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The fact that the FIM stewards did not punish the Yamaha riders at the Jerez GP despite illegal valves meets a misunderstanding. The stoppage of the Ducati is also inexplicable.
Yamaha sent all four MotoGP riders (Rossi, Viñales, Quartararo and Morbidelli) to the track with illegal valves at the season opener in Jerez (July 17-19). The valves were from another supplier. In terms of design, therefore, they were not identical to the valves that had been homologated when the “2020 engine specification” was approved in March. The design was identical, the material obviously not. Otherwise, no sanctions would have been imposed.
Yamaha finished 1st (Quartararo), 2nd (Viñales) and 5th (Morbidelli) at the Spanish GP in Jerez-1. Rossi retired due to engine failure. This fraud was demonstrated at Yamaha last Thursday. Therefore, 50 points were deducted from Yamaha in the Brand World Championship. And the two teams lose the points they earned at Jerez in the team championship, which is not particularly relevant as it is.
Since then, many careful observers have wondered: why did the MotoGP Stewards Panel (with former world champion Freddie Spencer) not touch the stands in the riders’ championship and steal a point from the Yamaha riders?
It can only be called a lazy compromise.
We like to believe that the riders weren’t aware of what Yamaha was doing. But ignorance does not protect against punishment.
Why were illegal valves used? Certainly not by chance, as Yamaha wants to make credible. An unauthorized increase in performance has probably been calculated to benefit drivers.
No one can prove if this suspicion is true.
In any case, it is surprising why other work teams have put up with this strange jurisprudence.
Fact is: The MSMA manufacturer alliance was irredeemably split in 2019 after the rear wheel wing scandal at Ducati in Qatar.
Ducati claimed at the time that the wing was used to cool the rear tire. But every half awake child could imagine: it generates downforce (downforce) and this contradicts the sense of the regulations, which prohibit aerodynamic aids.
Out of anger and disappointment at these obscure statements, there was no MSMA meeting for the whole of 2019 after the broken protest by Honda, KTM, Suzuki and Aprilia against Dovizoso’s victory in Qatar and the subsequent legal proceedings. It wasn’t until the spring of 2020 that factories gradually found a basis for discussion again due to the crown crisis.
Now the other plants are suspiciously silent. Perhaps due to the new technology scandal, they don’t want to jeopardize cooperation in MSMA again or let it intensify
KTM did not take a position, even the riders had a muzzle. Suzuki manager Davide Brivio did not want to criticize. Of course, his riders weren’t impressed at Jerez. Nobody has arrived. Honda was also not affected, the plant is not fighting for the title in 2020. Nakagami would only have moved up from 10th to 7th place.
KTM, on the other hand, would have benefited from a disqualification of the Yamaha trio: Pol Espargaró would have been promoted from sixth to third place. However, no statement can be heard from Munderfing.
The Ducati management did not cover itself with fame in this context. Because Andrea Dovizioso would have gone from third to first if Quartararo and Viñales had been disqualified. He would have scored nine additional points.
Despite this, Ducati has so far found no flaws in the commissioners’ decision. A popular rider who finished second three times for the Reds and brought them 14 MotoGP wins in eight years deserved more support. And if it’s just the lost cash prize!
Then we remember: Yamaha was the only factory in Qatar not to participate in the protest against Ducati in 2019.
Perhaps Ducati now showed gratitude out of gratitude.
But terms like gratitude usually don’t play a significant role in highly competitive motorsport at the highest level.
Perhaps this approach is also a further indication that Ducati doesn’t want a world champion named Dovizioso because he would have run away with number 1 anyway.
In any case, the MotoGP World Championship has shown once again that there is no consistency and equal treatment in jurisprudence. Drivers have been criticizing him for years, most recently in the interpretation of the rules on non-compliance with the “track limits”.
You don’t have to have a lot of imagination to imagine: Race Director Mike Webb and Technical Director Danny Aldridge would have decided otherwise.
Because when they were still responsible, Domi Aegerter lost the Moto2 victory at Misano in 2017 because unauthorized oil additives were tracked down. And Fabio Quartararo was deprived of his Moto2 victory at Motegi in 2018 because he had 0.05 bar of too little air in the rear tires.
Both drivers would have won their races without the sloppiness of their teams, especially since Aegerter drove a race in the rain, an oil additive still does not provide any additional power and no extra engine power is required in the rain.
Spencer and Co. should only judge crimes committed by drivers on the track. When it comes to technical matters, he and the two FIM officials lack professional expertise. It should decide in such independent judges that they are not paid by Dorna or the FIM.
Status of the drivers’ championship after 11 out of 14 races
1. Mir, 137 Punkte. 2. Quartararo 123. 3. Viñales 118. 4. Morbidelli 112. 5. Dovizioso 109. 6. Rins 105. 7. Nakagami 92. 8. Pol Espargaró 90. 9. Miller 82. 10. Oliveira 79. 11. Petrucci 71 12. Binder 67. 13. Alex Márquez 67. 14. Zarco 64. 15. Rossi 58. 16. Bagnaia 42. 17. Lecuona 27. 18. Aleix Espargaró 27. 19. Crutchlow 26. 20. Bradl 12. 21. Smith 12. 22. Rabat 10. 23. Pyrrhus 4.
Constructors’ Championship after penalties:
1. Ducati 171 Punkte. 2. Suzuki 163. 3. Yamaha 158. 4. KTM 143. 5. Honda 117. 6. Aprilia 36.
Team World Cup after penalties:
1. Team Suzuki Ecstar, 242 Punkte. 2. Petronas Yamaha SRT 199. 3. Ducati Team 180. 4. Red Bull KTM Factory Racing 157. 5. Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP 156. 6. Pramac Racing 128. 7. LCR Honda 118. 8. Red Bull KTM Tech3, 106 9. Repsol Honda Team 79. 10. Esponsorama Racing 74. 11. Aprilia Racing Team Gresini 39.
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