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Moto3, the dangerous category that denies that of "until something serious happens they will not learn"
Moto3, the dangerous category that denies that of "until something serious happens they will not learn"

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In motor sports, when you want to report a dangerous attitude in some category, you usually resort to that of the "Until something serious happens they will not learn", but Moto3 is the category that shows that this is not actually true. With the tragedy of Jason Dupasquier still present, the category continues to take giant steps towards absolute impudence.

At the Netherlands Grand Prix this weekend Pedro Acosta could have died at the Assen circuit. And it sounds crude to say so, but it would have been his fault. I am sorry to all the excited fans of '37' to whom these words written like this sound very harsh, but perhaps it is time to be clearer if we want to avoid having more Dupasquier cases in the category.

Acosta was run over by another motorcycle when they were no longer competing

Acosta Assen Moto3 2021 2
Acosta Assen Moto3 2021 2

Let's put things in context. Pedro Acosta was left thrown in the middle of the finish line of Assen and Riccardo Rossi's motorcycle ran over him when he was coming at full speed. The Murcian was not playing anything, it was free practice in which the checkered flag had already fallen for him, and also for Rossi.

They both knew it. They knew perfectly well that their return was no longer good for anything, but they kept pestering and getting ahead with pilots like Stefano Nepa or Ryusei Yamanaka, who were competing for a place in Q2. A very small loot in a category where starting position does not matter at all.

Rossi Assen Moto3 2021
Rossi Assen Moto3 2021

This is one of the things that attracts the most attention in this category. Why do teams do all kinds of tricks to get their drivers to go as high as possible? How is it possible that those drivers risk receiving very severe penalties from the race directors just for a chance to start higher? In Moto3, coming fourth or fourteenth is the same.

But time and time again we find the same picture. Teams that wait until eternity in the pits simply to catch the wheel of the driver they consider to be the fastest, even if it means hitting the track without enough time for a fast lap. In Moto3 the strange thing is the classification in which everyone manages to do the last fastest lap.

Acosta Assen Moto3 2021 3
Acosta Assen Moto3 2021 3

One does not get to guess if they are stupid for exposing themselves to serious penalties in the race or the stupid one is the one who writes this, for not realizing the enormous advantage that comes three, seven or thirteen positions ahead or further back in a category in which in each lap the tenth is the leader and vice versa. But is being dangerous. And deadly.

Jason Dupasquier's accident at Mugello involved a pilot who was no longer competing, but kept pressing. No, Jeremy Alcoba is not the culprit of that tragedy in any case, but his attitude was irresponsible and his excuses were tiny and pathetic before the magnitude of the tragedy.

Acosta Assen Moto3 2021
Acosta Assen Moto3 2021

Just as irresponsible as it was what Acosta and Rossi did in Assen, but surprisingly they left without penalty. If overtaking and passing when you are not racing with drivers who are doing their fastest lap, and also causing a potentially fatal accident, is not penalized, one no longer understands the criteria. Perhaps leaving the only attraction in the category without running was too much.

The point is that the commissioners must be recognized that they are gradually escalating the penalties, still not quite understanding the criteria applied, but the teams still don't care. Perhaps it is time to move to more severe measures, but in no case should they be applied depending on who is involved, and in Assen it seemed that it was done.

Foggia Assen Moto3 2021
Foggia Assen Moto3 2021

Will we see a pilot banned without running a race? Will any team be expelled from the championship? Will someone's World Cup points be withdrawn? Considering what has been seen, it gives the feeling that even if the threats were those, some luminaries would still prefer not to turn around alone and take risks in exchange for gaining a couple of useless positions on the grid.

Now the world championship stops dry for more than a month, more than enough time for those who rule in MotoGP to digest Dupasquier's misfortune and draw up a serious plan, without patches and without regard, to face a problem that we have before us. This is more important than the track limits. In Assen we were able to lose the greatest young pearl of world motorcycling.

Reviews for Moto3 Acne Kids, Cheers for MotoGP Legends

Marquez Vinales Mugello Motogp 2021
Marquez Vinales Mugello Motogp 2021

If good group managers know something well, it is that you have to treat the weakest and the strongest with the same forcefulness and firmness, and that does not apply in MotoGP and its environment. The same people who, from the organization and from the press, put their hands to their heads when a Moto3 kid does something reckless to take a wheel, applaud if your favorite MotoGP rider does it.

Not only do they applaud, but they dress him as a great strategist, as if it were Napoleon winning a battle. No, overcoming a Q1 shamelessly taking the wheel of another rival who does not want to give it to you is neither worthy nor sporty nor ethical. It is cheating the lonely, and equally punishable by the Moto3 rider with the most acne, Andrea Iannone or Marc Márquez.

It is increasingly difficult to find talent in Moto3

Fernandez Assen Moto2 2021
Fernandez Assen Moto2 2021

On the other hand, the Moto3 category should be given a general rethink. It is increasingly difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff, and discovering talent is practically an impossible mission except for very obvious cases like Acosta's. The best example is that of Raúl Fernández, which has gone in a year from not standing out in Moto3 to being the great jewel of Moto2. There was talent, but it was not seen with the naked eye.

Moto3 looks more and more like the infamous Supersport 300, a category in which merit does not matter because in any curve they are just as likely to bowl with you as that does not happen. The groups are huge, nobody shoots, the rankings are useless and in the end the one who remains standing wins.

Sergio Garcia Assen Moto3 2021
Sergio Garcia Assen Moto3 2021

If Moto3 is a formative category, and no matter how much it wants to sell us as a valuable world championship in its own right, it is, among other things because nobody has the plan to stay there, one might wonder if what best forms a rider is that going slow is the most positive, letting yourself go is a good plan and that being a zote to a return is not counterproductive.

Let's make a reflection: Why would a rider on the current Moto3 grid put your hand in the fire that he will end up in MotoGP? Yes, there is one that comes out easy, Pedro Acosta, but this is one of those that comes out every many years. Of the others, some will arrive, surely many, but right now they are indecipherable. They get lost in the mob and chaos of Moto3. It is time to reflect.

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