Nothing is easy in the MotoGP World Championship. Nothing is simple. Everything depends on many things and, above all, the decisions that are made in the race, on the go, after incidents, usually have, almost always, a point of controversy. What happened to Marc Márquez (Honda) in Portimao (Portugal) when he took the Spanish Jorge Martín (Ducati) ahead in his fall and precipitation and finally crashed against the Portuguese Miguel Oliveira (Aprilia), proves it. He was immediately sanctioned with two slow laps, but the panel of Stewards erred in the wording of the note, writing that he would serve the punishment “in Argentina” instead of “at the next grand prix in which he competes” and Honda appealed. Now, the MotoGP Court of Appeal has partly agreed with the winged team and, for now, has “cautionally” suspended the sanction because, in effect, it considers that there are too many doubts in the process for the rider to be forced now! to serve the punishment. expedited appeal
It is evident that both Márquez and the Repsol Honda team were smart when appealing, since the wording of the Portimao commissioners was open to a clear misunderstanding. Now the ‘judges’ Sakari Vuorensola, Robert Hofstetter y Marek Malecki They believe that they should give themselves a time for reflection to decide on the matter, not concluding the process. What’s more, they heard the appeal presented by the Catalan champion and Repsol Honda, but they did not reject it, although they did not annul either of the two judges’ decisions. They do admit that the double resolution of the Panel of Commissioners of Portugal is not legal, which seems a good sign for the Catalan and for HRC.
The news comes just as the third Grand Prix of the season begins, which is held this weekend at Marc Márquez’s favorite circuit, Austin (Texas, USA), in which the Catalan has won almost every time he has run there. “It is clear that, even injured, Marc would have been on the podium here on Saturday and Sunday”, recalled the Frenchman today. Johann Zarco (Ducati)third in the World Cup after the Italians ‘I sin’ Bagnaia (Ducati)second, and the new leader, Marco Bezzecchi (Ducati). “Marc flies here, it doesn’t matter the year or the conditions, so his absence gives us all a better chance to win.”
At the press conference where the two World Cup leaders were also present, both Bagnaia and Bezzecchi acknowledged that it is too early to talk about favourites, to race thinking about the World Cup, about the title, and the two agreed that “if there is a moment during The season in which you can risk a little more than in another is the start of the World Cup, since there are still nothing more and nothing less than 38 races and more than 700 points at stake”. That does not mean, agreed Bagnaia and Bezzecchi, that they are not going to race with their heads, but that if, when the time comes, they must take risks to win “perhaps it is better to do it in the third round of the year than in the penultimate one”.
fair fight
Bagnaia and Bezzecchi, who are part of Valentino Rossi’s VR46 Academy team, in the company of their half-brother Luca Marini or Franco Morbidelli, who also had an outstanding performance at Termas de Río Hondo, in Argentina, acknowledged that “it is very beautiful and It is motivating that friends and pilots who train together every day fight on the track for the victory”.
“Well, let’s see, I’d rather not have to face my friends, but when you put your helmet on and the light goes out, you forget about all that,” Bezzechi said. “I think we should be very proud of what we are doing as an Academy and what we have to be is smart, not stupid, work hard and fight clean on the track, but that so many friendly pilots are in front of us is very gratifying and also shows that the work being done at the Valentino Academy is fantastic”, Bagnaia ended by saying.
The Kalex chassis for Márquez’s Honda has not yet appeared
The test team ‘team’ Repsol Hondaled by the pilot German Stefan Bradlwho, this weekend, will occupy the place of the Catalan Marc Márquez in the US Grand Prix, which is held in Austin (Texas), has done two days of private tests at the Jerez circuit, with very good results, but with many secrets.
Despite the many rumors and even information that appeared in some media, El Periódico is in a position to affirm that Bradl did not test, in any way, any new chassis, much less the one that the German firm is said to be designing and manufacturing. Kalex for the RC213V of the Catalan champion.
Honda controls
As El Periódico has learned, Bradl, in fact, did very good times, always behind Dani Pedrosa, the KTM test rider, with aerodynamic improvements and small modifications to the chassis of his Honda, but he never had in his hands a The bike with the alleged new Kalex chassis, which, perhaps, no one is sure, could be ready for the test on Monday after the Jerez GP, which takes place at the end of the month.
The manufacture of a new chassis and more if it is for a firm as meticulous and formal, as attached to the rules, forms and regulations as Honda, is not easy at all. Well, it is not only a matter of time but also of verifications. The Japanese from Honda, who already consider it an attack on their honor to have to ask for help to get out of the crisis (when all, all, the F1 and MotoGP factories that compete at the highest level ask for it and collaborate with other component suppliers) They demand tremendous quality control and so they may be checking Kalex gear right now before putting it on the court.
