Starting this weekend, some fairly big changes are coming to MotoGP, but it took a fairly serious racing incident to bring them about. Starting from the Dutch GP, holeshot devices will be banned. If only someone could've told MotoGP's safety commission that this would've been a good thing to do a long time ago, before the crash. Oh, wait, someone did.
Jack Miller has spoken out several times about the dangers of holeshot devices, going as far as suggesting they be banned. The holeshot devices were set to become illegal in 2027, but Miller suggested several times that they should be banned before that or, at a minimum, just banned at tracks where riders need to brake abnormally to disengage the devices for the first corner.
