{"id":704367,"date":"2026-05-30T13:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T13:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/704367\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T13:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T13:37:10","slug":"luca-marini-penalised-for-morbidelli-martin-incident-in-mugello-motogp-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/704367\/","title":{"rendered":"Luca Marini penalised for Morbidelli, Martin incident in Mugello MotoGP practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luca Marini will drop from 16th to 19th on the grid for Sunday\u2019s home Italian MotoGP at Mugello.<\/p>\n<p>The factory <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/repsol-honda-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HRC<\/a> rider has been handed a three-place penalty by the FIM <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MotoGP<\/a> Stewards for \u2018riding slow online\u2019 and \u2018disturbing\u2019 Franco Morbidelli and Jorge Martin at Turn 15 in final practice.<\/p>\n<p>The incident, which caused both following riders to slow and Martin to raise his hand, occurred as Marini peeled off track and into pit lane.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gng_1317637_hires_1600x900.jpg\"   type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"Luca Marini, 2026 Italian MotoGP.\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.78\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Luca Marini, 2026 Italian MotoGP.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a9\u00a0Gold and Goose<\/p>\n<p>The move was deemed \u201cdangerous slow riding&#8221; by the Stewards and, as a second offence of the season, Marini received the three-place penalty.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Martin went on to qualify on the outside of an all-Aprilia front row, while Morbidelli starts from ninth for VR46.<\/p>\n<p>Marini\u2019s penalty only applies to the grand prix and not Saturday afternoon\u2019s Sprint race.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/gng_1317591_hires_1600x900.jpg\"   type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"Luca Marini, 2026 Italian MotoGP.\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.78\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Luca Marini, 2026 Italian MotoGP.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a9\u00a0Gold and Goose<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/news\/1096433\/1\/starting-grid-2026-mugello-motogp-sprint-race\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The full Mugello Sprint grid can be seen here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luca Marini will drop from 16th to 19th on the grid for Sunday\u2019s home Italian MotoGP at Mugello.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,23688,5744,9399,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-704367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-franco-morbidelli","tag-jorge-martin","tag-luca-marini","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704367","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=704367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}