Overview

• FIM stewards ruled that Franco Morbidelli and Fermin Aldeguer caused separate sprint collisions that eliminated Aprilia riders and ordered each to serve a single long-lap penalty in Sunday’s grand prix.
• Under the regulations, the sanctions were treated as second offences for 2025 and may carry forward if not served for sprint-related reasons.
• Marco Bezzecchi was cleared with bruising after Aldeguer’s Turn 5 fall in the sprint, then crashed at Turn 1 on lap two of the grand prix following contact with Morbidelli, with stewards taking no further action after review.
• Jorge Martin was taken down at Turn 10 in the sprint by Morbidelli, who later accepted blame, saying he “should have been more clever,” while Aldeguer apologised for his role in Bezzecchi’s fall.
• Post‑race analysis argued the long-lap penalties were too light and called for reforms, including reinstating a penalty-points system or aggregating repeat offences across incident types.