Due to the new Mandalika International Street Circuit being dirty off-line, riders were allowed to make a practice start at the end of Saturday morning’s FP3 to help clean the grid for Sunday’s race.
Agreed upon in Friday evening’s safety commission meeting, riders had to pull up to the grid and take up one of the slots.
Before making their start, they had to wait for the riders ahead of them to do theirs.
Morbidelli, however, moved ahead of Suzuki’s Joan Mir and has been hit with a three-place grid penalty for the race, dropping him from 12th to 15th.
A statement from the MotoGP Stewards Panel read: “On 19 March 2022 at 11:42 during the MotoGP practice start session of the Pertamina Grand Prix of Indonesia, you [Morbidelli] did not comply with the “Notice to All MotoGP Teams” information provided.
“You were observed to be positioning in front of riders staged to do a practice start.
“This contravenes the specific instructions given to all…
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