He was later found to have fractured the malleolus in his right ankle.Īustralia's Jack Miller, who qualified fourth on his factory Ducati, struggled at the first start and dropped to tenth by the red flag but made a lightning restart to lead the race before dropping back to fourth. Savadori was declared fit, but did not restart.
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The race was restarted for 27 laps, one less than the full race distance, with Pedrosa able to take the restart on his second bike.
Martin dominates restart for rookie race win The next week, the Styrian MotoGP, Viñales's brakes failed on the approach to turn 1 and he jumped off at about 200kph before his bike speared into an air fence, deflating it.Īny damage to safety fencing requires a race to be stopped.Įarlier on August 16, 2020, the second-tier Moto2 race was also halted after Malaysian rider Hafizh Syahrin struck a fallen motorcycle, leaving him sprawled on the track with fragments of two bikes spread out behind him. The Augrace, the Austrian MotoGP, was stopped after a collision between Johann Zarco and Franco Morbidelli saw their bikes flying across turn 3, narrowly missing factory Yamaha teammates Maverick Viñales and Valentino Rossi. It was the third successive MotoGP to be red-flagged at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria, after both races in 2020 were stopped following accidents.