RINS’ SCATHING DEMAND HAS ESCALATED MOTOGP’S STEWARDING CRISIS.
- 2 tahun yang lalu
Being a referee in any sport isn’t an easy job. If you do your job right, you remain largely anonymous, barely known to those watching at home.
But if you don’t – or even if you’re just deemed to have not done it right – then you’re going to catch all sorts of anger, especially in an age of social media where everyone has both an opinion and a way to share it.
Yet, for the rule enforcers in any sport, public criticism (and indeed, critics in the media too) are just part of the job in the modern era, something that you can put behind you and ignore as long as you’ve got the respect you need: from the people who you’re adjudicating.
And that right there is where MotoGP has a huge problem right now, because the FIM MotoGP Stewards Panel, led by past 500cc world champion Freddie Spencer, seems to have unequivocally lost all respect from the riders that it governs.
It’s a crisis that’s been brewing for years, with the lack of respect both given by the riders and tolerated by the stewards not exactly a new thing: it’s been two years now since Jack Miller called them as ‘c***s’ in a media debrief and escaped completely unsanctioned for the extraordinary outburst.
But if you don’t – or even if you’re just deemed to have not done it right – then you’re going to catch all sorts of anger, especially in an age of social media where everyone has both an opinion and a way to share it.
Yet, for the rule enforcers in any sport, public criticism (and indeed, critics in the media too) are just part of the job in the modern era, something that you can put behind you and ignore as long as you’ve got the respect you need: from the people who you’re adjudicating.
And that right there is where MotoGP has a huge problem right now, because the FIM MotoGP Stewards Panel, led by past 500cc world champion Freddie Spencer, seems to have unequivocally lost all respect from the riders that it governs.
It’s a crisis that’s been brewing for years, with the lack of respect both given by the riders and tolerated by the stewards not exactly a new thing: it’s been two years now since Jack Miller called them as ‘c***s’ in a media debrief and escaped completely unsanctioned for the extraordinary outburst.