Dorna CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta on MotoGP Sprint bonus bust-up: “Problem for riders with their teams”

The 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:MotoGP 2023 calendar features a major overhaul with a 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:MotoGP Sprint race at every round on the Saturday.
Veteran paddock manager Carlo Pernat has been prominent in claiming that 💞riders deserve to be paid a bonusꦚ for this extra work.
“That's a problem of the riders with the teams,” Carme🐼lo 𝓡Ezpeleta told .
“I have nothing to do 🧸with the mo෴ney that the riders earn.
“That's a problem for every rider wit🃏h their team. As for what Pernat said, Carlo is Carlo and I can't take him much more seriously either.
“It's funny, because he has my phone and he doesn't tell me anything. He never calls me, so something must happen to him so he doesn't call me. All those fꦜears... It's very easy to go around saying those things.”
Sprint races will be half the distance𝕴 of Sunday’s race, with halfꦓ the points awarded. It does not replace standard qualifying. And Sprint race results will not be listed as victories in the history books.
“There have always been critics for all the things we have announc🐟ed,” Ezpeleta said.

“I understand that there is criticism. I've always said that people are very conservative. The first big thing we di💟d 🌺was change from 500cc to MotoGP and that was beastly. Then with Moto2 and Moto3, too, the same. And the single switchboard.
“All the things we have changed have been criticised against and, so far, we have not had to♔ back down.
“That does noꦬt mean that, if we see that the thing does not come out, we would have no problem going backwards.
“We have to innovate and think about what things can go be༺tter so that people get hooked on our championshi🎃p.
“We have to go looking for a w♐ay and we are concerned with the [quantity] of the spectators that there were in some places. What they are telling us now is that attendances are increasing a lot. I don't know if it's just because of the Sprint races, but we are clearly increasing the number of requests and bookings compared to last year.
“Mugello we don't know yet, because it's going much later, but Porti꧅mao is doing much better and the United States is doing much better too.”

Ezpeleta was willing to concede that Dorna’s announcemꦏent that they would include Sprint races did not go to plan.
“We posed that press conference badly,” ཧhe said. “We raised it defensively and it was the announcement of a great novelty.
“We posed it badly and I🐬 do not understand why something that was an advantage for the chamꦓpionship, for certain things, went wrong.
“We thought that the teams would inform the riders of what we had agreed with them, because everything was agreed with the official and private tea♋ms, but they did not do so.
“And we announced that before th﷽e Safety Commission. We should have done the meeting the next day and informed the riders directly or, what I expected, that the teams had info༒rmed them. The riders initially said no and then almost all have said that they are fine with it.”

Asked if there could be an increase in inj🦋ured rid🤡ers unable to compete in Sunday races due to the Sprints, Ezpeleta said: “There is always a risk and it is a double-edged sword, because that can happen, but I hope not.
“The rider can fall in the Sprint race an🌊d in the warm up. Last year, Marc Marquez in Indonesia fell into the warm up. The risk of falling and hurting yourself in this sport is always there.”
Ezpeleta concluded: “We think it's a good idea. I spoke to Formula 1 and I was fine with what they were thinking. What didn't seem right to me was 🧜to do it only in three or six races, because the organisers of the other races would ask us why they wouldn't do Sprint races.
“This is good for more people to come on Saturdays. We asked th𝄹e circuits, which are an important part of this matter, and also the televisions, who told us they liked it, because it could increase the audiences on Saturday afternoons.
“In addition, there is another added issue, which is that the new schedule allows us to have more interaction between riders and🍌 public.”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade coverꦓing everything from Amer♓ican sports, to football, to F1.