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Catalan Chaos | MotoGP dodges a bullet in Barcelona
Season 2, Ep. 16
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When the championship leader barely gets a mention, you know there have been one or two talking points for the gang to get into.
The Catalan Grand Prix gave us one of the most dramatic and frightening MotoGP weekends in recent memory, with huge crashes, multiple starts, injuries, tyre pressure penalties and a race winner whose brilliant performance almost became a side story.
Gavin Emmett is joined by Neil Hodgson and Sylvain Guintoli to discuss whether MotoGP really did dodge a bullet in Barcelona, what happened in the Alex Márquez and Johann Zarco incidents, and the big question after two huge red flag incidents: should the race have been restarted, or is that simply the reality of racing?
There’s also plenty on Fabio di Giannantonio’s superb victory, Pedro Acosta’s latest near miss, KTM’s technical troubles, Jorge Martin’s difficult weekend, plus Moto2, Moto3, WorldSBK and British Superbikes.
A chaotic weekend. Some very big questions. Just not about who is leading the series.
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