The world is constantly evolving and the bodies that govern MotoGP are not left behind, because by schematizing to the extreme, Dorna Sports works every year to offer us more spectacle, while the FIM works continuously to raise the level of pilot safety.
It is with this double perspective that this Monday will take place on the Barcelona-Catalunya circuit, with a radio-communication test foreshadowing what will begin next year in this area.
We will give you all the details through a very long explanatory interview, but in the meantime know that today a number of drivers will be on the circuit, starting for example with Marc Marquezto participate in a
static radio-communication test, which will potentially become dynamic tomorrow.
Concretely, this afternoon it is a question of ensuring that the tiny speakers (a few millimeters in diameter) making contact at the level of the jaws (since the pilots already have plugs in their ears) do not hinder or comfort and above all their safety. This is a large-scale test since many helmet manufacturers are now FIM approved in MotoGP, and each rider has their own morphology, even their own habits (more or less tight comfort pads).
Once this step has been completed, and you will see in the interview that this is only the beginning of a very ambitious plan covering several years, those who wish will be able to use these speakers integrated into the comfort-pads from tomorrow, during the first official MotoGP test of the 2025 season. However, there will undoubtedly be few of them to do so, the prototypes being currently in very limited number.
If, for this first test, we only heard about loudspeakers, we should not believe that only the show interests Dorna Sports and the FIM.
On the one hand, this radiocommunication already has the objective of
allow the Race Direction to directly inform a driver of an action to be taken from 2025the driver–race direction link being only targeted for 2026, a year before possible team–driver communication.
But above all, what are today only tiny speakers will quickly see an accelerometer added allowing accelerations and movements experienced to be recorded by the brain pilots, and thus create a realistic database to further improve the safety of helmets used and approved for competition. Until now, only airbags and motorcycles were equipped with accelerometers, quite distant from the brain itself.
As we can see, the work to improve security, and incidentally the show, is very, very far from being finished, and you will discover all the details soon. All of this being really very recent, we were unable to take visuals and therefore let the AI and its errors illustrate this article…
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