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The first nocturnal race gets a good reception
The World MotoGP Championship started in Qatar on 9th March with a something new: the first GP race of the season was held at night whilst all around was dark, a big challenge for the organisers as this was the first time ever in the history of this sport. Now those involved in the sport are weighing up the pros and cons to see whether the experience should be repeated in the future.
Carmelo Ezpeleta, the CEO of Dorna Sports the company that manages the World MotoGP Championship, has taken a positive view of the night time race in Qatar expressing his satisfaction with the experiment and saying that there will be another nocturnal GP, a measure that he has classed as “innovative”.
Ezpeleta has admitted that when the decision to hold the race at night was made his biggest worry was that of “taking all the measures available to make it safe”. The CEO gave a review of how this experiment came about, recalling that the organisers at the circuit of Losail and Musco presented their night time race projects to Dorna Sports in September 2007 and that two months later they had done the first tests.
In this sense, Carmelo Ezpeleta, praised the work done by the organisers of this GP race between November and March so that everything would be ready for the opening race of the World MotoGP Championship. In the end everything went just fine and in the words of the Dorna Sports CEO himself, “this was a good step for MotoGP to take”.
3/17/2008
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