MotoGP: FIM changes age restrictions for 125cc championship
Written on December 29, 2008 – 10:38 pm | by BikersUnite
FIM, the motorcycle championship governing body has announced a change in the minimum age restriction for the 125cc world championship from 2010.
FIM has announced the age limit will increase to 16 from 2010 instead of the current age of 15 years for riders to compete in the world championship.
Limits for 250cc & MotoGP championship will remain at 16 & 18 years of age respectively.
“Sixteen years is the right age,” MotoGP rider Loris Capirossi, the youngest ever world champion at the age of 17.
“When I won the title I had already done two years on real bikes in the Italian and European championships. I was young, but I was experienced.
“You can’t push these youngsters like that: they win their parish church championship and then come straight to the world championship. Unfortunately I visit the Clinica Mobile and I see these kids there, maybe with some broken bones.
“We started talking about this last year in the Safety Commission with Valentino Rossi. Other riders, like Hayden and Pedrosa, agreed too.
“I don’t think anyone can be against something like this, because if they start too young they risk getting burnt. And after all, at 16 years of age, they have a lot of time ahead of them.”
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