MotoGp Mugello 2025, Riccardo Galli's report cards

Mugello, 22 June 2025 – These are the report cards of the 2025 MotoGP Italian Grand Prix, held today on the Mugello circuit.

Marc Marquez 10. The lion roars again at Mugello and after 11 years wins the Italian GP again. His strength was a cyclone over the weekend. Marc wanted and took everything: pole, track record, Sprint and race. The way he elbows against Pecco and Alex in the very first laps is a textbook summary of the invincible driver. Then he also takes the whistles, that mix of whistles and applause that accompanied him to the top step of the podium, after winning a race that simply confirms one thing: he is the strongest in the world.

Alex Marquez 9. Another podium, another second place, another assist to his brother Marc. He willingly participates in the overtaking carousel of the first laps, then he takes his place almost as if to escort Marc. He suffers but counters DiGiggia's assault on the last lap.

Fabio Di Giannantonio 8. It's up to him to send Bagnaia to hell, snatching the podium from him on the penultimate lap. Aside from that episode, he puts his stamp on a great race. Bold and domineering, Fabio's podium is worth gold. For him and for Vale's team.

Marco Bezzecchi 7. He always, but really always, puts his heart into it and at Mugello he puts together another of his comebacks as a top-class rider. He finishes chasing Bagnaia's time, confirming that the Aprilia has a race pace now very close to that of the Ducatis.

Franco Morbidelli 6. The final grade is the exact average between the eight he would have deserved for having brought the other Vr46 Ducati close to the second place, and the four he should have gotten for the shove with which he knocked out Vinales.

Maverick Vinales 6. If it hadn't been for that 300-mph punch from Morbido's bike, Maverick would have made it to the podium. Fast and motivated, he was making the most of the fact that he loves the Mugello track. Then the mess and that (inevitable) "fuck you" to Morbidelli.

Francesco Bagnaia 5. He even steps down from the podium to close a race that after the spectacular flashes given in the first handful of laps, then became a swamp with zero emotions. Too many 'longs' at the exit of too many curves. Pecco, this is not going well. Absolutely not.

Fabio Quartararo 4. Always far away and out of the pack of protagonists, Fabio's weekend was a never-ending climb. In the race he suffered from the start to the point of being sucked into absolute anonymity. The shoulder that ended up knocked out on Saturday? A small mitigating factor for a race for a novice kid.

Pedro Acosta 4. Much more was expected from him, from his being a terrible boy. The Mugello track, however, has become a test that is still too difficult for him to graduate to the chair of the number ones. He makes a couple of mistakes and defends himself so-so from the assaults.

Johann Zarco 1. He falls too soon and you don't expect it from someone with his experience. The growth process started with Honda and that with the victory at Le Mans seemed to have become a beautiful reality seems to have faded. A denial is urgently needed.

The worst. Enea Bastianini 0. The green light, the race that sets off a thousand emotions and in a second his fall to the ground. Stuff to thrill, from a horror movie. A horror from which Enea seemed - in microscopic steps anyway - to have begun to emerge. Instead, here it all crashes down and moreover on his track, Mugello. There, where just a year ago he had taken a screaming second place. Bastianini and KTM was one of the least successful operations of the 2025 MotoGP and the victim is none other than him. A rider with unique characteristics who however seem to have decided to turn their backs on him.