168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez may have significantly misjudged the penalty for his dramatic last-minute bike swap at Sunday's COTA MotoGP, but it was still probably the smartest decis♋ion in terms𝓀 of his race strategy.

With rain falling before the sighting lap, most riders - including Marquez - went to the grid on wet tyres. However, as the start approached, it became increas🎃ingly ꩲclear that slicks were the better choice.

Only three riders -🌊 Brad Binder (16th), Enea Bastianini (17th), and Ai Ogura (18th) - had already committed to slicks.

Marquez then ran off the grid to switch to his dry bi꧅ke just before the warm-up lap, triggering others to follow.

But 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:as ꧃newly released footage revealed, the eight-time world champion did s🉐o believing ♋he would simply start from the back of the grid.

Instea🅘d, Marquez would have started from his original pole position but then🉐 had to serve a ride-through penalty in the race. A much harsher punishment.

Despite that misunderstanding, was leavin꧃g the grid for slicks still the best move?

Here are s𒆙ome possible scenarios for those on the grid with wet tyres...

Scenario 1: Leave the grid before warm-up lap and swap to dry bike

•   Race start: Normal grid position
•   Penalty: Ride-through during the race (approx. 30 seconds lost)

This is exactly what Marquez an✨d others attempted before the start was dela🥃yed, on safety grounds, due to the resulting chaos.

Since he made the꧟ switch before the warm-up lap, Marquez would have escaped a pit lane start. In fact, he was already waiting at the end of pit lane for the warm-up lap to begin when the race was officially delayed.

Instead of sta꧙rting from the back 👍of the grid as he believed, Marquez would have lined up in his original pole position - but then had to serve a costly ride through penalty during the race.

That’s a much bigger penౠalty than he expected, especially since, with others following him in changing bikes, Marquez would not have been ‘last’ on the grid.

Nonetheless,ღ providing his slick bike would be quicker than the wet bike from lap one, it might still have been the least damaging option for Marquez (and others with wet tyres on the grid) in terms of time lost.

Scenario 2: Leave grid and swap to dry bike after the warm-up lap.

• Race start: End of pit lane.
• Penalty: Ride-through during the race (approx. 30 seconds lost)

If Marquez had stayed on the grid with wet tyres for the warm-up lap and then pitted to change bikes, he would have started the race from the end of pit lane and had a ride-through penalty to serve in the race.

This 🙈scenario would have been worse than Scenario 1 because it would have added extra time lost at the start, while waiting for the pack to pass before being released from the end of pit lane.

Scenario 3: Start on wets, then change to dry bike during the race (flag to flag).

• Race start: Normal grid position.
• Penalty: No ‘penalty’ but bike swap equivalent to a ride-through plus several seconds.

To avoid a penalty, Marquez would have needed to stick with his wet bike for the race start and then pit for 🉐the dry bike (flag to flag).

However, a bike swap in the pi💦ts costs slightly more time than a ride-through penalty, because the rider has to jump off one bike and onto another.

This strategy would only have been worthwhile if wꦦet tyres had been faster than slicks for the opening laps - allowing Marquez to build a lead before pitting - something that seems unlikely in Sunday’s fast-drying conditions.

Where might Marquez have finished?

If the original race start had gone ahead and Marquez had taken his place on pole befor🍨e serving a ride-through penalty, where might he h💃ave finished?

Since Marquez crashed out of the lead of the ‘restart’, (held slightly later when thౠe track was even dryer and over 19 instead of the original 20 laps) we don’t know what Marquez’s pace would 🃏have been over a race distance on slicks.

But we can look at the performanc🦄e of two riders on the original grid with slicks and c🍃ompare them to race winner Francesco Bagnaia.

• Bastianini (started 17th, finished 7th) +12.815s behind Bagnaia
• Ogura (started 18th, finished 9th) +16.344s behind Bagnaia
• Binder (started 16th, retired from 5th with a technical issue)

If we assume the ride-through would have cost🦋 Marquez 30-seconds, it looks extremely difficult for him to th🐬en catch Binder, Bastianini or Ogura for pure pace.

However, with the rest of the field either starting on wets (and soon struggling) or also facing a ride-through penalty, Marqu🔯ez could have been ‘best of the rest’ - fighting for at least fourth place. 

In other words, his perfect 2025 win streak was effectively over whಌen he arrived on the grid with his wet bike... until the start was del⛎ayed.

Who Were the Real Losers?

If the race had started as planned, Marquez's dramatic grid exit would probably still have been 💦the best damage l🐟imitation option available.

However, the three riders who originally committed to slicks - Binder, Bastianini, and Ogura - were the biggest lose꧋rs.

By delaying thꦦe start, all riders were allowed 🐎to change bikes and their advantage erased, meaning they suffered the most from Sunday’s chaotic scenes.