MotoGP is ꦫto join F1 in having trackside Light Panels - used to display crucial safety information such yellow or red flags, plus the a🦋rrival of rain - at all its circuits from 2022.

The light panels, operated by race control or trackside marshals, will be mandatory for any circuit needing to pass FIA Grade 1 and FIM Grade A requirements and are designed to help address the problem of competitors sometimesꦺ struggling to see waved flags positioned at marshal posts.

Each of the FIM circuits on the MotoGP, World Superbike, and Endurance calendars now have just over one year to install 'T1' or 'T2' spec homologated light panels (FIA Grade 1 requires T🍒1-𝔉spec).

These panels undergo rigorous testing by the Federal Institute of Metrology laboratory 💎in Switzerland, where they are examined under a number of condit📖ions including rain and direct sunlight.

Bri🎐tish company EM Motorsport is currently the only manufacturer to have passed the FIA tests for T1 and T2 light pa♈nels, but several other manufacturers are currently in the process of homologating their products.

The joint Light Panels agreement follows ꦦthe introduction of a joint FIM/F♉IA circuit paint standard earlier this year.

“The FIM and FIA share a strong bond in terms of safety and this further strengthens that cooperation," said FIM Circuit 🦩Ra♏cing Commission Director, Franck Vayssié.

"Making these light panels mandatory a💎t FIM circuit🍷s that host MotoGP, Superbike and Endurance World Championships will help to ensure the highest levels of safety for all series that race on these top-level tracks.”

Currently in F1, the championship promoter is responsible for transp💫orting the top-level panels to each race but then removes them for the next one, meanin𝓀g that other events on those circuits do not have access to the technology.

The new requirement will mean ev🐻ery championship competing on FIA Grade 1 or FIM Grade A circuits will have access to the Liᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚght Panel technology.

The vi🉐sibility of yellow flags has been a growing issue in MotoGP this season, after a clampdown on riders setting fast laps in practice and qualifying while passing through yellow flags.

A lap time is now automatically can൲celled if a rider passes a yellow, but riders have complained they are sometimes unaware the f📖lag has been shown, and therefore that they would be losing their lap time, until after the session has finished.