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Maverick Vinales 'misunderstood' what penalty to serve after jump start
Maverick Vinales says he “misunderstood” what penalty he had to serve for jumping the start of the MotoGP Americas Grand Prix, after mistakenly taking the long lap. Vinales was handed a ride-through penalty having been deemed to have jumped the start, but thought he had to take the long lap instead. The Yamaha rider did so on lap seven while running inside the top eight, before taking his ride-through on the following tour. He recovered to finish 11th. Vinales knew a penalty would be coming is way, and admits he simply made a mistake having misunderstood jump start procedure following talks held in the Safety Commission in the wake of the Cal Crutchlow incident in...
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