![]() The FIM MiniGP series is one of the steps Dorna is putting in place in its Road to MotoGP initiative, aimed at stimulating racing talent at a regional and national level, before moving up on the path to World Championship level racing. Kensei Matsudaira, age 10, Jesse Shedden, age 12, Jayden Fernandez, age 13, Kayla Yaakov, age 14, and Travis Horn, age 13, all got to sit and listen as the MotoGP riders were asked questions about how to prevent young kids from being killed in motorcycle races. How ironic, then, that some of such talk took place in the pre-event press conference in Austin, where a group of riders in the FIM MiniGP North America series were present. And especially in classes populated by sometimes very young riders. Especially the safety in the support classes, where the technical rules had been set up to achieve as much parity as possible, creating very large groups on the race track. The death of Dean Berta ViƱales in the first (and only) WorldSSP300 race at the Spanish track had once again raised the question of safety in motorcycle racing. It was inevitable that there would be a lot of talk at Austin of the events of a few days earlier, at Jerez. ![]()
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