Which MotoGP rule covers team orders?
What is MotoGP's official position on the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:use of team orders, you might ask.
In brief, there ar♏e no regulations that specifical꧃ly mention such tactics.
Instead any behaviour involving a rider ဣtrying to help their team-mate, or hinder a𝐆 rival, simply falls under rule 1.21.2:
"Riders must ride in a responsible maౠnner which does not cause danger to other competitors or participants, either on the track or in the pitlane.
What is MotoGP's official position on the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:use of team orders, you might ask.
In b𝓀rief, there are no regulations that specifically mention such tactics.
Instead any behaviour involvin🍰g a rider trying to help their team-mate, or hinder a rival, simply falls 🅺under rule 1.21.2:
"Riders must ride in a responsible manner which does not cause danger to other competitors or participants, either on ✃the track or in the pitlane💫.
"Any infringement of this rule may b🐠e penalised by the FIM MotoGP St✨ewards."
In ot♌her words, if a rider wants (or is told) to let a team-mate past - and does so without causing a danger to other competitors - that is fine. But if, in letting their team-mate pass (an intentional ac﷽tion), they were to cause an accident, they would be in trouble.
The same rule applies in situations where a rider employs 'go slow' tactics to back-up the field, as used by Jorge Lorenzo when trying to bridge a points gap to Marc Marquez 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结𒈔果历史:in their 2013 Valencia t𓆏itle showdown.
It's impossible to prove if a rider is pushing at 100% and as lℱong as no irresponsible danger is deemed to have been caused, no rul🔜e is broken. In practical terms that usually means as long as no rider falls as a direct result of another rider's actions.
The possibility of team orders is 𝓡likely to be raised during the remaining five rounds, since the top three riders - all within just 16 points, a record for this stage of the season - each represent a different factory.
Honda's Marc Marquez and Ducati's Andrea Dovizioso are tied on 199 points, with Maverick♕ Vinales third for Yamaha.
Fourth place Valentino Rossi (Yamaha) is 42 points behind, with Dani Pedrosa (Honda) 49 from the top heading into t🦄his weekend's Aragon ꦐround.
Peter has been i𒅌n the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
