Marquez: Track limit penalties need to be assessed

Marc Marquez has called for track limit penalties to be examined by MotoGP rule-makers following an eventful Mi🐈sano round with the Stewards effectively deciding the winner of the Moto2 race.

While Marquez and Valentino Rossi crossed paths during their final laps during qualifying, inadvertently running off track which saw both riders duly lose their last timed laps in Q2, the questi൲ons around track limits reappeared during the Moto2 race at Misano when Augusto Fernandez and Fabio Di Giannantonio battled for victory on the final lap.

Marquez: Track limit penalties need to be assessed

Marc Marquez has called for track limit penalties to be examined ꦯby MotoGꦅP rule-makers following an eventful Misano round with the Stewards effectively deciding the winner of the Moto2 race.

W♓hile Marquez and Valentino Rossi crossed paths during their final laps during qualifying, inadvertently running off track which saw both riders duly lose their last timed laps in Q2, the questions around track limits reappear🐬ed during the Moto2 race at Misano when Augusto Fernandez and Fabio Di Giannantonio battled for victory on the final lap.

Fernandez dropped his tyres off track at Turn 11 which gave him extra momentum into the heavy braking zone of Turn 14ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ which allowed him to dive up the inside of his Italian rival and use a blo🗹ck pass to take the lead and seal victory.

The incident went to a post-race investigation by the MotoGP Stewards but no further action was taken meaning Fernandez kept the win ahead of Di Giann🐓antonio.

The decision was hit with backlash which Marquez warns must be resol🍨ved to avo🐷id similar incidents in the future.

“In the end it is the decision of the Stewards but I think it is one of the main things we will speak about in the Safety Comm🅺ission because in the end the green part [off track] is something that is out of the limits of the track,” Marquez said.

“The way𓄧 that Fernandez, but it doesn’t matter which rider, uses the track is not fair. It is not fair because he used a lot on the exit of Turn 6 and you gain a little bit and it is the last two laps when the front guy is pushing.

“If you keep these ‘jokers’ for the end of the race it is not fair to use them at the end of the race. The overtake at Turn 14 started at the f🏅ast corner Turn 11 and this is when you are riding in Misano it🌄 is very easy to understand.”

During his preparation for the San Marino MotoGP race, Marquez admitted he quizzed his own Repsol Honda team abཧout exceeding track limits at the same spot in a final-lap fight for position.

The reigning MotoGP world champion says he was discouraged by both team manager Albe♔🌳rto Puig and crew chief Santi Hernandez in order to avoid risking a post-race penalty.

“Before my race, during the race in Moto2, I was speaking with Alberto and Santi and I said that I predict🐓ed that it will be a fight against Vinales or Quartararo,” he explained. “I said they are very fast at Turn 11 and what happens if on the❀ last lap I use the green and I attack the last braking point and they said it would not be fair and they would penalise you.

“B♛ut then somebody did it in Moto2 and they didn’t penalise.

“For me, that means some window is opened and if you open it there are a lot of differentไ things that can happꦺen in the future so we need to penalise this kind of actions because in the last lap it not fair.”

With Fernandez keeping victory at Misano and Moto2 title leader Alex Marquez in third place, Fernandez has cut the championsh💖ip deficit down to 26 points with six rouౠnds to go.

Marquez is eag♛er to raise the issue during the riders’ Safety Commission meeting in order to gain clarity on what penalties would be applied for repeat incidents.

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