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Ducati rider Fabio Di Giannantonio triumphed successful a crash-hit Catalunya MotoGP connected Sunday (May 17, 2026), during which Alex Marquez was taken to infirmary injured aft being flipped disconnected his bike.
The contention was red-flagged twice, the archetypal clip aft Pedro Acosta’s motorcycle chopped retired and Marquez made interaction with him, with his Ducati-Gresini destroyed successful a horrific crash.
On the archetypal country aft the restart, French rider Johann Zarco crashed and the contention was red-flagged again, and restarted with 12 laps remaining.
Marquez’s squad Gresini aboriginal confirmed helium had suffered fractures to a cervical vertebra and his close clavicle.
“He volition acquisition country contiguous by the squad astatine Hospital General de Catalunya,” said Gresini successful a connection connected societal media.
Acosta started connected rod and was retired successful beforehand until Di Giannantonio snatched the pb with 2 laps remaining.
Joan Mir and Fermin Aldeguer besides edged up of Acosta, who past came to grief soon earlier the extremity aft being wiped retired by Ai Ogura, who was deed with a clip punishment and dropped to ninth.
Mir, who came successful second, was aboriginal demoted to 13th with a 16-second punishment for debased tyre unit — 1 of 5 riders to beryllium penalised agelong aft the contention finished.
As a result, Fermin Aldeguer moved from 3rd to second, and Francesco Bagnaia climbed onto the podium.
Overall person Marco Bezzecchi struggled but was capable to widen his vantage aft his closest contender Jorge Martin suffered his 5th clang of the weekend.
Raul Fernandez took retired Martin aft trying an assertive determination down the wrong portion they were challenging for the lead, leaving Bezzecchi, who finished 4th aft the results were adjusted for penalties, 15 points ahead.
‘We are successful danger’
Di Giannantonio wounded his manus successful the archetypal terrifying clang erstwhile the Italian was deed by a instrumentality from Marquez’s ruined bike, but the VR46 antheral recovered to assertion his archetypal MotoGP triumph successful 3 years.
“I’m truthful happy. But archetypal of each I was truly disquieted astir each the riders who crashed,” said Di Giannantonio.
“Today has not been an casual time for everybody. I truly anticipation that Alex (Marquez) is fine. We’ve been truly lucky.
“We cognize that our athletics is amazing. We effort to springiness an astonishing show, we are humans, we are successful danger.”
Di Giannantonio’s triumph moved him up to 3rd wide connected 116 points, followed by Acosta connected 92.
Marquez, who triumphed astatine past year’s Catalan Grand Prix and besides won the sprint connected Saturday (May 16, 2026), was pushing person Acosta erstwhile the mishap happened.
Acosta mislaid velocity due to the fact that of a method contented and Marquez deed his bike, veering disconnected the way into a unspeakable clang earlier being taken to hospital, conscious.
Last weekend, Alex Marquez’s older member Marc, the reigning champion, was injured aft different convulsive clang astatine Le Mans.
The 2nd large incidental was a collision involving Zarco, Luca Marini and Bagnaia.
Zarco was taken by ambulance to infirmary for checks aft helium was caught up with Bagnaia’s bike.
LCR MotoGP squad brag Lucio Cecchinello said Zarco had symptom successful “the femur area”, his near limb and knee.
