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First day of testing for the new season is in the books. Of note that Aleix Espargaro left early due to complications for his leg injury. Pecco, the MotoGP champion of 2022/2023, left after the morning session. https://www.crash.net/motogp/r...icardo-tormo-results Vinales set the fastest time. Marc Marquez was fast on the Ducati, immediately from his first session on it this morning. Everyone needs to look out for the rat. He’s the youngest Moto2 champion in history, also having won the Moto3 championship prior. He takes that youngest title ever from Marc Marquez. What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | ||
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Reposting this from the tail of the '23 Thread https://www.the-race.com/motog...g-concession-system/
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Read that yesterday. Never thought I’d see the day where HRC needs concessions, as well as Yamaha. What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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With how many Ducatis are on the grid & how the Hondas had a propensity to eject their riders, not too surprised they're in the low group. Then Yamaha one having 2 to put any points on the board...Though FM did finish every race & was only out of the points 3 times & FQ only DNF 1 race Both Yamaha & Honda <200 points, with KTM & Aprilia >300 but not enough for a B tier. The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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It’s almost like the Japanese manufacturers are biding their time for a major rule change or just don’t feel like investing hard right now. Honda’s and Yamaha’s “improvements” have been about as effective as Suzuki’s when it was rumored that (the corporate faggotry aka) the brass had already basically pulled the plug on their race program. It just looks weak and like their full effort is not being put into it. Yamaha and Honda are powerhouses. They both look like hollowed out shells of their former selves. Sure Marquez or Rins can occasionally manage a good finish but for the most part they are all struggling for results. Maybe they are in a bad slump or maybe they are investing in the engines MotoGP will require after 2027 that are more in line with the whole “sustainable fuels” bullshit PC mindthink that killed the two stroke era. It’s a puzzling situation for sure. My take is fuck dorna. Bring back the two strokes. People still race horses. Why the fuck not inline 500cc two strokes? (Because they are PC pussies) that’s why. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The price of liberty and even of common humanity is eternal vigilance | |||
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Yamaha invests probably half of what HRC does. Ducati has deep pockets due to VAG. When they got bought by VAG everything changed with them in terms of $. HRC is NASA. HRC has the $. They went wrong by doing what Marc Marquez says. One he can’t develop a bike. This is why they are in the shit. This is also why he went to Ducati team that will have an older bike. He gets to come in and use all the development from 8 riders instead of doing it himself. Then the 2nd major mistake HRC made was giving into Marc’s demands. Marc insisted they fire a bunch of HRC engineers and use his people instead. You can find the quote from Jack Miller, this past season, about this. He said something to the effect of hey if you get all these guys fired and put your people in their positions, and it gets fucked, deal with it. Yamaha, they have always done this man. They invest then they don’t, and it goes on years. Cheap asses just don’t want to spend the money. This is why Valentino couldn’t do much on that bike the last part of his career, or the last couple of years. The entire design of the bike was based around Lorenzo, which ironically, is extremely similar to Fabio’s riding style. So they went with that. Any time a mfr wraps development around one riding style, they are fucked. Far cry from Vale was in charge. He’d develop the bike and everyone on it would get faster. To the point when he was with Honda, he would purposely ride around problems, because he could. In his prime he was unstoppable. Burgess would have to tell him, stop doing that, we have to fix the bike for Honda. Vale didn’t want to give his setup and fixes for other people to use against him. But anyway, Yamaha has not been the same since Masao Furusawa was in charge for the M1. Gigi, is just literally kicking all their asses to the curb. Engine, aero, innovation, everything. And desmo valves use less fuel per meter than the pneumatic valves in the Japanese bikes. What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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 Like him or not, some impressive saves The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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Luca Marini had one this year, that was equal or better than any save Marc has ever done. Luca just got hit, and went down anyway, due to another bike hitting him. He dug his elbow in, on a left, and sparks were flying this season. It was a spectacular save but due to getting hit, didn’t get the hype. Marc, benefitting from all the Ducati dev that came before him. He’ll be a threat on that thing from the first race next year. I foresee Ducati running into a real issue pissing off Pecco, Jorge, or both. Marc is going to be a threat for next year, and push for a factory bike in 2025, and Ducati will have to sort out their mess of riders. It’s an embarrassment of riches to the likes I have never seen before with any other mfr. Then there is the Rat. Rat don’t give a fuck about Marquez or anything else. Bend it like Bender is a real talent but Acosta is a generational talent, even besting Marquez’s timelines in the lower championships. I guess since he looks like a damn Rat, it’s all the better for him wanting to be the best rider because he certainly isn’t getting any model jobs  What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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P250UA5, This is what I see in this thread when I look at your post. When I try to click the link, having an account with the Dorna jackboots it doesn’t link to anything. No one is better at killing enthusiasm for their sport quite as effectively as the Spanish Mafia assholes at Dorna. How dare we enjoy this sport or share it with friends without paying up to the Spanish mafia.   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The price of liberty and even of common humanity is eternal vigilance | |||
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You should be able to click the view on YouTube link. Dorna [like F1] block video replay via embed, have to view directly in YT. Not sure if that has something to do with YT view revenue, embed vs YT views. Edit: Clicked the link in the center of the embed box & it went right to the video for me. The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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Trackhouse Racing takes over RNF Team
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Saw that today. With no American in the premier class  What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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Wasn't there an American in Moto2? Name is escaping me at the moment, but I don't recall the results being worthy of a GP seat. The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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Joe Roberts (Finished 13th) and Sean Dylan Kelly (Finished 29th). Neither are ready for the premier class. What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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Roberts was who I was thinking of The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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6 Minutes of Miller [Embed disabled by Dorna, click link to view on YT] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFhdzmDYE4I The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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The Argentina GP has been canceled. Due to “the current situation” aka a country in serious financial trouble with a new libertarian head of state who has promised to cut spending and appears to be following through on his promises. It sucks to see Argentina lose their GP. Both Rins and Marquez are very good at that track. Could have made for a very interesting race. Link to article Being someone who always looks for something positive in what seems like bad news perhaps this could open up the possibility of a second race in the USA? Wishful thinking probably but it is fun to day dream about such a thing happening. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The price of liberty and even of common humanity is eternal vigilance | |||
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There is no other track to host a MotoGP event. Indy is a shithole track for these bikes and Laguna doesn’t have the infrastructure required. Bring back Brno. What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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How about Donington Park? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The price of liberty and even of common humanity is eternal vigilance | |||
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