Sometimes there are surprising things...
Thus, the current trend for drivers is to sign contracts which do not contain too many clauses prohibiting off-road driving to train as they wish between two Grands Prix.
There are therefore many people who indulge in it, whether in cross country, the riskiest discipline, in enduro, in flat track, in supermoto or even in trial.
As we have seen in recent months, none of these activities are zero risk, and it is therefore the pilots themselves who sometimes self-censor, as reported for example by the site es.motorsport.com about Valentino Rossi talking about his last enduro accident.
“The problem we face is still the same. We can't train with MotoGP, so we have to do it with other people, from different disciplines. Motocross was already on my blacklist because we were all injured: me, Morbidelli and others. I have done this walk with my friends four or five times a year for 18 years. But for sure, I won't do it again during the season. We have to find a compromise because we have to train and on a motorbike it's always dangerous. »
A certain autonomy is therefore left to pilots to decide for themselves, unfortunately often after actual experience, what is dangerous or not.
Except when the boss decides that an activity is really very risky, like Lynn Jarvis who confides that the bicycle seems more dangerous than the motorcycle…
“Our contracts say that riders must ask us for permission if they are going to do an activity that has not been previously predefined. Have we banned a pilot from doing things? Yes. For example, bike races, which for me are more dangerous than MotoGP races. »
Astonishing, no?
