The outcomes of MotoGP’s twice-red-flagged 2026 Catalan Grand Prix could have been so much worse, with Alex Marquez and Johann Zarco beginning their recoveries (albeit with Zarco facing a wait) from the injuries they sustained in their terrifying pair of crashes.But it was a weekend that felt on the edge right from practice – so there’s plenty for MotoGP – and the riders – to learn from and improve on.Rider (and bike) fitness for restarts must be reviewedShould everybody who took the restarts in the race have been allowed to do so?The big question in-race surrounded the KTMs, which had been compromised with three separate technical failures – though KTM insisted at the time that they had been unrelated.But the swift turnarounds between the race starts left a lot of room for questions up and down the grid, and led to things like speculation about whether Johann Zarco’s Honda was totally intact whe …
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Author: Valentin Khorounzhiy
