Jorge Martin, penalty at Assen: set back three positions

The Assen starting grid changes.

Jorge Martin fifth and no longer second on the starting grid for the Dutch Grand Prix, scheduled for Sunday after finishing second behind Pecco Bagnaia in Saturday’s Sprint Race. This is the decision of the race commissioners, which came several hours after the end of qualifying in Assen.

Decisive to the damage of the bearer of Team Pramac a maneuver made in Q2, which according to the race judges did not allow Raul Fernandez to perform in the best possible way his flying lap. This distances Martin from Bagnaia, author of the pole position with a time just 81 thousandths lower than that of his great rival for the MotoGP title.

The slowness in making the decision è was due to the generally very convulsive phases of Q2, with several riders attempting to seek the slipstream from a colleague or in turn avoid conceding it to others. Moreover, the decision against Martin è was rectified twice, for as many errors (the first on the time, the second inherent in the session in which the infraction had occurred).

Martin had, moreover, already defined himself as extremely satisfied with the second position obtained in the Sprint Race behind Bagnaia, who after the track record set last Friday had been defined by his colleague "from another planet" on the Dutch track.