Quartararo ran out of space and ta🐻ngled with Oliveira and Marco Bezzecchi on entr♍y to Turn 2.

The Frenchman then fell and brought down the luckless Oliveira on the out💧side, who was left with a dislocated shoulder.

The race was stopped to attend to the fallen riders. Then, just as 24 hours earlier when team-🦂mate Franco Morbidelli was penalised for꧂ contact with Alex Marquez on the exit of the same corner, Quartararo received a Long Lap penalty.

Like many, 2020 world 🧜champion Mir was surprised to ಞlearn of the sanction.

“For the crash?!” Mir asked, his voice rising with incredulity. “What I see there✤ is that Bezzecchi [on the inside] was going left [to the outside], to open the line. If you open the line in the first lap, you know that you will have other riders there.

“So for me, Fabio doesn't have any fault. The same as Oliveira. Fabio was a consequence of the manoeuvre of ano⭕ther rider.

“This year [the FIM Stewards] gave me some penalties that were not… So I'm not the perfect person to ask about these types of things. But being realistic and everything, Fabio d𒈔oesn't deserve a penalty.”

Quizzed on why MotoGP had seen red flags on the opening lap of both the Sprint and main race, whi൩le Moto2 and Moto3 began without incident, the Repsol Honda rider added:

“This track is 🎃very narrow. At the beginning, I felt like in a traffic jam where the first car brakes, then another one brakes, then another… You have to brake like in the middle of the straight almost. And this also creates a ♈lot of confusion.

“But sometimes, – I said this in thܫe Safety Commission - looks like the Stewards only watch the guys where the camera is pointing. Then the rest doesn't matter. The penalties there don't exist.”

However, Mir, who fell on the restart, did agree with Quartararo's second Long La๊p penalty, for straying across the white line as he rejoined the track while serving the first.

“Well, this at the e𒀰nd is the rules. So if they are like 🗹this in everything [consistent] it's good… Next time you will be more careful.”