VR46 Ducati rider Luca Marini thinks MotoGP should look at adopting a ‘football-style’ approach to in-race penalties, following his tangle with Brad Binder in the Indonesian Grand Prix.
The first-time poleman enjoyed a podium showing in the sprint race at Mandalika last Saturday but was unable to fight for another rostrum in the grand prix. A collision triggered by KTM's Binder took Marini down on the second lap, with the Italian retiring a few tours later having remounted to serve a long lap penalty he had hanging over him for an incident in India.
Luca Marini, VR46 Racing Team Photo by: Gold and Goose / Motorsport Images 'Something like this. We should think together because we want more safety, as usual. So, that will be a point in the next safety commission, I think.' Marini says Binder came to explain what happened in their tangle and calmed down after finding out the KTM rider suffered from brake pad knock-back on the way into Turn 10 – which affected his ability to stop. 'Well, I have pain in my thumb like in Le Mans.
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