Between the MotoGP Grand Prix of San Marino and Rimini Riviera, and that of Emilia Romagna, which also takes place on the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli two weeks later, we saw that the entire paddock had parked in fields behind the circuit to make way for the Italian Bike Festival, an event that was due to welcome around 50,000 people during the weekend and which was planned before the replacement of Kazakhstan.
The day after the MotoGP test, while the millions of parasols on the immense beaches of the Adriatic were being dismantled, the semi-trailers of all the teams were carefully lined up on the grass, waiting to return to service once the cycling festival was over. This was probably a logistical heresy, but it was justified by the lack of alternatives.
However, this was without taking into account the vagaries of the current weather, because if the late season is generally very pleasant on the Adriatic coast, this year it has reached peaks of rainfall because of the depression currently raging over Italy. To be more concrete, the weather is rotten, it has been raining all day long for days, and it is not about to stop…
On the tourist side, it’s a disaster, the season is completely over and the usually particularly lively streets of the cities of Cattolica, Misano, Riccione and Rimini could now serve as the setting for a Simenon crime novel, while the sea tries to imitate the Atlantic in Biarritz in the middle of winter, with mini-tornadoes in addition…
MotoGP-wise, nothing really serious, but semi-trailers and waterlogged fields don’t go well together. To get the trucks out, a tractor was called in. And at first it worked.
But each passage digs the ruts deeper and the incessant rain fills what then begins to resemble a pond…
Planted, and the tractor’s 4-wheel drive wheels that are slipping can’t do anything about it!
No matter, we call a second tractor, and it works…
After half an hour of effort, the Idemitsu LCR truck can join its brothers already on the tarmac, waiting to enter the paddock…
When we left the area around the Misano World Circuit Marc Simoncelli, there were still about fifteen trucks to get out of the field…
For the second GP, the announced target was 80,000 spectators during the weekend, far from the record of 163,558 spectators reached 10 days ago.
Given the current weather, even if the weekend looks set to be better in this regard, it is not a foregone conclusion. Moreover, as much as the region was full of posters for the first GP, those for the second can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Everything is lost, on the site of the Mototemporada…
Misano MotoGP tractors
Misano MotoGP tractors
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