Prior to the official press conference for Thursday’s Media Day in Termas de Río Hondo, Dorna CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta wanted to explain the subject of the day, the Argentine GP’s cancellation of Friday’s day because there was none. complete the complete transfer of equipment material from Indonesia to Argentina.
Carmelo Ezpeleta explained the problem: “As you know, two weeks ago we were in Lombok with everything ready and a week in between. Last Wednesday various flights left and one had a problem in Mombasa and did we decided that another one would come to Argentina to return to Lombok to deliver the rest here. But this flight also experienced a technical problem in Mombassa and that is why it has not yet arrived. “
“The goal came it yesterday, Wednesday, but the problem was more serious and with one of the valves of the four engines and we had requested two flights, from London and Paris, that would take the valves to Mombassa to be done. to arrange them before the afternoon. If everything goes well at 8 this afternoon in Argentina, the flight will arrive at the right time to meet the new schedule on Saturday. If the material does not arrive, we will have information in advance, “he said. niya.
Ezpeleta pointed out the root of the problem with the shortage of cargo planes today: “We have learned a lot from over 30 years of experience with cargo flights and this is a problem exacerbated by the war in Ukraine. Many cargo flights are from company flights to Russia and canceled them, we lost 20% of those flights and they were missing.We had enough time forecasts, but the problem was there were no more available flights and nothing we have no other solution but to wait for the repair of aircraft valves in Mombassa ”.
“There are 140 flights available for cargo right now and we need special planes for our cargo, it’s not easy to change planes, but we’re used to solving problems, the point is to solve the situation, but we have to accept what happened is the same as what is happening in the weather conditions ”, he explained.
“To be frank this GP will be the 499 that we organize and it is the first time that we face this problem, it is not positive but you have to accept that these things happen, the main objective now is to race in Argentina and Austin “.
As for those affected, he listed “tire suppliers, Gresini, VR46, Ducati, but all must have the same conditions, if one fails, it is reason enough to postpone it.”
Source: La Verdad
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