{"id":723150,"date":"2026-06-08T13:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/723150\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T13:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:53:10","slug":"wrong-everywhere-fabio-quartararo-penalised-twice-after-mystery-balaton-motogp-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/723150\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWrong everywhere\u201d: Fabio Quartararo penalised twice after mystery Balaton MotoGP issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fabio Quartararo failed to see the chequered flag of a Sunday MotoGP for the first time this season, retiring after two long-lap penalties.<\/p>\n<p>The Monster Yamaha rider emerged in sixth after the Turn 1 carnage but was soon struggling with a \u2018technical issue\u2019 on his M1.<\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman was quickly pushed outside of the top ten as he struggled to stop the bike, then was given separate long-lap penalties in quick succession for not surrendering enough time after short-cuts across the Turn 10 chicane.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/911998\/fabio-quartararo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quartararo <\/a>was outside of the points after completing the penalties, then retired with four laps to go.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gng_1323905_hires_1600x900.jpg\"   type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"Fabio Quartararo, 2026 Hungarian MotoGP. \" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.78\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Fabio Quartararo, 2026 Hungarian MotoGP.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a9\u00a0Gold and Goose<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter what happened in Turn 1, I was just behind Jack [Miller], and the position was not bad. But straight away I felt something wrong,\u201d Quartararo said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was losing positions in braking, going wide a few times, going to the gravel so I decided to stop and see what was happening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team are looking exactly what happened. And yeah, technical issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWrong everywhere\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pressed on what he had felt, Quartararo added: \u201cStopping was the place where I felt the most, but this was especially like something wrong everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe feeling was more with the rear, so this is why we are looking at this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Rather than a technical failure, team director Massimo Meregalli pointed to the medium rear tyre not working with the V4.<\/p>\n<p>Although the medium was chosen by all of the top-six starters except KTM\u2019s Pedro Acosta, Quartararo\u2019s fellow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/monster-energy-yamaha-motogp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yamaha<\/a> riders picked the soft rear.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gng_1323890_hires_1600x900.jpg\"   type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"Fabio Quartararo, 2026 Hungarian MotoGP. \" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.78\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Fabio Quartararo, 2026 Hungarian MotoGP.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a9\u00a0Gold and Goose<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We expect that the sensations [Quartararo] felt may have been caused by the medium rear tyre that, due to today&#8217;s track conditions and circumstances, did not suit our bike,\u201d Meregalli said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt caused him to get two long lap penalties and ultimately led to the decision to retire from the race.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Miller went on to finish as the top Yamaha rider in eighth, while Quartararo was left without points for the second event in a row.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, no. We don&#8217;t take anything,\u201d Quartararo replied, when asked if there were any positives to take into the weekend off before Brno.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fabio Quartararo failed to see the chequered flag of a Sunday MotoGP for the first time this season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,16230,10671,5745,806,805,803,804,85,3561],"class_list":["post-723150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fabio-quartararo","tag-monster-energy-yamaha-motogp","tag-motogp","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports","tag-yamaha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723150","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=723150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}