The Pramac Ducati climbed swiftly to fifth but began fading from the midw෴ay point of the 20 laps and eventually crossed the 🐻finish line in ninth.

“The race was good in the first half, I chose to go on the🧸 soft rear tyre and I think it has only been a problem for the last f🐻our laps,” Zarco explained.

“But the mainꩵ problem has been that at half race, when I was still with Brad ༺[Binder] and Vinales, I got the ‘over temp’ [warning] in the front tyre, had a few very scary moments and lost a lot of time.

“I tried to bring down my front temperature by 🗹slowing𒅌 down, but it was not going down. I've lost so much time and I could not fight with the other riders that were overtaking me.

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“So this was a hard 🉐moment in the race, and then at the end with a bit of rain I wanted to try and take advantage, but we were all thinking the same and we don't want to crash.

“So it was a bit difficult but I’m happy with the weekend and the way I could manage both races. I've seen a lot of things and now with all the races coming up I expect to rea🍬lly adjust all these things to be consistently close to the podium.”

The Frenchman had been one of many to flag up co🧔ncerns over the higher starting pressures needed to ensure complian𓆉ce with MotoGP’s new real-time tyre monitoring system, which came into effect at Silverstone. This requires that riders remain above minimum pressure for at least 50 per cent of a grand prix race.

While a higher sta💟rting pressure is needed in case a rider spends most of the race in fresh (cool) air, if the same rider instead closely follows other bikes - like Zarco on Sunday - the usual step up in temperature/pressure from being in 'dirty air' will result in an even greater loss of grip than before.

Asked directly if the tyre monitoring rules had been the reason✨ for his front issues on Sun🎉day, Zarco replied: “For sure. As I said, the way we were doing [tyre pressures] before was not a problem for [tyre] safety. So I don't know why the rule is there.

“We were all a bit on the safe side [well above the ♏minimum pressure].

"Pecco has been struggling with it a🌱nd it has been complicated [for us], I think. 🅷So yeah, it's for this reason.

“But as I say, the first half of the race has been very intere༺sting. I was happy to do a good step and I could 🍃see many things from being with the other riders.”

Other riders highlighted𒁏 that the cool Silverstone conditions, late-race rain and flowing nature of the North🔯amptonshire circuit masked the full effect of higher starting pressures.

"I think honestly this weekend we🔯 were lucky that it was cold," Aprilia's Maverick Vinales said of the stricter tyre pressure monitori✱ng. "But let's see in Austria, also with the hard braking."

Zarco, who has now slipped behind Binder for fifth place in the world championship, is 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:contemꦿplating a switch to LCR Honda should ꧙he be 🥂unable to remain at Ducati next season.