Francesco Bagnaia has won ten of the 19 main MotoGP races so far in 2024. However, because of the Sprint races, he trails Jorge Martín (Prima Pramac/Ducati) by 24 points with one round left.
Even if only main races counted, the Italian would be ahead by 24 points – but might still lose the championship. Loris Reggiani argues that there should be a greater point differential.
In an interview with ZamTuve, the former rider remarked that this kind of situation isn’t new: ‘Someone who wins ten races shouldn’t lose to someone who won three. Marco Melandri, who won five races, shouldn’t have lost a championship to someone who didn’t win any [in the 125cc in 1999]’.
Reggiani believes point differentials should be larger: ‘In my opinion, there should be more of a gap, especially in a season as long as this one with over 20 races. In the future, they should create three tiers of difference. Then, maybe Martín would still have won, but I don’t like such a small percentage difference between first and second. What also strikes me as strange and incorrect is that in the Sprint races, the points gap percentage between first and second is greater than in the main race, and I don’t understand why’.
