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Quartararo penalty doubled for chest protector/leathers infringement

2021 Gran Premi Monster Energy de Catalunya


We received a further bulletin overnight from the FIM MotoGP Stewards titled ‘Notification of Sanction: Quartararo’.

Quartararo had been given a three-second penalty in the closing seconds of the MotoGP race for cutting the track at turn one, after running in too deep at the end of the straight.

What had really been surprising though is that Quartararo had not been black-flagged earlier. The #20 ran most of the latter half of the race with his leathers full unzipped. The Frenchman had discarded his mandatory chest protector also, as it was moving around and causing him problem when his leathers unzipped.

Quartararo

On the cool down lap, whilst not in the heat of battle, Quartararo managed to zip his leathers up, which suggests that the zip was somewhat still functional.

It was somewhat obvious that further discussions would happen post-race to cover this issue, which, in my experience of domestic racing, would have seen a rider black flagged, or alternatively ordered to pit and correct the issue.

Overnight the FIM MotoGP Stewards panel issued a further three-second penalty to be added to the previous three-second penalty.


FIM Sanction

Quartararo had originally crossed the line in third, but was demoted to fourth by that intitial penalty for cutting the track, which promoted Miller into that third position.  The subsequent saction demotes Quartararo further to sixth place, and thus promotes Joan Mir into fourth, and Maverick Vinales into fifth.

Quartararo remains the championship leader but his advantage over second-placed Zarco has now been trimmed to 14-points.

These comments made by Monster Yamaha Team Director and Fabio Quartararo himself were after they knew of the initial three-second penalty, but were as yet unaware of the second saction that demoted Quartararo further to sixth.

Massimo Meregalli – Yamaha Team Director

It’s a bit of a disappointing end to an otherwise good race weekend. We knew the final laps of the race would be decisive but, even though Fabio tried to manage the tyres as good as possible, we lost some performance on the left side. We don’t know what happened yet with Fabio, but regardless of what caused the situation, he showed what a fighter he is by hanging on to third place. The 3-second penalty moved him back to fourth, but that’s still a good result when an issue beyond our control happens (these comments made before another three-second penalty was added for the leathers issue).”

Fabio Quartararo

Unfortunately I can‘t explain what happened yet, we are still looking into it. It‘s a bit disappointing but, anyway, we can still be satisfied with our race, because I feel like I gave it 100%. I‘m happy because our pace was fast all weekend. In the race I didn‘t feel that good. We had a moment in Turn 7. I went wide, then retook the lead, and then had an issue. But getting fourth on a bad day is actually quite good.” (subsequently demoted further to sixth for leathers infringement).

We will update this further with any later statements that reflect on the second penalty.


MotoGP 2021 – Round Seven
Catalunya – Race Results

Pos Rider Bike Time/Gap
1 Miguel OLIVEIRA KTM 40m21.749
2 Johann ZARCO Ducati +0.175
3 Jack MILLER Ducati +1.99
4 Joan MIR Suzuki +5.325
5 Maverick VIÑALES Yamaha +6.281
6 Fabio QUARTARARO (+6 sec penalty included) Yamaha +7.815
7 Francesco BAGNAIA Ducati +8.175
8 Brad BINDER KTM +8.378
9 Franco MORBIDELLI Yamaha +15.652
10 Enea BASTIANINI Ducati +19.297
11 Alex MARQUEZ Honda +21.65
12 Luca MARINI Ducati +22.533
13 Takaaki NAKAGAMI Honda +27.833
14 Jorge MARTIN Ducati +29.075
15 Lorenzo SAVADORI Aprilia +40.291
Not Classified
DNF Iker LECUONA KTM 8 Laps
DNF Valentino ROSSI Yamaha 9 Laps
DNF Aleix ESPARGARO Aprilia 14 Laps
DNF Marc MARQUEZ Honda 17 Laps
DNF Danilo PETRUCCI KTM 19 Laps
DNF Pol ESPARGARO Honda 20 Laps

2021 MotoGP Standings

Pos Rider Bike Points
1 Fabio QUARTARARO Yamaha 115
2 Johann ZARCO Ducati 101
3 Jack MILLER Ducati 90
4 Francesco BAGNAIA Ducati 88
5 Joan MIR Suzuki 78
6 Maverick VIÑALES Yamaha 75
7 Miguel OLIVEIRA KTM 54
8 Aleix ESPARGARO Aprilia 44
9 Brad BINDER KTM 43
10 Franco MORBIDELLI Yamaha 40
11 Takaaki NAKAGAMI Honda 31
12 Pol ESPARGARO Honda 29
13 Enea BASTIANINI Ducati 26
14 Alex MARQUEZ Honda 25
15 Alex RINS Suzuki 23
16 Danilo PETRUCCI KTM 23
17 Jorge MARTIN Ducati 19
18 Marc MARQUEZ Honda 16
19 Valentino ROSSI Yamaha 15
20 Iker LECUONA KTM 13
21 Luca MARINI Ducati 13
22 Stefan BRADL Honda 11
23 Lorenzo SAVADORI Aprilia 4
24 Michele PIRRO Ducati 3
25 Tito RABAT Ducati 1

Source: MCNews.com.au