Why MotoGP had “no choice” but to abandon Phillip Island sprint

Having already moved the sprint to Sunday and instead holding the main race of the weekend on Saturday in anticipation of bad weather, organisers abandoned efforts to hold the 13-lap race just half an hour before the scheduled start time of 1pm local time.

It followed the earlier Moto2 race that was red-flagged after just nine of 23 laps were completed,…