{"id":69621,"date":"2025-08-15T20:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T20:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/69621\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T20:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T20:09:11","slug":"motogp-is-making-f1s-mistakes-stoner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/69621\/","title":{"rendered":"MotoGP is making F1’s mistakes \u2013 Stoner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two-time MotoGP world champion Casey Stoner<\/a> has come out strongly against the anti-highside aid being rolled out at this weekend\u2019s Austrian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

The Australian\u2019s sharp criticism, which followed Free Practice 1 at the Red Bull Ring on Friday, came in the wake of similar comments by frontrunners Marc Marquez<\/a> and Pedro Acosta<\/a> a day earlier.<\/p>\n

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Stoner felt that the stability control system \u2013 as it is officially known \u2013 was indicative of a worrying trend that repeats mistakes made by Formula 1 in the past.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, we\u2019re making champions out of engineers,\u201d said the 2007 and 2009 champion. \u201cWe\u2019re not making champions out of riders. And we\u2019re going into an era of all the mistakes that Formula 1 made.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had all these examples in the past of these things not working, yet we\u2019re just following in all of the directions of every issue that Formula 1 has spent years getting rid of.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis weekend, they\u2019ve brought a whole other level of electronics. Speaking to the riders, you can literally go and twist the throttle. You\u2019ve got nearly 300 horsepower and you can twist the throttle and nothing happens.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve got the best riders in the world riding the easiest bikes to ride in the world, and I don\u2019t see this as being anything that I\u2019m interested in.<\/p>\n

\"Casey <\/p>\n

Casey Stoner<\/p>\n

Photo by: Gold and Goose Photography \/ LAT Images \/ via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have no more control over how much slide you have. Already when I was testing, just before I stopped [riding completely], I wasn\u2019t allowed to use any more of the clutch going into the corner because it confused the system.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo there\u2019s no more element of skill with every aspect. You literally just have to brake hard, get it into the corner, and then\u2026 all the guys are talking about how now they can just literally twist the throttle, press a button [that] drops it down. There\u2019s just too much going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stoner did not buy the official line that the stability control system had been introduced in order to make MotoGP safer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t see it as being safer. If you take all of the control out of the rear of the bike, you lose any fear of the bike,\u201d he explained. \u201cAnd then you just start to push harder and harder in one aspect, which is the front end.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen if you lose the front end, so often it comes back onto the track. And we\u2019ve seen catastrophic accidents when you lose the front end of the bike and it comes back.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo the more safe you make the rear, the worse it\u2019s going to be on the front. And then we\u2019re going to see worse things again.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlso, your top speed at the end of the straight gets faster again. The margin for error in braking points is tiny, and then you have everybody absolutely on the limit in this area.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stoner\u2019s words rang true in the practice session that followed shortly after his press conference. While there were no high-side crashes, numerous riders went off the road after overdoing it on the brakes. Some, such as Enea Bastianini<\/a>, did so multiple times.<\/p>\n

\"Enea <\/p>\n

Enea Bastianini, Red Bull KTM Tech 3<\/p>\n

Photo by: Gold and Goose Photography \/ LAT Images \/ via Getty Images<\/p>\n

While it should be noted that braking is always a challenge at the Spielberg layout, the top 10 riders in the session \u2013 who will progress directly to Q2 on Saturday \u2013 were to a large degree those who kept it together under braking.<\/p>\n

Stoner was also not positive about the reduction in aerodynamics and engine capacity planned for MotoGP in 2027, along with the banning of ride height devices.<\/p>\n

Asked if that year\u2019s rules went far enough, the 39-year-old replied: \u201cNot even remotely close. You\u2019re making a bike lighter, so then the braking point becomes less. You\u2019re actually going to be slower at the top speed because they don\u2019t have this ride-height device now. So it\u2019s going to be less top speed [with a] lighter bike. [This means that] going into the corner, braking points are shorter, with less opportunity for overtaking.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re still [going to have] winglets and they\u2019re going to be carrying probably higher corner speeds as well. So that\u2019s going to create turbulent air on a lighter bike. They\u2019re still going to be having stability issues. They\u2019re still going to be having tyre temperature issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stoner also pointed out the cost factor involved with aerodynamics: \u201cWe were talking not too many years ago [about how MotoGP was] sort of struggling with costs and trying to cost-cut and all these sorts of things. [Aero] is certainly not making it better. [Aero] is the most expensive thing that you can do.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just don\u2019t know how nobody can see the problems. Each step they do in this direction is making it go in the wrong way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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