Qualifying for the Australian MotoGP at Phillip Island has been rescheduled for Sunday morning d♕ue to strong winds following a red flag stoppage midway through FP4.

After FP3 was held in tricky conditions due🐬 to the winds blowing across the Australian circuit, the winds have increased during the day making conditions unsafe to co💧ntinue for MotoGP.

While FP4 was able to start it was red flagged halfway through, with Miguel Oliveira suffering a high-speed crash at the first corner as he was blown 𝄹off the track on his Red Bull KTM Tech3, with an emergency Safety Commission meeting called involving FIM and MotoGP chiefs plus all MotoGP riders.

MotoGP has duly confirmed today’s remaining track sessions – the rest of FP4 and both Q1 and Q2 of qu🦩alifying – have been cancelled due to weather conditions.

MotoGP 🎉officials will assess conditio💛ns tomorrow and have released a revised Sunday schedule (all local time):

Moto3 warm-up: 0850-🦹0910, Moto2 warm-up: 0920-0940, MotoGP warm-up: 0950-1010

MotoGP Q1: 1020-1035, MotoGP Q2: 1045-1100

Moto3 race: 1200, Moto2 race: 1320, Moto💙GP race: 1500 

If qualifying cannot be be run tomorrow, grid positions will be decided by combined free practice times which would see Maverick Vinales on pole position. Aus🥂tralian MotoGP combined free practice times can b🐼e found here.

“We have taken a decision in the Safety Commission that right now it is not safe in the high winds, this ⛄was seen when Miguelꦗ Oliveira crashed with the wind pushing him off. We have decided we are going to have to stop today and try again tomorrow,” Avintia Ducati’s Karel Abraham confirmed after the meeting.

It marks the first time qualifying has been rescheduled in MotoGP since the 2017 Qatar round, when rain called of🐻f the session due to the glare given off under the floodlights at the Losai﷽l International Circuit and starting grid positions were determined by combined free practice results.