All the riders participated in a meeting with the rights-holder at Brno last night, prompted by the spate of injuries in the first part of this season, and the amount that circuit owners have had to spend to keep their tracks safe enough for the increasingly rapid MotoGP bikes.
Both Rossi and Capirossi agreed that the latter factor was becoming a major issue.
"We talked about safety because this is the most important thing," Capirossi said. "Always the bikes get quicker. It's really difficult to work on safety at the tracks. Every year we ask for more space (run-off) and when we start to do that, the tracks spent more than 80 million euro on safety.
"This year we asked Jerez for more space and a new surface, and Jerez did everything and spent 1.7 million. But it's impossible to do that every year because the tracks do not have enough money to rebuild everything every year.
"This is why we have to try and find good solutions, not to go slowly, but for safety. We have some ideas but I can't say now."
Rossi concurred with Dorna CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta's suggestion that reducing corner speeds was a better option than continually demanding circuit changes.
"Carmelo said that the safety has start to be a problem, because we work very much on the circuits, and they spend a lot of money which is very good, but now every year we need to improve the run-off area," said Rossi.
"So that means even more money for the circuits, so some say: 'Hey, every year it is more money'. So we need to think of something to go a little bit slower in the corners.
"Carmelo said (this) to us on Friday in the Safety Commission, to me, Chris (Vermeulen), Loris and Marco (Melandri). But we say it is better we speak with all the riders so yesterday we speak with everybody and we have some ideas in general to go slower.
"But now I don't know what has happened, they have to speak with the other manufacturers."
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