MotoGP may have avoided a rider revolt after the opening day at a ridiculously bumpy COღTA, but it was made clear that the world championship won't be back unless resurfacing work is carried out for 2022.

"ꦦFor me it’s a joke to be here. We cannot race. It’s very dangerous. Nightmare. I’ve never ridden a tra♓ck like this," Aleix Espargaro had said after Friday practice.

"If we 🐠hold a vote in the Safety Commission I would say not to race. For me no way. It’s very, ve🅠ry dangerous," added the Aprilia rider, who went on to fall five-times over the weekend.

COTA has been battling the emergence of strange bumps - thought to be caused by instability beneath the track's surface rather than the usual wear and tear - for years. But like a gardener clearing molehills from a lawn, no sooner has one♉ area been treated than the problem pops-up somewhere else.

While work done on the 1.2km b൩ack straight, the longest in MotoGP, made the bump situation better than in previous years, new outbreaks at the fast Turns 2-3 and 10 were the main target of rider complaints.

"For sure we were expecting some bumps. But th꧋ese bumps are so dangerous. Going into corner 10, both wheels are in the air," said Suzuk♐i's Alex Rins.

With Brno in the Czech Republic being dropped from this year's world championship due to a lac💛k of resurfacing, COTA knows it must act – and has only six months bꦗefore the scheduled 2022 race, in early April.

"They need to fix it next year otherwise we won’t race. Now the track is not safe," said Rins, who added that the circuit iౠn its current condition would not meet the necessary standards to host MotoGP:

༒"If💜 they made the homologation checks now, for sure [the track] would not pass it."

While a (costly) full resurfacing, includin🅷g any sub-surface remedies, is the best option, the compromise reached in the riders' Safety Commission meeting at COTA was&nbs🍸p;that MotoGP will tolerate a partial resurfacing, covering the problematic Turn 2-10 area.

"All the🥂 riders had big complaints about the bumps. Some said that it's impossible to race, some said it's too dangerous, that this is the worst track on the cal🍰endar," Takaaki Nakagami said of the Safety Commission meeting.

"Dorna said that they will try to push to resurface, not all the circuit, but at least from Turn 2 to Turn 10 they need to repair everything. And this is what the riders'ꦏ requested.

"The final decision is from the circuit. But from MotoGP's side, if the circuit says they don't want to resurface, I don't think we will come bꦡack."

"Dorna ꦏunderstood the situation perfectly. All the riders complained. The truth is we cann🔯ot repeat another weekend in these conditions," said Rins team-mate and reigning world champion Joan Mir.

"It looks like the ground has moved and it's a big difference [from 2019]. Everyone got more used to the bumps [as the weekend went on] but they’re not normal. If they don’t resurface minimum Turns 2-10 we wiဣll not come back here."

"They will ask not just to resurface, but to change under the ground from Turn 2 to 10. And if they don't change it, we won't come back," reiterated Pramac's Jorge💎 Martin.

However, a partial resurfacing would mean the growing issue of COTA now having a patchwork of different asphal♛t sections, each with different grip and drainage properties, will be exacerbated.

"It’s true that the best thing you can do here is resurface completely. Not one sector and another, with different types of asphalt," Mir confirmed. "But [a f🐈ull resurfacing] is really expensive."

Retiring at the en🉐d of this season, Valentino Rossi didn't want to get caught up in the discussions over what needs to happen for 2022.

"Next year I don’t race! So🍌 it's not my problem!" Rossi smiled.

However, gi🔯ven that past attempts to fix the COTA𒉰 bumps have largely failed, the Italian was sceptical that all will be well for those returning next April.

"I think that they asked to improve the [surface] situation for next year - but at the end, that's what we asked for, for this year. But the situation was not better," he s𒊎aid.

"So I hope for the MotoGP riders in 2022 that the situation can be bet♊ter because like this it's a bit dangerous."

COTA's next big event wil൩l be the American F1 Grand Prix on October 24. While the four-wheel grand prix competitors, whose world championship includes several street circuits, have also highlighted issues with the bumpy COTA surface it is more of an inconvenience than a safety issue.