Dorna CEO backs Simon Crafar to finally make stewarding “consistent”

Carmelo Ezpeleta has his sa🐠🐷y on the change in the stewards panel

Simon Crafar
Simon Crafar

Simon Crafar is the man to end frustrations over Mo♑toGP stewarding,🐠 the Dorna CEO claims.

Ex-racer Crafar is currently a broadcasterꦛ on the official MotoGP coverage but, next year, will become chairman of the stewards panel.

He will replace Freddie Spencer in the job.

Stewards’ d✨ecisions have beenꦰ heavily scrutinised this season.

Dorna CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta admitted that confusion over what the stewards deem to☂ be punishable is comparable to ot🅘her sports.

“Of course, in football I am also c🅺✅onfused,” Ezpeleta told .

“It is clear that🐲 it is very difficult not to make mistakes, but what I will ask of the FIM at the end of the year, which is when I talk about it, because the stewarding service is provided by the FIM and the IRTA, is that the decisions be consistent.”

Ezpeleta backe♏d Crafar to del🐓iver that consistency.

“I hopeℱ so. His appointment 🌃is a matter of IRTA and I think he's a good guy, but I also really like Spencer,” he said.

“S꧟pencer was one of the best riders this championship has ever had and he must understand som🅺ething, which shows how difficult it is to be a [steward].”

The clash betwee📖n Enea Bastianini and Jorge Martin at the Emilia Romagna MotoGP was just one ﷽controversy involving the stewards.

They deemed Bastianini’s overtake not🍬 even worthy of an investigationꦬ, according to official documents.

But Crafar later revealed that the stewards did investigate but opt🌳ed not to punish Bastianini.

Marc Marquez was amoไng those who claimed Bastianini should have been penalised.

A separate incident - a pile-up caused by Jack Miller at Mandalika, deemed a racing incident ꧒- led Aleix Espargaro to que⭕stion the consistency of the stewards’ decision-making.

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