2026 US MotoGP Warm-up: Marco Bezzecchi on top as Pedro Acosta crashes
Marco Bezzecchi kicks of Sunday’s US MotoGP race day with the fastest time in warm-up
Marco Bezzecchi has started Sunday’s US MotoGP race day as he means to go on by setting the fastest time in morning warm-up.
The 10-minute session got underway with a very busy pit lane, as all the heavy hitters headed out as soon as the green light fell.
Preparing himself for what’s to come in the grand prix, Marc Marquez immediately took a trip through the long-lap penalty loop, after the nine-time world champion was penalised for crashing into Fabio Di Giannantonio in Saturday’s sprint.
After setting the fastest time momentarily, Pedro Acosta went down at turn two at the start of his second flying lap.
While Acosta was busy recovering his RC16, fellow KTM rider Enea Bastianini sat atop the timingsheets before Alex Marquez went quickest with under five minutes to go.
Like Acosta, Jack Miller was next to set a fast time before immediately going down on his very next lap. The Prima Pramac Yamaha rider crashed at turn one.
Bastianini then regained top before Marco Bezzecchi set the first sub-2m02s lap of the warm-up session. Bezzecchi’s 2m01.743 put him over three tenths clear of Bastianini.
Marc Marquez was next to trouble top spot on the leaderboard, however, Bezzecchi quickly regained control. A time of 2m01.631s was set by the Italian, who will be looking to put his sprint crash behind him later today and continue his winning start to 2026 in the grand prix format.
Behind Bezzecchi and Marc Marquez was polesitter Fabio Di Giannantonio, while Bastianini ended the session in fourth, one place ahead of Toprak Razgatlioglu.
Fermin Aldeguer was sixth fastest ahead of Francesco Bagnaia, Luca Marini, COTA sprint winner Jorge Martin and Ai Ogura.
It was another tough session for Fabio Quartararo, who finished 14th and nearly half a second down on Razgatlioglu.
