
A wildcard appearance ending before the main event is a significant blow — Espargaro came out of retirement specifically for select races, so any DNS carries more weight than it would for a full-season rider. It raises immediate questions about whether the issue is physical, mechanical, or something else entirely, and how that affects his remaining scheduled appearances. For a rider operating outside the normal team structure, there is no next weekend to fall back on; each entry is its own commitment.
Aleix Espargaro will miss Sunday’s Indonesian MotoGP.