez, three bikes for fourth

Trackhouse's two Aprilias finished second and fourth, either side of Martin's factory bike. Acosta set the race's fastest lap on lap 4, by motogp.com's account, before Bezzecchi bettered it, and spent the middle of the race swapping places with Marquez. Marquez was back ahead on lap 13; on lap 21 Ogura went past him at Turn 16 and then took fourth from Acosta into the same corner. Acosta finished a tenth behind Ogura and Marquez just over a second behind both. Fabio Di Giannantonio was eighth behind Alex Marquez, and Fabio Quartararo ninth.

Marquez put the result in his own terms to MCNews: "I'm very happy that I didn't lose any points to Martín." Across the weekend it is exactly true: 22 points each, 12 and 10 for Marquez, six and 16 for Martin. Ogura, second on Saturday and fourth on Sunday, also scored 22.

The Sprint, and four laps of tyre pressure

Saturday belonged to Marquez. Fernandez and Bezzecchi went out together at Turn 1, and motogp.com has Bezzecchi "left with nowhere to go" after a move further up the order; other reports describe the two Aprilia riders touching, and Fernandez told Crash.net that what Bezzecchi did "wasn't professional". Martin, by his own account, had Marquez behind him late on; then, in the words of motogp.com's Sprint report, "sat up with 4 laps to go, losing more than two seconds in the lap". He finished fourth behind Marquez, Ogura and Di Giannantonio, Marquez left Saturday four points ahead, and Ogura moved to within a point of Acosta. Acosta's own Sprint included a long lap penalty for track limits, motogp.com says.

Martin's explanation, given to Crash.net, was the tyre-pressure rule: below the minimum front pressure, he said, "So I had to let Marc pass." Sunday added a second case. Maverick Vinales finished 17th and, per MCNews, was given a 16-second penalty for front pressure, which Crash.net's results say did not change the order. Acosta was warned, and told Crash.net "we looked like donkeys", proposing a minimum pressure checked on the grid before the start, "and then what happens happens." PN has not read the stewards' decisions, and the two riders' accounts are theirs.

Two points, five rounds, 185 to play for

Martin left Mandalika on 355 points and Marquez on 353. Martin arrived at 333 and scored six in the Sprint and 16 on Sunday; Marquez arrived at 331 and scored 12 and 10. Bezzecchi's 25 took him to 309, 46 behind the leader, the figure motogp.com prints. Ogura is fourth on 259, a point ahead of Acosta. Five rounds at 37 points each leave 185, starting at Phillip Island on 25 October, so Bezzecchi, 46 behind, and Ogura, 96 behind, are both still in the arithmetic.

Aprilia also left Mandalika 12 points clear of Ducati in the manufacturers' standings, per MCNews. Aprilia's Massimo Rivola summed up his team's weekend to MCNews: "Once again, Aprilia means high drama, for better and for worse."

Quiles, champion with five to go

Moto3 settled its title at Mandalika. Maximo Quiles won the Moto3 race from David Almansa and Brian Uriarte and is 2026 Moto3 World Champion with five rounds still to run. Almansa stays second in the standings, 132 points behind on PN's count from the official Motegi table. In Moto2, Izan Guevara won a 14-lap race restarted after a red flag for a first-corner crash, his fourth win of the season, per motogp.com. Alex Escrig, leading, stopped with a technical problem on the penultimate lap. Manuel Gonzalez's second place keeps him 5.5 points ahead of Guevara with five rounds to go.