Among the facts and events that will have brightened up this unbridled 2020 season, we will remember the noble contribution made by the race management to spice up an already exciting atmosphere. This is absolutely unanimously against it among the clan of pilots who understand the rules which they respect for the most part. But they do not understand their application, and especially their interpretation by officials. The feeling of a judgment of variable geometry on facts that are a priori identical depending on the place and the moment fuels a crisis of legitimacy which was further revealed during the last meeting in Teruel. A report that comes to us from Pol Espargaró…
Pol Espargaro will have had difficulty this year, both with his fellow drivers and with the race management. HAS Brno, for example, a Grand Prix which left him with a bitter memory, he was sanctioned with a best time removed because it was judged to have been achieved under the regime of the yellow flags displayed after the fall of Crutchlow. The official KTM had then argued that the signal was impossible to see in full attack between two turns. In vain.
But here we are at Teruel Grand Prix, during Q2. In the last minute, Johann zarco fall, the yellow flags come out, and the drivers, in their last effort, cross the finish line. The logic now accepted would have wanted the times then recorded to be crossed out. What was undertaken initially. Before maintaining the status quo. A moment when Pol Espargaro sailed between seventh and ninth place, then he was stuck in the latter.
Claim ? Just the same rules for everyone
A scenario that deeply annoyed the younger brother of a Aleix, no more conciliatory than him on the subject… “ The rule itself is good, but it must also be interpreted the same way for everyone » insists the Spaniard. “ It can't be that it's sometimes like that and then different again in a similar situation on a different route ».
He insists : " This seems like a joke to me. It is simply not possible to live in such disorder. If I make a mistake at 300 kilometers per hour, I will be taken to the hospital. If the race direction makes a mistake, nothing happens. My job is more difficult, but they still have to do their job perfectly ».
I will espargaro speaks on behalf of his fellow pilots and declares: “ we agree 100% that the race management is not doing a good job in this regard. We want the rule to be interpreted the same way for everyone ". Presented like that, it seems simple. But in practice, apparently, no...
