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Carmelo Ezpeleta clarified yesterday the question of who will be the Grand Prix winner, taking into account that in Superbike there is a Race 1 winner and another Race 2 winner, but not a single winner. For MotoGP it will be different.
“In the end, this is not another Grand Prix race that we’re adding to the weekend, to the format. We’re basically changing one practice for a Sprint Race which will give points, meaning that from now on for the historical data, it will be the Sunday that continues to give the GP winner. So the winner of the Grand Prix will be the winner of the race - said the Dorna boss - Then historically the riders will have one more row of data on, let's say, on their profile. So a rider will have a number of fastest laps, a number of poles, a number of podiums for which it will only count the podiums of the Sunday, and a number of victories. And from now on, they will have a number of Sprint race victories. That will be one more row on their profile. There will be a podium for the Sprint race, but it will not count for the total number of podiums that the rider has. And you know, finally will be the GP winner, will be the one that wins the race on Sunday will be exciting for the fans.”
So basically the MotoGP Sprint Race will be a kind of battery before the final of an athletic race, with the difference being that it will award points (halved) because they do not count toward access to the final (to the Grand Prix) otherwise no one would pull.
