The incident occurred at the beginning of FP2 when Gerloffജ suffered a huge snap under braking, before losing control on hitting the inside of Baz at𒊎 turn 18.

The America♊n had to then wait until 17 minutes remaining before returning to action, while Baz was abl﷽e to resume a few minutes earlier.

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Speaking abou꧟t the incident, Gerloff told : "I’m sorry to Loris and the whole team. I’m definitely embarrassed to have that happen but I’m happy everybody was okay for the most part. 

"Loris’ wrist is hurting a little bit. It was just an 𝔉unfortunate thing. I hate being in this position but it’s not my first time. 

"I’m happy to♊ be in the top three for the day. I did use a SCQ tyre at the end which obviously helps quite a bit. I feel like we’re still missing a little bit as far as race pace goes with the race tyres. 

"We have some work to do but I’m happy to have a good team around me and they’re going to work as hard as theꩵy can to get the bike bet📖ter for tomorrow."

Despite having ﷽his accident, and three red flags stopping proceedings, Gerloff managed to show impressive pace late on in order to finish as the highest BMW rider.

"My programme was affected by some other things. The r📖ed flags are an intꦑeresting thing that we all have to think about," added Gerloff. 

"Iꦑt’s something to think about in Superpole and also for the races, to have backup tyres. 

"Hopefully no one goes d𝔉own and there’s no red flags at all. It’s something the team and I are thinking about."

The red flags were as a result of three riders crashing at the final corner wh♑ich resulted in gravel rolling onto the track. The three riders that crashed were Gabri💫ele Ruiu, Jonathan Rea and Tito Rabat.