Commissioners erased 11 rounds taken by Rossi
Valentino Rossi finished his first soaked first free practice for the Australian Grand Prix with the second fastest time, but the commissioners deleted eleven laps after the training, during which he also took his fastest, so that the Italian fell to twentieth place in the ranking. Rossi drove too many laps on a soft rain tire with eleven laps after Michelin limited the length of a series of laps to ten laps for safety reasons.