1.11.11 Riders who enter the Championship for the first time (Rookies)
must be entered by a non factory team.
Note: it says must be entered by a non factory team, Spies and yamaha have done this.
As some of you had already mentioned, Fiat yamaha can go 2 more races without fielding rossi's bike, so expect to see moves come catalunya. Please read the rules on replacing an injured rider below.
1.11.3 Each entry commits the team to designate a rider to compete in all the
events of the Championship in the chosen class. Exceptions can only
be made as follows:
i) A team may withdraw a rider from an event which has already
started, due to injury of the rider, irreparable damage to the
motorcycle(s) or in case of "Force Majeure". A withdrawal for
medical reasons must be supported by a letter from the Chief
Medical Officer of the meeting or the Medical Director.
ii) A team may withdraw a rider from additional events in the
Championship only for medical reasons or other reasons of
"Force Majeure". Withdrawals for medical reasons must be
supported by a letter from a qualified Doctor and are subject to
verification by another medical practitioner appointed by IRTA
at its own expense. DORNA shall then have the right to
require an additional examination and verification by at least
two other medical practitioners appointed by DORNA for that
purpose. In the event that the medical practitioners appointed
by DORNA do not support the opinion of the medical
practitioner appointed by IRTA, the following shall apply:
a) the opinion of the medical practitioners appointed by
DORNA shall be deemed to prevail;
and
b) IRTA shall pay all costs incurred in the examination and
reporting by the medical practitioners appointed by
DORNA .
Teams must make every reasonable effort to provide a qualified
substitute rider to fulfil their entry obligations. However no substitution
or replacement of the entered rider may be made after 10H30 on the
first day of practice except in the MotoGP class when the limit is 2
hours before the qualifying practice
iii) For reasons not being medical reasons and not being reasons
of "Force Majeure", and subject to the Team obtaining the
approval of IRTA and then subject to IRTA obtaining the
approval of DORNA/FIM (neither of whom shall be obliged to
give reasons for any refusal to approve), a Team may replace
a rider which that Team has entered in the Championship with
another rider ("replacement rider") for remaining rounds of the
Championship. Only one replacement of a rider will be
permitted per season. Exceptional circumstances will be
examined by IRTA and DORNA/FIM.
1.11.4 If a team is unable to provide a substitute rider, then IRTA may decide
to allow another team to enter a rider, on an event by event basis, to
reach the required number of entries. Article 1.10.1 will apply to all
replacement and substitute riders.
The last paragraph to me is key to spies being elegible to sub for rossi on his bike.
Going back to the rookie rule, it only states that he cannot enter the championship with a factory, team it never states anything about subing or extraordinary circumstances such as the one we see today. Which tells me there is a loop hole yamaha could have spies on the bike by catalunya.
My two cents.
the context is copied and pasted from the FIM web site, 2010 GP regulations.
Silverstone is a 1st time race for all riders in MotoGP, Spies could WIN this one, and it can be done!
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Originally Posted by Tony.OK
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