Jorge Martín won the Portuguese MotoGP Grand Prix and, for the first time in his career, finished a round leading the championship. The most that had happened before was being at the top between the Sprint race and the main race.
This situation occurred twice: first in last year’s Indonesian Grand Prix, and then in this year’s Qatar Grand Prix. Now, the Spanish rider from Prima Pramac left the Portuguese GP leading the World Championship. He has 60 points, 18 more than Brad Binder (Red Bull KTM). In third place is Enea Bastianini (Ducati), 21 points behind.
Right behind, one point behind the Italian, is his teammate Francesco Bagnaia – who suffered his first retirement of the season in the main race in Portimão and thus dropped from the lead he held before the GP to fourth place. After his first podium, Pedro Acosta (Red Bull GasGas Tech3/KTM) climbed to fifth place. As for the Japanese manufacturers, the strongest is Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha), in 11th position.