Sunday’s race marked the second consecutive weekend where Bezzecchi was taken out at the start of a race. In Austria Bezzecchi crashed out after an aggressive move from Jorge Martin left many riders with nowhere to go. And in Barcelona it was more of the same for the Italian as he was launched from his Mooney VR46 Ducati after Enea Bastianini clipped Johann Zarco. The collision resulted in Bezzecchi and both Gresini riders falling into the gravel, before the restart was taken by all four riders that were hit by Bastianini.

The problem for Bezzecchi is that he couldn’t use the medium front and instead swapped to a soft front tyre, which was the only available option.

Speaking about the first-lap pile up, Bezzecchi said: "Like in Austria I didn’t see anything. I just got hit by four/five bikes.

"When I saw the images after I understood [what happened] but then my bikes was not starting unfortunately.