Zarco and Marquez Crashes Overshadow Diggia Catalan Win

About this episode

The episode reviews the dramatic events of the Catalan GP weekend, focusing on significant crashes and safety concerns in MotoGP.

Dre Harrison, Peter McLaren and Lewis Duncan come together to review a harrowing Catalan GP weekend. The weekend was marred by two huge crashes on Sunday. Pedro Acosta’s KTM cutting out on the back straight leading to Alex Marquez riding into him at full speed, breaking his collarbone and sending him to hospital. This before a restarted race led to Johann Zarco heading to hospital with torn ligaments in his knee after being hooked on Pecco Bagnaia’s Ducati. The race was won by Fabio di Giannantonio at the third time of asking.  Many questions are asked, such as whether KTM should have been allowed to continue, must the show always go on for MotoGP? Does Barcelona need resurfacing and yet more safety changes? And does MotoGP need a riders union to unify their voice? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Hosts: Dre Harrison, Peter McLaren, Lewis Duncan

Topics covered

• MotoGP
• crashes
• safety
• Catalan GP
• riders union
• KTM

Keywords

• Zarco
• Marquez
• Catalan GP
• crashes
• safety
• KTM
• MotoGP
• Fabio di Giannantonio

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: KTM, MotoGP

Places: Barcelona

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