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Di Giannantonio Wins Chaotic Catalan MotoGP as Alex Márquez Has Surgery After High‑Speed Crash

Post‑race tyre‑pressure penalties reshaped the final order.

Overview

  • The BarcelonaCatalunya race was stopped twice on Sunday after a lap‑12 crash involving Alex Márquez and a first‑turn pileup on the restart.
  • Márquez rear‑ended Pedro Acosta when the KTM slowed with a technical problem, his bike broke apart, and he went to hospital with a C7 neck fracture and a broken right collarbone that surgeons moved to fix Sunday.
  • Debris from Márquez’s destroyed Ducati hit Fabio Di Giannantonio, who later remounted and won his second MotoGP race as Fermín Aldeguer and Francesco Bagnaia completed the revised podium.
  • Johann Zarco crashed at Turn 1 on the second start and left by ambulance for scans, and on Monday he said he has knee ligament damage and a small fracture near his left ankle.
  • Race control penalized Joan Mir 16 seconds for illegal tyre pressure, with Jack Miller, Toprak Razgatlioglu, Alex Rins and Raul Fernandez also sanctioned, which promoted Aldeguer to second and Bagnaia to third.