A hard blow in MotoGP for the well-known rider who thus suffered a very harsh penalty and which was a bolt from the blue.
The Assen GP once again highlighted the clear superiority of Ducati and above all of a sensational Pecco Bagnaia who dominated the race. A screaming weekend for the world champion who proved to be the point of reference at a global level for MotoGP today, with a flawless test.
For the second consecutive weekend therefore, Bagnaia proves he can take full points, winning both the Sprint and the Sunday race and thus gets ever closer to Jorge Martin in the general classification. A nice answer to all the detractors who have belittled him over the years and above all a clear answer regarding the arrival in 2025 of Marc Marquez.
The Spanish eight-time world champion, on the other hand, did not shine in Assen, with the performance being overall disappointing for him. Immediately out of the Sprint Race, During the race he always remained far from the leaders, finishing fourth at the end, but unfortunately for him the cold shower arrived once the Dutch stage was over.
Marc Marquez penalized: what happened in MotoGP?
A hard blow for Gresini and for Marc Marquez, with the Spaniard thus penalised by 16 seconds at the end of the Dutch stage. The reason is dictated by the fact that the eight-time world champion would have concluded the test with an irregular pressure of his tyres, with the parameters that were slightly lower.
For this reason, the 16-second penalty is a very hard blow for the eight-time world champion to have to pay, considering how it takes him from fourth to tenth place. The difference in pressure was only 0.01, as Marquez himself explained when he learned of the penalty to the microphones of Sky Sport MotoGP.
The Spaniard explained how he had ridden the entire race with the aim of controlling the tyre as much as possible because he had noticed that it was not going as expected, for this reason he had let the other riders pass. Fabio Di Giannantonio. For Marquezas he himself stated, it was a very strange and particular weekend, with the Spaniard therefore moving significantly away from the top positions and from the possible fight for the world title which is now a chimera.
