Fabio Quartararo lost the points he had originally scored at last weekend’s MotoGP British Grand Prix, plummeting to 16th place with a 16-second penalty.
This penalty is usually imposed when a rider has not completed enough laps with tyre pressure above the level specified by Michelin for safety reasons, but that was not the case on Sunday.
The Yamaha rider was penalised because the pressure readings from his front tyre were simply not recorded by the monitoring system. The stewards’ decision stated that “the sensor ID had not been recorded in the receiver database”. This unusual situation was the result of a pr
