{"id":625531,"date":"2026-04-23T10:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/625531\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:48:08","slug":"moto2-rider-handed-strong-penalty-after-cota-pile-up-left-rival-with-broken-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/625531\/","title":{"rendered":"Moto2 rider handed strong penalty after COTA pile-up left rival with broken leg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alberto Ferrandez has been handed a pit lane start for causing a scary red-flag accident in the US Moto2 Grand Prix at COTA.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrandez lost control while braking for Turn 11 on the opening lap, then slammed into Angel Piqueras and Filip Salac.<\/p>\n<p>David Alonso, Collin Veijer, Daniel Munoz and Sergio Garcia were also caught up in the mayhem.<\/p>\n<p>Miraculously, most riders walked away with only Ferrandez, Piqueras and Garcia unable to make the restart.<\/p>\n<p>Piqueras took the brunt of the impact and suffered the worst injuries, undergoing surgery for a fractured femur and ankle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>The MSI rider also sustained two rib fractures, a pulmonary contusion and a torn anterior cruciate ligament.<\/p>\n<p>On the eve of this weekend\u2019s Spanish Grand Prix, the FIM MotoGP Stewards held a hearing with Ferrandez, declaring that he had been \u2018riding in an irresponsible manner causing a crash\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Although it is Fernandez\u2019s first offence of the season, because the incident occurred on the opening lap &#8211; when penalties are harsher due to the risk of danger to multiple riders &#8211; he has been given a pit lane start for his next grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>That means if Ferrandez misses this Sunday&#8217;s Jerez race, the penalty will carry over to his next <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/moto2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moto2<\/a> grand prix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alberto Ferrandez has been handed a pit lane start for causing a scary red-flag accident in the US&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,129598,22787,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-625531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-circuit-of-the-americas","tag-moto2","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625531","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=625531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}