More than any other weekend of this 2023 campaign, the teams and the organization of the championship will be permanently connected to Australia with applications during the season. What started this Thursday with good temperatures, for the beginning of southern spring, 24ºc, a bonanza that will continue this Friday, on Saturday 10ºc will drop suddenly and on Sunday nothing will be lost: cold -between 11 and 13ºc maximum- , no intermittent rain and the greatest risk to the safety of Phillip Island drivers, gusts between 11 am and 2 pm local time, Australian race time, ranged from 30 km/h to 61 km /h. And this is the circuit with the highest average speed in the entire championship.
The MotoGP family has arrived in Cowes, the town where the Phillip Island circuit is located, that there could be a cancellation of Sunday and this Thursday they are openly talking about it. The beautiful circuit is located parallel to the Indian Ocean and the wind has been the main character on several occasions, causing cancellations that so far have not affected the day of the race.
What happened to you is still in your retina. Miguel Oliveira in 2019, his rookie year in MotoGP, when at 12’53” to the end of FP4 a gust of wind of around 70 km/h literally threw him off the track and caused him to fall dangerously. The others were canceled due to a red flag. of the session and after an emergency Race Direction meeting with the riders, Q1 and Q2 in MotoGP were not held and postponed to Sunday and after the warmups of the three categories, the qualification was made for MotoGP grid.
In 2016, heavy rain forced the cancellation of MotoGP and Moto2 FP2 on Friday.
Marc Márquez He is of the opinion that instead of spending the whole day ‘what’s coming in the balloon’ you have to assess the race day itself: “If there is water, you have to wear water tires, if there is wind then you have to slow down and if there is a lot of water or there is ‘aquaplaning’ it will be Race Direction, as it did in Motegi, who will give the decision, to cancel the race or stop it there. moment, to cancel it, due to the lack of light later .”
“For me, this thing that is being created, oh, what’s going on! it’s like a fad and then nothing happens but, for now, tomorrow the weather will be good, on Saturday it will be the same, and on Sunday if we. get up and the weather is bad, Well, Race Management has enough experience to make all possible decisions,” reflected Marc.
From Empordà to Maverick Vinales He is used to the Tramuntana and the strong and cold wind. “I always fight well with the wind, I’m used to it because I’m from Roses. But on Sunday it can be too much, but we’ll see, because here it’s very easy to leave the track. If the gust is strong wind, you can easily get stuck and with the current aerodynamics it’s even worse,” he explained.
Aleix Espargaroone of the most important drivers in the Safety Commission, said that “it is not my job to worry about this event, but moving races is certainly not an impossible option.”
Source: La Verdad
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