Marco Melandri is well aware of the MotoGP reality and, given the current season with two riders having the chance to become champions, Jorge Martín seems better placed to do so, as he leads, but it’s Pecco Bagnaia who has managed more wins in the long races, which motivated a ‘request’ from Melandri regarding the scoring system.
The former rider, who divided a large part of his career between MotoGP and Superbikes, told Gazzetta dello Sport, quoted by Motosan, that perhaps there should be a different scoring system in MotoGP: ‘We need to think lap by lap, without being stuck on the championship. The more you think about the title, the more you lose focus. The irony is that Bagnaia won three times more than Martín, with 9 wins against 3’.
And he justified why: ‘I’m increasingly convinced that the scoring system should value the win more. We need a bigger gap between first and second place’.
Currently, the first classified rider in Sunday’s race scores 25 points, while the second scores 20, and on Saturday in the Sprint, the winner gets 12 points and the second 9.