30/03/2023 and las 19:34 CEST
Márquez believes that the Australian KTM riders made a mistake, but he asks us not to forget that “races are similar” and that stewards should judge accidents more sensibly.
The MotoGP World Championship has once again made it possible for the scene to change, the continents to change, the circuit changing in a few hours, in just three days, from Portimao (Portugal) to Termas de Río Hondo, in Argentina. After the first weekend of the season, where the champion Pecco’ Bagnaia (Ducati) showed that it will be (almost) impossible to snatch his crown this season as his 2023 “Desmosedici” is much better than the one that allowed him; Back last year 92 shows the Gallo Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha), the second race of the season held at the Argentine track, whose characteristic is that it has much less grip than the Portuguese circuit.
Of course, as usual, the introduction to the Argentine Governor General was signed today, before the first session on Friday in which the drivers will have to go out at their discretion in the top 10 Q2, an untimed session. the grid of the racing race and the GP on Sunday decides, because of the sanction or rather because of the terrible error of the Direction of the Race, the board of commissioners of the World Cup, in terms of two penalties. the last group put Marc Márquez (Honda) to lose control of his Honda, destabilizing Jorge Martín (Ducati) and Miguel Oliveira (Aprilia).
the appeal is dismissed
Remember that the ambassadors first wrote the sanction to be served by the champion in Argentina in the eightyth century, and later, when it was confirmed that the Catalan would not travel to Termas, they amended it in another language and indicated that they had. to comply “into the next great part in which he participated.” The Honda team considers that this rectification is no longer legal, does not make sense, has appealed, the stewards rejected that appeal and sent it to the MotoGP Court. of the Appeal, which must be answered in the coming days, no doubt before April 14, when the US GP begins, where everyone hopes to see the oldest of the Márquez family again, who underwent surgery last Monday for a fracture of the right thumb.
“There’s definitely a line between things that are good and things that aren’t,” said Australian Jack Miller (KTM), in a press conference before the start of the Argentina GP. “This is a very difficult job for the stewards, knowing to put that line because that line is moving. They do everything possible to be consistent and we as elite athletes also try to do our job and make it easier.”
“The end of which we can or can’t cross the track is constantly moving and it’s a complex job for GP managers.”
Miller, who at no time wanted to appear as a great defender of Marc Márquez “because I’m not, no”, thought “accidents like this happen every year, there are people and there are things that happen, but because it’s about Marc Márquez people take the knife out and go for by him We all believe that he was wrong, he is the first to admit it and therefore it must be consequential, but Nisl himself wants to impose sanctions on him.”
Bagnaia reviews
“Let’s see what is not understood that the seneschals, the Race Direction, the committee of managers, can err as, not understanding, not making sense,” said Francesco Pecco’ Bagnaia, running in Italian. World champion and winner of two nations, last weekend in Portimao (Portugal) the driver can be judged differently, it doesn’t make a lot of sense.”
Maverick Viñales, who starred in one of the best races with Aprilia, finishing second to his neighbor Bagnaia, also criticized the methods by which the stewards of the grand prix are governed. “Now that he gives us more information, the opinions that we have to believe are correct, the situation is complicated, with different perspectives, but adhering to one rule, it is difficult to understand the rule if it is applied in different ways. I think that the managers now have a lot of work ahead of you.”
