Why is there no overtaking in MotoGP? "Motorcycles should go slower"

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Four men in a row in the first corner,

and

and the same four men in a row in the last corner or, at least, the one that Aleix Espargaró thought was the last lap.

Luck of his confusion two weeks ago in Montmeló: at least there was something to explain;

At least something to remember.

Without the eldest of the Espargaró brothers, without his mistake, absolutely nothing would have happened throughout the race and so on one Sunday and another and another in the current MotoGP World Championship.

The withdrawal of

and the injury of

have given way to the most boring season in history and a consequent drop in interest.

Why are there no more overtakes in the championship?

The protagonists, that is, the pilots, point out: the fault is not theirs, the fault lies with the aerodynamics.

From your excess, go.

"It would be necessary to look more for the spectacle than for the evolution. The development of the aerodynamics allows us to accelerate before and reach the end of the straight with more power: that affects the show. In some races I have been behind the KTMs and it has been impossible to overtake them despite the fact that it was faster. It would be good to start with biofuel, for example, which would make the bikes slower. It would be necessary to lower performance," argues Pol Espargaró, perhaps one of the most affected.

Honda, his brand, is the one that has adapted the worst to the aerodynamic revolution and he can't find a way to get close to the leading positions.

But the problem is not yours alone.

too much speed

"Reaching 365 km/h doesn't make any sense. All that development has led to boring races. Now overtaking is extremely dangerous, more so with the turbulence generated by the wings when coming out of the slipstream; there are no normal overtaking anymore", analyzes

, sports director of KTM, despite the fact that his brand has added a victory this year, that of

in Indonesia.

According to the engineers consulted, the current situation was created in 2015, with the introduction of the wings by Ducati, but was exaggerated in 2019 with the 'holeshot' that the Italian factory also created.

That invention, which allows the height of the motorcycle to be modified while driving, triggered the highest top speeds, smashed almost all circuit records and changed the sport forever.

Today the MotoGP riders have to go around touching buttons and more buttons while taming some motorcycles that fly.

Today it is very difficult for a victory to be decided after an exchange between two or three candidates.

In fact, in all of 2021 only one test was at stake on the last lap, in Alcañiz, where

overtook Marc Márquez, and this 2022 there has not yet been any fun of that kind.

Some drivers and even some team bosses have asked the World Championship organization to change the regulations to limit changes in aerodynamics or to introduce overtaking systems such as the Formula 1 DRS, but several factories are against these measures and it will be difficult to find a consensual solution.

What would Ducati be without its constant ingenuity?

How much would Aprilia lose, the revelation of this course?

The World Cup crisis

Some veterans of the paddock consider that a decade ago, at the beginning of the best era of motorcycling, with

or

on the track, there was already the same debate and it resolved itself, among other things with the appearance of Marc Marquez.

But now the situation seems different from then, when the improvement of electronics stopped certain maneuvers.

Today the World Cup is orphaned of references, faced with a decline in television audiences and mourning the sudden loss of the factory that took the title in 2020, that is, Suzuki.

You need to generate interest, attract new audiences and open new teams.

In a world where fossil fuels are being replaced by other sources of energy, its future is dim and only the return of overtaking, of spectacle, of exchanges, can clear it up.

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