Bastianini thinks running final MotoGP round in flood-hit Spain “not correct”

Ducati rider critical of🌺 proposed Barcelona finale

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Enea Bastianini thinks MotoGP staging its final round of the season in Spain is “not correct” amid the ongoing recovery efforts from last week’s🍰 deadly flooding.

A year’s worth of rainfall hammered Valencia and its surrounding towns las🐼t week, lead𝔍ing to immense destruction to infrastructure and causing over 200 known deaths.

The destructiౠon affected the access routes to the Ricardo Tormo Circuit in the Cheste region of Valencia, while the circuit itself has been housing those displaced by the flooding.

This ultimately led to the cancellation of the Valencia Grand Prix, which was due to bring the curtain down on the 2024 MotoGP ෴season on the weekend of 15-17 November.

With that announced on Friday, MotoGP has hastily been 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:putting plans in place to find a replacement event.

Numerous alternatives were proposed, with it originally thought that the final round would be pushed back to th🅘e 22-24 November weekend and be staged in Qatar.

O♉n Sunday at the Malaysian GP, Dorna Sports confirmed that it was now working to hold the event o💞n the 15-17 November but at Barcelona.

Ducati rider Bastianini is against this idea, thꦐough, believing it’s not rig🍬ht to be racing in Spain given the situation in the country right now.

“For Marc, it’s a good event to go to Barcelona, his town,” Bastianini said after finishing third at Sepang, responding to a question about his battle in the champions𒐪hip for third with Marc Marquez.

“For me, it wasn’t correct to race in Spain. 🥀But it’s like this, this is the choice of Dorna.

“But nothing, we have to give 100%. I have to be much stronger compared to the race in Barcelona at the start of the season, because I was ꦕfast but I got two, three long lap penalties. Let’s see.”

Over the weekend, Spain’s prime minister ordere💝d the largest peacetime deployment of military personnel - 10,000 troops and police - to help with reco🦂very efforts in the aftermath of the flooding.

Dorna’s chief spo🔥rting officer Carlos Ezpeleta says the decision on the Barcelona race will be green lit by the local government, who will engage in discussions with the national government.

Prior to Valencia’s cancellation, a number of riders stood against racing at Ricardo Tormo in wake of the flooding crisis, with world champion Francesco Bagna🐎ia threatening a boycott even if it cost him the title. 

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