Next weekend we will have already entered the exciting 2022 MotoGP season with a Qatar Grand Prix which promises us hectic moments both on the track and behind the scenes. The bays will indeed be buzzing with rumors from the transfer market, of course, but will also undoubtedly be shaken by the outbursts coming out of the meetings of the MSMA, the manufacturers' association. The stumbling block is a leveling corrector at the front of the GP22 that Ducati has developed and which is tiring its colleagues who would like to see it removed from the landscape. The solution can a priori only come from the protagonists since, legally, everything seems legal. The boss of promoter Dorna Carmelo Ezpeleta hopes that reason will prevail and reminds, before settling in Doha, what everyone owes to the other in the paddock, for all intents and purposes...
With Carmelo Ezpeleta, and especially in the context of the vigil of a 2022 Grand Prix campaign which must be a success, every word has its importance. The boss of Dorna gave an interview on the site InSella.it with a mention on the state of the regulations and in particular on the concession points, which made it possible to arrive at this plateau which is now so balanced, to the greatest joy of the sport.
An arrangement of which Aprilia remains the only beneficiary, which allows it to test more, and with its incumbent drivers, to work more in depth on its engine. On the Noale mark, the Spaniard says: “ I expect them to lose these settlement concession points soon ". He adds : " Last year, Aleix already made a podium. I hope they will be able to be in the same conditions as the others, that would mean that the bike is competitive. My wish is that everyone loses their concessions, as has happened so far ».
Carmelo Ezpeleta: “I must remember that the concessions were introduced thanks to the generosity of Honda and Yamaha”
More Carmelo Ezpeleta also states: “ I must remember that the concessions were introduced thanks to the generosity of Honda and Yamaha, which allowed Ducati, which was the third competitor at the time, to have the concessions. Then Suzuki, KTM arrived and now Aprilia ».
A way of saying that an effort was made at the time by some for another who could have the elegance to reciprocate by also making a concession, but in the strict sense of the term this time. We will see in Losail if this approach will be taken into consideration by the protagonists, whose relations have nevertheless cooled since 2019 and the deflector affair, which brought all these beautiful people to court from where Ducati came out victorious, but angry...
