{"id":629209,"date":"2026-04-25T03:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T03:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/629209\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T03:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T03:42:15","slug":"martin-given-3-place-penalty-for-alex-marquez-incident-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/629209\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin given 3-place penalty for Alex Marquez incident on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FIM MotoGP Stewards have given Jorge Martin (Aprilia Racing) a three-place grid penalty for the Spanish GP. The penalty is for \u201criding slow online \u2013 disturbing another rider #73 at Turns 3\u20134\u201d, as Martin was ahead of Alex Marquez (BK8 Gresini Racing MotoGP) in the final few minutes of MotoGP Practice.<\/p>\n<p>Martin will serve the penalty on Sunday in the Grand Prix race, but will start the Tissot Sprint from his qualifying position &#8211; with that yet to be decided in Q2, a session which will feature the #89 after his P9 finish on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Tune into MotoGP qualifying on Saturday morning from 10:50 local time to see how the grid will shape up for the Sprint and Sunday&#8217;s Grand Prix in Jerez, with P4 the best Martin can hope for on Sunday&#8217;s grid.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FIM MotoGP Stewards have given Jorge Martin (Aprilia Racing) a three-place grid penalty for the Spanish GP.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85,83],"class_list":["post-629209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629209","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=629209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}