Marc Marquez's pitstop during the German Grand Prix has been ruled legal after IRTA examined the telemetry of the Spanish rider's bike. Following some videos that appeared online where one of Marc Marquez's mechanics was seen holding the clutch, Danny Aldridge, IRTA's technical director, asked HRC for the data to confirm that the move was legal following a rule change. As soon as the race ended, Aldridge visited the HRC garage and asked for the telemetry from the bike with which Marquez went on to take his fourth successive MotoGP win at the Sachsenring. There was a suspicion in some quarters, based on a video circulated on the internet that showed Marquez's bike swap from an aerial...
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