Catalan Chaos | MotoGP dodges a bullet in Barcelona
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4.9 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Gassett out after a truly extraordinary Catalan Grand Prix that left us all thinking, I think we dodge one there. |
| 0:19.9 | Sir Van Gintoli and Neil Hodgson, join me to review what went on in Barcelona. |
| 0:24.8 | And I have to say we are recording three days after the event. |
| 0:29.4 | And chaps, I'm still all finding myself staring at the screen thinking, what on earth |
| 0:34.4 | happened there? |
| 0:35.2 | We dodged a bullet, didn't we, Neil? |
| 0:38.2 | Like, the biggest bullet we've dodged since Austria, 2020, |
| 0:42.6 | when Mobedellian Zarko collided, |
| 0:46.3 | going up to turn, was it, turn two, three? |
| 0:49.3 | Turn two at the time. |
| 0:50.5 | Yeah, turn two, yeah, they've changed it. |
| 0:53.3 | But, I mean, that was horrendous, obviously. |
| 0:55.5 | We were so lucky then. |
| 0:57.0 | And it feels exactly the same this time. |
| 1:01.1 | Do you know what the weirdest part was? |
| 1:03.4 | Obviously, I was commentating with you, Gav. |
| 1:05.4 | But at the time, I was looking at the timing screen. |
| 1:07.3 | And it was such a horrible experience because I'm looking at |
| 1:11.8 | the timing screen and then you start to shout and I look obviously then back at the main monitor |
| 1:17.4 | and I'm looking at Alex markers going towards the wall on a straight and I don't know what's |
| 1:22.1 | happened and then obviously then it's like a it's like a plane crash into it I mean it was |
| 1:27.3 | horrendous horrendous so I mean, thankfully, these sorts of things in our sport, we know it can happen, but they are few and far between. Yeah, and there wasn't just that. Of course, there was a restarted raise. Joanne Zarco's leg got trapped in a bike he's got some nasty injuries we did get a result |
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