MotoGP teams work against the clock in Argentina

The arrival of flight BSC4043 at 9:45 p.m. on Friday, local time, at the Benjamín Matienzo airport in San Miguel de Tucumán , was by no means the end of the odyssey that meant transporting the remaining MotoGP championship equipment from Kenya in order to carry out the dispute of the Grand Prix of Argentina.

Once the Boeing 747 landed, a special operation was launched to deliver the cargo to the affected teams as soon as possible, for which ten trucks were used and divided into several batches, with the first one arriving at the Termas de Río Hondo at around 1:30 in the Argentine morning.

The entire operation ended around 3:30 and 4:00 at night in South American territory, so this morning the teams could still be seen working in their garages to have their material ready to start at 5:35 p.m. in Spanish peninsular time the first MotoGP free practice session in Argentina.

Among the teams affected by the delay in the arrival of the cargo were Ducati, VR46, Gresini, Yamaha, RNF, KTM, Tech3 and Suzuki , as well as some from Moto2 and Moto3 and also tire supplier Michelin .

The Gresini and VR46 teams were the most affected by the delay in the arrival of the plane, since they did not have any of their equipment at the Termas circuit.

This delay made some question the possibility of holding the Grand Prix in just two days, that is, grouping the free practice sessions and qualifying for Saturday and reserving Sunday for the warm up and the races of the three categories.

Andrea Dovizioso had proposed changing the format in the past, and before getting on his Yamaha he stated that this could be a great experiment for MotoGP, and that it would be the definitive answer he needed to see if his idea was a good one.