Aprilia ace Marco Bezzecchi ‘had to admit’ he was wrong about the ‘impossible’ at Aragon Grand Prix

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Marco Bezzecchi produced an emphatic recovery ride in the Sprint Race at the 2025 Aragon Grand Prix, as the Aprilia rider charged through from 20th on the grid to P8.

The 26-year-old arrived at MotorLand Aragon on the back of scoring his first Grand Prix win with Aprilia last time out at Silverstone. Bezzecchi joined the Noale factory from VR46 ahead of the 2025 MotoGP season, but did not finish higher than sixth through the first six rounds.

Bezzecchi won Aprilia’s first race of 2025 at Silverstone after he qualified 11th on the grid for the British Grand Prix, too. Yet the Italian left himself fighting with an arm behind his back at the Aragon GP by crashing in Q1, in which only Somkiat Chantra would set a slower lap time.

Marco Bezzecchi ‘had to admit’ it was his fault the Aprilia rider crashed in qualifying at Aragon

Rimini native Bezzecchi wasted no time before making up some positions during the Aragon Sprint, as the Aprilia ace finished the first of 11 laps in 16th place. Another spot also came at the expense of Johann Zarco on Lap 2, before his progress declined behind Raul Fernandez.

Bezzecchi also capitalised on Joan Mir and Francesco Bagnaia’s plights in the Aragon Sprint, before passing Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo and KTM pilot Brad Binder on L7 to move into the points. It is only the fifth time that Bezzecchi has earned points in a Sprint Race with Aprilia.

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But, speaking after the Sprint Race on Saturday, Bezzecchi ‘had to admit’ that the Aprilia ace only had himself to blame about crashing in qualifying for the Aragon GP. He lost the front of his RS-GP25 on the Italian’s very first flying lap in Q1 after touching the inside kerb at Turn 3.

“Unfortunately, the slide was not what we wanted,” Bezzecchi conceded, via Motosprint. “I touched the inside kerb at Turn 3, albeit just a little.

“When I went down I said to myself, ‘Impossible. It’s not my fault’. I thought I hadn’t hit [the kerb] that hard, but I had to admit that I had touched the kerb.”

Neil Hodgson thinks Marco Bezzecchi crashed in qualifying trying to follow Enea Bastianini

Bezzecchi’s crash in Q1 helped to ensure the Italian registered his worst qualifying result for Aprilia so far with P20 at the Aragon GP. He qualified P9 in Thailand, P9 in Argentina, P13 in America, P13 in Qatar, P11 at Jerez, P7 in France and P11 at Silverstone since joining Aprilia.

But while Bezzecchi admits that the Aprilia ace crashed in qualifying for the Aragon GP after he hit the Turn 3 kerb, Neil Hodgson thinks there may have been a second reason. He claims Bezzecchi was pushing too much, too soon as he wanted to use Enea Bastianini as a marker.

Hodgson said on TNT Sports 2: “He wasn’t [wide]. He’s just a bit too quick on that first lap. I’ll tell you what, he got a really good track position and he was trying to hunt down that group. Enea. He got a perfect track position.”

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Tech3 ace Bastianini would only qualify in P17 for the Aragon GP as the only KTM rider who failed to make it to Q2 on Saturday. The other KTM riders of Pedro Acosta, Brad Binder and Maverick Vinales got P5, P6 and P8 in qualifying. Bezzecchi was also the slowest Aprilia ace.

Bezzecchi is again Aprilia’s main factory rider at the Aragon GP with Jorge Martin unlikely to return from injury before the summer break. Ai Ogura is also missing at the Aragon GP after the Trackhouse rider’s medical checks on the tibia fracture that he sustained at Silverstone.