Iconic MotoGP track Mugello completes safety work on notorious danger area

The wall on the left-h💮and side of the main straight haꦦs been pushed back further from the track itself.
An official statem🔯ent said: “The space between the track and the protections has been increased with the consequent setback of the service road🌸.”
Marc Marquez🧜 had a high-speed crash in that area of Mugello in 2013, while MotoGP riders have complained about its dangerousness ever since.
Mugello has now addressed those ✅concerns, among others.
Thꦗe area of the straight where Brad Binder hi❀t a MotoGP record-high 366.1 km/h last year has been tweaked.
“In this area, the run-off area that runs along the straight is being wi✨dened 💦for a total length of 450m,” the statement confirms.
“Other interventions concerned the entrance to turn 8, the iconic Arrabbi🐈ata1.♔
“At⛦ this point, an asphal🅰t area has been created that connects the track with the protection line.
“A total of 1,500 squa🥂re metres of asp𒐪halt run-off routes were added.
“At turns 3 (Poggio Secco🎶), 9 (Arrabbiata2) and 11 (Palagio) the kerbs were re🎃placed with the latest generation models, FIA and FIM homologated.”
Paolo Poli, Director of the Circuit, added: "The 𝔍safety of a track is ♔not something static.
“On the contrary, it is a continuous challenge to find solut❀ions to reduce the minimum ꧙risk that - although residual - inevitably still exists in the practice of motorsport.
“The continuous studies and important invest♈ments that we have allocated are aimed at further raising the already very high standards of Mugello with the aim of allowing all the riders who attend it (pro💦fessionals and non-professionals) to express their passion in a facility that is always at the forefront of safety and an international reference point.”
MotoGP returns to Mugello on 5-7 April.

James was a sp🎐orts journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.