MotoGP has chosen not to use the newly installed chicane during the Catalan Grand Prix this weekend following feedback from riders during Friday practice. A new chicane was constructed for the 2017 event to improve safety in the final sector by slowing riders following the death of Luis Salom in 2016 – for the remainder of that race weekend, the Formula 1 layout was used – before a MotoGP specific chicane was added for this year's event, one hundred yards ahead of the F1 chicane. However feedback on Friday has led the Safety Commission to revert to the F1 layout, with riders citing bumps as the cause for several crashes during first and second practice. 'In...
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