{"id":138186,"date":"2025-09-12T17:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T17:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/138186\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T17:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T17:30:07","slug":"what-morbidellis-motogp-orange-card-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/138186\/","title":{"rendered":"What Morbidelli’s MotoGP ‘orange card’ means"},"content":{"rendered":"

VR46 Ducati MotoGP rider Franco Morbidelli has vowed to be “less aggressive” in upcoming rounds, faced with a threat of a race-ruining penalty.<\/p>\n

Morbidelli confirmed on Friday at Misano what his team manager Pablo Nieto had said earlier in the day – that Morbidelli was informed in a meeting by the stewards’ panel headed up by Simon Crafar that any further breaches of wheel-to-wheel etiquiette would result in a ride-through penalty.<\/p>\n

While he’s accrued a series of sanctions over the season, most relevant currently is Morbidelli colliding with Maverick Vinales at Mugello and with Jorge Martin in Barcelona, both coming as a result of overtaking moves best described as optimistic.<\/p>\n

Long lap penalties were the result in both cases, but further breaches will – as anticipated – be judged far more severely. <\/p>\n

\"Franco<\/p>\n

A ride-through penalty in MotoGP would effectively render any rider’s race a write-off, so is on paper a powerful deterrent.<\/p>\n

It is thought that Moto3 rider David Munoz received a similar sort of warning from the stewards earlier in the season.<\/p>\n

Asked if he was on a yellow card now, Morbidelli said on Friday: “I feel like I’m on an orange card!”<\/p>\n

But while Morbidelli has been displeased for much of the season for how his on-track actions were beind adjudged and discussed – feeling like he was being singled out – he arrived at Misano with more of a conciliatory tone, accepting publicly that he needed to work on his riding to make sure it is more in line with what the stewards want to see.<\/p>\n

“I’m going to definitely have to be less aggressive,” he accepted on Friday. <\/p>\n

\"Franco<\/p>\n

“Definitely going to have to be less aggressive, to risk less for some happenings that can be read as offensive. I’m going to have to be definitely less aggressive. <\/p>\n

“This is an advantage for my opponents that, if they are good, they can for sure use. But that’s what I have to do in order to not go through any episode that can be read as offensive.<\/p>\n

“The deal is that I need to pay more attention, in some moves that I do, and that’s what I will try to do. <\/p>\n

“[Longer-term] I will try to be – I will work to be – definitely less aggressive and definitely more precise. But meanwhile I will have to completely shut [off] the aggression button, because if I make a mistake, I’m going to pay it quite heavily.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VR46 Ducati MotoGP rider Franco Morbidelli has vowed to be “less aggressive” in upcoming rounds, faced with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-138186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}