MotoGP race director Mike Webb has issued an apology and explanation after 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Francesco Bagnaia 𝓡has his best Thai Grand Prix practice lap incorrectly cancelled on Friday.

Bagnaia posted a 1m29.492s lap with around three minutes re🌟maini💮ng in Friday afternoon’s Practice, which put him seventh at the time and would have kept him inside the top 10 Q2 places.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:But this lap was cancelled, ostensibly due to being set under yellow flag conditions f🌺or Marco B🤪ezzecchi’s crash at Turn 3 at around the same time.

However, Bagnaia was well clear of the incident and was not in a s♏ector that should have been affected by a yellow flag at the time.

Bagnaia was forced into a last-ditch attempt to get into Q2 with his final lap, which he then had to abort for encountering 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:a slowing Franco Morbidelli on the racing line at Turn 5.

Race direction admit Thai MotoGP error

When he spoke🌞 to the media, Bagnaia said race direction admitted its mistake, with its director Webb now issuing his own statement.

“Race Direction determined t🧜hat the yell𝓀ow flag was incorrectly displayed on the lap Bagnaia has had cancelled. This was due to human error,” he said.

“We are very unhappy with this unfortunate situation ▨an💫d effect it has had on Pecco’s weekend.

“When a rider passes a yellow flag, their lap is automatically cancelled. This affected various riders today, but unfortunatel𒊎y it was Bagnaia’s fastest lap of the session.

“Laps are cancelled due to pass꧃ing a yellow flag, not necessarily because a rider passes through a sector with a crash.

“We cannot reverse any cancellation of a lap for any rider who has seen a yellow flag. But we can - and do - apologise to Bagnaia and the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Ducati Lenovo Team for the human error.”

Bagnaia not♛ed that race direction argued it couldn’t reinstate his lap as it would leave the door open for other riders to questions 🍸every cancelled time.

This cancelled lap dropped Bagnaia out of the top 10, with his aborted final effort leaving him 13th 🧔overall and facing Q1 on Saturday morning.

Morbidelli was hit with a three-place grid penalty for getting in Bagnaia’s way at the end of the session, while LCR Honda rookie Somkiat Chantra was copped for something similar♈.