MADRID, 9 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish MotoGP rider Marc Márquez (Repsol Honda) will be able to compete without any restrictions in the next Grand Prix of the Motorcycle World Championship after the Court of Appeals has annulled the sanction that was imposed after his incident in the Grand Prix of Portugal.
The race commissioners punished Cervera with a double ‘long lap’ for the Argentine Grand Prix for the maneuver he carried out at the Portimao Autodrome and which ended up sending the Portuguese Miguel Oliveira (Aprilia) to the ground and causing an injury. , in addition to Jorge Martín (Ducati), who was able to continue.
The Catalan also damaged a finger on a hand that has sidelined him ever since, but the panel of stewards later decided that he should serve his ban in the first event in which he could race.
Honda showed its complaint about the change of argument and appealed to the Court of Appeal, which on April 12 provisionally suspended this punishment to study the appeal document presented by the Japanese team and the eight-time world champion, who assured that the sanction It had already been fulfilled by not being in Termas de Río Hondo and that they stressed that Márquez was not in Argentina “voluntarily” and without taking his injury into account.
“The Court decided to annul the Application of the Sanction imposed on Marc Márquez, which was issued by the FIM MotoGP Panel of Stewards in relation to the Original Sanction,” the International Motorcycling Federation (FIM) confirmed on Tuesday.
According to the opinion, the Court considered that the initial sanction “has already been fulfilled for the non-participation of the pilot in the MotoGP Race in Argentina.” “Therefore, Marc Márquez is allowed to compete in the next race in which he can participate, without any other sanction,” he added, stressing that the application of the new sanction “without justified reasons irregularly and wrongly modifies” the original one. .
In this way, Marc Márquez, if he is finally fit on a physical level to run the French Grand Prix this coming weekend at the Le Mans circuit, will be able to compete as normal without the need to serve any punishment.