Marc Marquez believes allowing injured MotoGP riders to test before their racing comebacks “can be a good rule” but not for immediate introduction, follo🎐wing Aprilia's requested for Jorge Martin.

Reigning MotoGP champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jorge Martin missed all of pre-season testing this year due to multiple fractures fﷺr൩om a crash on day one of winter running at Sepang.

He second fall during training ahead of the Thai Grand Prix result❀ed in him fracturing his wrist and has ruled him out until at least the Qat🦩ar GP next month.

Having only completed 90 laps on the factory Aprilia since last November, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Aprilia has officially lodged a req🐽uest to allow Martin to test the RS-GP prio👍r to his racing comeback.

Under th🍎e current concession rules, only Honda and Yamaha are allowed to test in-seasonꦏ with its race riders on MotoGP machinery.

While there has been support for 💝the propos🐼al, Ducati has publicly said it would not back this rule change taking place this year but is open to it being introduced in future.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez echoes this sentiment, though 🅰believes one day of testing after a long time away from the bike won’t make much difference.

“It can be a good rule, but for the future,” he ꦓis reported by GPOne as saying on the matter.

“ജAt the moment the regulation is not like that. When I cam back from my injury [in 2021] this rule was not thereꦕ.

“You couldꦆ introduce a rule to allow a rider who is out of competition for two months to do one day of testing - not more, because two days would already be too much.

“One da༒y of testin✅g is enough to get the rhythm with the bike.

“You cou✤ld put a minimum time [in place], but the teams have to decide. For the riders it’s important, but in the end when you go two months without riding a MotoGP bike, one more or less day of te🦄sting doesn’t change much.

“You need time to get you rhythm back.”

Should MotoGP bend testing rules just for one rider?

Ducati’s 🐼reticence to back Aprilia’s proposal to bend the testing rules is understandable, given it had🃏 several scenarios in recent years where this would have been beneficial.

Franco Morbidelli missed all of pre-season testing due to suffering a concussion in a winter training incident, and didn’t have any time on his new Ducati unt💦il the opening round of t🍸he season in Qatar.

Enea Bastianini also missed the first five grands prix of 2023 to injury, as well as a further four later in ﷺthe year, that severely limited his time in adapting to the GP23.

But that is true of all manufacturers at one point or ano💯ther, so Ducati kicking back because of this seems short-sighted.

The brand also argues that Jorge Martin will be a direct rival on the RS-GP when he returns to action, and therefore time on a MotoGP bike before his racing c🐎omeback could be seen as handing him an advantage given 🍷Aprilia wants to hold the test in Qatar ahead of that round.

Approving a test now would leave little time to police it enough to allay fears that Aprilia could use it to try new🐭 parts. In theory, MotoGP would only need to add some limits on the numbers of tyres and amount of fuel Aprilia could use, as well as ensure an independent FIM scrutineer was on-site to oversee the test.

From a safety perspective, changing the testing rules to allow long-time injured riders to get back up to speed in a private setting would be a good move. From a commercial point of view, it also limits the p♍ossibility of a rider returning at a weekend only to pull out after one session, and therefore shortchanging fans who have purchased tickets specifically to see said competitor.

But there must also be thought given to why this debate is being sparked now and if sucܫh🗹 a big deal would have been made about this proposal if it didn’t involve the reigning world champion. And if the shoe was on the other foot, would Aprilia be of the same opinion?

Ultimately, this would be a rule change that would benefit the entire grid, But, equally, a sudden change can’t be seen to have been made for the benefit of only on🎶e. Given the can of worms this change could open if not regulated properly, giving the championship time to properly integrate it would be better in the long-run.