The recent world champion, and his injury, is the most visible part of the disaster that has been the Indonesian GP. But that is the consequence, the reaction to an action that is to bring the races to clues that are not clearly prepared to house a current Grand Prize, and do not meet the standards that are asked to other tracks.
We already saw it around the summer with the most questionable Hungary Circuit. Balaton Park is not a safe track for its conception, the escape routes after a fall take the pilot to the track again and there are walls are too close. Even so, they achieved the alleged homologation necessary so that, the most “demanding” motorcycle championship in the world as far as security was concerned, to run there. Luckily there did nothing notable.
The same goes for Mandalika, a track that by Concepción has some delicate areas (the curve area 2-3) on the layout, despite not reaching the balaton park Park. And in addition, it has generous escape zones worthy of the high speeds to which the curves are faced. It is a fast track, with fast curves, braking in inclination … a challenge for pilots on the banks of a Pacific Ocean that is seen in some shots. The question here is that those great escapes they have are deficient.
We could see it with the accident of Marc Márquez and Marco Bezzecchi. The Italian measures badly, hooks with Marc, he falls and begins to slide down the asphalt until he reaches the gravel bed that, incomprehensibly, has a step. And from there, what was a simple race set, ends with the Spanish flying to Spain to confirm the injuries that will leave it out of the game at least two GP.
Then noise begins to be generated, some pilots comment, including Álex Márquez in the foreskin with a «I have waited uncle. I have seen him fly. The gravel is made shit, there is a step. The same always happens, until something happens does not act ». Those simple words of Álex perfectly summarize incompetence in the homologations of the MotoGP circuits, and we have a few of those in recent years.
🗣️ «I have waited uncle. I have seen him fly. The gravel is made a m ******. Until something happens does not act »
🔊 The reaction of @alexmarquez73 Seeing the very harsh fall of his brother#Indonesiangp 🇮🇩 #Motogp 🏁 pic.twitter.com/nf5aovbw05
– Dazn Spain (@dazn_es) October 5, 2025
It is assumed that to be able to bring MotoGP to a track, a review must pass in which … Nobody has seen in the first person a step that we all see from TV? Not even Thursday when you reach the track? Not even the pilots in the Security Commission? Here everyone has an eye blame, it is not only a matter of the one who is appraised by the circuits, which is of traca fails into something so obvious and has already given problems in the past.
The homologation is poor, but there are firewalls that do not work …
Do you remember the POL accident in Portimao? That, in any serious championship, would have made the situation rethink and force the circuits to adapt. In fact, this same situation of Marc has already happened to Toni Elijah many years ago in Assen when his leg was broken, and it seemed that the lesson was learned, but it is clear that no.
Now there are those who say that gravel is not a good system to stop in case of falling. That is not true, it is worse to have asphalt and not stop if it is, for example, wet or dry. And if you don’t remember what happened in Silverstone a few months ago. But for the gravel to be efficient, it is not worth dumping the trucks and extending it as it is, it must go from shallow to greater, it must pour and, of course, it has to be at the same level as the asphalt that surrounds it. Otherwise, one is a curb on his way and, well, we already know what happens in that case.
Of course, as I say, bad for a championship that lately only seems busy that there are the more flags the better, both in the calendar and on the track, regardless of their level. And if that in terms of pilots, the show dazzles you is something assumable within your business, but when the thing is talk about security. But worse for some pilots who do not organize, who do not stand up, that croup their heads and are the ones who play life.
Because my evil has to be given to end up giving somersaults in Mandalika, or returning to the track by dragging your ass through the Balaton asphalt, or finding a way of stopping in Silverstone, or giving yourself against the protections of the wall in almost any circuit. Of course, from home that will not happen to us, but they are and then, as Alex says, until something happens does not act. I do not know the reason why the pilots do not pressure MotoGP, but they are the ones who put their lives at stake, in a sport, which is already dangerous enough to find traps along the way.
In the end the question is: Who pays the broken dishes? I, of course, no and you either, the organizer usually is unpunished, but they pay the account with his physique and his life, and they do not seem willing to move …
