MotoGP Le Mans: Alex Marquez penalised for Binder, Zarco incident by FIM Stewards

Alex Marquez has been given a three-place grid penalty for his next MotoGP race following Sunday's French Grand Prix at Le Mans.
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The FIM Stewards handed Marquez the sanction✨ for🥃 'irresponsible riding causing danger to other competitors' at Turn 6 on the opening lap, when his manourvere 'disturbed' Brad Binder and Johann Zarco.

An appeal by the Gresini team was rejected on the grounds that Marquez had indeed been ‘overly ambitious’, that the resulting 'chain reaction' disturbed other riders, and that the penalty was appropriate since Marquez would have received an equal in-race pu🍰nishment had he not crashed out on lap 6.

Speaking before the news of the penalty, Marquez said🎀 of the incident: “I was behind Johann and after turn 5 I was not expecting him to be braking really so𒀰on. Then I was trying to avoid him on the inside."

After Marquez dived inside Zarco, the Frenchman went slightly wide. Marquezꦐ then clipped the back of Binder, sending the KTM rider to the edge of the asphalt before🌃 he turned back onto the track.

“They closed the gas so early and then I touched just a little bit B🍷rad. Brad's line is really inside there and he was trying to defend and I just touched him a little bit, but I saw that he lost some positions," Marque🔯z said.

“So I'm sorry for that because it was not my intention to go against Brad. I just♐ ꩲtouched him just a little bit, but you know, for him it was a big one because he went really, really off [wide].”

While Marquez 🍎finished the opening lap in eighth and Zarco in tenth, Binder lost out most in the inc𓆏ident.

"Whe𓄧n you drop back to 20th place on the first lap, it's difficult," said the Sout⛄h African.

Marquez later crashed out when he hit the bac🐈k of Luca Marini, who was 🐻recovering from a save on the exit of Turn 4.

Zarco finished his home race in third, with Binder sixth for 𝄹KTM after a late long-lap penalty for cutting a chicane.

The ne൲xt MotoGP round will be held at Mugello, a home event for Gresini and Ducati, next month🎃.

The FIM Stew♏ards are yet to announce any penalties for the Maverick Vinales-Francesco Bagnaia clash.

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