If the original COTA MotoGP start had gone ahead, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia believes he'd have been in a much bettওer situation penalty-wise compared to rivals Ma♔rc and Alex Marquez.

Bagnaia and Alex were among many to follow in Marc’s footsteps when he dramatically ditched ꦰhis wet bike on the grid and dashed into pit lane for his dry machine.

Likไe most riders and team members, Marquez didn’t realise his actions would result in a ride-through penalty, thinking he would merely start from the back of the grid.

However, no punishments were ultimately applied since the start was delayed on safety grounds due to the chaos - mostꦆ notably team members and guest𓆉s trapped between the track and bikes rushing along pit lane - and a new 'quickstart' procedure was initiated.

The three riders who most obviously lost out due to the delay were those ready to start from t🌺he grid on s🧸licks: Enea Bastianini, Brad Binder and Ai Ogura.

Meanwhile, those who fled the grid should have faced♎ the following:

'If you leave the grid before the warm up lap and change the type of tyres* (rain-slick), you start the warm up lap from pit lane, take your qualifying grid position, and serve a ride through penalty in the race.'

However꧟ on Thursday in Qatar, Bagnaia revealed he would also have escaped a ride-through penalty.

That’s due to the asterisk (*) in the rules defining, ‘change the type of tyres’ as: ‘compared to the tyres used on the sighting lap (when a different bike is used to start the race).’

Bagnaia revealed he had used slick tyre෴s for the COTA sighting lap, then switched to wet tyres on the grid.

Therefore, although he was leaving the grid and changing bikes (which meanꩲs a lesser back-of-the-grid sta🅠rt penalty) he was not changing the type of tyres compared to those on the sighting lap.

“From me, it was the best scenario to see either Marc or Alex go🀅ing from the grid because I was the only one [of us] that if the rules were applied would not get a ride throug⭕h,” Bagnaia said.

“I would just have to start from the back of the grid because I was th🔜e one that💛 did the sighting lap with slick tyres.

“I was already on the correc✃t tyres [on the sighting lap], so I didn't h♛ave to do any ride through in the race.

൲“So in case the rules were applied, I was in a better scenario compa𓆏red to them.

“But then the chaos was there, and they deci🗹ded to put red flagꦍs."

Bagnaia backed the decision of Race Dirඣection to halt the start.

"That was su♍rely the best thing to do, also considering ꧒that the track maybe wasn't ready to go with the slick.

“But in a normal [start] situation I was having the better scenario compar꧒ed to them.”

Bagnaia went on to win the rest𝓡art after Marc Marquez crashed from the lead. Alex Marquez took over at the top of the world championship with another second pla🌱ce.

Ahead of this weekend’s Qata🤪r event, MotoGP announced:

“After the unprecedent𒐪ed circumstances at the start of the Americas GP, which led to a quick start procedure being implemented due to 𒀰safety concerns, MotoGP is working with the teams to revisit the regulations.”