MotoGP: Use of yellow-and-red reduced adhesion, rain flags 'redefined'

Yellow-and-red striped flags will only be used if track adhesion is potentially reduced for any reason other than rain.
Use of yellow-and-red reduced adhesion, rain flags 'redefined'

Effective immediately, the MotoGP World Championship will separate the use of yellow-and-red reduced a🌳dhesion flags from white-♍and-red rain flags.

⭕Previously, the yellow-and-red flags were displayed to warn that 'adhesion on this section of the 😼track could be affected'.

But from noꦡw on, the yellow-and-red striped flags and light panels will only be used if track adhesion is potentially reduced for any reason other than rain. S🃏uch as oil, gravel, grass or other debris.

Meanwhile the white flag with a diagonal red cross, previously used to signal 'drops of rai༒n on this section of the track' will now be used for, ෴'Drops of rain on this section of the track including rain affecting the track surface'.

The change has been made following feedback fro💯m rider💦s and will make the source of any reduced adhesion clearer.

In the past, the overlap between the flags could mean both were displayed at the same time to signal a damp or wet slippery surface plus continued drops of rain. But the same flag combination could also mean drops of rain combined wඣith debris or oil on track.

If both flags are dis💜played inꦜ future, riders will know it means rain plus another form of reduced adhesion.

For consistency, the same revised flag meanings will also be applied at ⛎other FIM and national series.

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