Ogura disqualified from MotoGP Argentina GP for non-homologated software

MotoGP rookie Ai Ogura has been disqualified from Sunday’s Argentina Grand Prix following a technical irregularity on his Trackhouse Aprilia.

The choice means the Japanese rider loses his spectacular eighth place, to which he battled from fifteenth on the beginning grid, together with the eight factors he would have earned.

In keeping with an announcement issued by the stewards on Sunday night at Termas de Rio Hondo, the group was working non-approved software program throughout the grand prix.

In keeping with the official textual content, Ogura was “discovered to be utilizing a non-homologated software program model (V21 b102), that had not been permitted by Championship.  

“This contravenes Article 2.4.3.5.3  Digital Management Unit and Inertial Measurement Unit of the FIM Grand Prix World Championship Rules.”

Paradoxically, Ogura’s exclusion from the outcomes items an sudden level to his struggling Trackhouse team-mate Raúl Fernández, who strikes as much as fifteenth place within the revised classification. That opens Fernandez’s factors account for the season.

In distinction to Fernandez, Ogura has had a stellar begin to the yr, his first in MotoGP after stepping up from Moto2.

Ogura completed fifth within the Thai Grand Prix two weeks in the past, to go together with a fourth place within the dash on that opening weekend of the season.

The 17-point haul he picked up in Asia means he nonetheless lies eighth within the factors standings regardless of a zero-score in Argentina, the place he might solely handle fifteenth within the dash.