Davide Brivio has had essentially the most in depth profession of any MotoGP staff principal, heading up tasks for 3 producers, working each on the manufacturing unit and as an unbiased group, and spending three years in F1.
Throughout an interview with crash webthe present trackhouse boss was requested for his views on the longer term path of MotoGP.
“From a sporting perspective, I feel the competitors in MotoGP is nice. In fact you may at all times enhance… possibly enhance the format,” he stated.
“Personally I’d break up the qualifying, one for the dash and one for the Grand Prix race.
“It is perhaps troublesome to suit the schedules collectively, however I can not sacrifice my total weekend for a Friday afternoon, so I will do it.”
MotoGP presently makes use of a single qualifying classification to set each dash and grand prix grids.
So one dangerous qualifier will get you two penalties and a great qualifier will get you two prizes, growing the stress.
The stress begins on Friday afternoon, with the highest 10 gaining direct entry to Qualifier 2, with solely two spots remaining from Saturday’s Qualifier 1.
A yellow flag robotically canceling a lap in that sector is an instance of how qualifying might be ruined by circumstances past a rider’s management.
“When you mess up with a crash or a yellow flag, it is a waste to break the entire weekend,” Honda rider Luca Marini stated lately, suggesting that 4 riders ought to advance from Q1 as an alternative of two.
In the meantime, Brivio additionally confused that technical laws should “at all times” be in concord with leisure, particularly as MotoGP prepares for a serious transition to 850cc engines in 2027.
“I am not an engineer, however I will look into it extra and see… We’ll be dealing with huge regulation modifications, however we at all times have to consider what we will do to enhance the present.”
Brivio, who oversaw the World Championship with Yamaha (Valentino Rossi) and Suzuki (Joan Mir), celebrated Trackhouse’s first MotoGP win with Raul Fernandes at Phillip Island this season.
