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Moto2 is much less talked about than MotoGP in the Grand Prix paddock, but it definitely experienced a peak in interest after its eighth round of the season in Assen with Pedro Acosta. The Spaniard is fueling the rumors of the transfer market, since he wants to join the elite in 2024, but this is not the subject that has hit the headlines. No. It is this way of serving his so-called “Long Lap” sentence that everyone saw to do again at first. Except the commissioners, who also explained it with other images…
To seize the file, it is necessary to go back to the origins. Pedro Acosta fails to fall and catches up with his bike in extremis which necessarily forces him to deviate from the trajectory which leads him to leave the limits of the track in the famous chicane in view of the finish line of the route ofAssen. The overrun was therefore constrained and was not a maneuver to gain ground on a Dixon that Pedro Acosta let it pass.
Already there, we do not understand why there was a penalty given but the stewards felt that the time lost had not been sufficient. So let’s go for the Long Lap. That Pedro Acosta thus accomplished…
Pedro Acosta: “It’s part of the game to go to the limit, isn’t it? … Doesn’t that remind you of anyone?
At first glance, everyone understood that they were going to have to do it again, thus ostensibly biting into the green part. But we were then in the midst of a collective hallucination from which the commissioners have preserved themselves with other images here.
They therefore validated the sanction as done. But what bothers is the comment of Pedro Acosta on arrival read on Corsedimoto: ” they must have seen that I hit the line, I don’t deny that. But ultimately it’s part of the game to go to the limit, right? “.
Have we learned nothing from Mark Marquez ? This is how we create a feeling of impunity and give the idea that there are two forms of justice. One for the plebs and another for the icons. And it usually ends badly. Moreover, in the paddock, an irony flourishes: Freddie Spencer validated the Long Lap because Pedro Acosta has already signed with Honda.
