The MotoGP Q2 for this Japanese GP was marked by controversy after Marc Márquez lost pole position and the respective lap record at the Japanese circuit after Race Direction decided to cancel the Spaniard’s lap for exceeding track limits.
If the rules are clear, as the Gresini Racing rider himself admitted, what became apparent and caused greater strangeness was the fact that the communication of such an infraction took longer than usual to be communicated.
The Spaniard even said, on the subject: ‘We were very unlucky with the late notification, especially because I had the chance to do another lap, or even two more laps, but with that lap time – and I saw that the lap was there, they hadn’t canceled it […]’.
And he continued: ‘I went to the stewards to understand why the notification arrived five minutes later. They just apologized, they had connection problems with their messages to the teams, televisions, and all these things. The system was blocked and they couldn’t send that notification. That was the bad luck […]’.
If by chance you didn’t see what happened, check out the DAZN video, where you can see the former world champion’s touch: