Marc Marquez "accepts" penalty, "but coming together with Bastianini played a part"

Marc Marquez ‘accepts’ 16-second poꦉst-race penalty at the Dutch MotoGP but "the coming together with Bastianini surely played a part"

Marc Marquez, Enea Bastianini, 2024 Dutch MotoGP race
Marc Marquez, Enea Bastianini, 2024 Dutch MotoGP race

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez said he accepts the 16-second post-race penalty for failing to meet the minimum tyre pressure in Sunday’s Dutch MotoGP.

The Gresini rider already realised he was in danger of running too low, for t🌳oo long, in the cooler Sunday temperatures when he let Fabio di Giannantonio pass him for third place on lap 8 of the 26-la🔜p race.

With Francesco Bagnaia and Jorge Martin escaping, Marquez hoped that by following another rider, rather than leading the pack in fresh air, he could raise his front tyre pressure for the required 60% gran☂d prix distance.

The plan may have worked without a la🐲te pass and contact from Enea Bastianini, which sent Marquez wide at Turn 1 on lap 21, causing his front tyre pressure to drop as he rej😼oined and got back up to speed.

The #93 expected Bastianini to get a 'drop one-positio🐬n' penalty for the mo🔴ve.

The Gresini team are understood to have made their case to 🎀the FIM Stewards, that the aggressive act of another rider caused Marquez to fall short of the 60% legal-pressure laps, but there are currently no mitigating factors allow📖ed.

As such, Marquez ꦰ- who crashed on lap two of the Saturday Sprint - received the automatic 16-second penalty, dropping him from fourth to tenth in the results and costing him seven world championship points.

“Unfortunately, even if by very little, we’re outside the te꧑chnical parameters regarding tyre pressure and t𝔉herefore we accept the penalty,” Marquez said. 

“It’s really a shame to leave here with 🦩such few points: we could have scored two fourth place finishes but… 

"The coming together with Bastianinဣi surely played a part but we’re not looking for excuses, I was playing w𓃲ell with tyre pressure until that moment. 

"Let’s wrap up this weekend and turn our𒈔 focus on Germa♚ny.”

Marquez's crew chief Frankie Carchedi tha𝔉t: "We were 0.01 out for 1 lap, however we have the data to understand why it was registering lower than it should have been."

Carchedi had also forecasted such a low-pressure scenario if a rider runs off track, during a February interview with mahbx.com:

“One of the great thin🦋gs to see in our sport is if a rider has gone off and then fights back through the field,” Carchedi said at the Sepang test.

“What will happen now is if somebody crashes or goes off track, they're going to be under the tyre pressure. So they might have the most amazing race e𝓀ver, come through the fꦰield and then you disqualify them at the end?

“I'm sure everyone will be coming up with alarms and lights [to warn a rider if they are low during a race]. But what can you do, suddenly slow down and let everyone overtakꦍ♒e you?

“You d𝐆on't want to see anything like that. Everyone's working on it and I hope that something can be found.”

The planned disquᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚalification penalty for low tyre pressure in 2024 was subsequently swapped for a 16-second penalty (8-seconds for a Sprint).

But the problem of a rider only failing to reach the 60% of legal laps because they ran off track or fell 🐬- especially if the incident was due to the actions of another competitor - hasn’t yet been addressed.

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