Catalunya is MotoGP’s greasiest racetrack – the crash stats tell you all you need to know – 22 riders and 21 crashes over the weekend.
“It’s very critical. The safety here is very low – you can crash without doing anything. It’s like riding flat track – at Turns 3 and 4 you control slides like you’re on the dirt.”
That was Catalan GP winner Pecco Bagnaia, whose days and days of riding sideways around Valentino Rossi’s motor ranch in Tavullia paid off big time on Sunday. But not so much in Saturday’s sprint, when he lost the front attacking the steep downhill Turn 5, which claimed seven MotoGP victims over the weekend.
