MotoGP race director Mike Webb has issued an apology and explanation after 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia has his best Thai Grand P💜rix practice lap incorr𝓀ectly cancelled on Friday.

Bagnaia posted a 1m29.492s lap with around three minutes remaining in Friday afterno🥃on’s P🅺ractice, which put him seventh at the time and would have kept him inside the top 10 Q2 places.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:But this lap was cancelled, ostensibly due to being set under yellow flag conditions for Marco Bezzecchi’♎s crash at Turn 3 at around the same time.

However, Bagnaia was well clear of the incident and was not in 𒐪a sector that should have been affected by a yellow flag at the time.

Bagnaia was forced into a last-ditch attempt to get into Q2 with his final lap, which he then had to abort for encountering 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:a slowing Franco Morbidelli on the racing line at Turn 5.

Race direction admit Thai MotoGP error

When he spoke to the media, Bagnaia said race direction admitted its mistake, with its director Webb now issuing his o𓂃wn statement.

“Race Direction determined that the yellow flag was incorrectly displayed on the lap Bagnaia has had c🃏ancelled. This was due to human error,” he said.

“We are very unhappy with this unfortunate situation and effect it has had on Pecco’s weekওend.

“When a rider passes a yel🌳low flag, their lap is automatically cancelled. This affected various riders today, but unfortunately it was Bagnaia’s fas🌱test lap of the session.

“Laps are cancelled due to passing a yellow f♌lag, not necessarily because a rider passes through a sector with a crash.

“We cannot reverse any cancellation of a lap for any rider who has seen a yellow flag. But we can - and do - apologise to Bagnaia and the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Ducati Lenovo Team for the human error.”

Bagnaia noted that race direction argued it couldn’t reinstate his lap as it would leave the door open for other riders to que🎶stions every canceꦜlled time.

Thisꦺ cancelled lap dropped Bagnaia out of the top 10, with his aborted final effort leaving him 13🍰th overall and facing Q1 on Saturday morning.

Morbidelli was hit with a three-place grid penal🅠ty for getting in Bagnaia’s way at the end of the session, while LCR Honda rookie Somkiat Chantra was copped for something similar.