2024 San Marino MotoGP at Misano as it happened

Acosta's earlier crash was definitely helped by his lack of aero. Another rider missing some aero is Bezzecchi in ninth.

Lap 6/27

Onto lap six and Bagnaia keeps his lead, while Martin is coming under big pressure from Morbidelli who fires in a 1m31.6s as the new fastest lap. 

Acosta was already wide when he fell.

Incident

Pedro Acosta has crashed at Turn 14. He's left a lot of gravel on track as he rejoins. 

Lap 4/27

Bagnaia extends his lead to 0.6s over the line to start lap four but Morbidelli has put in the fastest lap of the race in third. He fancies this one today!

Bezzecchi has blown another front row start circulating in ninth after a scrappy first lap. Alex Marquez rounds out the top 10.

lap 3/27

Bagnaia leads by 0.506s across the line to start lap three from Martin. 

Acosta overtakes Morbidelli into Turn 8 again to take third. But he runs wide at Turn 9 and gives the place back.

Marc Marquez is running seventh right now.

Lap 2/27

Martin gets close to tagging Bagnaia into Turn 2 and loses ground to the race leader. 

Martin fends off Morbidelli into Turn 3, but Acosta has lost a winglet after contact with Morbidelli at Turn 4.

Lap 1/27

Martin passes Morbidelli into Turn 2 to take second, while Acosta moves into third at Turn 8. Bastianini and Marc Marquez make contact at Turn 8. 

Warm-up lap 

The warm-up lap is under way.

More umbrellas going up as the tyre warmers come off the bikes!

Just five minutes to go till race start and spits or rain are falling again. 

Nearly 90,000 fans have packed into Misano today and they are fired up after the national anthem!

10-minute warning

Just 10 minutes until lights out! Nothing has come of the rain just yet.

Tyre choice

We haven't got a full tyre sheet yet from Michelin but Francesco Bagnaia has made a late switch to the medium rear, which Jorge Martin has gone to the grid on. 

Lots of intense discussions going on between riders and their teams. The rain threat causes all kinds of doubts about tyre choice, tyre pressures. 

20-minute warning 

Rain appears to be spitting again with just 20 minutes until lights out. Nervous time for everyone on the grid right now.

We haven't had a flag-to-flag race since last year's Japanese GP, which was dominated by Jorge Martin. Whatever the conditions, it will be hard to stop the Pramac rider today.

Pitlane has opened for the sighting lap. 

It sounds like the rain at Misano has stopped... for now.

breaking news

The Repsol Honda team will not be represented on the grid this afternoon as Luca Marini has withdrawn due to illness. 

Joan Mir withdrew from the weekend for the same reason on Saturday morning. 

There is a heavy cell of rain in the area, so it's not certain right now just what kind of race we are in for.

There is already a bit of drama even before the race gets going. 

It is raining at Misano lightly with 40 minutes till lights out!