PIC: Yamaha ensure no repeat of Estoril grid mistake

The Factory Yamaha MotoGP Team has made sure there will be no repeat of the error that🏅 led to Ben Spies crashing out of the Estoril race earlier this month.

In Portugal, a tool used to temporarily block the fuel overflow pipe on the grid was accidentally left✅ in place for the race.

The distraction of trying to r🔜emove the tool, which also hampered his braking, eventually caused Spies to fall.

As this picture froꦅm Le Mans on Sunday shows, it is now i🗹mpossible for Spies and his mechanics not to notice if the forceps are left in place.

Spies, Fuel clamp, French MotoGP Race 2011
Spies, Fuel clamp, French MotoGP Race 2011
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The Factory Yamaha MotoGP Team has made sure there will be no re♏peat of the error that led to Ben Spies crashing out of the Estoril race earlier this month.

In Portugal, a 🎶tool used to temporarily block the fuel overflow pipe on🥂 the grid was accidentally left in place for the race.

The distraction of trying to remove the tool, which also ♒hampered his brakཧing, eventually caused Spies to fall.

As this picture from Le Mans on Sunday shows, it is now impossible for⛦ Spies and his mechanics not to noജtice if the forceps are left in place.

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