When Alex Rins crossed the finish line at Le Mans, he didn't dwell on his worst MotoGP resu🌠lt of the season but instead pointed to the sky before stopping at a group of marshals and handing over his race helmet.

It was an admirꦜable gesture by the Suzuki rider, in tribute to 58-year-old marshal Jean-Paul Plée, who passed away after collapsing at the track on Friday morninඣg at the French Grand Prix.

"I gave my helmet to the marshals, to🎉♊ pass on to the family of [Jean-Paul Plée]," Rins said.

"Marshals always 🥂do a fantastic 🎃job, running through the gravel to help us. It's dangerous. Another rider could crash [into them].

"This is why I wou📖ld like෴ to give my helmet to his family."

Rins, winner in Austin, has struggled in qualౠifying throughout this season, but sunk to a new low with 19th in the Saturday showers.

Although 🍸the Spaniard was able to recover nine places in the race, he 𒁏has slipped from 1 to 20 points behind title leader Marc Marquez.

"It was a difficult 🌠weekend, qualifying went badly with the strategy and everything," said Rins, now third in the world championship.

"I started today’s race feeling very hopeful but in the end I had 𓄧to manage some st☂ruggles, especially in corner entry and I could only manage tenth place.

"Those six points are important, especially as it was easy to cras🌺h today - we saw many crashes in all three races. There are still a lot of rounds to go, I’m ready for Mugello.”