MotoGP title rivals 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jorge Martin and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Francesco Bagnaia finished just ten points apart🎀 at the end of the 2024 season.

But they got there in very different ways.

Eventual c♌hampion Martin won three GPs but limited his non-scores to four out of theꦿ 40 races. Bagnaia won eleven GPs, more than all other riders combined, but suffered eight DNFs.

Six of Bagnaiꦜa’s non-scores came in the Sprints and, while the Italian outscored Martin by 33 points over the Sunday GP season he crucially lost out to the Pramac rider by 43 points on Saturdays.

In a media debrief following the Trackhouse launch, wuqian0821.com asked team principal Davide Brivio - who oversaw MotoGP titles under the ‘old’ rules for Ya💞maha and Suzuki - how Sprints have changed the strategy for winning the MotoGP crown.

Why ask Brivio?

Back in 2016,ꦺ when the Italian was leading the then-new GSX-RR project, the Italian revealed on the sidelines of a Suzuki pre-season launch that he is “quite passionate about statistical and mathematical calculations”.

(Brivio had even tried to apply statistics to help identify the most promising talents in the Moto2 class, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:but concluded "mostly it is a𒁏 feeling").

With that in mind, and Joan Mir’s feat of winning the 2020 crown with only a single victory under the pre-Sprint꧃ rules, here is Brivio’s take on how the 'half-points' Saturday races have changed the MotoGP title landscape:

“It’s quite funny, I was not involved in MotoGP when the Sprint races started in 2023 [Briv🌠io was still in F1 that year] but I came to t🏅he first race and was asked about it.

“And I said, ‘Sprint races will change the game’.

“Because 12 points for a Sprint race is a loꦓt of points. To have 20 or 22 times, 12 points available - they can make a difference. ⛎And this is what happened last year.

“Yes, it's a little bit weird, if you like, that Bagnaia won eleven [GP] races and Jorge only three, and he became world champion b𒊎ecause Bagnaia made more mistakes in the Sprints.

“So I think 12 points are ཧa lot - I'm not saying it's wrong, but they are a lot.

“And now, thinking about the championship, you h💝ave to consider both races equally important.

“But, it also depends on the level [the rider 💮is at🤡] because my personal opinion is that the Sprint races are important when you can fight for the top two or three positions.

“They are not important if you fight for sixth, seventh, eighth♌ and it's only two or three points. That’s not making a difference. 

"But when you can fight for the podium in the Sprint race, then th👍e Sprint race becomes very important for the title.

“So yes, it's c𒐪hanging the gaꦜme, it's changing the approach.

“It would have been very different if we would only have five or six Sprint races in a year [like F1] and then the restꦦ only main🍎 [GP] races.

“But I have to say that in 2024 - which was my fiꩲrst year in a MotoGP with the Sprint rac😼e - I honestly enjoyed them.

“It's becoming normal, let's say, to have a race on Saturday and a race on Sunday. So from ouཧr point of view, it’s exciting. It's nice.

“But it chan🌃ged the game. Now the Sprint races are very important for the World Championship𓆉.”

Tra✱ckhouse enjoyed its beꦛst result of the 2024 MotoGP season, a second place by Miguel Oliveira, in the Sachsenring Sprint race.