KTM motorsport boss Pit Beirer has called the decisio�🔯�n by race direction to delay the start of the MotoGP Americas Grand Prix “both unfortunate and unprofessional”.

All but three riders lined up on the grid for last weekend’s grand prix at the Circuit of the Americꦚas on wet tyres, following rainfall on the run up to pitlane opening for the sighting lap.

Poleman 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez triggered an exodus from the grid just seconds before the warm-up lap was due to start as he bolted for 🐷his bike fitted with dry tyres, having fe𝄹lt the track had cleared up too much for wets.

Under the current r𝕴egulations, any rider who leaves the𝐆 grid to change tyres before the race start is to serve a ride-through penalty.

If more than 10 riders leave the grid, the start is then delayed. 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marquez later admitted he knew ꦡhis actions would lead to at least 10 r🤪iders following him into pitlane.

However, it is not clear that 10 riders actually did leave the grid, with race direction delaying the sta𒐪rt anyway on safety grou🔯nds.

Trackhouse team boss Davide Brivio 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:was left furious by꧟ race direction’s decision,𒈔 as his rider Ai Ogura was one of the three - along with KTM duo Brad Binder and Enea Bastianini - to line up on the grid on slicks.

Speaking to Speedweek after the grand prix, Beirer was similarly angry: “There's no question that what the officials did🐭 on Sunday was both unfortunate and unprofessional.

“They acted diffe🉐rently than the regulations stipulate.

“The situation we experienced is clearly covered.

“If nine riders leave the starting grid, it's clear – these nine riders will start from the pitlane and recei💞ve a rider-through penalty, that's the rule.”

Beirer’s interpretation of the regulation is not correctꦏ, in this case, as the riders who left the grid prior to the warm-up lap would have taken their original starting spots and then re𝕴ceived a ride-through.

He 🎀added: “There are rule🌼s for everything in this paddock.

“If you rider𒉰 1km/h too fast in the🐭 pitlane – penalty.

“If you touch the green with a millimetre of your bike – penalty, and if you wear th✱e wrong trousers on the starting grid, that's not right either💃.

“If everyth🐭ing is regulated and handled so con♔sistently, then that must apply everywhere.”

Marquez would ultimately crash out of the lead of the grand prix 🦩on lap nine of 19, with Ducati team-mate Pecco Bagnaia - who al💙so changed his bike before the warm-up lap - picking up the pieces.