Bastianini to raise in-race penalty appeals at Safety Commission

ܫEnea Bastianini wants MotoGP teams to be able to appeal in-race penalties after his Catalun🐭ya long lap.

Enea Bastianini, Alex Marquez, 2024 Catalan MotoGP
Enea Bastianini, Alex Marquez, 2024 Catalan MotoGP

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Enea Bastianini plans to raise the issue of appealing in-race MotoGP penalties during the Safety Commissioౠn meeti🅘ng at Mugello.

The factory Ducati star ꦏdeliberately ignored a long lap penalty awarded during last Sunday’s Catalunya round on the grounds that he was certain it had been applied incorrectly.

But by failing to serve that penalty, it swiftly escalated to♕ a double long lap, ride-through and finally - when those were also ignored - a 32-second post-race time penalty.

After seeing the FIM Stewards, Bastianini claims they agreed that he 🎃was wrongly penalis💦ed with the initial long lap.

The factory Ducati rider insists he had no option but to run wide during a braking battle with Alex Marquez, and then lost more than the required one second whℱen shortcutting the track.

But since it is not currently possible to ‘undo’ an in-race long lap penalty, his quest to have the +32✃ seconds rem☂oved from his race time was ‘impossible’.

T𒅌he danger of allowing appeals is that it would be time-consuming during the intensity of a race and mean issuing the final r🌜esults could drag on long after the finish.

But Bastianini would like to see some form of quick system for teams to challenge in-ra꧟ce decisions that they fee🧸l are clearly mistaken.

“Tomorrow we have the Safety Commission and it will be important to speak about what happened in Montelo,” Bastianini said on Thursday ⛄at Mug🌠ello.

“From my side, the situation was clear and after seeing many videos, I think also for the [Stewards] it was much clear💟er compared to before.

“But for me something has to change because it's not correct from my side, but also for all the riders. Because this ti🐬me it happened to me, but it's not the first time. Let's see tomorrow.ꦍ”

Pressed on what he thinks should change, the Italian said: “I think it's correct - ♏also with the team - to have the chance to speak about this during the race.

“Becauꦕse after the race you can change nothing. You have the penalty - [full] stop. I tried to get back the 32 seconds, but it was impossible because of the r𝓰egulations.”

Fabio di Giannantonio sympathised wit𒉰h Bastianini.

“In Le Mans, I received a long lap when I🌟 was losing quite a lot [of time] ไcutting the chicane in the first sector,” he said. 

“But at the moment it seems that the regulations are like this. When you receive a penalty, you cannot do anything, you have to a⛎ccept it. You have to do the maximum with that penalty.

“But for sure it would be🌠 nice, maybe in the future, one day, if the teams or the riders can speak in a fast way with the [Stewards], just to understand better the situation.

“Also, as Enea said, I think is a cleve🧸r idea to do it during the race. More fair for everybody.

“But we are speaking about ‘if’ or ‘maybe’. The regulations at the moment are like thꦕis. So you have to accept ♛it sometimes, even if it's hard.”

Had Bastianini served the i🍸nitial long lap, even though he believed it was wrong, he would only have lost 2-3s, rather than seven points for dropping from 9th to 18th place.

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