It's advantage Jorge Martin in the MotoGP title fight after the second of two races at Misano - but while Pecco Bagnaia's crash from podium contention might have handed his rival a substantial points boost, race day didn't end quite the way Martin would've liked, thanks to last-lap contact with Enea Bastianini that allowed the Italian a home win.
As always after a big swing in the standings, there's a ripple effect all the way down the grid on another manic weekend of action to conclude the European summer season.
That, of course, means lots of metrics to use to rank the grid on performances in The Race's rider ratings.
Scoring the grid in order based on their performances not just in the main event but also Saturday's sprint race, it's obviously all subjective - but comes not just from their final race result but takes into account things like the machinery they’re on and the pre-race expectations.
1 Jorge Martin
Started: 2nd Sprint: 2nd Finished: 2nd
He might not have emerged victorious on Sunday, but credit where it's due to Martin - he took the maximum at his disposal this weekend and capitalised on struggles for his main rival Bagnaia.
Sure, he could maybe have handled Bastianini differently - but the main difference between the pair is that one wanted to win and the other wanted points on Sunday.
Combined with his sprint result, this was a very good weekend all round for Martin.
2 Enea Bastianini
Started: 3rd Sprint: 3rd Finished: 1st
In the past, Bastianini has often been MotoGP's quiet man, someone who wins races with incredible tyre management rather than brute force.
But he reminded us on Sunday that he's absolutely capable of getting the job done when he has to, with an overtake on Martin that, while he was lucky to have escaped without sanction for, not only gave him a win but also did his team-mate Bagnaia a favour by denying Martin an extra five points.
A good result for him and for his Ducati team.
3 Fabio Quartararo
Started: 9th Sprint: 7th Finished: 7th
Once again, Quartararo did something he had no business at all doing on a Yamaha by fighting near the sharp end on Sunday - and while the final result might be seventh, it was due to him running out of fuel - as he had gone into the penultimate corner in a very impressive fifth.
It's a reminder of how good Quartararo is and something that should plant a seed of worry in the minds of his rivals as Yamaha slowly gets back to where it should be.
4 Marc Marquez
Started: 7th Sprint: 4th Finished: 3rd
The Marc Marquez story really started this weekend in qualifying, when another 'pushing too hard' crash gave him a bigger job than he needed.
Between that and his year-old bike's deficit to the GP24 Ducatis, he should be pleased with the end result because he very much made the best of a bad situation to end up on the podium on Sunday evening.
5 Pecco Bagnaia
Started: 1st Sprint: 1st Finished: DNF
It’s hard to fault Bagnaia too much for the disappointing end to his weekend considering the initial problem that set off a disastrous domino effect for his race seems to have been entirely out of his control.
Until the second lap of Sunday's main event, he was having the dream weekend - and he definitely isn't the first person this season to get waylaid by something unusual happening at Michelin.
6 Marco Bezzecchi
Started: 6th Sprint: 8th Finished: 4th
Not an exceptional weekend for Bezzecchi, but certainly a decent one, and another step in the right direction as he continues to rebuild what has so far been a rocky 2024 season.
Things are finally starting to come good for him, just in time for the Asian races that he loves and has enjoyed considerable success at in the past.
7 Maverick Vinales
Started: 8th Sprint: 10th Finished: 6th
This was a quiet weekend for Vinales, yet still one where he emerged as the top Aprilia rider.
Considering he sounds a little like someone who already has one foot out of the door ahead of his switch to KTM next season, it actually came as something of a positive surprise that he upped his game on Sunday.
8 Franco Morbidelli
Started: 10th Sprint: 9th Finished: 5th
The improvements continue for Morbidelli, with another decent weekend where he didn't quite have the pace of the other GP24s but was still close enough to the sharp end to be content.
The real test will be whether he can maintain that form at a circuit that he doesn't know as well as Misano next weekend in Indonesia.
9 Miguel Oliveira
Started: 12th Sprint: 11th Finished: 10th
On another weekend where something was missing inside Aprilia, Oliveira didn't just phone it in the way he's maybe been accused of in the past but turned up and challenged the factory duo of Vinales and Aleix Espargaro.
Sure, he didn't quite match them, but he was a long way clear of his Trackhouse team-mate Raul Fernandez on a tough enough weekend for Aprilia.
10 Luca Marini
Started: 15th Sprint: 15th Finished: 12th
By far Marini's best weekend as a Honda rider and, in his own words, the first where he's really enjoyed riding the RC213V.
It's clear that he hasn't lost his talent just because he's on a tough bike, and MotoGP's steadiest hands is favouring his usual slow-but-steady approach now that he's starting to feel comfortable. More is still to come.
11 Aleix Espargaro
Started: 11th Sprint: 12th Finished: 8th
A rather anonymous weekend for the factory Aprilia racer in his last 'home' appearance for the Italian factory.
Espargaro's weekend was considerably better than his one here two weeks previous, something that'll quell worries ahead of the trip overseas, but it still feels like something is very much missing not just from his package but the entire outfit right now.
12 Pedro Acosta
Started: 5th Sprint: 5th Finished: DNF
There's a point in the season where being a rookie doesn't quite cut it as an excuse for Acosta anymore.
He's still making the sort of mistakes you'd expect from a newcomer but, when he's able to deliver podium pace (and embarrass the other KTMs) when he stays on the bike, it's got to be somewhat frustrating for him right now.
13 Alex Marquez
Started: 21st Sprint: 13th Finished: 9th
Alex Marquez is, of course, a rider whose form is expected to be somewhat up and down - but while his weekend in Misano was sabotaged in large part by his qualifying woes and his race performances actually represented a pretty solid recovery, he's slipping back in the Ducati GP23 pecking order.
14 Joan Mir
Started: 16th Sprint: 21st Finished: 11th
It might not be at the sharp end of the championship where he won a title in 2020, but it’s fair to say that Mir is finally making something approaching progress on the Honda now.
His garage is being flooded with new parts and, as a result, Mir is starting to start remind us of the rider that he absolutely still is. More time is needed, but things are starting to look up.
15 Fabio Di Giannantonio
Started: 13th Sprint: 18th Finished: 14th
Considering what he endured over the course of the weekend, Di Giannantonio should probably be quite content with his efforts.
A long lap penalty for track limits, a time sanction for tyre pressure infractions, and a shoulder that is far from working properly all meant he was suffering on the bike in multiple ways - and in that context his results were adequate enough.
16 Raul Fernandez
Started: 14th Sprint: 17th Finished: 13th
Another quiet weekend for Aprilia's continuity racer next season. Raul Fernandez is clearly still adapting how he operates on a new factory bike and a lot more responsibility within the operation - and it shows in his results.
It's a case of suffering a little now to make next year go smoother.
17 Johann Zarco
Started: 17th Sprint: 16th Finished: 15th
To be fair to Zarco, the only thing that made him look less than good at Misano was that, for the first time in a long time, he didn't look to have much to match the two factory Hondas with.
He was further off their pace than we've seen of late, which could in part be due to the amount of development work he's doing - but the end result is that he looks to have somewhat lost his edge from earlier in the season.
18 Taka Nakagami
Started: 20th Sprint: 19th Finished: 17th
A relatively invisible weekend for Nakagami, who was the worst performing of Honda's quartet by a fair margin - but that’s easily explainable given he's now very much on the oldest version of Honda machinery as development parts head elsewhere first.
New things are arriving for next weekend, so he'll be targeting a bounce back at home in Japan (or beforehand).
19 Augusto Fernandez
Started: 18th Sprint: 20th Finished: 18th
Not much to write home about for Augusto Fernandez.
Things were tough all round for KTM at Misano, and he wasn't really their worst performer nor their best, but it's looking increasingly unlikely that we're going to see the promise of improvements lately converting into anything really substantial as his time in MotoGP draws to an end.
20 Jack Miller
Started: 19th Sprint: 14th Finished: 16th
It's painfully fair to say that Miller just didn't really turn up in Misano.
He was never near the sharp end and never looked comfortable on the bike, and although it's worth noting that other KTM riders also had issues, all the while rookie Acosta is comfortably inside the top six it's hard to justify the Australian's results.
21 Brad Binder
Started: 4th Sprint: 6th Finished: 19th
Somehow, KTM’s Mr Consistent has lost his way of late, and it's manifesting into crashes now becoming far more common than podiums.
Another fall early on in Sunday's race put paid to any hopes he might have had of success - something that was doubly disappointing after the potential of a good qualifying position.
