Most recently, Marc Marquez had expressed his negative opinion on the holeshot, the mechanical system that “lowers” the bike to aid in starting and that is now also used to improve acceleration when cornering and braking.
“If you put it in – said the eight-time world champion – the bike seems to be more powerful because it accelerates better and you get to the braking point even faster. Driving becomes more physically demanding, and you brake later,” compress the braking points: for the television it is worse because there are fewer passages “.
Immediately on the principle that ‘It is wrong to think badly of someone, but you are often right’, there was talk of pressure from Honda to eliminate the device. A rumor that was immediately denied by Carmelo Ezpeleta herself.
“In my opinion there are technical rules that are accepted by all manufacturers and that can only be changed if all manufacturers agree – said the CEO of Dorna – the manufacturers who are in the MSMA have nothing to say that they want to say anything communicate to their respective factories. Just as the factories do not say anything about the safety issues on the track, which are left to the drivers, the technical issues are the responsibility of the Grand Prix Commission through the MSMA ”.
So there are no technical changes planned …
“We’re not about to ban the holeshot – Ezpeleta affirmed – either this season or the next. The rules are what they are. Either everyone agrees or they won’t change. We have rules that have been reached by consensus and these rules apply to everyone and everyone makes bicycles according to these rules. If everyone does not agree that they want to change them, they cannot be changed. It happened to the wings: they agreed and in the end it was accepted.
Carmelo Ezpeleta also denied rumors that someone who is circumventing the regulations is using a device that is not exclusively mechanical, as the regulations specifically state.