Sunday’s sc☂hedule had been in doubt for days due to the forecast storm, prompting the main grand prix race to swap places with the 🎐Sprint and take place on Saturday afternoon.

Sunday duly dawned wet and windy and, while the warm-ups and Moto3 grand prix were completed, the increasing wind caused the Moto2 race to be halted on lap 9 after Celestino Vietti was blown🌟 off track at the end of the 280☂km/h straight.

A Moto2 restart was abandoned and, with conditions worsening and wind levels exceed💫ing those of the cancelled 2019 MotoGP qualifying session, the Sprint race was cancelled afte🦂r a meeting with the teams.

“From my point of view, to at least do the sighting lap, to see how the track was, then canc♔el the 𒀰race was necessary,” said Vinales.

✱“We had some information from Moto2 riders, also they said it was impossib💧le. So I don't know. It's not in our hands.”

The⭕ Aprilia rider, fastest in the wet warm-up, conceded: “At the end, I think safety has to be the main concern. It's always so difficult, these situations, for Race Direction.

“I imagine after putting the red flag in Moto2🌌, to let us📖 go in the same conditions was no meaning.”

Reflecting on his warm-up form♓, Vinales expressed his surprise that the RS-GP's rear traction pro🧸blems in the dry, disappeared in the wet.

“I was looking good. The other Aprilias not that much, but I was honestly with a really good feeling,” said the Spaniard, who qualified ninth in the dry and finished eleventh in the Saturday gra🏅nd prix.

“It's something we must understand because in the wet, I found the traction I 🙈don't have in the d♑ry.

“Honestly, I'm curioℱus to really go into deep in the wet data, because we have somet🐈hing we are missing on the dry.”