MotoGP officials know they need to ‘tweak’ the rules after Marc Marquez’s Jerez sprint debacle.

Pecco Bagnaia retired in GP26 with a loss at the front, leaving Ducati with no points in the race. Fortunately, Marquez did not leave Jerez empty-handed as he won the Sprint with a 1-2 finish ahead of his team-mate.

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However, the victory has come with a lot of controversy. As the heavens opened in Jerez, Marquez crashed at turn 13, cut into the grass and went into the pits to switch to his wet bike.

MotoGP officials did not penalize Marquez. Because he didn’t get any lap time in the movement. But behind the scenes, competing groups are angry, and the governing bodies are realizing that the rules need to be looked at.

MotoGP knows the rules need to be addressed after Marc Marquez’s controversial Jerez antics

As journalist Neil Morrison said on Paddock Pass PodcastMotoGP officials admit the rules need to be fixed. Marquez’s win was frowned upon by several teams and manufacturers.

Maybe it was just a matter of limited to a few tracks on the calendar, like here, where the pit lane is carved out of the track, it’s like Le Mans, maybe you could say Phillip Island.

The law doesn’t say you have to under any circumstances.. As long as you get into the pit lane with a little sign of 60km/h you have to hit the speed limiter or be over or under the speed limit, that’s fine.

“It doesn’t say you have to go into the pit lane in particular at the first point. And I think there’s recognition from the powers that be that this is something they need to address.”

“I mean, yesterday everyone was like, ‘Oh, Mark was brilliant’ and so on, there was no luck there, but behind the scenes we had a lot of people from different teams, different producers expressing their disappointment with Saturday’s result.

And I think there is an acknowledgment from the powers that be that this is probably something that needs to be addressed. And as I understand it, communications were sent to various teams around the paddock saying, ‘Look, this is a gray area in the law. We have to solve it.

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What are other MotoGP riders saying about Marc Marquez’s sprint event?

Naturally, such a controversial incident sparked debate among Marquez’s rivals as to whether his move should have been allowed.

Bagnaia thought Marquez’s move was ‘okay’. When he fights for victory. Jorge Martin and Fabio Quatararo agreed The Ducati rider made the right call.

However, LCR’s Johan Zarco was totally against the action, saying Marquez should not have won the sprint.

He said, through the verses Motorsport.com: “If there is no punishment, it’s really strange, then people say he knows the rules better than anyone else, but I don’t think so, he had a lot of luck.”

“For me, he shouldn’t have won the race, but we’ll see what the stewards decide. He took a big risk, otherwise he would have come a lap later.”