© 2024, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc. By Michael Gougis.
“That is regular,” Pedro Acosta stated in his post-Barcelona MotoGP take a look at media briefing, when requested why all three rookies to the category in 2025 had crashed earlier than midday on their first day of using a MotoGP machine. “They should study the tires.”
Acosta would know personally the issue of creating the change from a Moto2 machine to a MotoGP racebike. The one rookie within the area of 2024, Acosta led the annual falls report for the MotoGP class, hitting the bottom 28 occasions, and stated he struggled to adapt from the management Moto2 Dunlop tires to the Michelins utilized in MotoGP.
Marc Marquez was second with 24, the eight-time World Champion usually on the bottom as he tailored from using the Honda RC213V – the one MotoGP machine he had ridden in his total profession – to a 2023-spec Ducati Desmosedici. Marquez crashed the Ducati fewer occasions than he crashed on the Honda in 2023. Despite the fact that he missed three race weekends in 2023, he nonetheless crashed the RC213V 29 occasions.
The 2023 Ducati proved to be tough on the 2024-spec Michelin tires, with all of its riders close to the highest of the chart or struggling accidents as a consequence of crashes. Marquez’ brother Alex on the opposite Gresini Racing GP23 ended the season third on crashes with 21, Marco Bezzecchi on the Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing GP23 crashed 18 occasions, and his teammate Fabio Di Giannantonio missed a number of races as a consequence of crash-related accidents.
Of the full-time riders, Honda’s Luca Marini crashed the fewest occasions, logging solely 4 falls in 2014.
Zonta van der Goorbergh led the Moto2 class crashers with 18. David Almansa and Filippo Farioli crashed 18 occasions every to prime the Moto3 crash chart.
Riders crashed most incessantly on the Circuito de Jerez – Angel Nieto, with 74 falls logged over the weekend.
The full variety of crashes fell from 1009 to 865, the bottom variety of crashes because the pandemic-shortened season 0f 2020.
