MOTOGP
ALGARVE (PRT)
26 MARCH
ROUND 1/21
MotoGP’s new-for-2023 weekend format, including sprint races, has highlighted a number of problems. The 12-lap Saturday sprint in Portugal led to what many felt was “a jungle”, with aggression levels high. The more pressurised layout of the weekend also took its toll, with Tech3’s Pol Espargaro hospitalised with multiple fractures in a practice crash after pushing to ensure a place in the qualifying pole shootout session for Saturday, and Ducati’s Enea Bastianini suffering a broken shoulder in a sprint race crash.
But perhaps the biggest problem revealed at the Portuguese Grand Prix was
