Casey Stoner has criticised the dash race format in MotoGP, claiming it creates a taking part in subject which unnaturally impacts the grands prix.
MotoGP launched the brand new format of a dash race on the Saturday of every spherical final 12 months, with Francesco Bagnaia profitable the 2023 title.
This 12 months, Bagnaia trails Jorge Martin by 24 factors heading into this weekend’s season-finale. However Bagnaia has received 10 out of 19 Sunday races, with Martin profitable simply three.
Martin’s brilliance within the Saturday sprints might show to be a vital issue if he converts his massive lead into a primary championship. He will likely be confirmed as champion if he wins the dash on Saturday in Barcelona.
However two-time champion Stoner instructed GPOne: “Motorsport is meant to be one of the best riders on probably the most tough platform to drive or journey, and in the mean time MotoGP is simply too simple.
“They don’t have sufficient management over the bike. The engineers are making too massive of a distinction.
“Then they put the dash race which reduces the quantity of observe time that they get to pay attention for the lengthy race.
“We aren’t alleged to have aworld championship with miniatures, it’s alleged to be an endurance occasion,
“It’s mainly like making an attempt to say ‘okay, we’re going to have a marathon, now 10 laps isn’t a marathon, it’s 43 kilometres!’
“It’s gruelling, very onerous work. So we have to have stability, the world championship is meant to be over a protracted distance race.
“You may’t have individuals which are superb over a brief time period, they will run the comfortable tyre. You must take into consideration race distance.
“Additionally, you [should not] get factors for these type of dash races as a result of the factors are supposed to return on Sunday when it’s the major race.
“It’s very tough to set a motorcycle up. So to be targeted all through the complete race.
“For the time being, we’re placing such concentrate on one lap, it’s essential to get by way of the Q2 from the primary observe.
“So this stops all people from serious about race set-up, getting every little thing accomplished for that.
“Then, I believe, for this reason we see on a Sunday that there’s fairly an enormous unfold between the riders as a result of not all people’s prepared for the race tempo.”
Factoring in electronics and aero, Stoner claimed: “Usually, I believe the MotoGP bike is now one of many best bikes to journey on the planet.”
Stoner received the MotoGP titles in 2007 with Ducati and 2011 with Honda.
His victory with Ducati was a false daybreak for the producer. They struggled for the subsequent 15 years with no championship regardless of signing Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo.
Bagnaia ended that hoodoo in 2022, however Stoner has been an everyday critic of recent expertise on MotoGP equipment.
He has now lambasted the two-year-old format which might help Martin taking the championship from Bagnaia.
