Repsol Honda team-mate Pol Espargaro later fel🌱l at the same corner, while Marquez then made contact with an air fence again – albeit much more lightly - when he had another fast lowside in morning warm-up at Turn 4.

Celestino Vietti had brought out red flags in the earlier Moto2 session to repair a damaged air fence, again at Tu🍸rn 7, which was later the scene of a big fall for Jake Dixon.

Some riders, such as ෴world champion Joan Mir and Aleix Espargaro, felt it shouldn't take a 𒉰big accident or injury for changes to be made.

"I think that first of all, the runoff a𝓡✱reas are not enough in this track for a MotoGP bike, not in turn 7, not in turn 1, not in turn 5, not in turn 8, 9, 10. We are really on the limit in this position," Mir said.

"But this🦩 is the same story as always. They don’t cha෴nge until something happens."

"This makes me very angry because I don’t know why we have wait for two crashes to talk about safety," added Esparg♏aro, referring to Sat🥀urday's Turn 7 falls for his younger brother Pol and Marquez.

"We say it many times, that here the barriers are very close, we know it and at all the corners that nobody crashed at also. So looks💮 like we♎ always have to wait for a crash to start to take it more seriously.

"Yes, we know p🐎erfectly Turn 7, but nobody crashed in corner 12 but in corner 12 we ꦐhave three metres of runoff area and it's a more than 200kph corner."

But changes do look to be in theꩵ pipeline, with Mir expecting expansion of the Jerez run-off areas to be gradually phased-in over the nextဣ few years.

"In the Safety Commission we spoke a🌳bout that. I think that they will start to make it better, but for next year I think that they will change maybe one corner or two, then in the next year they w⭕ill continue changing things.

"We have to improve the safety in t๊his track for the MotoGP bike."

But Jerez certainly isn’t alone in that regard, the ever-increasi൩ng performance of grand prix machines causing riders to breach previously 'safe'🤡 gravel traps.

"Jerez has some places where the runoff is not enough for the 🌠speed of MotoGP now, but I think a lot of different tracks during the season are more-or-less at this level," said nine-time world champion Valentino Rossi, who first raced a grand prix bike at Jerez in 1996.

"It's always better when you▨🎶 see the rider stop before the end of the run-off area because it's very dangerous. And I think that in the Safety Commission they speak about the runoff areas.

"This is always very important and we need to improve, especially because the perf♛ormance of the bikes, tyres and brakes are always more. Soജ you need more runoff area."

"The problem is that Jerez is a safe circuiཧt, sincerely it is, but MotoGP is going faster and 🐼faster with the wings, the tyres, everything," agreed Espargaro.

"For example corner 7, in the pas🤡t you brake in Turn 6, it's a very slow corner, you accไelerate and you just gain a little bit of speed [by turn 7].

"But now from Turn 6 to 7 you gain 150km/h! It's unbelievable because we have a lot of downforce, so the circuits are gettin𝓀g smaller and smaller due to the speed we are using."

Which beg🎐s the obvious question, should it be the MotoGP bike🐼s that change, rather than the circuits?

"This is the best class in the world, Aprilia is using the techno๊logy we develop here for th🐭e street bikes, you can see in the RSV1000 the wings, things on the electronics also. We are developing here and put there," said Espargaro.

"Also the street bikes every time have more and more power, so the bikes are fast and💧 the level of the category is very high so it's difficult to conꦕtrol that.

"The circuits have to adapt, just as we the brands and t🦄he riders have to also adapt to the new technology. Jerez is a very good track, but may🤪be we have to think about it and modify some places."

But eight-time world champion Marquez thinks there is a limit to how fast a MotoGP bike should be allowed to go anꦺd called into question some recent techn🐟ical developments, specifically the acceleration-boosting holeshot/ride height device.

"Every ti🎃me we’re faster, it’s normal we’re in MotoGP and the manufacturers always try to have faster bikes. And if the rules permit, the riders want to have the fastest bikes. This means that then the run-off areas get smaller. Not only Jerez, many circuits on the calendar, the run-off areas become small," Marquez said.

"I already said a bit in Portimao, but the fact we have the holeshot [ri🐠de height device] on the straight, going lower on the rear, the next one will be🍌 to lower the front [during the race]... Every time it’s something different.

"I agree, manufacturers improve. And they try to find the best✨. But in the end the riders need to have a position.

"[Do] w🐻e need the holeshot? [Do] we need to be at 362kph at the end of the straight in Qatar. We don’t need this... If we continue in that direction all the circuits in the world will 🍒be too small in the run-off areas."

Pramac Ducati's Johann Zarco set a new a൩ll-time MotoGP top speed record of 225.1 mph (362.4kph) in Qatar but that could well be broken when MotoGP returns to Mugello - usually the fastest straight of the season - later this month, having skipped the venue in 2020 due to Covid.