Repsol Honda’s Jorge Lorenzo accidentally engaged his RC213V’s pitlane limiter on the grid and was held to 60km/h as the lights went out to start the Argentine MotoGP.

Lorenzo scythed his way back to dead last from mid-pack and had put on a good recovery job to finish to 12th and bag some points.

“Here with the pit limiter, that looks like I pressed it unconsciously because I remember just pressing the start procedure button,” Lorenzo said at the track.

“Suddenly the bike, the rpm goes down like no fuel and I didn’t know what was going on, but looks like the button of the pit start was on and the bike didn’t go, so everyone overtook me, I was last position again like in Qatar.”

It was another tough race for the former champion who is struggling to juggle injury with getting used to a new bike.

When I started to recover positions, I felt I was missing some rubber in the handlebar in the left, was coming out, out, out and I was with no rubber in my left hand. So no grip at all, everything bad.

“Very difficult race to recover positions, also the track grip was very bad after Moto2 race and with hotter conditions, so it was like a nightmare.

“Hopefully in the future these kinds of strange things and unlucky things will not happen again.”