Did Pecco go out on the bike he crashed in qualifying. If he did, seems a bit silly to me, to go out on a fairly damaged bike that he doused with a fire extinguisher without testing it
The commentary I was listening to said that he raced on his number two bike, because he had already crashed his number one bike.
Great racing across all three classes (unless you were english!). I had Holgado down for my M3 champ at the start of the season but Alonso is doing a brilliant job. Good to see Garcia coming good in m2 as well, his battle with Guevara was epic a couple of years ago in m3..Ogura warming up nicely too. JM though, won 50% of the races so far in 2024. Who do Ducati go with next year, speed and results or "marketability"? I so hope its the former! Him and Pecco going head to head next year has me drooling. Fair play to 93 though, as much as i clearly dont want him winning anything he's still fast as fk, even with a wonky arm. Love listening to the french belt out their glorious national anthem too. Up there with the welsh and nothing like our horrible dirge lol.
Someone needs to buy poor M Lav some factor 50 too, poor bugger looked like a badly cooked rasher of bacon by the end of the weekend (again).
MM was stunning this afternoon. What a pass. Great finish by all three to be fair. Acosta reminds me of MM - he giveth not one shit about anyone else. Love it.
First 5 and last 5 laps were decent in the main race, not a great race otherwise i thought. Moto 2 was a good watch, think Jake has a lot of work cut out to get back to the front now.
Disagree. One of the best races I have watched. Acosta push, crash, Bez, crash. MM, riding like he is using his years of racecraft, not just his on the edge talent. JM heaping pressure on the two times champ. Fabio going well, till the crash. Front riders trading places. What do you want?
When Marc started to close on Peco and Jorge I genuinely could feel my heart beating faster and butterflies in my stomach. Been a long time since that has happened to me while just watching racing. The anticipation was epic.
Trading places at the end and a bit at the start, just didn't feel like much happened in the middle part. Acosta stacking it while pushing was exciting but the racing wasn't really close for the most part. Compare that to WSBK races this year which have been better. Next round should offer some closer racing in GP
I think if we want to cut and thrust throughout the whole of the race, then the tyre pressure rule will need to be junked. Its already a f..up imo. But riders spending time managing heat in the front tyre with the fear of being penalised is madness. It is enough that they need to manage the tyres to go race distance without any nutty rules and penalties to think about. Interesting though that Acosta just seems to go for it for the whole of a race, yesterday being an exception with his early bath.
I think the racing has actually become so close its almost impossible to pass at certain point and squirt tracks or tracks with a lot of first gear corners. If you look how close the whole field was running the session before quali when you would expect them to be in race trim, the top 5 were all within .2 of the lead and the top 20 all within a second of the lead. Mind bowing really. (cant remember the last time the phrase "Ducati Lane" was used to in a race either)