MotoGP has suspended 2026 Riders’ Championship leader Marco Bezecic for the Czech Grand Prix following a Sprint Race crash where he hit Marshall twice.
The shock announcement came on Saturday evening following a stewards’ hearing in Brno where Bezcicci was deemed to have breached Article 3.3.2.2 of the FIM World Championship rules. of Aprilia ace will now not participate in Sunday’s feature race in Chechia.
Bezechichi The 27-year-old was caught on camera punching one of the trackside marshals in the face as they pulled him out of the gravel trap following his RS-GP race-ending crash. After launching the pursuing marshal first onto his bike, he hits him again before he falls.
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Marco Bezecic has been banned from the Czech Grand Prix for actions ‘biased’ towards MotoGP interests.
Bezcicci crashed out in the closing stages of the Sprint Race due to a minor mistake on lap 3. Czech GP He is trying to maintain a gap to P5 on Aprilia team-mate and title rival Jorge Martin on Saturday. The Italian lost the front end of his bike and went into the gravel.
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Footage later surfaced online showing Bezeci running to Marshall to pick up the crashed Aprilia. Bezecchi immediately reached out and shoved Marshall in the face before pretending to turn off the engine and punched Marshall in the face again.
MotoGP said in a statement that it had banned Bezecic from Sunday’s Czech GP for his actions, saying the Aprilia rider’s actions were ‘harmful to the interests of the sport’. The stewards listened to Bezeci at the hearing, but stood by their decision to suspend him.
Bezcicci had to start from P4 because he was 0.289 seconds off the pace in Trackhouse’s qualifying. Ai Ogura scored a pole for the Czech GP with a 1:51.139 on his satellite Aprilia RS-GP. Ogura was the leading Aprilia rider in the sprint, with Francesco Bagnaia finishing second.
Ogura will be Aprilia’s main hope in the Czech GP on Sunday, with factory rider Martin set to serve a double-long lap penalty at Brno after crashing at the start of the Hungarian Grand Prix. Martin qualified P10 for the Czech GP and secured P5 in the Sprint.
This is not the first time Bezcicci has drawn the ire of stewards over an incident involving a trackside marshal. As a VR46 rider in the rookie MotoGP season in 2022, Bezecchi was fined €1,000 for grabbing and pushing Marshall in FP3 at Valencia.
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