The incident occurred at the beginning of FP2 when Gerloff suffered a huge snap under braking, b🗹efore losing control on hitting the inside of Baz at turn 18.

The American had to then wait until 17 minutes remaining🙈 before returning to action, while Baz was able to resume a few minutes earlier.

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Speaking about the incident, Gerloff told : "I’m sorry to Loris and the whole team. I’m definitely embarrassed to have that happen but I’m happy everybody was okay for th🐠e 🦂most part. 

"Loris’ wris🅠t is hurting a little bit. It was just an unfortunate thing. I hate ౠbeing in this position but it’s not my first time. 

"I’m happy to be in the top three for the day. I did use a SCQ tyre at the end which obviously helps quite a bit. I feel like we’re still 🅰missing a little bit as far as race pace goes with the race tyres. 

"We have som🥃e work to do but I’m happy to have a good team around me and they’re going to work as hard as they can to get the bike better for tomorrow."

Despite having𒈔 his accident, and three red flags stopping proceedings, Gerloff ꧙managed to show impressive pace late on in order to finish as the highest BMW rider.

"My programme was affected by some other things. The red flags are an interesting thing that we all have to thin🐬k about," added Gerloff. 

"It’s something to ♛think about in Superpole and als🎀o for the races, to have backup tyres. 

"Hopefully no one goes down and there’s no red flags at all. It’s something tౠhe team and I are thinking about."

The red flags were as a result of three riders crashing at the fin✅al corn💟er which resulted in gravel rolling onto the track. The three riders that crashed were Gabriele Ruiu, Jonathan Rea and Tito Rabat.