A blank dashboard left the Italian without any bike information or the 🐬ability to change maps and activate launch control.

🐬Nonetheless, he climbed from 16th to 12th on the opening lap of the soaking wet race, gaining another position s👍oon after.

By then he was also fighting a loose left handlebar grip and,💜 after🅰 dropping two places, his M1 finally switched off completely on lap 7 of 20.

"From when I switched on the bike the dashboard didn't work and I couldn't see a꧟nything. I couldn't put the launch control, couldn’t see the gear or change the map," Dovizioso said.

"I almost stalled the bike because I didn't have the launch control. I also had a problem with the left grip on the handlebar from the first lap, as it was turning around. So it was difficult to ride in a normal way. I diᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚdn't want to finish this way but it was an electronics issue.

"I'm disappointed because I felt quite good with the bike and I was in an acceptable position. The conditions were on th𒉰e limit because you couldn't see, but the track was okay, apart 🐻from the [loose] stones.

"Without these problems and a better grid position, I could h♉ave done a good race. Fabio (Quartararo) showed that. So congratulations to him."

Quartararo had suffered a similar 'shut down' on his factory-spec M1 earlier in the w꧒eekend, with stone damage cited as a possible factor.

Team manager Wilco Zeelenbe✃rg said: “For Andrea it was of course a big drama, as from the start his dash didn’t work properly.

"He was able to start without problems, but after just some laps, he found another issue [handlebar grip] and on top of that the 🍎bike stopped, so he needed to finish early. We are of course very disappointed about that."

On the other side of the RNF garage, rookie team-ma💦te Darryn Binder rode to an excellent tenth place on the year-old A Spec bike.