{"id":727818,"date":"2026-06-10T17:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/727818\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T17:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:19:12","slug":"devices-play-a-big-role-in-motogp-first-corner-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/727818\/","title":{"rendered":"Devices &#8220;play a big role\u201d in MotoGP first-corner crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maverick Vinales is among the riders who feel that holeshot devices increase the risk of first-turn MotoGP accidents.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the added acceleration performance provided by the lowering devices that Vinales believes is the main issue.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it\u2019s the erratic braking caused by riders trying to ensure the systems disengage at turn one &#8211; especially if an initial attempt doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gng_1316298_hires_1600x900.jpg\"   type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"Turn 1 accident, Catalunya MotoGP.\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.78\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Turn 1 accident, Catalunya MotoGP.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a9\u00a0Gold &amp; Goose<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, the devices play a big role, because to disengage the front you need to brake really hard,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/1689\/maverick-vinales\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vinales<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd sometimes [if it doesn\u2019t work] you need to release the brake, then go a little bit more and brake again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, just by removing the devices, I think we will improve quite a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All ride-height devices will be prohibited from the end of this season.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MotoGP<\/a> is considering an immediate ban in the aftermath of Catalunya, and the topic was again raised after Sunday\u2019s incident at Balaton Park.<\/p>\n<p>Aprilia\u2019s Massimo Rivola, whose rider Jorge Martin caused the Balaton incident, warned of the dangers of overreacting.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gng_1323623_hires_1600x900.jpg\"   type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"Jorge Martin, Marco Bezzecchi, Turn 1 crash, 2026 Hungarian MotoGP. \" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.78\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Jorge Martin, Marco Bezzecchi, Turn 1 crash, 2026 Hungarian MotoGP.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a9\u00a0Gold and Goose<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are speaking with MotoGP to see what is good to improve the safety. Historically I\u2019m against any kind of devices, but I don&#8217;t like to overreact,\u201d Rivola said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we should do things properly, because if before [Sunday\u2019s Balaton Park] race we banned the device and you still saw this kind of crash, we start saying, \u2018ah, the [holeshot] device was safer!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I think we need to do things properly, testing a few times how it works without it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaking less density at the first corner may help, but overreacting is the easy mistake that we can make. So we need to be careful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018less density\u2019 concept refers to a proposed switch to an F1-style starting grid of two riders per row, instead of the present three.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maverick Vinales is among the riders who feel that holeshot devices increase the risk of first-turn MotoGP accidents.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[10669,64,63,5744,40801,5745,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-727818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-aprilia-racing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-jorge-martin","tag-maverick-vinales","tag-motogp","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727818","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=727818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}