Pernat fires red bullets at Freddie Spencer. Three Grands Prix have passed in this 2021 season and already quite a few events have given rise to comments and other debates. Among these, the question of penalties imposed on riders, who have flourished in Moto3 and MotoGP. The anger of the victims upon receiving their sanction was not feigned. In MotoGP, Maverick Viñales was quite virulent while in Moto3, team bosses stepped up to the plate. A lack of understanding and unease shared by other players in the paddock. Carlo Pernat is one of them and he does not spare the person in charge who is none other than Freddie Spencer.
No introduction Freddie spencer whose brilliant racing career gives him every legitimacy to intervene in the field of Grands Prix. In private and in his name perhaps. Because since he's in an official position, the type to punish if necessary, it's nothing to say that he's in the hot seat. Cal Crutchlow, a few seasons ago, had taken away his respect because of a punishment for an early departure. Recently, at Portimao, the American didn't just make friends. Paolo Simoncelli, for example, has it in its crosshairs.
An unpopularity that also fuels Charles Pernat. The Italian, in an interview with Mowmag the attack itself head on. He indeed comments: “ I'm sorry to express myself in these terms, because he was a great champion and because as a manager he also did good things, but now it's been two years that he doesn't seem to take a single good choice. In Moto3, there is total confusion, between ideas of superpole, drivers who continue to do what they want, punishments that exist today and not tomorrow and ridiculous solutions like a thousand euros fine for the teams . Paolo Simoncelli did well to lose patience”.
Pernat fears that Formula 1 morals are taking over
« In MotoGP, with Viñales and Bagnaia in Portimao, we hit rock bottom. In the case of the Yamaha rider, as said, there were no sensors in this corner and therefore canceling the time was a completely wrong choice. He barely rolled on the green and the rules say the wheels must be completely on the green. They also said they decided it based on some behind-the-scenes footage they didn't see on TV, but if it's true they show them to us, otherwise they only fuel controversies and debates which are then harmful for everyone » regrets Feathered.
He specifies : " in the case of Bagnaia, however, it is true that the rider had to slow down under the yellow flag and the Ducati rider's time was canceled. What is incomprehensible and unacceptable, however, is that the flag was displayed in a place that the pilot's eye could not even see and that, Spencer should have known ».
Charles Pernat concludes: “ my biggest fear is that if we follow the rules and regulations and bureaucracies of model employees we will end up becoming like Formula 1. But there already is Formula 1 and it's already boring enough as it is ».
