Lead riders for Aprilia and Ducati dominated the various stages of a really eventful MotoGP return for the Brazilian Grand Prix.
Those same riders head up these rankings - but what about the other manufacturers' standouts?
Qualifying: 5th Sprint: 3rd Grand Prix: 2nd
Has an argument for being first this weekend. If any Martin fans are annoyed I didn't quite convince myself to do it, let me offer an olive branch by saying I think Jorge Martin can be 2026 world champion.
He was very good in both races - and probably could've got something more out of them with a better qualifying - but the ultimately inconsequential Friday was what stuck with me the most in terms of Martin's weekend.
In shaky conditions on a new track, with the existing reserves of bike knowledge and experience neutered for his rivals, Martin looked like he was running laps around the other Aprilias.
...Be afraid, yeah.
Qualifying: 1st Sprint: 2nd Grand Prix: 3rd
Di Giannantonio's Goiania weekend has continued - and accentuated - an untidy-yet-shockingly-fast start to the season.
He had "completely f***ed [up]" getting into rhythm on the wet patches on Friday, so could've easily ended up with a spoiled weekend - but instead should've had a win after a stellar Q1-to-pole recovery.
The sprint was his, handed over to Marquez with two errors in the same spot (one unseen early on to erode his lead, one late on to let Marquez through). The grand prix looked maximised.
Qualifying: 7th Sprint: 14th Grand Prix: 8th
My head cannot go fifth or higher. My heart cannot go seventh or lower. There was probably a less weird way to phrase that, but I refuse to use the backspace button.
This will be an unremarkable weekend on the results sheet, especially as Aldeguer destroyed his sprint by going perpendicular off the line. But the guy can barely walk, has done all of zero laps in the pre-season, and had to wait until Saturday for his first serving of true dry running in MotoGP this year.
If you're coming in blind and looking at the Ducati results this weekend, you'd never ever know he's the injured second-year rider.
Qualifying: 6th Sprint: 5th Grand Prix: 5th
"Top five in a new circuit for all the riders sounds not too bad. But if you see factory Aprilias finishing 1-2, I feel like my result is like nothing."
Wonderfully put - though it certainly isn't "nothing".
Ogura deserves credit for banishing some past wet-weather demons with a solid Friday, and he rode a very professional couple of races (especially the recovery from a really poor launch on Sunday that culminated in a last-lap Alex Marquez pass).
Trackhouse and Aprilia should be happy, but with the level of the RS-GP right now he can do more.
Qualifying: 10th Sprint: DNF Grand Prix: 9th
A fantastic Friday in the damp laid the foundations of Zarco's weekend but it had promised a lot more had the weather complied.
The Honda wasn't amazing in the dry and Zarco didn't stand out against his fellow Honda riders, but he performed admirably on Sunday, riding a sensible race to a sensible position for the bike.
The sprint had been less sensible - he crashed at Turn 1 after being sucked in by Raul Fernandez's slipstream. But that anyway came after he was already badly compromised by Aldeguer's wild sideways rodeo off the line.
Qualifying: 17th Sprint: 13th Grand Prix: 14th
Rins's position as the top Yamaha on Sunday reflects the feeling that he was probably vaguely the fastest - or at least the most-at-ease - Yamaha rider here, but with Quartararo's single-lap magic unavailable to him yet again.
He caught some badly timed traffic on Friday during his Q2 push, then had no real hope getting out of Q1. That basically wrote off his sprint, but his Sunday ride was, in his own words, "great for what we can do" - an accurate assessment.
Qualifying: 19th Sprint: 11th Grand Prix: 11th
His weekend featured what I increasingly feel like calling 'the Luca Marini special': just missing out on Q2 on Friday (by 0.021s in this case), then getting badly outmatched in Q1.
That's partly luck, of course. But some uncharacteristic crashing on Saturday left Marini with more work to do than ideal.
The recovery in both races was very reasonable, though ideally he should have beaten rookie Moreira in the sprint. His theory was that he was limited by a front tyre that stayed in the warm too long amid all the track repair delays.
Qualifying: 13th Sprint: DNF Grand Prix: DNF
Another Mir weekend that yields a big-bowl-of-nothing, but a lot of sympathy is warranted.
It was clear already when he rocked up on media day with no voice that this could be a physically unpleasant weekend, and so it proved, Mir battered by illness and clearly overtaxed by the demands of Goiania running.
He appeared largely blameless for his sprint exit, pushed out wide by Fernandez and crashing on the dirt. He shrugged it off by saying "nobody will remember" the sprint if Sunday goes well, then got caught out in a strange on-throttle crash quite far into the Turn 4 trouble spot in the grand prix.
It had been a good race for him up until that, but he had also chewed through the right side of his front tyre - something he attributed to a lack of information as a consequence of the early sprint exit.
Qualifying: 22nd Sprint: 17th Grand Prix: 15th
Bastianini struggled awfully to put load into the front on Friday, and had the weekend continued in the same conditions it might have got really ugly.
He was much more competitive in the proper dry, but still off, making several major mistakes in the sprint.
The grand prix was better, as is usually the case.
Qualifying: 20th Sprint: DNF Grand Prix: 18th
The fact he's been trying to forge his own way in terms of bike spec relative to his fellow KTM riders buys a little bit of leeway, as does the fact that there were some genuine glimpses of good performance on Friday.
But it's pretty bleak, and a finish 26s back from Acosta on Sunday is difficult to stomach given both were on the soft rear, which Vinales cannot exploit at all right now (it pushes the front) but Acosta clearly can.
Another worry is that a 20th-place qualifying (not great - but second of the KTMs) turned into 22nd and last in the order after lap one in both races.
Qualifying: 21st Sprint: 15th Grand Prix: DNF
A really strong start in the sprint was the highlight of Binder's otherwise rotten weekend, which was over on lap four of the grand prix when he locked the front into Turn 1.
The KTM was poor here, and his only chance to really get in the mix was on Friday in the strange conditions - and unfortunately he crashed on his first flying lap, consigning himself to backmarker scraps and general anonymity.
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Bezzecchi and Martin lead rankings after dominating Brazil's eventful MotoGP return weekend.
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Early season performances like these often determine championship outcomes in MotoGP.
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Brazil hosted its first MotoGP race since 2004, marking the series' return to South America.