Australian Jack Miller was left with a red face after being called into the pits with a black flag in the morning session.
The EG-VDS Honda rider was using the wrong chicane at the end of the lap; and though it put him fastest overall, the times were of course not valid.
Miller had missed an earlier test session at the circuit after suffering hand injuries at Le Mans; but while he had walked the circuit the previous evening, once on his Honda he reverted to last year’s layout, using the F1 chicane. The other riders were turning off some 50 metres earlier.
“Well, that’s embarrassing”, he tweeted, after a laughing Dorna representative Loris Capirossi had come to the pit for a word of caution.
Also rather dangerous … Marquez was one rider who warned him out on track before he pulled in to the pits.
Miller, Catalunya MotoGP 2017
Miller, Catalunya MotoGP 2017