Valencia MotoGP uncertainty: ‘What Dorna decides will be good and fair’

MotoGP title rivals comment on how uncertainty of Valen🎶cia GP could impact championship fight

Francesco Bagnaia, Jorge Martin, 2024 Malaysian MotoGP
Francesco Bagnaia, Jorge Martin, 2024 Malaysian MotoGP
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Francesco Bagnaia is confident whatever MotoGP does amid the uꦺncertainty over running the Valencia Grand Prix will be “good and fair” in the context of the title fight.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Deadly flooding has swept through the Valencia region this week, with a year’s worth of rain🔯 battering the surrounding area of the c💧ity near the Ricardo Tormo Circuit overnight on Wednesday.

There have beeꦫn reports of at least 95 deaths as a result of ཧthe flooding, while massive damage has been done to the access road to the Ricardo Tormo track.

MotoGP is due to stage its final round of the 2024 campaign at the circuit on 15-17 November, though t🐠his now looks highly unlikely.

No update has been given by Dorna Sports on what could happen, though there have already been rumours of replacement being organised in one of Malaysia, Qatar, Portugal and✤ Barc꧃elona.

With 17 points splitting Jorge Martin and Bagnaia in th🍌e standings ahead of this weekend’s Malaysian GP, the uncertainty over the Valencia finale could have massive ramifications on the outܫcome of the championship.

Bagnaia doesn’t believe it is correct to race in Valencia, but feels there are “many more options to t⭕ry” in ensuring a final round is run somewhere.

“The most difficult thing for me is the etꦅhical side, because honestly racing there is like a party,” he said on Thursday ahead of the Malaysian GP.

“It’s like a moment𓆏 to enjoy. And knowing that the situation is what it is, it’s not correct.

“And we are always super respectful about what is happening around the wor⭕ld. We are living everybody under the sa♚me sky, so it could be wrong to race there.

“In any cas𒈔e, if it was my choice I would prefer to not race there. But I’m not the one to decide this. What Dorna will decide will be good and fair, but I🍃 think we have many more options to try.”

Asked what his preferreဣd replacement to Val♈encia would be, Bagnaia declined to comment, while also admitting that a total cancellation of the last round “could be not fair”.

“For me it’s ꧑not the correct moment to say what I will like,” he 𒁏added.

“We will wait and what they♛ will decide will be good. Could be not fair [to cancel the last race], but I’m not the guy to haveꩵ to decide it it.”

Championship leader Martin echoed Bagnaia’s comments, saying: “I think it▨’s a really difficult situati🃏on, for sure for the people over there.

“But also for us, the best thing will be to know right now, to know it today, so you approach the weekend in ⛦a differen💃t way.

“But I thinꦓk Valencia will be difficult, because even if everything is good [with the track] it’s a difficult situation and I think just for the respect of the people over there, I think also in terms of logistics - I don’t know how the track is exactly - ma൲ybe we cannot be fully crowded.

“I think the best option would be to race elsewhere. But I think Dorna, or Moto💟GP, will do the best thing and the best choice.” 

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