Davide Brivio identifies biggest difference between F1 and MotoGP

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Brivio identifies biggest difference between F1 and MotoGP

Alpine racing director Brivio was formerly at Suzuki's MotoGP outfit

Ewan Gale

Sunday 25 April 2021 16:43

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Alpine racing director Davide Brivio has explained the biggest difference between MotoGP and F1 is the use of team radio.

Brivio joined the Alpine management team over the winter after steering Suzuki and Joan Mir to world championship glory in MotoGP last season.

In MotoGP, there is no team radio and the majority of communication is completed via the pit board although teams can send short text messages to the dashboard of a rider.

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"The biggest difference is the radio," said Brivio. "You are in contact with the driver constantly, telling them and race engineer to do this and do that. This is the biggest difference and somehow, I experienced the first race in Bahrain and it went like this [quickly].

"At the beginning, I said wow, one hour 40, one hour 45 will be long, but it went quickly because you are so busy listening checking and analysing so it was very interesting. A great experience."

He added: "Once the [MotoGP] race starts, the rider is by himself. You just sit down and watch the television, that is all you can do.

"Here, you are constantly in contact. You are almost in the car so you are much more a part of what is going on on the track, I think. You enjoy but not as a spectator. The radio was the biggest difference but interesting and exciting."

Aside from the team radio, however, Brivio explained there are "many similarities" between the two championships and the Italian pointed to the competitors as just one example of this.

He explained: "I would say riders and drivers are the same - up and down, motivation, good shape, bad shape, complaining, not happy, not feeling good.

"People are working, the mechanics and engineers are here and there. You need to keep motivated and make them want to improve so there are many similarities, just the technology is more complex.

"The car is bigger, there are more parts, many things you can measure and therefore there are the consequences, there are many things you need to analyse. It is very interesting."