As if it is a premonition, Enea Bastianini was one of the pilots who on the eve of the premiere of the most underlined the dangers of the slow, narrow and scrambled Balaton Park circuit. “I like the circuit when I go alone, but in the first round it can be dangerous for a MotoGP, because there are too many elements to take into account,” he said, worried, Saturday afternoon. The KTM Italian came from suffering an accident in the first curve of the ‘sprint’, rammed from behind by the Yamaha of Fabio Quartararo, and a tough fall in one of the girls after hitting the Honda of Johann Zarco, and this Sunday he repeated prominence in the second chicane of the path in an incident that touched the tragedy.
After a good exit, fourth to the waist of the winner of the race, Marc Márquez, the ‘Beast’ lost the front train in curve 12 and slid without remedy on the asphalt, crossing through the vertex of the 13 with all the flakeing squad. In one of the most vulnerable situations for the pilots, since the impacts of a MotoGP on the body of a pilot usually end, in the best case, with an emergency visit to the hospital, both as Luca Marini, the most immediate persecutors of the Italian, could avoid colliding against their fallen rival.
The event was at anecdote on this occasion, in a layout that from the first moment required the intervention of the championship. The three antinatural girls who were added to the track to reduce the tips speeds and avoid accidents at too much speed in the vertices with the nearest wall, added the risk of a dangerous onslaught in case of group drop, a usual situation in the initial bars of the World Cup tests.
Bastianini’s drag, and especially his overdrawal gaze to see where the machines of 160 kilos of weight and 300 horsepower in full acceleration came, once again illustrated the danger that some circuits have in the calendar. Hungary surprises the fact that it is a new path, for a large part of the improper “karting” pilots of the current safety standards, reviewed annually in order to avoid risk situations such as the occurred this Sunday.
The 2020 world champion, Joan Mir, was one of those who criticized the security in Balaton Park more clearly. “It is one of MotoGP’s most dangerous circuits,” said the Honda Mallorcan pilot. “One of the negative points to highlight is that curve 12 and 13, where Bastianini fell and crossed the track too easy, it is the only dangerous point to review,” said Pedro Acosta.
Another accident that illustrated the problems of Balaton Park was the tube of Acosta himself on Saturday, which ended with his machine impacting with one of the camera operators uploaded to a tower in one of the rapid curves of the layout. The Murcian, who did not harm the fall and this Sunday was able to celebrate a very important second place in the race, was scared immediately from the gravel and wanted to be interested in the health of the worker, who fortunately came out unharmed despite the speed and aggressiveness of the coup, which did break the device.
Joao Antonio Cabrera, Dorna’s worker, who repeated in the same position this Sunday, was also one of the unexpected protagonists of a weekend where security doubts that awaken the first new European layout that debuts on MotoGP in the last 15 years were not solved.
