The world is constantly changing and the authorities that govern it MotoGP are not left out, because to simplify to the extreme, Dorna Sports works every year to offer us more spectacle, while the FIM works without interruption to raise the level of safety of the riders.
It is with this dual objective that this Monday will take place on the Barcelona-Catalunya circuit, with a radio-communication test prefiguring what will begin next year in this area.
We will give you all the details through a very long explanatory interview, but in the meantime know that today many drivers will be on the circuit, starting for example with Marc Marquez, to participate in a static radio communication test, which will potentially become dynamic tomorrow.
Concretely, this afternoon it is a question of ensuring that the tiny loudspeakers (a few millimeters in diameter) making contact at the level of the jaws (since the pilots already have earplugs in their ears) do not hinder the comfort or especially the safety of the latter. This is a large-scale test since many helmet manufacturers are now FIM approved in MotoGP, and each pilot has his own morphology, even his own habits (comfort pads more or less tight).
Once this step is taken, and you will see in the interview that this is only the beginning of a very ambitious plan spanning several years, those who wish will be able to use these speakers integrated into the comfort pads from tomorrow, during the first official MotoGP test of the 2025 season. However, they will probably be few in number, as the prototypes are currently in very limited numbers.
Although we only heard about loudspeakers in this first test, we should not believe that Dorna Sports and the FIM are only interested in the show.
On the one hand, this radio communication already has the objective of allow Race Management to directly inform a driver of an action to be taken from 2025, the driver-race management link not being targeted until 2026, one year before any possible team-driver communication.
But above all, what are today only tiny loudspeakers will quickly see an accelerometer added allowing the recording of accelerations and movements undergone by the brain of drivers, and thus create a realistic database to further improve the safety of helmets used and approved for competition. Until now, only airbags and motorcycles were equipped with accelerometers, which are quite far from the brain itself.
As we can see, the work to improve security, and incidentally the show, is very, very far from being finished, and you will discover all the details soon. Since all this is very recent, we were unable to take any visuals and so let AI and its wanderings illustrate this article...
