Alpinestars: Initial analysis shows Quartararo leathers 'fully functioning'
Alpinestars was unable to find 🦄any defect with the lea🐭thers of MotoGP title leader Fabio Quartararo during checks immediately after the Catalunya race.
The zip on the front of Quartararo's leathers came undone, for unknown r💦easons, through the Turn 1-3 area on lap 21 of 24. The Yamaha rider then discarded his chest protector and completed the race with the leathers open.
Although this put Quartararo in breach of the rider's safety equipment rules - which state leathers and chest protector 'must be worn, correctly fastened, at all times during on-track activity' - he wa🐼s surprisingly not black-flagged and allowed ꦜto finish in third place.
That became fourth when the Frenchman was penalised for cutting Turn 2 late in the🍸 grand prix, then sixth place after another 3-second penalty was eventually issued late on Sunday evening for the leathers and chest protector infringement.
Exactly why the zip came down ꦉ♔remains a mystery, Quartararo saying only that:
"I had the leathers completely open in the first corner and I just tried to put [the zip] back in a no🗹rmal position again. I couldn't do it. When [the zip] is totally down you need to stretch [the two sides together to pull the zip back up], like a zip on a pair of jeans.𓆏"
However, on the slow-down lap "it was pos꧑sible again to close the zip" and Alpinestars have yet to find a♚ny fault.
Extraordinary scenes in the closing stages involving 168澳洲幸运5官方ܫ开奖结果历史:accepted that he should have been black-flagged for the obviไous danger caused by the leathers and chest protector situation, but maintains the Turn 2 penalty was unfair.
As a result of his demotion from💦 third to sixth, the Monster Yamaha rider how holds a 14-point title advantage over Pramac Duca🌄ti's Johann Zarco, who finished the race in second behind KTM's Miguel Oliveira.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come 🌱and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki♛ exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.