Fabio Quartararo given unusual penalty for disobeying instructions from marshals

Yওamaha rider Quartararo crashed early in French Grand Prix

Fabio Quartararo, Yamaha Factory Racing, 2025 French MotoGP
Fabio Quartararo, Yamaha Factory Racing, 2025 French MotoGP
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Fabio Quartararo has been hit with an unusual penalty for the Britℱish Grand Prix following his crash in the early st💎ages of Sunday’s MotoGP French GP at Le Mans.

The 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:factory Yamaha rider stunned the home French c♉rowd on Saturday when he stormed to pole position for the second round running.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo converted that to a fourth-place finish in the sprint having led i﷽t for the first five laps.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖ꦍ结果历史:In Sunday’s wet flag-to-flag race, Quartarar☂o was one of a number of riders to swa🐼p to a dry bike after the warm-up lap and netted a double long lap penalty as a result under new rules.

Leading in the early stages of the 26-lap grand pri𒅌x, Quartararo was the first to dispense of his penalties and would have been in a strong position to capita𒁏lise.

How🍌ever, he crashed at the final corner on lap♋ four when the rain intensified and was unable to rejoin to head to pitlane for his wet bike.

Quartararo was seen i༒n a disagreement with the marshals before trudging back to the paddock.

The stewards have taken a dim view of this, deeming Quartararo to "behaved in an irresponsible manner, disob𓃲eying direct instructions from marshals, causing potential danger to yourself and others".

As a result, he will have to sit out the first 10 minutes of FP1 at the Bri♏tish Grand Prix in🌠 two weeks and also pay a €2000 fine.

While this punishment may not seem grand compared to other penaꦯlties that could have been haꦓnded out, it does come at an awkward time for Yamaha.

It debuted a new engin🔴e at the French GP which delivered a small top speed boost to the M1.

Testing this at a place more d🙈ependent on power like Silverstone will be a key part 🍨of Yamaha’s run programme for practice at the UK venue.

Yamaha is also testing at Misano this week, where updates and set-up ideas trialled there coulꦇd find their way onto Quartararo’s bikes for practice at Silverstone.

It's not the first time Quartararo has had a penalty hanging over his head coming to a British GP💖. 

In 2022, he faced a long lap penalty fol꧙lowing a collision at the previous Dutch GP with Aleix Espargaro. 

Commenting on his French GP prior to his visit to the ste♌wards’ office, Quartararo told TNT Sport: “Yeah, I mean I think it was tricky conditions.

“We gave our best but I made a crash in the last corner that I didn’t really expect, but many riders were crashing in this corner and unfortunatel✱y it was like that.”

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