Aprilia has ended Marco Bezzecchi’s final route back onto the Czech Grand Prix grid, confirming it will not take his Brno suspension to the CAI.
That decision turns what had been a live disciplinary fight into a final race-day absence. Bezzecchi will not start Sunday’s MotoGP race at Brno after the FIM MotoGP Stewards suspended him over his conduct towards marshals following his Sprint crash.
The official MotoGP update confirmed Aprilia had accepted the penalty after its first appeal was rejected by the FIM Appeal Stewards on Saturday night. The team still had the option of escalating the case to the international appeal court, but has chosen not to do so.
Aprilia stops the appeal fight
The shift matters because Aprilia’s previous position left a small but meaningful question hanging over the morning at Brno. Readmotorsport had already covered how Bezzecchi’s appeal defeat left Aprilia with one last route, but that route has now closed.
The Race reported that Aprilia team principal Massimo Rivola said the original appeal was based on the team feeling the punishment was disproportionate compared with other cases, while also stressing that Aprilia accepted the decision and did not tolerate the behaviour involved.
It leaves Bezzecchi with no Czech GP race start, no chance to convert his Sunday grid position into damage limitation, and no opportunity to respond on track after a Sprint weekend that had already turned sharply against him.
Brno now becomes a title opening
The sporting cost is obvious. Bezzecchi was already under pressure after falling out of the Sprint, a point Readmotorsport examined when the initial Brno ban turned into an Aprilia title crisis. Now the championship consequence is locked in before the main race has even started.
For the rest of the field, Brno becomes a clean chance to take points from a title contender who cannot answer. Francesco Bagnaia, Ai Ogura and Fabio Di Giannantonio were already central to the weekend’s competitive picture after Bagnaia denied Ogura in the Brno Sprint, and Sunday’s race now carries an even sharper swing factor.
Aprilia’s final call at least removes uncertainty from the grid. It also draws a firm line under the disciplinary process before the race, leaving the team to absorb the damage rather than prolong a case that had already moved beyond normal racing controversy.
For Bezzecchi, the next step is no longer legal. It is reputational, sporting, and entirely dependent on how quickly he can reset once MotoGP leaves Brno.
Sources: MotoGP.com, The Race
