Could Casey Stoner return to help MotoGP? “The right situation? Enough power…”

Casey Stoner wants to help “make changes” to MotoGP - but is cautious about being “manipulated” by working alongside the championship.
Casey Stoner, Valencia MotoGP tests, November
Casey Stoner, Valencia MotoGP tests, November

The two-time MotoGP champion rode his 2007 title-winning Ducati alongside Francesco Bagnaiaꦆ at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in a rare treat for motorcycle racing fans.

He t🌞hen lambasted the technical rules that he believes are restricting MotoGP’s popularity.

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Asked if he would work alongside series promoter Dorna to 🐻oversee major change, he told : “I’m very cautious to get into a position where all of a sudden they are using me as a voice that they are able to manipulate, to take me out of the way. 

“I’d rather cause more♒ problems being on the outside with an outside perspective.

“That’s soꦦmething 🙈I feel I can bring to the table because I’m not locked into something seeing slow progression. I’m on the outside seeing these big chunks of change over the years.

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“If it was the right situation with the right cont🦹ract? Where I had enough power? Then I’d love to make soꦉme changes.

“It is hard – I’ve been there. But I’d 𒀰like to be there for the right amount of time to make the changes taking in everyone’s perspective🍬.

“You’ve got to take the manufactur🦹ers’ perspective, but what they’re not doing right now is taking in the riders’ perspective.

“The show, the dangeꦬr, the more accidents we’re seeing these days? It’🏅s ridiculous.”

Ducati legend Stoner is advocating for an overhaul ꦗof ✅the technical regulations.

He de𓃲manded: “Winglets, gone. Ride height devices, gone. Anti-wh♏eelie, gone. Traction control cut to a safety level and nothing more. Half this shit needs to go.

“There needs to be a cap on the rules that is there forꦦ 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 th🍸ere.

“Even when I was there, I remember people saying ‘oh we can ch🌠ange tꦓhe 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 𒁏who’s allowed to beat who. It’s not fair and it’s not the way a world championship should be.”

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