skip the Argentine GP and avoid the penalty - Corriere.it

Marc Marquez will not participate in the Argentine GP this weekend, the MotoGp losing another protagonist after Enea Bastianini and Pol Espargaro, who were injured in the opening race in Portugal. Like the Spanish of the Honda who underwent surgery during the night for a fracture of the first metacarpal of his right hand.

Already on Sunday in the Portimao paddock he had made it clear that his presence at Termas de Rio Hondo would have been almost impossible, only the official status was missing and he arrived after other medical checks carried out at theRuber hospital in Madrid which was followed by surgery to reduce the fracture with the insertion of two screws. Marquez should thus return to the weekend of the Austin GP (14-16 April) and in this way could skip the penalty (two slow laps) with which he was punished in Portimao for causing the accident in which he crashed Miguel Oliveira and also hit Jorge Martin. This adds more fuel to the fire of controversy: in fact, in the sentence of sporting sanctions, the stewards only speak of GP of Argentina. Based on this interpretation of the regulation, the sentence would only be applicable to the South American GP and would not scale to others in the event of Marquez's failure to participate in the race.