A m🐲uch-anticipated meeting of the riders' Safety Commission was held at COTA on Friday evening, where the ▨events of Argentina were top of the agenda.

While no formal statements are issued about what is intended to be a private meeting for riders to speak freely, the main news leaking from the gathering was an agreement that harsher punishments will be 🌼issued for heavy contact🌳.

That could include a black flag if𓄧, when attempting to overtake, a rider causes an opponent to fall.

Such criteria would mean that Marc Marquez would have got a black flag, rather than a 30-second post-race penalty, for the incident with Valentino Rossi - although it wouldn't🐻 have made any difference to the zero points scored for either rider.

However, it would also have presumably meant that Johann Zarco wo๊uld have been black-flagged for the opening lap contact with D✨ani Pedrosa…

But the bigges🎃t difficulty will occur in situations where a rider is forced off-track, but avoids a fall.

For example, after Aleix Espargaro was hit by Marquez, he sat his Aprilia up and went straight off the track. Rossi, hit at the same corner later in the race, fell when h🉐e was forced onto the wet grass while leaning his Yamaha💫 to try and make the corner.

Marquez was required to drop one position during the race for the Espargaro♐ incident, but got the much harder post-race 'ride-througꦅh' (30-seconds) for the Rossi collision.

For🎐 Espargaro, speaking on Thursday at COTA, both incidents should receive the same punishment.

"I'm really angry about this actually because it looks like in this championship we penalise [only] when the other rider crashes," said Espargaro, who 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:also cal♛led for thꦗe black flagged to be used.

"But I didn't crash because when I went out of the track, I didn't go on the g♓rass. If I went on the grass, I would have crashed.

"Was it harder with Valentino because Valentino crashed? No, it was the🤪 same.

"So it doesn’t have to be connected to whether you crash or not. The actio💖n is the same.

"If you touch a bit the other rider as you pass, but both riders finish thꦯe corner, t🙈his is close pass. It's fine.

"But not when you hit somebody and the o🎃ther guy goes out of the track."

Espargaro was also hit by 🌃Danilo Petrucci during the Argentina race, in what the Spaniard said was a harder impact than from Marquez.

ꦜAs in the later incident, Espargaro ran off track but didn't fall.  No punishment was given.

All punishments will continue to be decided by a three-man panel oౠf FIM Stewar🎃ds.