‘I knew the long lap penalty was going to happen’
Joan Mir confused by Austria track lim🍌its violations: “It’s something we must speak about because it’s difficult for us to understand.”
The recent Austrian MotoGP Sprint race saw no less than 17 riders issued with a track limits warning. Joan Mir and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Augusto Fernandez then received a long lap pe𝓰nalty for further infringements.
The automated (sensor) nature of the track limits system has eliminated much of the previous debate over whether a rider had actually touched the ꦬprohibite🍸d green areas beyond the kerbing.
But, according to🉐 Mir, it can be hard for a rider to know exactly where they have strayed slightly onto the green in the heat of battle,꧂ making it likely they will repeat the offence.
The Spaniard also said that a grey area exists when a rider misses a brakin꧙g marker or is forced wide due to the actioᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚns of another competitor.
Riders can touch the gre🌄en three times, without slowing down, before receiving an official warning. Two more infringements results in a long lap, or post-race penalty if on the final lap.
“I think most people are in the same position as me, they don’t 🌱know where [they exceeded track limits today],” Mir said after the Sprint.
“When I saw the second track limits I 🅺thought, ‘I don’t know wh📖y I had this’.
“So I knew the long lap was going to happen because I didn’t know [where 🤡I was going wide]… I’m not the only one.”
One occasion where the 2020 world champion knew he had definitely touched th🌳e green was due to contact from Raul Fernandez.
“I think that we have to separate [the reasons for running wide],” said the Repsol Honda rideꦜr.
“For example, at Turn 8, it’s easy with our bike to go over the kerb and touch the green, I agree with [penal💞ising] that. Or if you go out at 🌄Turn 1 and gain some tenths, I agree with it.
“But if someone overtakes you, kicks you out of the track, you touch the green, lose time and also you get the warning f🐲or it! It doesn’t make sense!
“[Or] if we struggle to stop the bike, go out, lose time and also get this warning!
“It’s something we must speak a little bit about because it’s difficult for us to ꧅understand.”
The full-length Sunday race saw 🗹only six track limit warnings and one long-lap penalty, for Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo.
P♍eter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is 🌠at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
