The 2022 MotoGP pre-season test at Pertamina Mandalika International Street Circuit has attracted public attention. The reason is, there are many unique and interesting moments made by MotoGP racers.
One of them is the moment when the riders are caught buying Telkomsel prime cards at the credit counter on the side of the road. The moment also made netizens commotion and viral on various social media such as Instagram and Twitter.
One of these unique moments was shared by one of the credit counter Instagram accounts in Mandalika, Moonstar Cell. Through his post, Moonstar Cell uploaded the moment when Remy Gardner, Fabio Quartararo, Aleix Espargaro, and Alex Rins stopped by the counter to buy a Telkomsel starter card.
"Great, Bang Remy! Thank you for buying + activating a Telkomsel card at our place. Good luck for the match!," wrote the Instagram account @moonstar.cell.
The moment of the riders who are considered local is even more viral, even becoming a conversation in Lambe Turah's Instagram post. "Woooww.. Brother Kang Racing is fast. Immediately buy a simcard dungsss. So you can go online directly...," wrote the account.
This post also got more than hundreds of thousands of likes from netizens. In fact, some netizens also flooded the comments on the post.
"Bringing the fortune of local residents ❤️👏👏👏," wrote the Instagram account @lestari_.888.
"The SIM card is selling well ," wrote the Instagram account @vknp_12.
Not only on Instagram, this moment also caused a stir among Twitter residents. Some Twitter netizens also shared this unique moment through their tweets. "Local Mandalika at the level of MotoGP athletes: buy a Telkomsel prime card wkwkwkwk. Do you think there will be a drama "Lex, for tethering, I want to run out of quota" from other athletes, right?," wrote the Twitter account @aldysuhanda_
It was so viral, one of the celebrity tweets, Dony Setiawan, who is famous through his Twitter account @omdirects_ini also commented on the moment. Through his tweet, Dony admitted that he was surprised by the behavior of these riders.
"Look at the updates for the MotoGP kids at Mandalika, okay... yesterday we got three rides, someone was eating with them, now I'm buying a Telkomsel card. It's getting more and more local. Wow... what are you going to do next?" he said.