That was the stupidest day I can remember in MotoGP since Silverstone 2018. That was the race which ended up being canceled after heavy rain and standing water on a new surface meant conditions were never safe enough to race. I was pulling double duty as pit lane reporter for the Dutch broadcaster Eurosport, and I spent the entire day walking up and down pit lane asking anyone I could find, “have you heard anything about when we might start?” The problem was, the people I was asking were doing exactly the same.
The rain was the culprit again on Saturday, only this time it wasn’t standing water. Shortly after qualifying finished for the MotoGP class, messages from people at the track started popping up on my phone. “Sinkhole on the straight.” To which my response, and the response of most people in the WhatsApp groups I am in, was, “What?!?!?” Possibly followed by an extra two words.
