One of the hot topics for discussion among the riders in Friday evening's Safety Commis🉐sion meeting at Austin will be Cal Crutchlow's recent jump-start penalty.

The Englishman was furious to receive a race destroying ride-through after unwittingly rolling forwards by a few centremetres - w💃ith the clutch still engaged - just before the red lights went out in Argentina.

The MotoGP rules are clear tꦺhat any movement (unless a rider stops the bike again before the red lights go out) means an automatic ride-through penalty.

But if that's the case, Crutchlow questioned why former🎶 world champion Freddie Spencer had been brought in as Chairman of the Stewards Panel, if the Americ🙈an legend cannot use any of his racing knowledge to show some discretion when no advantage has been gained.

"We asked for somebody that understands racing, that's going to have some discretion and understanding of the rules and what's gaining and what's not gaining," 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Crutchlow said. "It's just ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous."

Speaking at COTA on Thursday, the current championship top three of Marc Marquez, Andrea Dov🌊izioso and Valentino Rossi expre⭕ssed sympathy for Crutchlow's situation, but felt the 'no movement' rule must remain.

"It's difficult. It will be funny in the Safety Commission tomorrow for sure and it will be important to speak about that. Because 🔜the rul⛎es are clear," said Ducati's Dovizioso.

"I think Cal didn't gain anythi𒁃ng from what he did, but he moved a little bit. So we can think and speak about that. We have to try to understand if another way exists to manage this situation.

"I mean, it was clear Cal didn't gain anything and ꩵdidn't do it on purpose, but the rules say if you move you make a mistake. I think it's very hard to accept that, if I was Cal. I can understand how angry he is.

"But if you have to interpret every start [for any advantage gained by moving early] it is difficult. I think that's why they decided to have those rules but i🎶t's bad to lose a race like this. Really bad. Especially when your pace is good."

Honda's reign꧅ing world champion Ma🐻rquez said any attempt to allow marginal jump starts would just cause greater problems.

"I completely agree with Andrea. I mean of course Cal didn't gain anything, but the rules say that if you move the bike, even the opposite way, you wꦆill be penalised.

"It's the best way to have a solid rule, because if not it will always be 'yeah, but he gained nothing'. For me, it's hard to have a ride-throug♔h and lose a race, but it's the best way to have one rule and don’t have the polemic later."

"For me, the only way to have a clear rule is to say that you cannot move the moment before the start," echoed nine-time world champion Rossi. "Because if you start to speak about 'did you gain something?', or 'how 🔯much you can move', it becomes very difficult.

"I saw the camera on the wheel of Cal, for sure they are very strict and Cal didn't gain anytꦚhing, but if you see that camera you see that🐷 he moved a little bit."

While there appears to be no appetite for ditching the 'no movement' rule, the automatic punishment for a jump start could be altered, with Rossi joining those that suggest possible🍰 use of the new-for-2019 Long Lap penalty (2-3sec) for split-second startline errors.

"We can speak tomorrow about the penalty. Because, as Cal said after the race, if you ride through the pits you lose 35 seconds, so it's over. May🎐be you can think to do a Long Lap. I don’t know," said the Yamaha rider.

"But the rule 🌊is you canno🤡t move, so it's like this."