At the end of a race, we usually talk, above all, about who wins and, sometimes, who loses. However MotoGP has given way to a new topic of conversation that is having as much prominence before the microphones as the results: the sanctions. The World Cup announced a hardening of the punishments to avoid dangerous situations on the track, but the decisions of the Panel of Commissioners “they are killing this sport, which is wonderful”, as highlighted by Álex Márquez after learning his punishment for the next grand prix of the season at Mugello. The Gresini driver received the loss of three positions on the grid after “a little touch with Binder entering turn 6 (in the first round)” that until not too long ago, it would have been a simple race haul.
In motorcycling there was always contact and he even left epic pasts like Rossi’s to Stoner in the Corkscrew that years later, Márquez replied with its creator as executioner. However, now for looking for the hole it seems that you have to do penance. I don’t know why they put it (the penalty), but like not many other things about Race Direction”, continued defending Álex Márquez, about decisions “that are not understood”. The Gresini driver insists that “it is a pity that there is so much protagonism of the commissioners” and what he is referring to exactly is all those decisions that have set precedents of which, Bagnaia’s anger was born during the sprint in the French appointment.
Márquez overtook the Italian in the linked ones and the overtaking did not go down too well with the Ducati rider, who protested with his hand. Although that gesture hid a reason: “The fight we have had is normal, I like this. The problem is that two weeks ago I had a penalty for the same story”. Normality has become a crime and instead of pointing out the decisions that come from Race Direction, the current champion points out another focus from which all conflicts start: a mechanical equality that pushes “everyone to the limit”. sin He attributes the lack of security to the number of drivers who can aspire to victory and seek to do so “in the first lap”: “Even those who do not have the potential for it, try to overtake six drivers in one lap.”
It was this pressure that led Bagnaia to force a maneuver at the start of the race at Le Mans, which ended with his Desmosedici and Maverick on the ground. To which the man from Roses reacted: “He should have been more aggressive as is what he wears now.” Although he was the one affected at the time, the words of the Aprilia rider coincide with the arguments of the Ducati rider, who was guilty of falling into that temptation of a “limit” that they must move away “to improve the situation, because this is not safe.” “Accidents happen more in the first laps because there is too much agitation,” insists a sin which proposes “differences between factory motorcycles and satellites or finding a solution that ends this type of incident.”
Bagnaia wants to make a difference
What is the solution? Álex Márquez was ironic after knowing his sanction: “We will have to start a second behind each one. and that the ‘qualification’ is what counts for the race…”. While Bagnaia places special emphasis on the fact that “there are no longer those 6 or 7 tenths of a difference that existed before between the factory motorcycles and the satellites that served to limit accidents.” Those tenths, which forged “the fantastic four (Rossi, Stoner, Lorenzo and Pedrosa)”: “They were the strongest in the general, but they also had the factory bikes. The others didn’t even have the technical potential to stay ahead. Nostalgia invades MotoGP…
