MotoGP, penalty confirmed: Marquez will serve it in Jerez

Marc Marquez will serve the double long lap penalty, the sanction imposed on him after the unfortunate rear-end collision in Oliveira in the inaugural GP of Portimao, in the next competition in which he will take part. Reasonably so in Jerez de la Frontera: the very circuit where his sporting ordeal began 3 years ago, with a very bad crash in the race and a fracture of his right humerus.

The MotoGP Court of Appeal – chaired by Sakari Vuorensola, with Robert Hofstett, Marek Malecki – dispelled the doubts about the decision taken by the International Federation’s Steward Panel, which had been officially communicated in an equivocal passage. In fact, the ruling stated that Marquez would serve those 2 longer laps in the Argentina GP, the next race: the Cannibal, who fractured his right thumb in the Portuguese accident, hadn’t however participated in the Termas de Rio Hondo race. At this point Honda had appealed the decision, arguing that the penalty had in any case been served and that at the next round its rider no longer had to complete any long lap penalty. Error: the judges reiterated that Marquez – also absent due to injury in the Americas gp this weekend – will have to serve his sentence “during the first gp in which he will take part”.

And therefore, in all probability at the end of the month in Spain. In the Portimao accident, the 8-times world champion had thrown the Aprilia rider, Oliveira, off the track and seriously damaged Jorge Martin, of the Ducati Pramac, who had broken his toe.