The crashes of Marc Marquez and Pecco Bagnaia from Saturday’s sprint at Silv☂erstone have been assessed - and judged as unfortunate.

Marquez and Bagnaia saw their sprint race at the British MotoGP end prematurely, allowing title rival Jorge ꩵMartin to steal a march by finishing P2 behind Enea Bastianini.

Marquez was fourth when he crashed out💝 at the final chicane.

“He overcooked it a bit,” said TNT Sports’ Sylvain Gܫuintoli.

“The weekend hadn’t started well for him.

“He c🅰ame in really quick with loads of weight on the front tyre. He loses it.

“He was pushing but didn’t🌃 have the pace foꦺr the podium. He was struggling since the start of the weekend, complaining about the front end.”

Neil Hodgson replied: “I wa🅰s sur🦋prised with that crash, with three laps to go.

“He wasn’t catching the guys in fron💫t, and the guys behind weren’t catching hi♛m. A strange one, for me.”

G♒uintoli noted: “He was the only Ducati rider with a hard front.”

Hodgson: “If you back off🐷 with a hard front and think ‘I am safe here’ you don’t quite load it the same. We hav🦋e seen it happen before.

“Imagine this; you think ‘I will take this posi𓆏tion, I won’t risk as much’. Then down you go! That’s annoying.”

Guintoli said: “Again though, out of the GP23s he’s the oneꦰ at the front. The GP24s are quick…”

Martin listened to 'the angel, not the devil'

Champion Bagnaia set the fastest lap of the sprint before cr♑ashing out, from fourth place, on Lap 4 of 10.

Hodgson analysed: “Jorge Martin made a mistake three weekends ago. These riders are aไt the absolute limit, Bagnaia was in fourth, cl🌳osing to the lead.

“There was nothing he did wrong. He wasn’t closed in. But ♈everyone is on the limit, the lap times were ridiculous - nearly qualifying times!

“When you’re on the edge, trying to win a world champio🍷nship, you have to live on the edge. But it’s easy to gওo a fraction over it.

“It was on the worst corner at Silverstone🌞. It’s eꦡasy to overload the front, and down you go.”

“You’ve got the devil and the angel in that situation. The✱ angel is saying ‘second place is great, we’ll tak♌e that!’ The devil is saying ‘we can win!’

“But Martin crashed out of the lead at the last race,💞 because he was over the limit🏅.

“He is sat there,▨ and listened to theꦏ angel. He took second place.”

Martin’s podium - coupled with the DꦗNF for Bagnaia a🦄nd Marquez - had a drastic effect on the MotoGP standings.

Martin has cut Bagnai🙈a’s lead at the summit of the championship to a singleജ point ahead of Sunday’s grand prix.

Marquez has lost third-place to Bastianini.