Marc Marquez suffered another crash during practice for the 2026 United States Grand Prix. Spanish MotoGP expert Silvan Guintoli managed to get off the track unscathed following a ride he described as ‘unusual’.
After 10 minutes of practice at the American circuit, the red flag was thrown. Marquez He was spotted by the barriers at the exit of Turn 10.
The factory Ducati A rider appears to lose the front end of his bike over the edge, and the resulting crash throws him into a gravel trap at a frightening speed.
When the world champion went for a medical examination before returning to the track, the boss of Ducati David Tardozi He provided a quick update on the situation.
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The Italian told him. MotoGP“Mark is fine, but he had a big hit to his right arm and left arm. It hurts, but nothing is broken, so he can ride again if he wants to.”
Marquez came back in the final 10 minutes of the session and set an impressively fast time to put himself fourth on the timesheets at the end of FP1.
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After watching a slow motion replay on the Marquez of America circuit, TNT Sports Pounds Sylvan Guintoli What may have caused the accident has been theorized.
asked the former MotoGP rider Neil Hodgson “Do you think it had cold tires? It’s unusual as a crash, isn’t it? We’ve never seen crashes like this,” he said in the commentary.
The Brit replied: “That was a freak crash. It looked like cold tyres, he wasn’t even on his knees.”
A replay of the incident showed Marquez anticipating the gravel trap in front of him and flipping forward, which left him cold before ending up in the air barrier around the circuit.
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“That’s a big thing,” added Guintoli, “when you go into the gravel at that speed, no matter how prepared you are to slide, you’re going to hurt yourself and get stoned.”
Then the partner replied, “You’re going to get hit. Basically, it hits the ship at about 120 miles an hour. And it hits the gravel, and it’s going 80 miles an hour.”
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The crew continued to discuss Marquez’s famous crash record, leading Hodgson to ponder whether the 33-year-old had the highest number of crashes of any MotoGP rider in history.
Guintoli replied: “They were big. When he came in, he had a whole new approach to racing, where you go all out and find the limit.”
“(George) Lorenzo He had a few big guys to start with the first year, but then he kind of settled down.
Hodgson continued, “(Casey) Stoner It was the same, actually. He had crashes, a few big ones, but week in and week out, he wasn’t crashing two or three times.
“But Mark, in the early years, the governorship years, always put the front in practice.
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