Yamaha: Fabio Quartararo’s penalty ‘harsh, not consistent’
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The reigning world champion will need to serve a Long Lap penalty at next month’s British MotoGP after the FIM Stewards judged he collision with Espargaro was ‘overly ambitious’ and that he was ‘not in a position to successfully complete the move and subsequently ed, causing contact with #41 and forcing him to run wide’.Espargaro dropped from second to 15th place, before recovering to fourth at the chequered flag. Quartararo remounted in last place, then made a pit stop before ing for a second and final time.The young Frenchman, now a reduced 21-points ahead of nearest rival Espargaro in the world championship, later admitted he had made a ‘stupid mistake’ and apologised to the Aprilia rider.EXCLUSIVE: Danilo Petrucci on Jack Miller’s move to KTMDanilo Petrucci on Jack Miller’s move to KTM” src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/Cjz-obT4Rxw?wmode=opaque&controls=0&rel=0″ name=”EXCLUSIVE: Danilo Petrucci on Jack Miller’s move to KTM” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen>Video of EXCLUSIVE: Danilo Petrucci on Jack Miller's move to KTMMeregalli feels that should have been the end of the matter and appears to highlight that no penalty was handed down to Takaaki Nakagami for triggering a multi-rider accident, including a wrist fracture for Alex Rins, in Barcelona.Related UPDATE: Quartararo penalty for ‘stupid mistake’, then traction control failure? 2022 Dutch MotoGP, TT Circuit Assen – Race ResultsMeregalli said: “We view the first of Fabio as a race incident and feel that Race Direction’s decision to give him a sanction for the next race is not only harsh considering he took nobody down with him and Aleix still scored points, but it’s also not consistent with race incidents we’ve seen in earlier GPs that were left unpunished.“We will use this break to digest this GP and come back ready to fight in Silverstone in one month‘s time.”Quartararo’s second accident is thought to have been caused by damage to his traction control system in the first fall.Related Assen: New 2022 MotoGP World Championship standings Dutch Moto2: Fernandez fired into title hunt after back-to-back victoriesTeam-mate Franco Morbidelli also ed out of Sunday’s race.
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