Almost every rider in the GP paddock has more or less decided to go to Motegi (of their own free will?) and since knowing about radiation, nuclear plants isn’t part of a professional rider’s cultural baggage, Jorge ‘Aspar’ Martinez decided to qualm his teams fears by taking several members on a day field trip to the Cofrentes nuclear power plant in Spain.
MotoGP’s Héctor Barberá and 125cc riders Nico Terol and Adrián Martín were present, and everyone got a lesson on the inner workings of a nuclear plant and were told by the plant’s experts why there is no health risk involved in travelling and staying in Japan and everyone got to ask questions so any last doubts and fears could be finally laid to rest ahead of the Japanese GP.
Field trips just like in junior high …