The 2024 MotoGP Riders' Standings without Sprint Points

Whether you like the Sprint or not, it is now an integral part of the race weekends of the MotoGP. Introduced at the start of the 2023 season, the competition format which awards points on Saturday made it possible to reveal kings of the shortened event, as well as drivers who did not use it to their advantage.

It is therefore always interesting to compare the changes that occur in the world championship when we subtract the points scored during these events, in a purely factual manner. In 2024, after twenty rounds, the Drivers' standings would be radically different without the latter, as some of the leaders have not made it their strength.

First of all, the 2024 world champion would be called Francesco Bagnaia, but the latter would have distanced Jorge Martin. A true king of the Sprint, Martin has only finished outside the top-3 four times this season in this exercise, while his rival has five retirements.

Bagnaia has never really benefited from sprint races in the long term, and the fight for the world championship took a turn on Saturday of the Malaysian GP, ​​when the latter crashed while trying to defend his second position.

The Italian would therefore have a lead of more than thirty points, where he is 10 behind after the outcome of their fight, during the Barcelona GP.

Between Enea Bastianini and Marc Marquez, however, it would not change anything. The two men have, in fact, scored the same number of points on Saturdays over the twenty weekends of the season. They thus have 122 points each.

Marco Bezzecchi, for his part, would have finished the season in eighth place in the championship, and not twelfth. He would be ranked just behind Fabio Di Giannantonio, who would gain two positions in the table. Maverick Viñales, who finished seventh thanks to the points scored in the Sprint, would have dropped to tenth place.

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The 2024 MotoGP Drivers' Ranking without points scored in Sprint:

1. Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati Lenovo): 370 points
2. Jorge Martín (Pramac Ducati): 337 points
3. Marc Márquez (Gresini Ducati): 270 points
4. Enea Bastianini (Ducati Lenovo): 264 points
5. Brad Binder (Red Bull KTM): 173 points
6. Pedro Acosta (Tech3 KTM): 151 points
7. Fabio Di Giannantonio (VR46 Ducati): 139 points
8. Marco Bezzecchi (VR46 Ducati): 137 points
9. Alex Márquez (Gresini Ducati): 136 points
10. Maverick Vinales (Aprilia Racing): 135 points
11. Franco Morbidelli (Pramac Ducati): 116 points
12. Aleix Espargaró (Aprilia Racing): 109 points

Ranking : MotoTiming