Franco Morbidelli will serve a costly punishment at his home Misano round — suspended from the opening 10 minutes of Friday’s Free Practice 1 and fined €2000 — after being found guilty of “irresponsible behaviour” in Sunday’s Catalan MotoGP.
The Italian was already carrying a long-lap penalty into the grand prix for colliding with Jorge Martin in the Sprint.
Early in the race, Morbidelli clashed with Martin’s Aprilia teammate and fellow VR46 Academy rider Marco Bezzecchi, sending Bezzecchi tumbling to the ground.
Teammate Fabio di Giannantonio was also caught up in the chaos, crashing as he tried to avoid Bezzecchi. That incident was deemed a racing incident.
But Morbidelli later went down on his own — and then drew the ire of race officials for what happened next. The stewards ruled he had “disobeyed direct instructions” from marshals after the crash, putting himself and others at risk.
The official FIM MotoGP Stewards’ statement was damning:
“On 7th September 2025 at 14:37:22 during the Race of the Monster Energy Grand Prix of Catalonia, after a crash at Turn 10, you were found to have behaved in an irresponsible manner, disobeying direct instructions from marshals, causing potential danger to yourself and others.
This contravenes the specific instructions given to MotoGP competitors and teams, disrupting the session, and is considered irresponsible riding.”
The result: a ban from the first 10 minutes of FP1 at Misano, plus a €2000 fine.
