Fabio Di Giannantonio is hoping for good luck from his pole place for Sunday’s 2026 US MotoGP race at COTA.
The VR46 Ducati rider took his second pole place in every week earlier than being taken forward by Marc Marquez within the opening lap of a dramatic dash.
Nonetheless, Di Giannantonio is not going to have Aprilia rider Marco Bezzecchi on the entrance row after he was joined by Luca Marini after receiving a GP2 grid penalty for pulling away from Marc Marquez in qualifying.
Bezzecchi’s demotion strikes Pedro Acosta to second on the grid, with Francesco Bagnaia on the skin of the entrance row.
Bagnaia was cornered by Jorge Martin on the ultimate lap of Saturday’s race, lacking out on a dash victory.
Acosta was stripped of third place because of a tire stress penalty after the race.
After dropping the world championship result in Martin after a late crash, Bezzecchi will start his quest for a fifth consecutive Grand Prix victory from the highest of the second row.
The Italian additionally wants to guide the primary two laps to equal Jorge Lorenzo’s file of main MotoGP with 103 consecutive laps set in 2015.
Marc Márquez shall be given a long-lap penalty to qualify for the Grand Prix after taking down Fabio Di Giannantonio on the opening lap of the dash.
The variety of MotoGP opponents was diminished to 21 after Tech 3’s Maverick Vinales withdrew from the occasion after FP1 because of ache in his left shoulder attributable to a loosened screw from surgical procedure final yr.
The 19-lap Grand Prix will begin at 3pm native time.
2026 COTA MotoGP Race: Full beginning grid after penalties
1st row: Fabio Di Giannantonio (pole place), Pedro Acosta, Francesco Bagnaia
2nd row: Marco Bezzecchi*, Joan Mir, Marc Marquez
third row: Jorge Martin, Alex Marquez, Fermin Aldeguer
4th row: Ai Ogura, Luca Marini*, Enea Bastianini
fifth row: Raul Fernandes, Diogo Moreira, Johann Zarco
sixth row: Fabio Quartararo, Toprak Razgatrioglu, Brad Binder
seventh row: Jack Miller, Franco Morbidelli, Alex Rins
*2 grid penalty.
