Joan Mir lost his Honda podium from motogp results in the Catalan Grand Prix after a 16-second tyre pressure penalty wiped out his second-place finish. Nearly two hours after the chequered flag, the official order changed again, with Fermin Aldeguer promoted to second and Pecco Bagnaia moving onto the podium.
Mir’s Second Place Vanishes
Mir’s race ended with a second-place finish under investigation after the 12-lap race was completed, and the sanction arrived after the result had already been posted. The Honda rider was one of six riders placed under tyre pressure investigation after the race, and his 16-second penalty removed a third grand prix podium finish for him.
The Catalan Grand Prix had already been stopped twice before it was finally run for the third time, which left the result open to post-race changes once the tyre checks were sorted through. Fabio Di Giannantonio won the twice red-flagged race, while the reshuffle behind him turned Mir’s podium into a penalty-driven reversal.
Bagnaia and the Yamaha penalties
Bagnaia was also on the list of riders under tyre pressure investigation, but there was no verdict for him at the time of the article. That left his third-place finish hanging while the race stewards worked through the cases one by one.
Jack Miller, Alex Rins and Toprak Razgatlioglu were all sanctioned with 16-second penalties as well. Miller dropped from 11th to 14th, while Rins fell from 14th to 15th and Razgatlioglu from 15th to 16th, showing how much the post-race rulings changed the lower half of the classification too.
Fabio Di Giannantonio wins
Di Giannantonio’s victory stood from the final running of the race, but the podium behind him was still being rewritten after the finish. For Mir, the sequence was stark: a second-place ride, an investigation at the flag, and then a 16-second sanction that pushed him off the podium entirely.
