Marc Marquez wins Aragon MotoGP sprint, cuts Martin's lead to 33 points

The tyre call is the real story here: Marquez and his brother managed the medium rear to control the race while Bezzecchi and Martin both gambled on the soft and paid for it. Martin's fifth place is the kind of result that quietly erodes a championship lead — 29 points over Bezzecchi and 33 over Marquez is still a buffer, but it shrank without Martin ever really being in the fight for the win. Acosta's patience behind Martin, capitalising on a single mistake at the penultimate corner, is a reminder that KTM remains a factor even if it isn't leading the standings. With Ogura 42 back and absent through injury, the title fight is effectively a three-way contest tightening at exactly the wrong time for the points leader.