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Watch: Rain causes chaos at the start of the MotoGP Americas GP in Austin

Just 30 minutes before the start of the MotoGP race, light rain appeared, prompting race officials to declare a flag-to-flag race — resulting in total chaos.

As the Americas GP was about to begin, everything started to go wrong, with the unexpected arrival of rain and a crash involving Fabio Quartararo as he made his way to the grid on the formation lap. Once on the grid, all the riders, set up for wet conditions, expected the race to be officially declared wet and therefore run under flag-to-flag rules.

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