In April, French commandos made six arrests in a helicopter raid on Somali pirates after they had been paid a ransom to free the crew of another French yacht.
The crew is also responsible for keeping the ice litter-free, the most common projectiles being hats tossed onto the rink after a player scores a hat trick a third goal in the same game.
But that will depend on persuading all EU countries to share passenger and crew list information - quite a number of them regard this as illegal under European free movement laws.
"We'll use the first three practices to get the right setups and then probably use the last free practice to do a long run, just to check the race situation, " Lorenzo's crew chief Ramon Forcada said on the MotoGP website.