{"id":217457,"date":"2025-10-16T10:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T10:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/217457\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T10:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T10:02:09","slug":"move-the-australian-motogp-to-saturday-riders-going-to-talk-in-the-safety-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/217457\/","title":{"rendered":"Move the Australian MotoGP to Saturday? Riders \u201cgoing to talk in the Safety Commission\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Could the Australian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MotoGP <\/a>race be brought forward to Saturday afternoon for the second time in three years?<\/p>\n<p>The 2023 Sprint-Grand Prix swap was made due to forecasts warning of extreme Sunday weather, including wind gusts of up to 80km\/h combined with a 70-80% chance of rain and cold temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>The grand prix duly passed without problem on the Saturday, before the weather duly deteriorated and forced the delayed Sunday Sprint to be abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, this year\u2019s Sunday forecast is not as bleak. However, high winds of 40-55 km\/h are expected.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3000_gng_1272902_hires.jpg\"   type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"Alex Rins, 2025 Australian MotoGP\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Alex Rins, 2025 Australian MotoGP<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is the limit? I don\u2019t know, it depends a lot on the direction that the wind is coming from and things like this,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/889478\/alex-rins\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Rins<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor sure, on Friday we are going to talk in the Safety Commission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlready, two years ago, we did the main race &#8211; I was not here [due to injury] &#8211; on Saturday, and the Sunday was cancelled. Let\u2019s see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The MotoGP rules allow riders to remove their wings at Phillip Island if they believe it will help counter dangerous crosswinds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI already asked our guys, but if we remove the wings, it\u2019d be worse. More negatives than positives,\u201d Rins said.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Qualifying for the 2022 Australian MotoGP was postponed until Sunday morning due to extreme winds, which caused a fast accident for Miguel Oliveira on the main straight in final practice.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Could the Australian MotoGP race be brought forward to Saturday afternoon for the second time in three years?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[40457,64,63,647,5745,806,805,803,804,132896,85,660],"class_list":{"0":"post-217457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-alex-rins","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-melbourne","12":"tag-motogp","13":"tag-motor","14":"tag-motor-sports","15":"tag-motosport","16":"tag-motosports","17":"tag-phillip-island-circuit","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-victoria"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}