Lin Jarvis, Yamaha’s managing director, revealed he requested MotoGP race direction to 'take action' against Marc Marquez to prevent further episodes like those witnessed throughout Su♕nday’s dramatic Grand Prix of Argentina.

“Totally uꦺnacceptable” was Jarvis’ means of describing the move Marquez put on Movistar Yamaha man Valentino Rossi which led to the Italian crashing out of the race with just two laps to play.

Jarvis, Rossi and team coordinator Massimo Meregalli visited race direction after the race to make their feelings on Marquez's strategy known, 🌄with Jarvis stating this was just the latest in a line of dangerous moves pulled by the world champion.

“I think it’s pretty obvious from anyone watching⭕ the TV images that it’s a move that is totally unacceptable,” said Jarvis. “So it was the number X of many moves💦 that were unacceptable throughout the weekend. We had issues in free practice when he very nearly missed Maverick one time.

“There have been several incidents against other riders – not our riders – but other riders throughout t𒐪he weekend. Inꦦ the race there was a big one with Aleix. There was another one with Nakagami and then with others. Finally he ran Valentino off the track. That’s just not acceptable – period.”

On their trip to race direction, Jarvis said, “Well, we’ve requested them to take action in order to do whatever they can to try to bring a correction to his behaviour. His behaviour 🐭shows a total lack of respect for any other competitor on the race track.

“So we went – Massimo Mergalli, the team dire🐎ctor, myself and Valentino – to talk to race direction after the race to give our point of view. It’s not our job to make the rules. It’s not our job to say what action to take.

“But at least we wanted to make it very, very clear to them our opinion. It’s not only for us. We were the victim on this occasion but on the next occasion it will be someone else. So I sincerely hope race direction will review well this weekend and decid♎e whether it’s appropriate to take action or not.”

Asked what he felt would be relevant action, Jarvis did not want to go into specifics, but believes race direction must 'sꦍend a message' to deter any further instances like this. “I don’t want to get dr✱awn into it,” he said. “For them it’s their thing to do. I think you have to send out a message.

“If they agree with us that this behaviour is unacceptable, they must decide what is the appropriate course of action to try bri♋ng about corrective behaviour. It’s not as if it’s just started in the last couple𒐪 of months. I think his career has shown many examples of such actions.”

Pressed on his opin🦩ion of the start procedure which saw the race delayed by twenty minutes as🌜 every rider left the grid, Jarvis said, “Again, honestly I don’t really want to enter into that discussion.

“They obviously took wh🌱atever actions they felt were appropriate at the time to reorganise the grid. It looked like Jack was the master of the day, being the only one bold enough to go out there on slicks.

“I think if꧙ anybody would’ve been peeved about the solution, it would have been Jack because he had a potential advantage of ten seconds while the others were still in pit lane, which was taken down to 40 metres at💜 the end of the day. I think it was pretty harsh on Jack.

“Did it project the right image of the sport? No, definitely not. I wouldn’t say that we should be proud of ourselves for🔯 the image. But it was very, very peculiar circumstance. In reality 95% of the grid decided♔ to exit and obviously the rules were never taken anticipating that 95% of the grid would start from pit lane.

“So I think th🦹ey did 🌌what they thought would be appropriate. For us as a team possibly it helped us even. But again, they had to take a decision on the spot and that’s one that they took.”