Marc Marquez held his hands up and apologised to Jorge Martin after taking the Pramac Ducati r༒ookie out during a clumsy pass on th𝓡e opening lap of Sunday's British MotoGP at Silverstone.

The pair, who have each won a race this season, lined-up on the second row of the grid but the Repsol Honda rider got the better start and was holding fifth as the lea💟ders fanned out in the braking zone for Stowe Corner, at the end of Hangar Str🦹aight.

Martin then sur🍸prised Marquez by diving for a late gap on the inside wheꦏn the Honda ran slightly wide, the hard-but-fair racing move resulting in contact that bumped the #93.

When Martin h🧜imself ran wide on entry to the following Vale chicane, Marquez - perhaps angry at the earlier nudge - decided to slice back under his fellow Spaniard on🦩 the exit.

B🌳ut the pair 🉐collided, sending them both down and out of the race.

"I want to apologise to Mart♒in and his team because it was completely my fault. I was too optimistic on that overtake," said Marquez, whose Si🍎lverstone weekend began with a huge 270km/h Friday practice fall.

"It’s true it was strange situation because Quartararo and Martin went very wide and I expected Martin to be more▨ out.

"I prepared the corner and put the bike straight because I didn’t have time to change to third gear, the calculation was not the correct one. It was completely my mistake. It was the first lap⛎. I was too optimistic and I apologise to Martin.

"Races are som🦩etimes like this and today I m💫ade a mistake."

Martin, who has ⛦made just eight MotoGP starts, said he hoped the eight-time world champion 'can learn from this and improve for the future'.

"Well, you ♔can see the videos yourself. A bit disappointed about today, because I felt super strong for a podium," he said. "I was really on the inside and I felt this contact and… whatever. It's racing. Onto the next one."

Martin added: "At the end, he came to say sorry, this is really good from his side, but at the end, he destroyed my♓ race, and this is the main problem. He can destroy his own race, but not the others.

"And for sure he didn't measure in a goo💎d way, because he thought there was space and for sure there wasn't. But I hope he can learn from this one and improve for the future."

Martin stopped short of calling for a penalty to be applied, but asked: "I don't know why he picked th💎e bike up again [as he tried to𒁃 pass]. Because he could make the move, he was already on the inside. But I don't know why he went wide and then pushed me out.

"This is 🏅what♉ I don't understand really. But a penalty is not my business."