Where are the ritals? (Photo above DR). My journalist friends from the boot, reached by telephone yesterday, are desperate to see that the pilots of the future are not Italian. They are mad at their federation, in France we are used to it but not in Italy. In the 2024 Moto3 world championship, you have to go down to twelfth place overall to find an Italian, Lunetta, who has 112 points in total for Alonso's 421! Almost four times less, it's terrifying. However, Italy is still the country which, since the creation of the world championship in 1948, has held the record for titles and GP victories. Not far from 90 titles, compared to around fifty for Spain and around forty-five for England. In terms of victories, not far from four hundred for Italy compared to around 250 for Spain, there is still a lot of margin, even if today there are many more GPs in a season than at the time of 'Ago. But the next generation is Spanish or speaks Spanish… An empire that is starting to lose its bits is a bad sign. Another failure with KTM, certainly second brand in the 2024 manufacturers' ranking but Acosta, in his frankness as a young driver who is not yet political, denounced this kind of madness of testing new parts without any monitoring, any analysis apart from that of the drivers, and again , sometimes they get lost because there are so many things to try. What Motorcycle will they offer to Binder and Acosta, to Bastianini and Vinales in 2025? Tuesday's tests in Barcelona will give few clues, as we have said, this track is of no interest. By the way, in the failures, there is the number of falls of Acosta, 29 against 25 for Marquez, we hope that they will be as prolific for him! Also a big miss for a Bezzecchi who ends 2024 behind a Diggia who has the same bike as him but missed GPs due to passing on the pool table. Aprila in 2025, not necessarily a good start… Finally a short paragraph on the drivers who play the role of utility. The appearance roles of the theater… Looking at the results of Barcelona II, I count that from tenth place, apart from Quartararo, Zarco and Miller, who have real legitimacy, there are invisible drivers ( wild card testers do not fit into this framework) if not to say useless. I'm not saying who, I'm not denouncing, but count it for yourself, Paolo Scalera of GP One is completely right to ask that points be now reserved for the first ten, we went up to fifteen when there were thirty-six drivers. at the start! There we are at 22 permanent staff.
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