"We have to make the World Championship more spectacular".
And resorting to sprint races, which from this season will catalyze attention on Saturdays, with races half as long as those on Sundays, seems to be the right choice: "It's the right move - says the new MotoGP world champion Francesco Bagnaia, in an interview with GQ Italia - After all, we are talking about an attempt to modernize our sport. We cannot hide ourselves: there is an ongoing generational change that we have to face with a mutation of the product. These transitions are moments that always create a little ' of annoyances, of nervousness, of anger. But everything is cyclical, and we have a duty to try to involve a younger audience".
Initially, Bagnaia too had welcomed the news with a certain skepticism, but then changed his mind: "I practice and live a sport that is deeply attached to its history, its traditions - underlines the Ducati rider - And the public behaves accordingly , is linked to the motorcycling of the past. So I was afraid that this new format could be rejected, or in any case contested by our enthusiasts. Only then I thought about it: we riders who ride motorbikes are getting younger and younger, our audience is getting younger and younger, so it's right to try to captivate him by building content and offering him events suitable for this new era. At the times we're living in".