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<\/p>\nThe Catalan MotoGP restart was also red-flagged after Johann Zarco crashed into Turn 1, then tangled with Luca Marini and Pecco Bagnaia.<\/p>\n
Zarco appeared to become trapped in the rear wheel of Bagnaia’s Ducati as riders and machines bounced through the gravel trap.<\/p>\n
Bagnaia and Marini then rushed to assist Zarco.\u00a0<\/p>\n
All riders were described as conscious, with Bagnaia later seen with an ice pack on his arm in the pits.<\/p>\n
Johann Zarco: “Further examination to his left leg”<\/p>\n
The initial official MotoGP update read: ‘#5 Zarco [taken] to the medical centre for further checks’.<\/p>\n
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A subsequent update from Zarco’s LCR Honda team confirmed: ‘Johann Zarco is at the medical centre, not in a critical condition. Awaiting further tests and specific information, we\u2019ll let you know when we have more info.”<\/p>\n
LCR later added: “Johann Zarco is going to the Hospital Universitari General de Catalunya, in Sant Cugat, to have a further examination to his left leg.”<\/p>\n
The second restart was held over 12 laps, the same as the Saturday Sprint race.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Pedro Acosta, Alex Marquez, 2026 Catalan MotoGP.<\/p>\n
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Pedro Acosta, Alex Marquez incident<\/p>\n
The 2026 Catalan MotoGP has been red-flagged after a massive accident involving race leaders Pedro Acosta<\/a> and Alex Marquez<\/a>.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Acosta<\/a> suffered some kind of technical problem as he accelerated onto the back straight on lap 12 of 24.<\/p>\n The slowing Red Bull KTM rider was then clipped from behind by Marquez, just as Acosta raised his hand to try to warn the closely following riders.<\/p>\n Although both remained on two wheels, the impact sent Marquez<\/a> swerving off track before falling heavily at high speed, with his Gresini machine destroyed in a series of cartwheels.<\/p>\n The debris raining down from Marquez\u2019s bike then took out VR46’s Fabio di Giannantonio<\/a>, who later walked away clearly in pain, with Raul Fernandez<\/a> and Johann Zarco<\/a> also caught up in the aftermath.<\/p>\n Alex Marquez, 2026 Catalan MotoGP.<\/p>\n \u00a9\u00a0Gold and Goose<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Alex Marquez “taken to hospital”<\/p>\n Marquez, who won Saturday\u2019s Sprint race, was initially described as \u201cconscious\u201d.<\/p>\n He then received treatment at the side of the circuit before being moved by ambulance.<\/p>\n The latest update stated: “#73 Marquez has been taken to hospital for further examination”.<\/p>\n All riders are technically eligible for the restart except Marquez and Enea Bastianini.\u00a0<\/p>\n Bastianini had already retired with a technical problem on his KTM, while Acosta’s team-mate Pedro Acosta had an issue on the warm-up lap and had to start from pit lane.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n MotoGP pit lane reporter Jack Appleyard reports that KTM has told MotoGP officials that the various issues were not related and Acosta is therefore expected to make the restart.<\/p>\n The restart – set to start just before 2pm – will be held over 13 laps, using the grid positions at the end of lap 11.<\/p>\n The restart grid:<\/p>\n Row 1: Pedro Acosta, Raul Fernandez, Jorge Martin<\/p>\n Row 2: Fabio di Giannantonio, Johann Zarco, Franco Morbidelli<\/p>\n Row 3: Joan Mir, Fermin Aldeguer, Luca Marini<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Row 4: Pecco Bagnaia, Ai Ogura, Marco Bezzecchi<\/p>\n Row 5: Fabio Quartararo, Diogo Moreira, Maverick Vinales<\/p>\n Row 6: Jack Miller, Alex Rins, Toprak Razgatlioglu, Augusto Fernandez<\/p>\n Row 7: Brad Binder<\/p>\n Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Catalan MotoGP restart was also red-flagged after Johann Zarco crashed into Turn 1, then tangled with Luca…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[8454,64,63,806,805,803,804,10734,85],"class_list":["post-676829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-alex-marquez","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-pedro-acosta","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676829","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=676829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Alex](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gng_1315432_hires_1600x900.jpg\")
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