During the last Grand Prix, it was the most unlucky technical retirement that was noted, on a Misano track which was not lenient with the drivers of the Pramac team. Francesco Bagnaia, who was leading the race, actually fell there while Jack Miller saw his GP20 die out due to... A protective visor from Fabio Quartararo's helmet stuck in the air box. The Australian and the French joked about the subject through social networks, but it didn't make the man who is expected to succeed Andrea Dovizioso in the official Ducati team laugh. The proof…
Francis Bagnaia decided not to consider the causes of his teammate's technical retirement as a simple and incredible incident Jack Miller during the last Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in Misano. He has in fact decided to bring this theme of detachable visors abandoned on the track to the safety commission.
Compared to what he initially thought, the Pramac Racing driver, close to a future in the factory team Ducati, strongly doubts that this was the cause of his crash. However, this was indeed the cause of the withdrawal of Jack Miller. The Italian absolutely wants to address this problem with all the other drivers to find an acceptable solution and thus prevent such a thing from causing other incidents in the future.
« You can't lose a race like this ", underlined the Pramac Racing driver, referring precisely to the forced abandonment of Miller. " We need to talk to the Safety Commission about this, because it is certainly not normal for something like this to happen. Jack is fighting for the championship, there is no way he has a zero on the scoresheet for this reason ».
Would a protective visor have caused Bagnaia to fall?
Pecco Bagnaia proposes an idea: that of leaving the detachable visors in only one part of the track. “ So maybe the commissioners can remove them more easily. But these are hypotheses, we will talk about them in detail. Mike Webb, Capirossi, Uncini are always ready to listen to us on safety issues ».
bagnaia also spoke of his fall. As mentioned, he initially thought his unexpected accident was also caused by a detachable visor left on the track, but now he's not so sure. “ Ducati technicians compared all the data“, explained the Piedmontese pilot. “ They told me it wasn't my fault, so the only thing I can assume is that we were at the limit, more than I thought. It's me and Maverick, because we were both half a second faster per lap. It would therefore be a fall due to the loss of the front » concludes academician VR46.
