An Italian rider winning the Italian GP for an Italian team, one important return to action after injury, another return after years out, and sudden-yet-significant doubts over one rider's future - there was plenty to keep tabs on during MotoGP's Mugello weekend.
Amid all of that, Val Khorounzhiy did his best to pick out who actually performed best and worst for his rider rankings.
Let him know what you think of his judgements - and ask any questions - on this post in The Race Members' Club and he'll reply in his debrief later this week.
Qualifying: 1st Sprint: 4th Grand Prix: 1st
A weekend with just one substantial mistake - though one that clearly cost him points.
Bezzecchi did enough on Friday before he and Aprilia took their increasingly familiar single-lap leap overnight and he ran riot in Q2 for pole position.
It was very ably converted to 25 points on Sunday despite the challenges from Jorge Martin and Pecco Bagnaia, but the Saturday points haul was not as it could have been - entirely as a consequence of an "evaluation mistake" in Turn 1 braking at the start.
He scrubbed off too much speed and, in his own words, "the sprint was gone". Better then than in the main race.
Qualifying: 8th Sprint: 10th Grand Prix: 10th
Good track position in practice and qualifying - in terms of reference points - was clearly the chief building block to Moreira's superb weekend. He'd strategised it well, too - telling his crew to send him out behind some local rider because they know the best lines at Mugello.
A "perfect" start in the sprint set up a brief podium cameo - so the rest of that race was about going backwards, and the front tyre had been used up.
He seemed to adopt a more measured approach in the grand prix, culminating in a last-lap overtake on Brad Binder, but ultimately both races finished with Moreira as the lead Honda - a serious achievement for a rookie who has looked good but hadn't really led the line for his employer until now.
Qualifying: 3rd Sprint: 2nd Grand Prix: 2nd
Six crashes across the grand prix weekend and test at Barcelona had put the fear into Martin, and the last of those left him banged up and with foot ligament damage.
It was a lot to overcome, but by and large it was overcome, even if team-mate Bezzecchi again had more in qualifying - and by and large looked the stronger of the two.
But Martin played his usual start card well on both days, before both times having to settle in behind fellow Aprilia riders that he couldn't quite match.
If you can't beat them, finishing right behind will do.
Qualifying: 2nd Sprint: 1st Grand Prix: 9th
Fernandez's weekend played out under a cloud of stomach sickness and, more dramatically, sudden significant doubts over his employment status for 2027.
And amid that he blew hot and cold, though his weekend was better than that sounds.
Missing the top 10 on Friday (a red flag meant a compromised front tyre warm-up cycle, and he made a mistake in the third sector) was corrected emphatically on Saturday morning, and his sprint performance was the best he's ever looked as a MotoGP rider.
The grand prix? Fernandez should have been there or thereabouts but for one reason or another didn't downshift to the gear he wanted into Turn 1, so got the corner all wrong and torpedoed his podium chances.
He was fast enough to recover reasonably, though also barged Luca Marini out of the way in the process to earn a one-position penalty.
Qualifying: 22nd Sprint: 19th Grand Prix: DNF
Thrown in at the deep end after no starts for three years and just a 40-lap private test at Misano to check whether he was still up for it, Crutchlow made up the numbers - but brought a welcome level of enthusiasm and appreciation to the gig.
His bike was not yet tailored enough to his liking (given the short-notice nature of the whole affair) and while he's a fit guy, the MotoGP-level muscle mass just isn't there right now. This Honda, he admitted repeatedly, is "way better than me" currently, and the changes of direction are sapping massive laptime - though braking is apparently OK.
He built the weekend up as he should have - but suffered an apparent muscle tear early on Sunday that all but guaranteed a grand prix DNF (though he stretched things out to 11 laps ultimately, joking that he did manage a full race across the sprint and the grand prix).
He's expected to be back in the saddle at Balaton Park this weekend.
Qualifying: 13th Sprint: 8th Grand Prix: 4th
Ogura was Q2-marginal on Friday despite a handful of corners in which he was "misunderstanding when to hit the apex and how". He should have had enough to go through Q1 the following day, but just didn't put the sectors together.
It's ultimately just not great when you're 13th on the grid and the other Aprilias are 1-2-3, but at least Ogura is proving very adept as damage-controlling these situations.
He was maybe one corner away from the podium on Sunday in the end. But his charge also included a clumsy barge into Marquez (that he did sound a bit remorseful for) and a no-less clumsy clash with Acosta after going wide at San Donato.
Qualifying: 15th Sprint: DNF Grand Prix: 12th
A truly 'conventional' weekend continues to evade Mir. This one featured an immediate retirement from the sprint due to excessive vibrations caused by what Mir theorised was some sort of heat-related component failure.
The rest of it was a bit more normal but unfortunately this also just wasn't a very strong round for Mir. The single-lap pace was thoroughly unremarkable, and two suboptimal starts made things harder - while Mir also made it clear he adopted an "it was not worth the risk to do something more here" philosophy that could've served his points tally well in other weekends.
Qualifying: 14th Sprint: 11th Grand Prix: 11th
I'm not convinced Binder would've made the top 10 on Friday if he had got a fair chance. He never did - thanks to technical issues and a forced last-second switch to the "little bit different" second bike.
Q1 showed there was OK single-lap speed in Binder's locker here. For once, the race performance let him down - "just missing pace, just not able to roll fast enough, especially through sector three, missing some edge grip and missing a bit of speed onto the main straight".
He spent the majority of both races in clear 'hanging on' mode - successfully in the sprint for no points (he fought off Rins), less successfully in the grand prix for some points (he let Moreira through but not the other Hondas).
Qualifying: 19th Sprint: 15th Grand Prix: 17th
There is not all that much to say about Vinales's current MotoGP form without being privy to the nitty-gritty of his physical condition right now. His only task is convincing Tech3 boss Guenther Steiner that he can get back to his normal MotoGP-level fitness.
Vinales is eyeing Brno - 11 months from his original shoulder injury at the Sachsenring - as the time to be 100% fit again. He still looked far off that at Mugello but it is a famously physical track, one that left Vinales feeling that "the bike rides me everywhere" when in time attack mode.
Even within that context, there was a strange performance drop between Friday practice and Q1 on Saturday morning. And the two races were nothing much in the end, seemingly treated by Vinales as just extra practice sessions.
Qualifying: 18th Sprint: 14th Grand Prix: 18th
There was a strong whiff of surrender emanating from Quartararo's weekend. His previous rounds in 2026, against the backdrop of a widely known impending split with Yamaha, defended him well against any such accusation - but not this one.
"Very slow" and surprised by it at his "favourite track", Quartararo seemed to take the Friday crash at Materassi as a warning and spent the rest of the weekend in crash-avoidance mode.
There were no particular signs of his usual prodigious pace that tends to separate him from the other Yamahas, and he slowly trundled out of the fight for the singular point that was made available to the M1s on Sunday.
Qualifying: 9th Sprint: DNF Grand Prix: 14th
Morbidelli's weekend looked genuinely promising across Friday - and Saturday morning practice, where he's convinced he had showed the third-best pace.
But Q2 looked a little suboptimal and was then rendered irrelevant by a pair of brutal starts (ninth-to-16th in the sprint, ninth-to-17th in the main race).
That was obviously unsalvageable, even without the sprint also bringing a crash while trying to manage temperatures in the pack.