Aprilia's Maverick Vinales says MotoGP race direction should have stopped the Spanish Grand Prix sprint to inspect the track after a spate of crashes late on.
In total, 15 riders of the 25 starters suffered falls across the 12-lap sprint, with 10 of those tumbles occurring in about 10 minutes between lap seven and the end. At Turn 5, Vinales fell on lap 10 having inherited third when Alex Marquez, Brad Binder and Enea Bastianini all had identical front-end crashes the tour before. Moments after they did this, Marc Marquez crashed out of the lead at Turn 9, while Luca Marini, Stefan Bradl, Johann Zarco and Marco Bezzecchi slid off soon after.
' Vinales also noted that riders have been asking for ways to be able to communicate from the bike to race direction to signal if there is a problem on track for it to investigate, but nothing has come of that so far. Alex Marquez noted that Jerez being slow to dry in places is 'typical' of the asphalt there, but says since the track was resurfaced in 2019 Turn 5 has been a bigger issue.
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