Like about a third of the paddock, the umbrella girls were the temporary victims of the reduction of the latter, according to the protocol used to be able to continue having a MotoGP world championship despite the global pandemic.
It has been almost two years since they abandoned not only the paddock aisles but also the starting grids, regardless of the categories, very often replaced by the drivers' helpers or a mechanic.
Today, gradually with the improvement of the health situation, the number of people admitted to the reserved part of the circuits is increasing, and after the journalists (however still excluded from certain areas), hand-picked guests have started to do their appearance, thus leading to the return of certain hospitality.
According to our information, it will be in Portimão the turn of umbrella girls and/or umbrella boys going back to school. However, we do not expect a proliferation of these gaze sensors, on the one hand because we are at the end of the season and the budgets have already been allocated for 2021, on the other hand because this increasingly controversial practice had already started to suffer attacks since 2017, particularly in Jerez, leading even the world of F1 to abandon it.
MotoGP resists. For now.
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