“MotoGP is making the same mistakes that Formula 1 made 10 years ago”

Pit Beirer is the latest to criticise the aerodynami🍎cs of MotoGP and their impact on the riders, and the excitement of the races.
Riders this y🦩ear have complained that overtaking is too difficult, essentia♍lly giving them a choice between overheating their tyres by following or creating a dangerous slipstream.
"I just don't understand why our great sport is now making the mistakes th🐬at were 🧜made in F1 ten years ago," Beirer is quoted by .
"I don't want to complaiꦆn t🌃hat aerodynamics are bad for the sport.
“We just need to improve in this area and we're🅠 working on that.
“It's an issue that will stay with us for a lꦡong time becaꦰuse we're investing a lot of money and we can't let the excitement and the audience go back.
"I gather from my conversations with [Aprilia boss] Massimo Rivola that he 🔥also has the same concerns.
“They see this problem in the same way as we do at KTM, even though Aprilia has a very com𝔉petitive b♊ike with a very good aerodynamic package.”

Some riders blame the wings that have become standardised o𒁃n the fairings of every bike.
It has left them accusꦆing each other of potenti♋ally dangerous manoeuvres when trying to overtake.
MotoGP in 𓆉2023 has been littered with crashes and, as a result, i🌞njuries.
"F1 lef🦋t that path precisely because of that," Beirer said.
Casey Stoner shared this criticism last wꦜeekend, telling : “Winglets, gone. Ride height devices, gone. Anti-wheelie, gone. Traction control cut to a safety level and nothing more. Half this shit needs to go.
“There needs to be a c༺ap on the rules that is there for 10 years, so that manufacturers can reasonably catch up to each other and not keep moving this imaginary rule system that doesn’t really seem to be there.
“Even when I was there, I reme♚mber🌃 people saying ‘oh we can change the rules to fit that’. What’s the point of a rulebook if you can change it?
“All of this stuff, it’s pushing🔴 the price up so far, and you’ve got half the bikes on the grid dictating who’s allowed to beat who. It’s not fair and it’s not the way a world championship should be.”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everythi🌊ng from American sports, to football, to F1.