Hi, sorry if this is a weird question, but why do you hate portimao?
Hi anon 👋👋. It's actually not a weird ask. It's actually pretty fair one.
My issue with this tracks come from the point that it's not a safe track. Simple as that. Portimão is one of the most dangerous tracks on the calendar. For once the weather is not constant, it's pretty windy and it's also have lot of chances of becoming a wet race, and that is a fucking mess when you take into account MotoE, Moto3 and Moto2.
The track itself is a dangerous one. We have a lot of accidents in here, Jorge Martín, Pol Espargaró and Carlos Tatay. And not only that, this track had the grade to be in the calendar for WSBK, but not for MotoGP, but then 2020 rolled, and it was included in the calendar, but not a single change was done, but still got the grade, according to some sources. So basically is a not apt track for bikes going over 360 km/h.
Appart of that, riders had said that this is one of those tracks where the barriers are too close for their liking, but still not a fucking thing is done. And then we have the gravel traps that have one of the biggest rocks the paddock has seen. We are still carrying this issue actually, as some new gravel was added, but in some part (half of each gravel) keeps it. Riders have gone out of Portimão covered on bruises.
I do understand that the racing is great here, but I can't stop thinking, 'who is going to be the next rider who will get injured here?' 'Is rider X not moving because he's in pain or because he got several injured?'. And there's this particular turn, where you have the camera and the riders lean like a lot and I always have the sensation riders are crashing.
So to sump it upo, I don't like Portimão because it's an unsafe track.
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