{"id":671197,"date":"2026-05-14T21:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/671197\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T21:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:29:14","slug":"media-day-dispatch-hot-off-the-press-in-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/671197\/","title":{"rendered":"MEDIA DAY DISPATCH: hot off the press in Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve landed trackside at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, ready for what lies in store ahead of Round 6. It marks the first quarter of the season and with just a point splitting our top two in the Championship standings and the reigning World Champion out through injury, it\u2019s a weekend that will inflict big stories moving into the remainder of the first half of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Ducati Lenovo Team Manager shares an update on Marc Marquez\u2019s surgery, recovery timeline and the physical struggle behind his performances<\/p>\n<p>After almost a decade as Team Manager for Honda HRC\u2019s factory MotoGP team, Alberto Puig will take up a key advisory role for Honda HRC from 2027<\/p>\n<p>The #12 is ready to race this weekend as he returns with Red Bull KTM Tech3<\/p>\n<p>Fabio Di Giannantonio laughs off the reaction to his last-corner lookback at Le Mans and insists there\u2019re no issues with Acosta, who admits fighting for P4 isn\u2019t where he wants to be<\/p>\n<p>From historic results to injury updates and returning faces, catch up on the latest headlines ahead of this weekend\u2019s Catalan GP!<\/p>\n<p>Join the Championship leaders and home hero Alex Marquez as we get set for sixth round of the 2026 MotoGP World Championship<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve landed trackside at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, ready for what lies in store ahead of Round 6.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-671197","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671197","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=671197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}