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Mike Webb gives all the explanations regarding the cancellation fo the sprint race: ‘We had no choice’

Bernardo Matias by Bernardo Matias
October 22, 2023
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Todas as explicações de Mike Webb sobre o cancelamento da corrida sprint: ‘Não tivemos alternativa’

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The MotoGP organization made the difficult decision to cancel the sprint race of the Australian GP due to the gusty winds at Phillip Island, making it impossible to hold the race. This was a situation that was already known to be possible considering the weather forecasts, which is why the main race was rescheduled for Saturday. The race director, Mike Webb, admitted that there was no other possible decision.

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The official explained that the wind made it impossible to hold the race, given the prior knowledge that it would be challenging, based on the experience from 2019: ‘We had no choice in the end. We knew the forecast was, and strangely for here, it’s been consistent all week that this was going happen on Sunday. And that’s why we preemptively changed the race [for Saturday]. The conditions turned out to be what was predicted. Just to be clear, the rain was never an issue, it’s wind, and we know from past experience, especially here, and especially with the wind in that particular direction, Turn 1, and 7/8 are very trying. We have had this experience in 2019 – when we red-flagged the MotoGP qualifying for the same reason. So we were aware’.

Webb then stated that the wind’s intensity allowed for the start of Sunday but its escalation made the conditions impractical: ‘Knowing what the wind conditions were in 2019, when we last had bad wind, what it’s been every day this weekend and during this week, and during today, with the updates as fast as they can give us, the wind was below the level of 2019 and reasonable for the start of the day. By the time there was a gust… well,, there were gusts throughout and the Moto2 race was red-flagged because of that, pretty obviously’.

According to the British rider, the conditions only worsened after that red flag: ‘All the way through the day we’re monitoring what is the steady wind condition and what are the gusts peaking at, and that number slowly went up during the day. Having red-flagged a race for wind conditions, unless it got better, there’s no way we could start another race, and it didn’t get better, it got worse. So, in the end we had no choice’.

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