Joan Mir has taken aim at MotoGP’s stewards for the penalty they gave Marc Ma𓆉rquez following his crash with the Honda🌞 rider in the Thai Grand Prix.

In the closing stages of the wet 26-la🍰p grand prix at Buriram, Marquez was f♓ighting his way through the back of the pack after crashing out of second on the 14th tour.

At Turn 3 he made contact with Honda’s Mir while trying to overtake for 15th, forcing 🐠the latter off track. Marquez was ordered by the stewar𝓡ds to drop one position.

He complied, but only after he’d overtaken LCR’s Takaaki Nakagami - th🐼erefore never ceding the position back 🦋to Mir.

Mir called the incident “over the limit”🦩, but felt the big𒁃ger issue was the penalty handed down by the stewards.

“A bit on the limit? No. ✤Over the limit,” Mir, who was 1🍸5th while Marquez was 11th, said.

“It was very similar as in the sprint race in Jerez. The same thing ha🧸ppened.

“I will not give any comment because always when I give a comment it turns in the opposite way for me. So, I’ll let you judge thi🍃s thing.

“It’s true that it’s… the people that get paid for this, it’s not possible that they don’t see💮, that if you have a problem with one rider, then 𒉰the other starts to fight and recover many positions more, and then at the end of the race you remove one position.

“And what happened with ꦓme? I lost three when you hit me. So, for sure, it’s not right how 𒅌they take the decision.

“For me, the most logical thing to do when this happe🐷ns - it happened a lot with me i🉐n the past when I touched somebody - [you get a] long lap.

“Long lap and you lose the positions that you probably m𒈔ade me lose, because when you hit me I was in the long lap. This is the logical thing.”

Marquez accepted the penalty, but defended himself by sayiꦕng that he was “parallel” with Mir at the point they made contact.

Mir was enjoying one of his most competitive races of the ye🐷ar on the Honda until the final 10 laps when h🌼e began to suffer problems with grip.

“The thing is tha𒆙t something happened in the last 10 laps, I was not able to stay on the bi🌞ke at all,” he said.

“We lost two seconds of 🔜performance and I don’tꦜ know why at the moment.

“It’s a shame because I put from my back everything that I could. I started from P19. In tꦉhe third lap I was fighting to be in the top 10 already.

“Then🎃 about what happened in the last laps was ridiculous. I don’t understand what really happy. We will try to understand to not happen again.”