Why Enea Bastianini ignored Catalunya long laps: “Crazy, but it's like this!”
Enea Bastiani🐓ni explains why he chose to ignore a series of ‘wrong’ long🦹-lap penalties during the Catalan MotoGP race.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Enea Bastianini finished the Catalan MotoGP race with a trail of unserved long laps to his name, resulting in the FIM Stewards applying a 32-second post-race time p🎐enalty.
It was assumed the factory Ducati rider had simply not seen the initial long lap penalty, given ‘due to ꩲa shortcut at T꧙urn 2’.
But he then also 'missed' the double long lap message, for failing to comply with the previous penalty. And also a ride-through penalty, for failing to serve the double long lap. The follo🧸wing time penalty was the equivalent of a ride-th🉐rough.
The Itali🐓an revealed there had been no confusion over the communication of the penalties. Instead, he was adamant the decisions were wrong and chose to ignore them.
“The dashboard [message] was very clear! But I didn't agree w🌸ith the dashboard!” Bastianini smiled.
The Ducati 𒐪team also publicly backed Bastianini’s actions and the #23 claims video evidence during post-race meetings with 🧔Race Direction supported his case.
Bastianini explained that he was forced wide at Turn 1 duri🐻ng a close battle with Alex Marquez. He then (ironically) rode through the long lap p🌱enalty lane before rejoining the track.
The official reason for Bastianini’s first penalty was that 'riders cutting the track in the race 🌊must be at least 1 second slower in that sector than their average normal time'.
Putting aside the move by Marquez, which Bastianini’s felt was arguably worth a penalty for the Gresini rider, and insisting that he had no choice but to run off, the Italian insisted he did lose more than one second.
“I overtook Alex in the straight and when we arrived on the brakes, I braked very, very late but he braked later than me and pushed me out on t🦋he kerb,” Bastianini said.
“The only sꦡolution was to cut the chicane. And also I lost time because I✤ followed the line of the long lap.
“I wai𒐪ted for a ‘drop position’ [penalty] for Alex but after arrived the long lap penalty… for me! I did not aꦅgree and decided to continue without doing the long lap.
“I know it's not the correct🌠 choice, but we have to do something because nothinܫg changes. Every race there is something to explain with the [Stewards] and it's not correct for me.”
Such behaviour would normally see a rider reprimanded by his team, but Bastianini said Ducati supported his decision not to serve theไ penalties.
“Davide [Tardozzi] and all the team agreed with my d👍ecision, they understand what's happened,” he said.
“After the race, I went with Davide to explain the problem and to see better the video. For the [Stewards] at the start, [their decision] was correct, the l꧑ong lap penalty. Then after they said ‘OK, no…’”
A Ducati press officer added: "They saw thei🥀r decision was wrong."
𝔉“I also tried to get back my ninth position at the finish of the race,” Bastianini continued. “But Race Direction can do nothing, also because for Race Direction I did not lose [enough] time when I entered again the track.
“꧅And I🎃 said: ‘No, no, no. Check better the video. I lost one second!’
“I know if you cut the chicane [you have to ꦜlose time]. I was together with Alex and when I entered the track again, Alex was 200 metres ahead!”
🔯Unfortunately for Bastianini, even if subsequent evidence did show he was forced off-track and lost more than one second, the MotoGP regulations state:
‘No appeal may be lodged against a decision made by any judges of fact in the exercise of their duties, including… long lap penalt💫y(ies) imposed for a Sprint or Race on that same day.’
In other words, while we don’t know if the FIM Stewards and/or Race Direction agree withꦓ Bas🍸tianini, even if they did, it’s not possible to reverse an in-race penalty.
“Yeah, it’s impossible,” Bastianini shrugged.
Even if you can show the penalty was wrong?
“This is crazy, but it's like this!” he said.
The 32-second penalty 🐟dropped Bastianini from 9th to 18th place, also🐻 costing him seven points.
He is now 🌺fourth in the world championship, 20 points behind Marc Marquez and 61 from Jorge Martin.
Ducati Lenovo also lost ꦜseven points ♑in the teams' standings.
Although Ducati publicly supported Bastianini, there were whispers that one of the lessons from today is𓆏 that, even if you are sure you are right, it's better in terms of the race result to serve the first penalty...

Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and🌺 has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc M🃏arquez’s injury issues.