“Impossible to see” yellow flags which cost MotoGP pole

Bagnaia went four tenths clear of the field with his final Q2 lap of 1m38.494s, which smashed the existing Algarve International Circuit lap record and would have secured him his second pole in three rounds.

However, Bagnaia – who took his first MotoGP pole at the 2021 season-opening Qatar GP – set this lap having passed through a yellow flag zone when KTM’s Miguel Oliveira crashed…