168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo had already endured his fair share of drama even before riders began sprinting off Sunday’s COTA MotoGP grid.

The Monster Yamaha star suffered his first crash of the season when he was caught out by the damp conditions with slick tyres on the🎉 sighting lap to the grid.

"I don't understand why I crashed on the sighting lap. I was basically upright, the tarmac lookedꦬ quite dry, and I wasn't even pushing, but I lost the front – it was a strange crash,” the Frenchman said.

“I🐲t was my first crash of the year, and the first on💧e in a long time.”

But the mayhem was just 💫beginning for the former world champion.

I𒊎nitially struggling to restart his M1, Quartararo received as♑sistance from Pramac’s Jack Miller before bumping his machine back into life.

However, he then faced a dilemma.

Team director Massimo Meregalli explained: "According to the regulations, if Fabio had en🎉tered pit lane [for repairs], he would have had to start from pit lane with a different tyre specification and would have been handed a ride-through penalty.

“So, we had to tell him to go to the starting grid, and we prepared the bike there, changing the set-up from dry to wet. Bu✱t then the start got delayed.”

Quartararo had wet ꦐtyres fitted when the start delay was called, after almost half of the grid followed Marc Marquez in sprinting back to the pits for their dry bikes.

Yamaha then used the delay to try and frantically cha꧟nge Quartararo’s undamaged spare bike over to a dry s𒅌etting.

“The first bi﷽ke was damaged, so we♌ had to start the race with the second bike, which hadn't been used by Fabio all weekend,” Meregalli continued.

🌞“We didn't have the time to change this bike from wet ꧒to dry.

“Basically, Fa♍bio raced with a hybrid bike: a mix of wet and dr🤡y. With the bike like that, we didn't know very well what was going to happen.

“On top of 💝this. it seems that he received some unusual notification on his YZR-M1's dashboard, which led to him riding the race in low-power mode, and we need to understand why this alert occurred.”

All of which meant that Quartararo, who impressed with a season-best si🦩xth place🦄 in the Sprint, crossed the line in tenth place.

“I was on rain tyres🍌 during the first starting grid pro✃cedure, and it was a mess. Then we had the delayed start,” Quartararo said.

“My first bike was damaged anyway, so I had 💃to u🌊se my second bike, which had a different chassis and swingarm…

“We had an issue w💖ith the electronics unfortunately, with an aler💧t about fuel from lap 4.

“In the end it was a mistake, but I had to change a lot of maps, and then the performance was not there🔯.

“But, overall, we had a great weekend, especially the Sprint, and ho𓃲pe🎀fully we'll have better luck at the next one."

Miller finished as the top Yamaha in fifth place with Quarඣtararo’s team-mate Alex Rins in elevent꧃h.