Romano Fenato has been sacked from the Marinelli Snipers Moto2 team after he pulled the front brake Stefano Manzi’s bike in yesterday’s race at the Misano MotoGP round.

Fenati was given a two-race ban by race direction after the incident, which saw 20bar of brake pressure applied to the front disc at more than 120mph.

“The Marinelli Snipers Team shall terminate the contract with the rider Romano Fenati, from now on, for his unsporting, dangerous and damaging conduct for the image of all,” said a team statement.

“With extreme regret, we have to note that his irresponsible act endangered the life of another rider and can’t be apologised for in any way. The rider, from this moment, will not participate anymore to a race with the Marinelli Snipers team.”

Update 2pm: Fenati’s 2019 contract with Forward Racing MV Agusta has been torn up.

MV president Claudio Castiglione said: “In all my years of watching sport, I have never seen behaviour as dangerous as this. A rider who can act like this can never represent the values of our company, and our brand. For this reason, we do not want him to be the rider with which MV Agusta makes its return to the world championship.”