Joan Mir lost his Catalan Grand Prix MotoGP podium nearly two hours after the finish, after stewards handed him a 16-second sanction for a tyre pressure infraction. The penalty dropped the Honda rider from second to outside the podium and lifted Fermin Aldeguer to second, with Pecco Bagnaia moving onto the rostrum.
The ruling capped a chaotic afternoon in which the race was red-flagged twice and became the third attempt at running the grand prix. Fabio Di Giannantonio was confirmed as the winner of the 12-lap race, while Mir’s second-place finish had already been under investigation immediately after the chequered flag.
Mir was one of six riders placed under tyre pressure investigation after the race, and the sanction came after the same check also caught Jack Miller, Alex Rins and Toprak Razgatlioglu. Each of those three received a 16-second penalty as well, with Miller dropping from 11th to 14th, Rins from 14th to 15th and Razgatlioglu from 15th to 16th in the final order.
The numbers underline how late the classification changed. Mir’s penalty arrived almost two hours after the finish, and the final sheet showed a reshuffled front half of the field as well as major movement deeper in the points positions. Aldeguer inherited second, Bagnaia took third and Di Giannantonio stayed at the top after surviving a race that had already been stopped twice.
What made Mir’s case stand out was the shape of the restarted race itself. He spent much of it behind Pedro Acosta, a position that should have helped keep tyre pressure above the minimum threshold. Even so, the post-race review led to the sanction that erased Honda’s podium.
There was still no verdict on Bagnaia when the classification was reported, leaving one more layer of uncertainty in a race already defined by stoppages, investigations and late penalties. For now, the official MotoGP results from Barcelona show Di Giannantonio as the winner, Aldeguer in second and a podium that did not survive the final review.
