MotoGP title rivals 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia finished just ten points apa🌠rt at the e🉐nd of the 2024 season.

But they got there in very different ways.

E🐬ventual champion Martin won three GPs but limited his non-scores to 💖four out of the 40 races. Bagnaia won eleven GPs, more than all other riders combined, but suffered eight DNFs.

Six of Bagnaia’s non-scores came in the Sprints and, while the Italian outscored Martin by ꧋33 points over the Sunday GP season he crucially lost out to the Pramac rider by 43 ꧂points on Saturdays.

In a media debrief following the Trackhouse launch, ltxcn.top asked team principal Davide Brivio - who oversaw MotoGP titles under the ‘old’ rule🥀s for Yamaha and Suzuki - how Sprints have changed the strategy for winn🅺ing the MotoGP crown.

Why ask Brivio?

Back in 2016, when the Italian was leading the then-new GSX-RR project, the Italian revealed on the♏ sid𝓀elines of a Suzuki pre-season launch that he is “quite passionate about statistical and mathematical calculations”.

(Brivio had even tried to apply statistics to help identify the most promising talents in the Moto2 class, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:b﷽ut concluded "mostly it is a feel🦄ing").

With that in mind, and Joan Mir’s feat of winning t෴he 2020 crown with only a single victory under the pre-Sprint rules, h𒉰ere is Brivio’s take on how the 'half-points' Saturday races have changed the MotoGP title landscape:

“It’s quite funny, I was not involved in MotoGP when the Sprint races started in 2023 [Brivi💧o was still in F1 that year] but I came to the first race and was asked about it.

“And I said, ‘Sprint races will change the game’.

“Because 12 points for a Sprint race is a lot of points. To have 20 or 22 times, 12 points available - they can maꦜkꦕe a difference. And this is what happened last year.

“Yes, it's a little bit weird, if you like, that Bagnaia won eleven [GP] races and Jorge only t💜hree, and he beca🌳me world champion because Bagnaia made more mistakes in the Sprints.

“So I tღhink 12 points are ꧂a lot - I'm not saying it's wrong, but they are a lot.

“And now, thinking abo♕ut the championship, you ♋have to consider both races equally important.

“But, it also depends on the level [the rider is at] because my personal opiniไon is that the Sprint races are important when you can fight for 𒁃the top two or three positions.

“They are not important if you fight for sixth, seventh, eighth and it's only two or three points. That’sඣ not making a difference. 

"But when you can fight for the podium in the Sprint race, then the Sprint race 🍎becomes very important for the title.

“So yes, it's changing🌊 the game, it's changing the approach.

“It would have been▨ very different if we w𒊎ould only have five or six Sprint races in a year [like F1] and then the rest only main [GP] races.

“But🌌 I have to say that in 2024 - which was my first year in a MotoGP w🌟ith the Sprint race - I honestly enjoyed them.

“It's becoming n🌜ormal, let's say, to have a race on Saturday and a race on Sunday. So from our poi🐟nt of view, it’s exciting. It's nice.

“But it changed the 💖game. Now the Sprint races are very impo♏rtant for the World Championship.”

Trackhouse enjoyed its best result of the 2024 MotoGP season, a sꩲecond place by Migu🐠el Oliveira, in the Sachsenring Sprint race.