Not for the first time this season, practice and especially qualifying at the Sachsenring saw a group of MotoGP r✃iders deliberately cr🌺uising on track in search of a tow.

But while the Moto3 class riders were hammered by 3 official warnings and 13 pen♛alties for doing ‘one or more slow sectors in excess of 135% of the best session time’ on Saturday, the only ‘slow riding’ sanction in the premier class was ♉for Stefan Bradl.

Although Bradl disrupted Marc Marquez 🀅by failing to move off the racing line soon enough, it’s not clear if the German was angling for a tow at the time.

The Sachsenring scenes, which included a near miss between Jack Miller and Marc Marquez under braking at Turn 1, followed hot on the heels of Miller and Jorge Martin tanglin🎀g during some gamesmanship behind Francesco Bagnaia at Assen.

The reigning double world champion knew he 𓃲would again be a prime towing target in Germany and tried a change of strat🌱egy, which ultimately backfired due to yellow flags.

“We didn’t go with the perfect s𒁃trategy, but I'm 100% percent sure… everybody was waiting at the box for me,” said factory Ducati rider Bagnaia.

“I don’t understand w🐻hy some guys in MotoGP still follow because we don't need a slipstream. 

"W🐽e are at the top of our sport so if you're in MotoGP, you can do fast laps. So I don’t understand it. And I don't like it.”

The Italian, who later claimed the title lead with victory on Sunday, saw lꦕittle point in bringing the issue up again in the riders’ Safety Commission.

“We already spoke in the past,” he said.

“But I don't ▨like that MotoGP looks like Moto3 [with towing], andℱ this is a big problem for me.”

Acosta: ‘Maybe we need to be a better example’

MotoGP might look like Moto3 at times but rookie 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pedro Acosta, a Moto3 ꦫrider just three years ago, believes the🍎 junior class competitors are copying what they see happening in the premier class.

"I see everyone was playing a bit in Qualifying 1,” Acosta said of the 🐭MotoGP towing in Germany.

“In the end, it’s quite normal that if we do these things, the young guys in Moto3 will try to co𓆏py. And there was a big𝓰 number of penalties in Moto3. 

"But maybe we need to talk with the MotoGP guys because sometimes what is happening in Moto3 is because they🔜 see it in 🍌MotoGP. Maybe we need to be a better example.

“The problem starts 𓂃when one person does it and doesn't receive a penalty or warning, then you will do it for sure because it’s an advantage. Because of this, maybe we need tﷺo be harder."

Acosta also highlighted that his famous debut Moto3 victory from a pit lane start in Qatar followed a strong ‘slow ridinꦯg’ penalty.

"I remem🎃ber my second race in the [Moto3] championship, I had a pit lane start i🍰n Qatar. The penalties were hard then...

“Maybe we♔ need to see what we can do to be𒆙 more strong in MotoGP."