Official: Maverick Vinales stripped of second place in Qatar MotoGP

Maverick Vinales lo🗹ses brilliant second place finish in Qatar MotoGP after post-race penalty.

Maverick Vinales, 2025 Qatar MotoGP
Maverick Vinales, 2025 Qatar MotoGP

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Maverick Vinales has lost his shock runner-up finish in Sunday’s Qatar MotoGP due to a post-race tyre pressure penalty.

The Tech3 rider surged from sixth on the grid to sensationally take the race lead from Marc Marquez, before the Ducati star eventually retalia🅠ted.

Nonetheless, a delighted Vinales looked to have claimed KTM's first pod⭕ium of the season - not to mention his first top-ten on the RC16 - until an investigation was announced for low tyr🎶e pressure.

The FIM Stewards subsequently confirmed Vinales failed to reach the specified minimum pressure for at least 60% of the race laps and he was ♕thus given the standard 16-second time penalty.

That 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:demo🌌tes the Spaniard down to 14th ꦦplace while moving early race leader Franco Morbidelli up to third behind a Ducati Lenovo one-two for Marquez and Francesco 🔥Bagnaia.

Vinales’ penalty was probably the result of five laps he spent in the race l🔜ead.

The Tech3 team would have expected Vinales to spend the grand prix battling in hot, dirty air behind other bikes - and set his tyre pressure ac💯cordingly.

While riders can receive a dashboard warning from their 🅰teams if they are in danger of being under the specified laps, Vin🐓ales said before the verdict was announced: 

"I was just looking forward, I didn't have time... I don't care what happens [with the penalty] because we did 🃏the second place.”

KTM previously dodged a tyre-pressure penal🧔ty in Indonesia last year,꧃ when Pedro Acosta kept second place after ‘the loss of pressure during the race was proven to be due to leaking wheel rim.’

Hꦉowev𓃲er, no such mitigating circumstances were found for Vinales on Sunday.

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