Why Martin Testing Request should indicate a rule change

In the grand plan of everything going on in the world, what is the question of what is Allow the injured George Martin to try your Motogp Annex before trying to run A striking PIFFLING is an issue.

But the game – and especially motorcyts – can be a strange bubble in which pifling things can get out of the hand. In a championships ruled by strict testing restrictions, Martin is having a one -day private, for which the rules will need to be changed. A change, which at this time, will not benefit anyone other than Martin.

All teams will need to agree on the request of Aprilia to allow Martin. And this, unfortunately, is a cooked ground for crying of What-Aboutism, Shednfred and Double standards that infects motorsport Padock life. Not to mention the lack of every issue for the question of competitive advantage.

It is no surprise that at least an impressive person is Exception to the idea of ​​changing the rules in the middle of the season For the immediate benefit of the world champion who ruled. That someone is Ducati’s team manager David Tardozi – even though its owners have officially removed themselves from their stance.

It is possible that other teams share the tardozi’s approach. But since an dissatisfied vote will be enough to block a mid-season rule change, they do not really need to speak if the ducchy is done. It is revealing to note that the riders Mark Markes and Jack Miller, although not the decision -making, take the same line on the issue.

In Argentina, Miller said, “This is Motogp and the rules have been like this for a long time.” “You see back when Valentino broke his leg (in 2022) and so on. Mark, for example, missed almost an entire season, and could only do the tests that were given to him. That’s the way! We have superbikes and various fields (where returns can test fitness) – are rules.”

You can certainly read a little competitive Schadenfreude in the concluding words of Miller: “This is unfortunate for them, but the cards that they were dealt with.”

Markets echoed some of Miller’s comments, referring to the six -time world champion’s series of trimmed sorting of a six -time world champion after his 2020 jewelery crash.

“(Allowed such tests) may be a good rule, but for the future,” Marx said. “Now, this is not the rule. When I returned from my injury, there was no rule.”

While Marx represents unavoidable ‘no one did me a favor’ side of logic, Tardozi is more concerned about data and track time benefits that the day test will give the day test to the title ‘Rotive’. Again, it is just a matter of theory – he knows that no one will be a threat to Martin this year. Like Marx, he really thinks that the change will be a good idea!

“We may have a rule that a rider who is out of competition for two months, is allowed to take a day exam. Two days are too much” Mark marks

This is a motorsport for you. Some (very smart) people agree that the injured riders will have the amount to change the rules for better than allowing a test on race tools. Those people are very aware of the big picture at every level, including the future of history and sports. They also know that to explain every rule clearly, some time time must be applicable. But they will still be cursed if George Martin gets special treatment in the spring of 2025! He trump everything!

Again, it should be reported that Martin has moved into a lower competitive machine than Ducati and at least three rounds of the season will miss before their return. Nevertheless, he can ride in pain and lack his normal performance. We are not talking about a test that is going to affect any world championship results here. It is already clear that in 2026 the number one plate will be elsewhere.

Proper or wrongly, this debate may be a thunder for the next few weeks. This can only be solved in one way or the other when teams meet before the US GP on Thursday. The conversation will be driven completely by individual interests and the above mentioned idea pattern.

So let’s leave the charged Martin case aside and think about whether it would be a good idea to let the injured riders go – whatever they can be – test your fitness riding on your own Motogp bike. Even if that rule comes only in the next year.

As Miller said, there has always been an option to test some other types of machinery. Certainly, nothing can compare the materiality of a Motogp bike, but you can argue that a person already familiar with a Motogp bike should be able to exterpules how realistic it would be to abstraplation at the current level of fitness.

But when you can just ride the real thing, why should you go to theory and extreme? Jealous rivals, that’s why. The test Motogp has a rare and tightly controlled object, and helps out every minute on the track. There will always be condensed contestants who claim that the ‘injured’ rider is already fully fit and is secretly using the rule in a valuable private test.

But if that rider has already missed a day’s track action on the race weekend, what? At the risk of over-circulation, the four weekend volume is missing for five-hour free practice track time. It is not even counting sessions against the clock or race. All things were considered, wouldn’t one test a day to remember the rider?

Markets appears on the board with the principle: “We may have a rule … a rider that is out of competition for two months is allowed to take a day exam. Two days are too much. One day test is sufficient to get a bike rhythm.”

There will be an unavoidable objection, while this system may be a proper exchange for the rider, the team will still find the best of the two world if it participates in the race weekend using an option rider. It would still be getting additional data – call the police! But it’s probably a good moment that you fix the objector with a good look, sigh and say “really?”

When logic comes down to that level, finally, perhaps it is better to accept that you cannot engineer the correct fairness and get what you need to do.

Seriously, if there is an injury and the team had to find an option, give it a break. There is already disintegration to lose your chosen rider. (And no, no fake is going on high -specific and broken legs so that they can get an additional day test.)

Massimo Revola, CEO of Aprilia, although he has been invested in the Martin case, a good point in favor of the proposed rule change is created: it is better for the show if the riders do not need to find their fitness on Friday of the race weekend.

“Suppose George tries free practice 1 and does not feel good,” Rivola said. “Then we have less bike for the whole weekend – again.”

This landscape not only pays the audience, but also denies a possible replacement rider to an opportunity. It is also an airplane ticket waste!

It is not difficult to imagine what the Aprilia can say about a test if Mark Markez is injured and runs later in 2025

To do yoga, great motorgap brains like Tardozi and Markes are correct when they say that such a rule makes sense. The case against this is actually very angry.

They will still insist on the changes that come with a clean slate and no clear immediate beneficiary. The inspiration to do this is petty, but not unexpected. Pusting it forward is not really one thing in competitive motor).

Considering in mind, it is not difficult to imagine what the Aprilia can say about a test if Mark Marke’s is later injured and Miss Race in 2025. Unlike the Martin case, Mark’s return time will definitely be the world championship implications. Just an idea…