Five Moto3 riders were hit with overnight penalties after yesterday’s FP2, in the continuing attempt to stop riders dawdling in practice and qualifying, hoping to pick up a tow.
A rider earns the sanction by being slow in three (not necessarily consecutive) sectors; and ramped up penalties are 12 grid places for a first offence, and the back of the grid for a second.
Adam Norrodin earned the maximum; and his Petronas team-mate Ayumu Sasaki the lesser one, earning the opprobrium of team chief Johan Stigefelt, since waiting for a faster rider is a particularly pointless exercise in free practice.
The others to be dropped 12 places were veteran Jakub Kornfeil, Kaito Toba and rookie Dennis Foggia.
By Michael Scott
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- Norrodin, Dutch Moto3 2018
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- Norrodin, Dutch Moto3 2018