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Everyone was holding their breath because of the brutality of the images, but, fortunately, the accident at the start of the Malaysian GP involving Jack Miller, Brad Binder, and Fabio Quartararo is just a bad memory. The commissioners confirmed that there would be no penalty inflicted.
According to the official statement reported by the Crashnet website:"An investigation was opened, and the contact was viewed from every angle. At the first lap, the riders were exiting Turn 1 and began to change direction towards Turn 2. Consequently, due to the convergence of the trajectories, the rear of Alex Marquez's bike touched Binder's front, causing him to rear up, and the entire chassis of his bike came off. Miller's fell on the trajectory and, in turn, caused Quartararo and then Binder to also fall. Following a careful review of the images, the stewards ruled that no rider had behaved in an erratic manner."
Head of KTM, Francesco Guidotti, had argued that it was a simple racing accident and, now, the stewards have definitively confirmed it as such.
The Australian rider - whose head on the rear wheel of El Diablo's M1 - had alarmed everyone, but he immediately wanted to reassure everyone about his condition with an Instagram post, thanking Alpinestars for a helmet that saved his life, and for being able to return home on his own legs.
Remaining on the subject of measures taken at Sepang, Jorge Martin was fined 500 Euros for unsafe launch from the pit lane during the warm up.
