Will COTA start chaos trigger MotoGP rule change?

The team discusses the Americas Grand Prix on the latest Crash MotoGP Podcasღt

MotoGP 2025 Americas Grand Prix
MotoGP 2025 Americas Grand Prix
© Gold and Goose

The start of the 2025 MotoGP Americas Grand Prix was plunged into chaos due to changing weather conditions on the build-up to lightsꦰ out.

Rainfall around half an hour before the MotoGP race was due to start prompted all but three riders to head to the grid on wet tyres෴.

Then, just seconds before the warm-up lap, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez bolted from pole to pitlane to get his dry bike in the hope that enough pe🧜ople would follow him and trigger a delayed start.

This ultimately happened, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:which was fortunate for Marquez as he would have been forced to ser🐭ve a ride-through penalty had the start not been delayed.

But some were left angry𓃲 at being denied the opportunity to capitalise on their correct gamble, with Trackhouse team boss Davide Brivio furious about the delayed start after Ai Ogura elected to start on slicks.

While the rules surrounding starts had been changed following a similar situation in Argentina 2018, is anotꦑher𓄧 rethink needed?

“Understandably, there were some really angry people⛎ there,” Senior Journalist Lewis Duncan said on the latest Cꦬrash MotoGP Podcast.

“Ai Ogura, [Enea] 🐻Bastianini and Brad Binder had put slick tyres on and Davide Brivio was furious. He was absolutely livid that ‘we’d made the gamble here, why can’t we start the race? They didn’t’.

“He was absolutely ♍livid with it and I’m sur♉e there were a couple of others as well.

Read more: Marc Marquez's COTA grid gamble: Wrong reasons, right decision?

“This rule will obviously be revisited because none of what was put in the rulebook was followed, even to the point of the 10 riders th🍸ing because it doesn’t seem like there were 10 riders who left the grid.

“So, it’s a tricky one. You can argue that if they went out on wet tyr๊es, it would have been too dangerous, so they did this on safety ܫgrounds.

“It’s so, so🐟 tricky to actually police, and this is an unp🌸recedented situation.

“But I do think the stewards and the FIM have to look at this and clamp down on it and you j�🦋�ust cannot leave the grid unless your bike is broken.

“So, you have🍸 to take the start and if that means you’re on the wrong tyres and you have to ch🦄ange after lap one and lose all your time, tough.

“That’s the decision you’ve made, you have to live with it. I don’t know why ༺♛that wasn’t the rule in the first place.

“Ifܫ you’re on wet tyres on a dry track, you can wobble a🦋round, you’re not going to be in danger.

“This will rumble on for a while and I think there will be a change to the regulations because it caused too🧸 much confusion.”

Podcast host and social media manager Jordan Moreland added: “The conditions were so fast in changing, [Pecco] Bagnaia talked about it after and he said he looked up at Turn 1 and on the⛎ grid they could see it was dry.

“The whole situation how it played out, I feel sorry for the three riders that went for slicks. It’s similar to the Jack Miller thing [from Argentina 2018], they’d got it spot o🐷n.”

Read More