{"id":244,"date":"2026-03-01T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/apex\/thailand-season-opener\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T21:55:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T19:55:54","slug":"thailand-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/apex\/thailand-season-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Bezzecchi opens 2026 with a Buriram clean sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marco Bezzecchi took pole, the fastest lap and the win at Chang International Circuit, and Aprilia left Thailand leading a championship it had not led all winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bezzecchi qualified on pole with a 1:28.652, led the 26 laps in 39:36.270 and set the fastest lap of the race on lap five. Pedro Acosta finished 5.543s behind him, Raul Fernandez a further 3.716s back in third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saturday belonged to Acosta, who won the sprint from Marc Marquez. Three of the 22 starters did not see the flag on Sunday, in air of 35\u00b0C over a track measured at 55\u00b0C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Result \u2014 top six<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>P1 Marco Bezzecchi \u2014 39:36.270 \u00b7 25 pts<\/li>\n\n\n<li>P2 Pedro Acosta \u2014 39:41.813 (+5.543) \u00b7 20 pts<\/li>\n\n\n<li>P3 Raul Fernandez \u2014 39:45.529 (+9.259) \u00b7 16 pts<\/li>\n\n\n<li>P4 Jorge Martin \u2014 39:48.452 (+12.182) \u00b7 13 pts<\/li>\n\n\n<li>P5 Ai Ogura \u2014 39:48.681 (+12.411) \u00b7 11 pts<\/li>\n\n\n<li>P6 Fabio Di Giannantonio \u2014 39:53.115 (+16.845) \u00b7 10 pts<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Bezzecchi took pole, the fastest lap and the win at Chang International Circuit, and Aprilia left Thailand leading a championship it had not led all winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[48,47,46,49],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-race-reports","tag-aprilia","tag-marco-bezzecchi","tag-motogp","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/apex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}