Kevin Schwantz suggests other penalties not like ride-through after Argentina’s Marc Márquez received three times this penalty during the race – first because he had been riding in the reverse direction of the starting grid at the time of start and then by collisions with Aleix Espargaró and Valentino Rossi.

In the opinion of the former rider, Márquez’s reaction on the track after the penalties was especially aggressive: ‘I understand that [after the ride through] Marc was very pissed off. But what would have happened if instead of clouding his mind in Argentina, it would have happened in the last corner of Phillip Island? Well, the bikes could have ended up in the stands’, he said quoted by the north american site Motorsport.

Then, Schwantz defends, there could be alternatives to ride-through: ‘We may not need the ride through. You may only have to add to the offender 30 seconds or one minute at the end of the race. I don’t know what you can learn from this event in Dorna or the riders themselves, but you may not have to give the opportunity to get back on the track to someone who has just received a penalty. Anyone can be hit when there is a rider so pissed off on the track. The thing is that nobody should be concerned about their safety when competing. This isn’t a contact sport, and a rider must be aware of who can beat him, not who can hit him’.