{"id":630039,"date":"2026-04-25T13:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/630039\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T13:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:39:09","slug":"joan-mir-penalised-for-ignoring-black-and-orange-flags-at-jerez-motogp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/630039\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan Mir penalised for ignoring black-and-orange flags at Jerez MotoGP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Mir has been penalised for \u201cnot respecting\u201d black-and-orange flags during final practice for the Spanish MotoGP at Jerez.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/repsol-honda-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> HRC<\/a> rider rejoined the track with visible bodywork damage after crashing in the wet conditions (pictured).<\/p>\n<p>He was then given the black flag with orange disk, which \u2018informs the rider that their motorcycle has mechanical problems likely to endanger themselves or others, and that they must immediately leave the track.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/911973\/joan-mir\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mir<\/a> continued all the way back to the pits.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Riders must obey the flag signals, the light signals, and the boards which convey instructions, including dashboard messages from Race Direction,\u201d added the penalty explanation from the FIM MotoGP Stewards.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Mir has been handed a double long lap penalty for Sunday\u2019s Spanish MotoGP, which he will start from 14th on the grid.<\/p>\n<p>Mir becomes the second rider with a penalty to serve on Sunday, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/973236\/jorge-martin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jorge Martin<\/a> given a three-place grid drop for riding slowly and disturbing Alex Marquez at the end of Friday practice.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joan Mir has been penalised for \u201cnot respecting\u201d black-and-orange flags during final practice for the Spanish MotoGP at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,245659,9398,5745,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-630039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-honda-hrc-motogp","tag-joan-mir","tag-motogp","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630039","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=630039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}