Raul Fernandez Wins at Silverstone as Aprilia Sweeps Its First-Ever MotoGP Podium
Fernandez led every lap at Silverstone as Aprilia became the first manufacturer to sweep a MotoGP podium there, with Martin second and Bezzecchi third on his comeback weekend.
Raul Fernandez won the 2026 British MotoGP at Silverstone on 9 August, leading every lap for Trackhouse Aprilia and crossing the line 2.538 seconds clear of championship leader Jorge Martin. Marco Bezzecchi completed the podium, making it an all-Aprilia top three — the first time in MotoGP history one manufacturer has swept a podium at Silverstone.
I had this race on in the garage on a Sunday afternoon I was supposed to spend clearing out the garage itself, which tells you everything about how that went. Three Aprilias on one podium is the kind of thing I’ll bring up unprompted at a barbecue for the next six months.
Race result: Fernandez leads start to finish
Fernandez set a new race lap record of 1m58.457s on lap 2 and then simply defended it, managing tyres and fuel while holding 1m59s pace for the rest of the 39m45.930s race distance. Martin, still the championship leader, couldn’t find a way past and settled for second. Bezzecchi, back from a collarbone fracture that had him question his own fitness for the weekend, took third.
| Pos | Rider | Team | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Raul Fernandez | Trackhouse Aprilia | 39m45.930s |
| 2 | Jorge Martin | Aprilia Racing | +2.538s |
| 3 | Marco Bezzecchi | Aprilia Racing | +3.393s |
| 4 | Alex Marquez | Gresini Ducati | +4.702s |
| 5 | Pedro Acosta | Red Bull KTM | +6.256s |
| 6 | Fabio Di Giannantonio | VR46 Ducati | +6.382s |
| 7 | Marc Marquez | Ducati Lenovo | +9.550s |
Fernandez’s win makes him the seventh different Grand Prix winner of the 2026 season, and Silverstone’s twelfth consecutive different British GP winner — a streak that says as much about how competitive this Aprilia-Ducati-KTM era is as it does about the track itself.
A weekend that wasn’t short of drama
Silverstone claimed its usual share of casualties. Ai Ogura crashed out at Turn 16 on lap 9, Francesco Bagnaia lost the front at Turn 7 a lap earlier, and Joan Mir and Alex Rins collided at the same corner on the opening lap. Enea Bastianini went down at Turn 17, and stand-in rider Iker Lecuona — filling in for the injured Fermin Aldeguer — crashed shortly after. Fabio Quartararo picked up a 16-second post-race penalty for a technical infringement that dropped him from 12th to 16th.
Bezzecchi’s third place is the more interesting story once you know the context: he’d only returned to riding at Misano days earlier to test the shoulder and collarbone after his fracture, and Silverstone’s medical check was the thing standing between him and this race entirely. He didn’t just start — he podiumed.
Championship picture after round 12
Martin still leads the title race with 240 points, a comfortable enough buffer that a single second place at Silverstone doesn’t threaten it — but a three-Aprilia podium, with Martin only just off the top step, is exactly the kind of round that keeps the margin from growing. Bezzecchi sits second in the standings, with Marc Marquez still very much in the picture despite a quieter seventh here.
None of this changes what’s coming for 2027 — MotoGP’s headline reset to 850cc machinery is still on schedule, with the season set to open in Thailand for a third straight year — but for now, Aprilia just had the best single afternoon any manufacturer’s had at Silverstone in the sport’s history.
