Dorna S🤡ports has shared a full statement from MotoGP race director Mike Webb explaining in detail why Marc Marq🏅uez’s Japanese Grand Prix pole lap wasn’t cancelled immediately.

The Gresini rider set a 1m42.868s in the closing stages o⛄f Q2 on Saturday morning at Motegi to take provisional pole, but had the lap cancelled for e🐎xceeding track limits.

The lap wasn’t immediately taken off the board and wouldn’t be officially communicated as deleted until after the chequered flag, which left Marquez with no t▨ime to 🃏try for a legal time.

Due to the rain drops that were falling late on in Q2, Marquez later said he so no sen🐠se in pushing after his initial 1m42.868s lap. As a result, he qualified ninth.

The Gresini team was 🦹furious wit♑h the delay in the cancellation, which has been blamed on a glitch in the system that sends notifications of track limits infringements.

Track limits are🗹 policed🎉 by sensors lining the green painted run-off areas where advantages are deemed to be gained by going onto them.

This makes the process in cancelling laps and the notification of that automatic, though in the case of Marquez in Q2 at Motegi the software glitch meant the stewards had to log th♈is lap manually.

Following a request to Dorna from mahbx.com, an official statement from race di𝐆rector Webb read:

“The track limits sensor was triggered immediately, which leads to the automati🐬c cancella🍬tion of any lap.

“The FIM MotoGP Stewards entered it into the system right away, but unfortunately, a software glitch interrupted this process and meant the l🍌ap then needed to be cancelled manually, causing a delay to the notification.

“This is the first time this has happened in thousands of track limits infractions investig♛ated each season.

“The cause of this glitch has been located and the s𓂃ystem adjusted in order to ensure it cannot happen again.”

Marquez went on to finish the sprint race on Saturday afternoon in third despite his lowly starting position.