Toprak Razgatlioglu has been given a long lap penalty for Sunday\u2019s Spanish MotoGP after \u2018causing a crash\u2019 with Lorenzo Savadori in the Sprint.<\/p>\n
The reigning WorldSBK <\/a>champion made contact with the Aprilia wild-card rider while battling over 19th place, just as rain disrupted the race.<\/p>\n The penalty marks Razgatlioglu\u2019s first offence since joining MotoGP.<\/p>\n The FIM MotoGP <\/a>Stewards stated: \u201cFollowing the Penalty Protocols issued to teams, this action was deemed to be an incident of Type MGP-CC3: Causing a crash or causing a crash whilst overtaking. Contact with another rider resulting in another rider crashing.<\/p>\n \u201cAs a first offence for the season, the appropriate penalty in this case is a Long Lap Penalty.\u201d<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Razgatlioglu: “I\u2018m very sorry”<\/p>\n “When the rain started, I saw an opportunity as the pace dropped, so I tried to push harder,” Razgatlioglu explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n “At Turn 5 I attempted to pass both Salvadori and Morbidelli, but I went onto a dirty line and, with the track becoming very slippery, I lost the front.<\/p>\n “I\u2018m very sorry for involving Salvadori in the crash. That was not my intention. As soon as I fell, I went to check on him, and I was very relieved to see that he was OK.”<\/p>\n Savadori said of the incident: \u201cAnother rider did a mistake and I did a very big crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n “So fortunately, I’m not injured, nothing broken in my body, but I’m not at 100%. I hope to be in a better shape for the race.\u201d<\/p>\n Razgatlioglu joins Jorge Martin<\/a> (three-place grid penalty), Joan Mir<\/a> (double long lap), Franco Morbidelli<\/a> (fine and practice suspension) and Pramac Yamaha team-mate Jack Miller<\/a> (double long lap) in being penalised so far this weekend.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Miller was penalised during the Sprint, for speeding in pit lane, and eventually finished in 16th place.<\/p>\n Razgatlioglu will start Sunday\u2019s grand prix from 19th on the grid.<\/p>\n Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toprak Razgatlioglu has been given a long lap penalty for Sunday\u2019s Spanish MotoGP after \u2018causing a crash\u2019 with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[10669,64,63,139585,806,805,803,804,7188,85,23899],"class_list":["post-631519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-aprilia-racing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-lorenzo-savadori","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-prima-pramac-yamaha","tag-sports","tag-toprak-razgatlioglu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631519","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=631519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}