Although not all the pilots were at the end of the street of the news of the modification of the age limit to enter the World Speed Championship from 2023, especially those who, because they were among the first to start the batch of telematic interviews, barely had time to read the official statement, the majority were very clear that something had to be done and raising the age of participation is a good measure
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Marc Márquez
“The change in age at the World Cup to 18 years is good, it was time to make a change, it was needed due to the events of this year and it will be a job because all the steps have to be changed and the age in the categories of promotion to start later and have the ladder just as well set up but higher, there is work to be done. “
“I have always been one of those who climbed younger, but each one is a particular case and moving the age is good for motorcycling, for safety because you don’t make the same mistakes with 15, 18 or 22 years old and it will go better, happy With the change”
“It will also be good for the sporting career of many riders because they will be able to extend it more if not many of them if things do not work out with 22 they are already without a motorcycle. With more years you arrive more prepared and you earn your place and the mistakes are also different “
Valentino rossi
Valentino rossi
“Moto3 from 16 to 18 is a big change, everyone wants to start as soon as possible and it will be a big difference because 2 years is a long time, you have to wait until 18 years old and surely it will be better for safety. But I don’t know if it will fix all of them. the problems. The most important thing is to have good behavior on the track more than age, Race Direction has to be more strict with them too, but it is a big step. Raising the minimum age to 18 is a pretty big step. I started with 17 in the World Championship and it was 26 years ago. So 18 is quite high. “
The embrace of the Viñales family and the team after the minute of silence for Dean
Maverick Viñales
“I don’t know much what to say. When you grow up you understand things better, but the important thing is that they have important meetings with the drivers “
Joan Mir
“I have not been able to reflect much on this because I just found out. A priori, it seems good to me. It is true that right now there are people prepared with Moto3 in the small classes, so it doesn’t take that long in the World Championship to gain experience, because in the CEV, in the CIV and in many championships one can already run with this bike “
“It seems good to me, because it is a way for the drivers to be a little more mature at 18 years old, but this also means that you have less time to demonstrate as well and I think it is a positive one and we have to see how it works. I hope it is positive. “
Pol Espargaro
Pol Espargaro
“It is difficult to know if it is the solution, only time will tell us if it is correct or not. There are two things that are obvious, and that is that with 18 years you are more mature and your decisions are not made in the same way nor do you approach them in the same way. “.
“I remember when I was 15, when I got to the World Championship, I was very young and didn’t think too much about safety, but at 18 I was already driving for a title and I felt much more mature, I knew what I was doing and why I was doing it. , and I have no doubt that this is going to help the Moto3 kids. “
“Whether it is the solution or not will be seen, but we must act, and I am sure that the mentality of the pilots will change with two years of age and in terms of the number of pilots on the track, I do not agree that this It happened because there are many drivers on the track. For example, when we saw Dupasquier fall, it did not happen because there were many people on the track, in fact, when he lost his life there were three drivers involved in that situation, they were alone on track three pilots “
“It is true that these bikes are not easy, but it seems that they are a little and that they allow everyone to go more or less at the same pace and that many riders can be at the same pace. I think it would not be a bad thing to do. these bikes a bit more complicated to ride, maybe not like the 125, because they were too aggressive when you turned on the throttle, but you couldn’t see this type of group at the end of a race “
“I know that the situation is not easy, I know that Dorna and the FIM have been thinking a lot and that the decision is not easy and if you are a 15-year-old boy who travels on a motorcycle and wants to get to MotoGP, I can understand that it can be frustrating, but something had to be done “
Alex Rins, disagree
“It is a difficult decision to make, reducing the number of people in the races is very successful, as well as most of the measures they are going to adopt, but raising the minimum age does not make sense. You have to look for alternatives, such as the first three or five of the basic categories, but raising the age does not make sense. There are more mature pilots with 16 than with 18 years. In the end, age is just a number “