During the Sprint race of the MotoGP Catalunya GP, Franco Morbidelli (Prima Pramac/Ducati) was penalized with a Long Lap – all due to an overtaking attempt on Álex Márquez (Gresini/Ducati), in which he forced the rival to run wide and off track.
The Spaniard was brief in explaining the incident: ‘He simply went straight to turn four, touched me, and I went into the gravel, so, that’s all.’
That said, Márquez finds it strange the different judgments of the stewards regarding Morbidelli’s maneuver, which in his opinion was similar to those that went unpunished in the French GP two weeks ago:
– Here he received the Long Lap penalty, not in Le Mans. So, it’s very strange because he did exactly the same in Le Mans to me, to Aleix [Espargaró], to [Fabio] DiGia and to [Johann] Zarco. So, it’s a different way for the stewards to understand things, but in the end, with or without the Long Lap, it doesn’t change anything for me.
