A much-anticipated meeting of the riders' Safety Co🐈mmission was held at COTA on Friday evening, where the events of Argentina were top of the 🍌agenda.

While no formal statements are issued about what is intended to be a private meeting for riders to speak freely, the main news lea𓃲king from the gathering was an agreement that harsher punishments will be issued for heavy contact.

That could include a 🧸black flag if, when attempting to overtake, a rider 💫causes an opponent to fall.

Such criteria wou๊ld mean that Marc Marquez would have got a black flag, rather than a 30-second post-race penalty, for the incident with Valentino Rossi - although it wouldn't have made any difference to the zero points scored for either rider.

However, it would also have presumably meant that Johann Zarco would h🧔ave been black-flagged for the opening lap contact with Dani Pedrosa…

But the biggest difficulty will occur in situations where a rider is forced off-track, but avoid🍒s a fall.

For e𓄧xample, after Aleix Espargaro was hit by Marquez, he sat his Aprilia up and went straight off the track. Rossi, hit at the same corner later in the race, fell when he was forced onto the wꦯet grass while leaning his Yamaha to try and make the corner.

Marquez was required to drop one position during th𒈔e race for the Espargaro incident, but got the much harder post-race 'ride-through' (30-seconds) for the Rossi collision.

For Espargaro, speaking on Thursday at COTA, both incidents shoul꧒d receive the same💮 punishment.

"I'm really angry about this actually because it looks like in this championship we penalise [only] when the other rider crashes," said Espargaro, who 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:also call🅷ed for the black flagged to be u🌄sed.

"Bu🐷t I didn't crash because when I went out of the track, I didn't go on the grass. If I went on the grass, I would have crashedꦯ.

"Was it harder with V�ඣ�alentino because Valentino crashed? No, it was the same.

"So it doesn’t have to be connected to whether you crash or no﷽t. The action is the same.

"If you touch a b𝕴it the other rider as you pass, but both riders finish the corner, this is close pass. It's fine.

"But not when y💮ou hit somebody and the other guy goes out of the track."

Espargaro was also hit by Danilo Petrucci during the Argentin🐬a race, in what the Spaniard said was a harder impact than from Marquez.

As in the later incident, Espargaro ran off trac൲k but didn't fall.  No punishment was given.

All♍ punishments will continue to be decided by a three-man panel o꧃f FIM Stewards.