Martin avoids penalty: MotoGP’s compulsory safety equipment
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The MotoGP rules state that specified safety equipment “must be worn, correctly fastened, at all times during on-track activity.”Fortunately for the Pramac Ducati rider – who appears not to have correctly ‘locked’ the zip of his leathers in place before the start of the race – he was able to rezip them himself before being black-flagged and thus avoid the fate of Fabio Quartararo at Catalunya 2021.The Yamaha rider received a three-second post-race penalty for riding with the zip of his leathers wide open (and did not rezip them until after the finish) having also discarded his chest protector.Multitasking Martinator! @88jorgemartin was riding with his leathers open but luckily he managed to zip them up without losing any position! #IndianGP wNMLvfyU8K— MotoGP™ (@MotoGP) September 24, 2023The complete list of compulsory MotoGP safety equipment and rules regarding their use is as follows:‘It is compulsory that each contracted rider must begin each race event with at least two complete sets of undamaged safety equipment. A complete set of safety equipment shall contain:HelmetLeather Suit, 1-pieceGlovesBootsBack ProtectorChest Protector‘The equipment must be worn, correctly fastened, at all times during on-track activity.Related PIC: Alcoba triggers Moto2 pile-up in India Jack Miller hoping for carbon fibre KTM chassis at Motegi?‘The only purpose of any part of the rider’s race suit, boots and gloves should be to protect the rider in an incident. Therefore, any part of these items of equipment that is deemed to be solely for the purpose of aiding the rider’s aerodynamic effect will not be permitted. The decision of the Technical Director will be final in determining what constitutes an item solely for aerodynamic effect.’Quartararo came close to snatching second place off an exhausted Martin on Sunday, the title contender losing time while rezipping his leathers and then running wide on the final lap.But Martin clung on with a brave re-pass on Quartararo and heads into this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix just 13 points factory Ducati star Francesco Bagnaia, who ed out.Had Martin received the same three-second penalty given to Quartararo in 2021, he would have dropped to third place on Sunday.
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