MotoGP 2019

[schred]

Sepang could be wet wet wet, in which case my money is still on 93 and maybe Ross, Pedrosa even Horhay to fill out the podium. Gonna take a miracle for Dovi to succeed from here.

SJP - easy enough to add a zip from a leathers alteration place, prob for less than a hunge.

 

[CalFB]

I guess the only saving grace for Ducati now is that they usually go well at Sepang so Dovi should get a decent result there. He has had a great season, his most consistent and been super impressive most rounds.

 

[steve jobs' pancreas]

Sepang could be wet wet wet, in which case my money is still on 93 and maybe Ross, Pedrosa even Horhay to fill out the podium. Gonna take a miracle for Dovi to succeed from here.

SJP - easy enough to add a zip from a leathers alteration place, prob for less than a hunge.

I'm probs due some new leathers, had the same jacket for 25 years, but then I bought a ticket to sepang so stuff it

 

[Lazmo]

SJP - easy enough to add a zip from a leathers alteration place, prob for less than a hunge.

yep, easy peazy.

Tracks I've ridden...

Phillip Island ... perfection. Can be very windy at the end of the straight as you're about to tip into turn one. Lukey Heights is amazing. Southern Loop too. Stoner corner is soooooo fast.

Calder ... rinky dinky. It used to have a 4" drop off the tar on the entrance to the straight, run wide there, very pucker pucker.

Sandown ... sort of fun, particularly the old infield GP track. You ride straight at armco in a few places, a bit unforgiving for bikes.

Winton … good fun. The weirdest surface, seems to put rubber back onto your tyres. They go there tyres all cut up, come away looking like new. Watertank is fun. The double right hander on the new extension is great when you successfully make it one corner. I crashed at 200+ in the wet on slicks… stuffing my right collarbone/supraspinatus/rotator. Wrecked my tennis serve.

Broadford … a goat-track. Small, rough and bumpy but great fun. Turn two is a wheel spinning hoot. My 900SS was perfect there.

 

[Lazmo]

I'm probs due some new leathers, had the same jacket for 25 years, but then I bought a ticket to sepang so stuff it

Ha ha, wish I could fit into one of my 25 year old jackets hwell:

 

[schred]

Must be a Lorenzo fan - round the outside!

 

[CalFB]

Mixed conditions first session but Dovi has laid down a fast lap to open up the weekend

MM93 in 5.

Looks like a real mixed bag of weather across the 3 days so every lap really counts at this stage.

1 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Ducati Team Ducati 326.0 2'00.671
2 19 Alvaro BAUTISTA SPA Pull&Bear Aspar Team Ducati 326.2 2'00.742 0.071 / 0.071
3 5 Johann ZARCO FRA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 320.8 2'00.807 0.136 / 0.065
4 25 Maverick VIÑALES SPA Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha 321.0 2'00.903 0.232 / 0.096
5 93 Marc MARQUEZ SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 322.0 2'00.950 0.279 / 0.047
6 35 Cal CRUTCHLOW GBR LCR Honda Honda 310.6 2'01.060 0.389 / 0.110
7 17 Karel ABRAHAM CZE Pull&Bear Aspar Team Ducati 315.8 2'01.077 0.406 / 0.017
8 8 Hector BARBERA SPA Reale Avintia Racing Ducati 313.4 2'01.147 0.476 / 0.070
9 26 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 318.1 2'01.162 0.491 / 0.015
10 99 Jorge LORENZO SPA Ducati Team Ducati 318.7 2'01.189 0.518 / 0.027
11 9 Danilo PETRUCCI ITA OCTO Pramac Racing Ducati 328.4 2'01.560 0.889 / 0.371
12 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha 318.1 2'01.662 0.991 / 0.102
13 29 Andrea IANNONE ITA Team SUZUKI ECSTAR Suzuki 317.9 2'01.740 1.069 / 0.078
14 43 Jack MILLER AUS EG 0,0 Marc VDS Honda 320.2 2'01.803 1.132 / 0.063
15 44 Pol ESPARGARO SPA Red Bull KTM Factory Racing KTM 317.5 2'01.831 1.160 / 0.028
16 76 Loris BAZ FRA Reale Avintia Racing Ducati 315.4 2'02.416 1.745 / 0.585
17 38 Bradley SMITH GBR Red Bull KTM Factory Racing KTM 308.5 2'02.469 1.798 / 0.053
18 45 Scott REDDING GBR OCTO Pramac Racing Ducati 317.9 2'03.056 2.385 / 0.587
19 60 Michael VAN DER MARK NED Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 314.6 2'03.473 2.802 / 0.417
20 53 Tito RABAT SPA EG 0,0 Marc VDS Honda 305.1 2'03.531 2.860 / 0.058
21 22 Sam LOWES GBR Aprilia Racing Team Gresini Aprilia 309.2 2'03.534 2.863 / 0.003
22 42 Alex RINS SPA Team SUZUKI ECSTAR Suzuki 313.2 2'04.381 3.710 / 0.847

 

[schred]

Dovi is still quickest after FP2 (wet) but it's early days and tomorrow looks dry, I wouldn't be surprised if MM cuts that gap right down.

Besides, it all goes out the window once the racing starts.

 

[Lazmo]

Unless MM bins it, he's the dude.

His riding is sublime.

He just somehow needs to overcome his own super special giftedness and how he presents that to the world... and get people to like him.

He public persona is like the antonym of Rossi... a shame really.

But his corner speed, lean angle and elbow dragging is effing amazing.

 

[born-again-biker]

Unless MM bins it, he's the dude.

His riding is sublime.

He just somehow needs to overcome his own super special giftedness and how he presents that to the world... and get people to like him.

He public persona is like the antonym of Rossi... a shame really.

But his corner speed, lean angle and elbow dragging is effing amazing.

Yeah this is all true. His skills are next-level. I wish we could have seen MM race against Stoner. It would have been phenomenal.

But for me, I can't forget the little prick he was in Moto2. Entitled, dangerous, unsporting, aggressive, reckless etc.

...and don't even start me on interfering with Rossi's championship chances at the end of 2015.


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[CalFB]

Unless MM bins it, he's the dude.

His riding is sublime.

He just somehow needs to overcome his own super special giftedness and how he presents that to the world... and get people to like him.

He public persona is like the antonym of Rossi... a shame really.

But his corner speed, lean angle and elbow dragging is effing amazing.

Similar to Lorenzo & Stoner, his public persona is driven by blind Rossi fans. The type that boos the podium presentation last week after one of the best races of the season. They aren't race fans. I won't be sorry to see them gone.

 

[Boom King]

Yeah this is all true. His skills are next-level. I wish we could have seen MM race against Stoner. It would have been phenomenal.

But for me, I can't forget the little prick he was in Moto2. Entitled, dangerous, unsporting, aggressive, reckless etc.

...and don't even start me on interfering with Rossi's championship chances at the end of 2015.


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I like him. I like Rossi too. Don't forget that Rossi punted Marc off as a finale to the whole fiasco...

 

[steve jobs' pancreas]

I ate my weight in satay sticks.

 

[Lazmo]

The type that boos the podium presentation last week after one of the best races of the season. They aren't race fans. I won't be sorry to see them gone.

Yep... 100% agree... just totally weird. What a bunch of knobheads.

 

[steve jobs' pancreas]

by my calcs for Dovi to win the whole shebang he needs to win Valencia and MM finish no better than 14th.

not impossible, but I reckon it is unlikely

Maybe Lorenzo will do him another favour ?

 

[schred]

This is it!

MM to cream them all if he's not taken out by Zarco, Iannone or himself!

Best news of the weekend is NH is retiring, I can hear his voice reading each one of these, though I think they missed a few.

 

[Lazmo]

What a save...

 

[steve jobs' pancreas]

I was too dead to stay up and watch it, figured the title race was over any way.

Got to watch moto3, Joan Mir was in a league of his own. Watch out Moto2 boys, I might be inclined to put a lazy lobster on him to take it out for 2018.

 

[CalFB]

figured the title race was over any way.

It very nearly wasn't, and then it was, completely

 

[Lazmo]

figured the title race was over any way

It very nearly wasn't, and then it was, completely

Yep, it was bizarre.

I thought it was weird that Dovi pulling in after crashing, but getting his bike going. If MM had binned it in the final laps there was no way for Dovi to win the title if he wasn't circulating.

Anyway MM's save was worth the wait up.