Several riders and teams were heavily critical of the FIM Stewards for not ဣimmediately punishing Martin, during Saturday’s race.

For several hours, it even appeared that the Pramac Ducati rideဣr - who had dived for the inside at turn one, triggering an incident that involved five other riders - might escape punishment altoge🌟ther.

But at 7pm local time, the Stewards issued a 💝long lap penalty for Martin, to be served in Sunday’s grand prix, for ‘riding 🔯in an irresponsible manner causing a crash’.

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The included 'Penalty Explanation' read: "Following the Penalty Protocols issued to teams, this action was deemed to be an incident of Type 3: Causing a crash whilst overtaking. Overly ambitious and/or aggressive resulting in another rider crashing (n any session). As a first offence for the season, the appropriate penalty in this case is a Long Lap Penalty."

Martin, who lined up twelfth on the grid after losing his best lap in qualifying due to track limits, earlier escaped punishment for Luca Marini's ♎accident, while being passed by Martin for third during the middle of the 14-lap race.

Marini accepted that the contact his𒉰 ♋resulting accident had been a racing incident.

But the Italian also pointed out that if Martin had been given an ♔instant long-lap penalty for the Turn 1 chaos, they would not have been together on track at that point...