Overview
- Following Sunday’s French Grand Prix at Le Mans, Aprilia recorded a 1-2-3 that only Honda, Yamaha and Ducati had achieved before.
- Francesco Bagnaia crashed from second and said a technical problem sapped front-end trust, matching the brake-system defect he cited in Jerez.
- Ducati and Bagnaia said they have identified the root cause and are working on a fix in time for next weekend’s round in Barcelona.
- The Le Mans DNF kept Bagnaia ninth in the standings and increased his gap to points leader Marco Bezzecchi to 83.
- Marc Marquez had surgery after his Le Mans fall and will miss Barcelona, a setback that further eases the near-term path for Aprilia.