VR46 team manager Pablo Nieto has told riders Fabio di Giannantonio and Franco Morbidelli to check the repaired asphalt on their way to the Brazilian MotoGP Sprint grid and report any concerns.
After di Giannantonio took pole position in Saturday morning’s qualifying, a sinkhole was discovered on the home straight.
The Moto2 and Moto3 qualifying sessions were postponed while emergency repairs took place.
After several delays, the Sprint is now set to start at 4:20pm, an hour and 20 minutes later than planned.
“I think they make a good decision because first of all it’s the safety and now we have to see how everything is, because [the track repairs are] going to be very fresh, they work a lot, and I want to see it before,” Nieto, a former grand prix rider, told TNT Sports.
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“I talked with [my] riders and said, ‘Listen, in the warm-up lap, go and check, and if everything is okay, we don’t say anything. If you see something that you don’t like, come to me, and I will go to Race Direction’.
“This is more or less the plan that we have with the riders.”
While di Giannantonio starts the MotoGP Sprint on pole, Morbidelli is due to line up 15th on the grid.
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