A “sore” Maverick Vinales says he has spoken to MotoGP’s stewards 🥀about his tangle in the Australian Grand Prix sprint with Marco Bezzecchi and ‘thinks they understand’.

Vinales - who qualified on the front row in third - passed Bezzecchi for fifth place b𒆙efore they both got to the braking zone of Turn 1 at Phillip Island on the penultimate lap of the sprint.

Bezzecchi then appeared unable to stop as he braked for Turn 1 and ran into the rear of the Aprilia in a scary🦄ജ incident.

Vinales has suffered no broken bones but will undergo anti-inflammatory treatment, while Bezzecchi had to be taken to hospital for checks - though also💯 appears to have escaped without 🐈any fractures.

The incident is ಞcurrently under review but has been delayed until Sunday owing to Bezzecchi b🌌eing unable to attend his stewards hearing.

Vinales stopped short of 🍎saying the VR46 rider should be penalised, but suggests this is the direction the stew🐎ards should go in after speaking to them.

“I feel very sore,” he told motogp.com.

“Obviously now more and more pain is coming. It’s normal. The crash was𝓰 big. I entered really fast onto the gravel.

“Luckily the helmet worked and also thanks to Ar🐬ai and Alpinestars, because always it keeps you really safe and that’s fantastic.

“Feels like nothing is brokꦯen, but everything is very sore, especially the hand and the arms.

“We’ll see, from🤪 my point of view, what I fel🅘t was that he tried to overtake me again when I overtook him.

“Obviously, I was⛦ 𝐆aware that I could not cross the line, so I braked leaving him some space.

“But probably he misunderꦫstood the braking point or something and when he braked, he was all over me.

“Stewards need to decide which is the line of the incident. I explained to them very well what happe🐻ned and I think they understand.

“They were listening, which is very ﷽important, and we’ll see. We were expecting… luckily, we are both ok and we’re going to race tomorrow.”

Fernandez gets top Aprilia honours in sprint

Aprilia’s honour was upheld in the sprint after Vinale🙈s’ exit by Trackhouse Racing’s Raul Fernandez, who was seventh at the chequered flag having qualified sixth.

But a tyre pressure penalty for VR46’s Fabio Di Giannantonio promoted Fernandez tꦦo sixth, marking his best🔯 sprint result of the year.

While the Spaniard concedes that “a little bit of lu𒈔ck” was on his side, he praised Trackhouse’s turnaround from a tough Friday as he feels the team “lost one day” in Australia.

“It’s true that we did a really good day,” Fernandezꦍ said.

“Also it’s true we had a little bit of luck, because a💝t the end we were 10th and for some crashes I took some points. But anyway, we did a really good job.

“Yesterday was really difficult for us, for the team. So, more or less we can say we lost one day and we r🦂ecovered well.

“It’s true that, for example, for me today in the sprint it w🅘as the first time I tried the💟 hard front.

“So, basically I did the sprint to take info for tomorrow, and also I d💟id this on tꦬhe rear.

“So it was🌠 more to take experience for tomorrow, to know how the feeling is on the tyre t🔯han to try to think to take some points.”