La Grand Prix Commission gathered in a last vigil on the side of Madrid decided that the Austrian Grand Prix would be the best meeting of the year while the intermediate tires from Michelin learned that they would no longer be allowed to participate. But the same meeting looked at the case of cameras in Moto3 and Moto2. With this at first glance surprising decision.
We knew about the hidden camera, but now here are the dummy cameras. Moto3 and Moto2 riders will be equipped with them in 2017, not to dissuade bad gestures on the track or impose a feeling of surveillance of the peloton, but for a question of weight. Literally.
Currently only the top six drivers in these categories are equipped with on-board cameras. However, the weight represented by this device can be considered a handicap in these categories where the performances of the motorcycles are relatively close.
In fact, in the name of fairness, machines that do not include cameras must therefore be equipped with dummy versions or weights, positioned in these same locations. As for the minimum weight of the machine/rider assembly, it will remain the same in Moto3 while in Moto2 it will now be 217 kg, or two more.
