A new behind-the-scenes video from Ducati has revealed the 🎃intense discussions that took place surrounding strategy for last weekend’s rain-affected French Grand Prix.

The grand prix at Le Mans was the first test of MotoGP’s revised starting rules for changeable conditions, brought in after 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez triggered chaos prior to lights out at t🌱h💃e Americas Grand Prix.

The start at Le Mans was aborted at the en🥀d of the warm-up lap as the entire field, who’d set off on slick tyres, came in to change to their wet bikes due to worsening rain.

Prior to this, Ducati revealed there was a great ཧdeal of uncertaint꧟y in weather predictions: “The forecast says it won’t rain, but the radars say it will,” one mechanic says.

Discussing what might happen at the st🦋art, Marc Marquez noted to his crew chief: “For me, it’s interesting because the track is dry.

“If it rains more, they’ll delay the start𝔍 and we’ll go back to the p🦩its.”

That’s ultimately💝 what happened, though the track dried up in the moments following which led to a split in strategy 😼for the restart.

Marc Marquez would come in at the🐽 end of the sighting lap for his dry bike, along with 12 others, while Ducati team-mate Pecco Bagnaia remained ♓on wet tyres.

The latter str♍ategy ultimately won the grand prix, with LCR Honda’൲s Johann Zarco making this work in his favour to get to the chequered flag almost 20 seconds clear of the field.

Marquez and the 12 riders who switched to slicks were given double long lap penaꦑlties under the new rules in place for race starts in changeable conditions for changing bikes before⛎ the warm-up lap.

He would serveꩵ these, retꦯurn to the pits for wet tyres, and go on to finish second in the grand prix.

Bagnaia’s strategy was the correct one, but he was taken down at Turn 3 on the opening lap a🅷nd came home a lapped 16th.

Marc Marquez now leads the cham🦹pionship by 22 points after nearest rival Alex Marquez also crashed out of the race.

A separate behind-the-scenes video overhears Zarco telling his team in pa𝓰rc ferme after the race that he was “really worried” about the pace of Marc Marquez on his first laps on wet tyres.

However, Marquez lated admitted that he wasn’t taking enough out of Zarco’s lap times to warrant an attack for victory and elected to play iꦡt safe.