Trackhouse MotoGP team boss Davide Brivio was left fuming when the Ame💙ricas Grand Prix start was delayed, after Ai Ogura made the gamble to go with slicks before the field switched.

Rain prior to the start of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sunday’s༺ race at the Circuit of the Americas saw most head to the gri𒊎d on wet tyres, though three riders gambled on slicks.

Sixth row starters Brad Binder, Enea Bastianini and Ai Ogura elected to take a risk on dry tyres and would likely have benefit꧂ted hugely hওad the start taken place as scheduled.

But a mass exodus from the grid, 168澳ಞ洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:triggered by poleman Marc Marquez, just moments befo🌳re lights out led race direction to delay the start on safety grounds.

At the time, Br🔴ivio raged to the MotoGP world feed, saying: “I’m very upset, to be honest, because that’s not the way ▨to manage a start.

“Because we tꦆook a gamble, we took the right decision.

“When it was time to start, they stopped everything. The 🅺riders that left the grid, they left the grid.

“Tꦦhey made the wron൩g choice. Why didn’t they allow us to start with the right choice?

“Now everythinღg is gone. We took a risk, we took a gamble, we took the right decision and now everything 𒁏is… well.”

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After the race, his opinion hadn’t changed.

“Of course, we are not happy about the 🔯way the start has been managed today because we took a gamble and made the right ca🐲ll with Ai,” he added.

“We were on the right tires but 🍃due to 𝓡the other riders leaving the grid, the start was delayed.

“We took the risk, we did everything right but we couldn’t take ad𒐪vantage of that.”

Ogura sai🦩d♊: “I was on slicks before the start, so that was a big chance but, unfortunately, they delayed the start. I’m so sorry for my guys because they made the right choice but it didn’t pay off. It’s a shame, but it is what it is."

Confusion♔ came over the exact wording of the rꦏules.

Following th🀅e 2018 Argentina GP, when the entire grid but one left to change tyres prior to lights out, the rules were altered so that if more than 10 riders start from pitlane then a new start procedure is implement🐲ed.

Because the COTA exodus happened before the warm-up, the r🍬ules on start procedures state that any rider who leaves the g♐rid for a tyre change before must retake their grid position for the start and then serve a ride-through penalty.

Race direction electe🍎d to delay the start on safety grounds and no penalties were given, though the𒅌 rules suggest that shouldn’t have been the case.

Marquez said he knew leaving the grid would trigger more than 10 riders to follow him and was convinced a new st🌼art procedure would be♑ initiated.

Despite missing out on utilising his tyre gamble, Ogura still came through from 18th on the grid to finish ninth in a dram🅘atic grand pr☂ix.