Barcelona MotoGP Tire Pressures - Why Did Five Riders Get Penalties?

Barcelona MotoGP Tire Pressures - Why Did Five Riders Get Penalties? Amid all the chaos and carnage of the Barcelona round of MotoGP, adding insult to injury was the fact that of the seventeen finishers, six were investigated for being under the minimum tire pressure. Though Pecco Bagnaia was eventually cleared - his wheel rim was found to be leaking, though at what rate we do not know - Toprak Razgatlioglu, Raul Fernandez, Joan Mir, Alex Rins, and Jack Miller were all handed a 16-second penalty. For Razgatlioglu, Fernandez, Rins, and Miller, the penalties did not make a vast amount of difference. Rins dropped from eleventh to fourteenth, Miller from fourteenth, Razgatlioglu dropped out of the points from fifteenth to sixteenth, and Raul Fernandez had already lost so much time in his collision with Jorge Martin on the opening lap of the third attempt to start the race that he was already out of the points. David Emmett Thu, 21/May/2026 - 09:00 * Read more about Barcelona MotoGP Tire Pressures - Why Did Five Riders Get Penalties? * 6 comments * * Log in or register to post comments