Aprilia ran circles around Ducati in MotoGP's first race since the summer break, in the corner speed-prioritising confines of British Grand Prix venue Silverstone.

Here are our winners and losers from Saturday's 10-lap sprint.

Winner: Jorge Martin (1st)

This is the best Martin has looked in a long time, which is worrying for his title rivals because even at his least performant he was scoring enough to somehow hang on to the championship lead.

A back-to-basics approach on the bike set-up - though one coupled with a new rear wheel winglet that only his RS-GP is carrying - has, by Martin's own assessment, reinvigorated him and gave him back "my feeling".

The result was a race coolly managed, even if he was at one point wary that Ai Ogura would trump him on tyre life.

Loser: Ducati

It won't be feeling it too much in the points yet, but this was a real beating for Ducati - and there is reason to expect another tomorrow, which would bring with it a more heavily-felt points impact.

Yes, Silverstone was already a blip last year, but that weekend looked very different to this one (also because, before falling flat in the main race, Ducati delivered a 1-2-3 in the sprint).

As it stands, a challenge to the Aprilias looks totally out of reach for any of its riders bar the excellent Alex Marquez, and Alex Marquez isn't high up enough in the standings to worry Aprilia.

And as for his Ducati peers who do have tangible championship aspirations, they probably just need to grit their teeth and get through tomorrow without also dropping points to the stray KTM or Honda here and there, which on the basis of today's massive tyre fall-off is far from a given.

Winner: Aprilia

The RS-GPs were always tipped to go fast here, but they are proving way, way too fast for their rivals.

If not for Raul Fernandez's crash this was pretty clearly going to be an Aprilia 1-2-3-4, and Alex Marquez - Ducati's leading rider and renowned Silverstone specialist - admitted there's no reason to expect anything different.

Of course, the high-speed Silverstone layout favours the Aprilia, but it also clearly enjoys an enormous edge on tyre life. Yamaha rider Fabio Quartararo theorised this may be more about temperature than wear: "I think that's where the Aprilia is stronger than anyone else, because they can keep lower temperature on the rear tyre."

In any case, the RS-GP has consistently been a more potent package this year on the harder tyres, so Aprilia holds all the cards going into Sunday.

Loser: Raul Fernandez (DNF)

It doesn't take a genius analyst to appreciate that a return of 'DNF' is not good when the other Aprilia riders finished first, second and third.

Fernandez said he was wrong-footed by a "really bad" start tied to clutch vibrations, but also admitted that he misjudged his battle with Marco Bezzecchi - eyeing up an overtaking run through Aintree and so crashing a corner earlier at the Loop as he tried to set it up.

He said he was "disappointed" in himself and apologised to the Trackhouse team.

Winner: Marco Bezzecchi (3rd)

Finishing behind two other Aprilias would normally be a really poor return for Bezzecchi at Silverstone - but not this weekend, with his Sachsenring injuries still placing a ceiling on his results.

He was worried coming into the sprint here after his Q2 effort had left him "destroyed", but the fundamental speed is there and any damage in the standings is being significantly mitigated.

Loser: Marc Marquez (9th)

Marquez identified the issue that slowed him to a crawl in the sprint as graining rather than pure tyre deg - and that's a slightly surprising development given high track temperatures.

For him, the struggles began on lap four and never abated. The rear was in such poor shape that at one point a massive shake deployed his airbag.

Such was his pace decline that the fact he had only qualified sixth - hampered by mis-identifying a flag (seemingly a track surface flag) as a yellow and aborting his lap - didn't really seem to matter much to the outcome.

And there's a risk of the same playing out tomorrow, with Marquez unconvinced that switching the medium rear on Sunday will solve the issue, as it is not that different from the soft.

Winner: Pedro Acosta (6th)

The Aprilia is totally out of reach (Acosta said he can only follow the RS-GPs "in the pitlane") and the Ducati is still better - so sixth is an exceptional result with all that in mind.

Acosta hasn't had the cleanest weekend and, like everyone, encountered some tyre troubles in the sprint, but he's dragging the (still power-limited) KTM as high as it will go.

Loser: Pecco Bagnaia (17th)

Coming off an arm pump operation that is still almost certainly affecting him, Bagnaia is just all-round 'going through it' this weekend.

He said he "couldn't imagine" getting more out of the day given his performance level, which he described as "no performance, no speed".

Points looked a long shot on the basis of qualifying even before he totally ran out of rear tyre on the right side - and he, like Marquez, isn't convinced it'll be all that much better with the medium than with the soft.

Winner: Jack Miller (13th)

OK, yes, the points return is the exact same as if Miller were to pull into the pits after the opening lap. But you play the cards you have, and the Australian was clearly canny - as was good friend Brad Binder over at KTM - in deciding to go for the medium rear over the soft.

From his previous experience in the weekend, he'd concluded the soft rear "looked like [expletive] and felt like [expletive]" at the end of a sprint distance - and so accepted some early-race grip struggles against the soft runners to end up as the top Yamaha at the finish.

Loser: Toprak Razgatlioglu (20th)

Razgatlioglu is on course to have two of his worst weekends in MotoGP either side of the summer break. He struggled at the Sachsenring, and he's struggling again here.

He had lamented a lack of cornering through the weekend, but in the race was undone by rear tyre wear that he described as abnormal - and claimed he would've parked it in the pits if it were a full-distance race.