And now what, what is reading?
Yesterday, before the start of the Spanish GP here in Jerez, we warned that Dani Pedrosa had not yet signed up to race as a guest rider to fill the grid. We know this and apparently their opponents do. None of them seemed surprised that Pedrosa was the big star of the day after he was fastest in the morning session and third at the end of the day. It is true that as a KTM test rider he has prepared intensively this weekend, that Jerez has always been one of his favorite places, yes, yes, yes, yes, but let’s remember that at the age of 38, Dani is a former GGPP pilot. . Is it or not to scratch your head and wonder what we witnessed today in Jerez?… Very strong. The next thing, inevitably, is to wonder what Pedrosa can do for the rest of the weekend. Will you continue to fly the colors of active pilots? Can he repeat in the two races ahead -on the first morning- what he showed today? No one dared to prove otherwise… just in case.
Is this what they want MotoGP?
By Pecco Bagnaia, winner of the first GP of the season and of two of the three sprints held; by Marco Bezzecchi, winner of the Argentine GP; by Alex Rins, surprise winner in Austin two weeks ago; Even Brad Binder, who won the Argentine sprint, did not make it into tomorrow’s Q2. Therefore, the four have to be played against ten other rivals, including Fabio Quartararo and Joan Rins, both MotoGP World Champions, the two positions that give access to the session that defines the first four lines of the grid. exit. What is this? What’s going on in MotoGP? It’s pretty clear to me: this is the new GP format. Everything is so intense that if a driver starts the GP on Friday morning doubtful or has some kind of technical problem, he has every chance to miss the boat. And if he stays in Q2, the whole GP is sold out. That’s why tomorrow’s Q1 will be dog-faced; only two of all these names I mentioned will make it to Q2.
The ‘danger’ of extreme sprint format.
The short races introduced this year in MotoGP, the so-called sprints, have proven successful. The initial hesitation gave way to a kind of honeymoon with a format that enhances the most striking of races: intensity and competitiveness. Aggression can be added to this list, an ingredient that in due measure also adds a lot of emotion. Tomorrow we will see the fourth stage of this mini-race that changed the veteran World Championship. But beware, paradoxically, in intensity and emotion is where the danger lives. The danger is that the solution to stimulate more interest in MotoGP ends up swallowing the original product. Because except for purists, Saturdays have become the ‘big days’ of the GP, more interesting than Sundays with ‘boring’ long races where drivers must contain and manage their desire to go fast as possible. I recommend that the managers of the World Championship pay attention, lest the solution to boost MotoGP ends up being a shot in the foot
Source: La Verdad

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