Aprilia’s Massimo Rivola fumes at Marc Marquez penalty rule: “Five missing? We risk only test riders”
Marquez was slapped with a double long penalty for crashing into 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Miguel Oliveira on the third lap of the first grand prix - but🏅 his punishment has been in chaos ever since.
The initial ruling was💫 that he must serve the double long lap penalt💟y in Argentina, but he missed the race due to injury.
The rule was reworded to ensure Marquez must serve the p𓃲enalty whenever heও returns, but Honda appealed this change.
The MotoGP Court of Appeal have not yet 🅷delivered their final ruling on whether Marquez’s penalty is st♌ill valid.
"They wrote it badly and now they ha🏅ve to figure out how to fix it," Rivola told Sky.&nbs❀p;
"It would have been enough t🀅o write everything well, but to do it you have to think twice and be good enough.
“Those who make mistakes must be𒉰 penalised and those who penalise them must be competent and strict, especially with this new race format.
“If there are five riders missing꧂ in the third race, we run the risk that only the test drivers will run in the middle of the season."
Marquez hopes to return at next weekend’s Spa꧟nish MotoGP if his recovery from hand surgery allows.
But it remains unknown if he will serve a double long lap penalty, if꧃ he races.
Marquez and RNF Aprilia rider Oliveira are among a host of injuriꦉes already 🥃this season, after only three rounds.
En🔯ea Bastianini, ♓Pol Espargaro and Joan Mir have also missed races.
Mir returned in Texas, Bastianini hopes to join Marquez by🐎 returning in Jerez next weekend, but Espargaro wi🐓ll be a long-term absentee.
James was a spo𒉰rts journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
