Fabio Dinanio at Valencia 2023, Fabo Quartalalo at Geres 2024, and now Maverick Vinaru from Qatar
After celebrating with the team and receiving the trophy on the podium due to a post-race MotoGP tire penalty, everyone lost the top three finish they had won hard.
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Teams have improved “estimating” the pre-race pressure needed to have the penalty introduced in mid-2023, but they cannot take into account the calculations of riders who will have a sudden change in the weather, or as on Sundays.
We don’t know. It has not been revealed, and therefore does not reveal how Venares met the required 60% lace laps above the minimum pressure.
However, the five laps that Tech3 KTM Rider spent on clean air on the front of the field could have caused a penalty.
“The team has to look into the crystal ball.”
“That’s a nightmare, right? Having a scary message that the rider flashes at the end of the race saying they’re under investigation. There was a bit of hope as Acosta escaped the penalty for the rim last year. crash.net MotoGP podcast.
“The fresh Air Vinall probably found himself there while he was leading, so if you race far better than everyone would expect you to be punished for it in terms of tire pressure.
“What can Tech3 do? They really couldn’t imagine after a season when he had to lead.
“The team has to look at the crystal ball and put pressure on the tires to start. They don’t want it to be high because if the rider is behind another rider, the rider has no chance in the race.
“Maverick probably dashed the message that, as we saw with Briram’s Mark Marquez, he was in danger not more than 60% of the race lap.
“It’s not a MotoGP system. Each team has its own system. Whether the team and riders want to do it or not. But, like Maverick said, he was looking ahead and focused.
“It’s really embarrassing. I don’t know how long he’s been, because it’s not revealed. And if the Rider is very slightly below the official warning or the huge 16-second penalty that saw the Joker fall to 14th, I’ll talk about us.
“Of course, Morbidelli got promoted to third, but missed the podium ceremony. When there is this kind of penalty, that’s a nasty end to the race.”
Podcast host Jordan Moreland replied: “That’s what got me. One thing I don’t like is the fact that Maverick can go on the podium and get the trophy.
“But they know there’s a chance that a penalty could come. It’s then removing the absolute stab wound, right?”
Vinaru, 2025 Qatar Motogpu
“It kills hope of seeing the surprising results.”
Senior crash.net jOur Narrator Lewis Duncan: “Under these current regulations, we kill those wishing to see surprise results, because as Pete says, the team can’t be set to think, “I might be leading for all these laps.”
“KTM was terrible on Saturday. Pedro Acosta said it was scary. Brad Binder said he was the worst race of his life. There was no hope in hell. Even Pitt Baylor said the top five were realistic, but none of the riders this weekend should think of winning the Grand Prix.
“So they set it up and say, “We’re going to go into the pack, Maverick will start in sixth and he’ll either be there or be there to the top five.”
“The Maverick rides brilliantly, that’s the reality. And for some reason, the chattering issue that has plagued KTM was not there. The pace of the race is a little slower than expected, and I think using medium tires will probably help with the kind of things.
“But we have riders who have done really well, the team can’t explain it and they get punished for it.
“First of all, this regulation shouldn’t have existed in the first place. Michelin should have made better front tires.
“This has never really been a problem before. OK, over the past few years, there’s been aerodynamics that’s put more pressure on the front tires, but they’ve had a few years to fix it.
“Then we had a new tire that was tested for 30 minutes last year in the Misano test. And they decided we couldn’t race it this year because we didn’t have enough testing time!”
“The penalty is not proportional.”
McLaren said: “This is the worst case scenario, and it changes the outcome after checkered flags. There are always some situations, some technical rules, and sometimes it can be inevitable.
“But now it makes you wonder all the real-time information about the bike. Can they change the rules so that the tire pressure cutoff point is made midway through the Grand Prix?
“They could then potentially provide an intra-race penalty or receive official warnings from the direction of the race.
“If there was nothing else, we would have known the outcome much faster than after finishing.
“At this point it feels like a rule designed by the committee: a compromise that anyone seems completely satisfied.
“If there’s nothing else, I think a system of incremental penalties would be better, depending on the size of the low pressure breaches.”
Duncan added: “We got long laps handed out for the next event, with accidents and stuff like that, and we started.
“The current 16-second penalty, the sprint eight isn’t proportional. I say it was a crazy race. For some reason, with a massive gap, Maverick wouldn’t have dropped that many places. Is that fair?
“I saw in Jerez last year’s sprint race, Fabio Cartalaro went from third to fifth because it was such a strange race. For example, did anyone do something more serious than the second to tenth person who fell from third to fifth due to the gap?
“It’s not proportional. It doesn’t work. They really don’t control it. So I think they need something that’s a negative outcome for the next Grand Prix.”
McLaren concluded: “And imagine Zarco was just 0.173 behind Morbidelli in Qatar. If he had stayed in that fourth, Zarco would have been promoted third by a Vinares penalty — but we never saw him on the podium.”