Moto GP is back with us and for those without sky or BT subscriptions the highlights are on ITV4 at 8 o'clock on Monday. So no spoilers from the posh people :whistling:
I have a MotoGP video pass and stream it live.
However, the 1:00am in the morning start when I get up at 4:00am for work...well perhaps 20 odd years back, maybe.
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Was a pretty boring race i thought. Im sick of Ducati keeping in there with just straight line speed. All the bikes should have same power, would be much better racing.
Well I just watched round 1 - Qatar - and I actually enjoyed it.
The Ducati advantage was largely negated by the wind.
Poor old Alex Rins had a very bad last corner...
Quite difficult to pick a winner yet, so much talent in that Top 10
If Suzuki can drag some more HP out of the bike in the last half of the season, might be on a winner again!
Why is Marquez away? Apparently not back til race 3 ?
Managed to stay awake for Qatar Pt2. Good race, good results, I thought the Ducati's might struggle but they did well.
Still rather controlled motors, Moto 2 style. Just crap that great riding undone by superior power blasting them down the straight. IMO only.
Brilliant race by Jack Miller, i honestly thought he woyld swap to a dry bike with 8 laps to go, but he made it work. Zarco was absolutely flying and would have caught him if the race was 3 laps longerm
Looks like Suzuki have found some speed this year. 🤞🏻Brilliant riding, too hard actually in Rins case, always trying 11/10 to get away on corners, hence he falls, or gets eaten on straights. Were fastest last night on straight. Hopefully good signs.
Awesome win by Rins at the Island yesterday. Shame about Miller.
Phillip Island has a knack of leveling the playing field because of it's varied layout which suits both HP or good handling
Top 6 were milliseconds apart
Best race I've seen in a long time
:cheers:
Why does everyone call Miller an Aussie? I'm pretty sure he's a Kiwi 🤡
Quote from: GSXKING on Monday, 17 October 2022, 11:50 AM
Phillip Island has a knack of leveling the playing field because of it's varied layout which suits both HP or good handling
Top 6 were milliseconds apart
Best race I've seen in a long time
:cheers:
Why does everyone call Miller an Aussie? I'm pretty sure he's a Kiwi 🤡
He's from Townsville QLD
It was a fantastic race!
2nd closest Top 10 in motoGP era apparently.
Jack got shafted by Alex Marquez, which is a shame/
There's no denying what an absolutely EPIC ride that was from Rins. The to and fro between him and Marc Marquez especially was great to watch.
He really proved the Suzuki is capable and made it more obvious that Suzuki's decision to withdraw was a poor one.
Be great to see him next year and hope LCR Honda can put a decent bike under him.
Quote from: VladTepes on Monday, 17 October 2022, 01:16 PM
He really proved the Suzuki is capable and made it more obvious that Suzuki's decision to withdraw was a poor one.
Why poor? They are a business that's struggling. The small line up of bikes they have are based around 15 or 20 year old models with minor updates that can't match the competition. Spending huge amounts on MotoGP, EWC etc is just more financial hurt when they have nothing that great in the showrooms. I bought a new Suzuki because it suited me personally, irrelevant of racing, I don't see queues out the showroom doors to buy bikes that can't match the completion because of a few good GP laps on a Sunday.
Sadly, they haven't even been hit with the latest diesel scam fines yet so I fear the worse is yet to come. I love the brand but it's sad to see the way it's going.
Great/ incredible Rins ride. 👍👍Agree about Suzuki product, not good enough. Only reason last few years ive watched GP is the blue bikes. Wont bother anymore. Do we have a resident billionaire in our site. Please stand up, buy the team. Make me happy. 🤞🏻🤞🏻
Tony, I completely agree with that too - financially it makes sense and was almost certainly necessary for precisely that reason. I would rather see them invest in building some better bikes rather than racing, given the choice.
It's just... sad.
So many good memories of watching Suzukis on track. (including old footage of Barry Sheene, of course)
Gutted to see Suzuki pulling out of Motogp, sad times. :thumbs_down:
Will miss the Brand not lining up the grid. Good on Rins winning at Phillip Island :worshippy:
Probably safe to mention it now, great to see Alex Rins win the final race of the year at Valencia for Suzuki following their departure from Grand Prix racing. :winner: :onya: :clapping:
Fuckin' eh! That was a brilliant last race.
So glad to see Pecco Bagnaia clinch the championship despite a superhuman effort from Quatararo who never gave up.
(And Pecco even had part of the aero missing from his bike after a brief coming together with Quatararo ealier.)
Certainly an EPIC performance from Alex Rins - bodes well for next year.
Only downside of the race really was Jack Miller's fall.
Shame Remy Gardner didn't really cut it in the MotoGP. Mind you there are some worse riders in the field but they bring sponsor $ to their teams so they keep their seats.
Watch out for Remy in the Superbikes next year.
Ho hum, Italians and Spaniards, Shit loads of Ducatis, interviews with W#&s who can't speak English, always drowned out by the bikes, why the F do they even talk to them. The whole thing is shit as far as I'm concerned. And the commentators, oh FFS.
Quote from: Nic on Thursday, 10 November 2022, 04:51 PM
Ho hum, Italians and Spaniards, Shit loads of Ducatis, interviews with W#&s who can't speak English, always drowned out by the bikes, why the F do they even talk to them. The whole thing is shit as far as I'm concerned. And the commentators, oh FFS.
I really lost interest in it this year. Followed it for many years and even traveled overseas to see a race. Getting up at 2 or 3am to watch races on TV, I was a huge fan but just not feeling it now.
I love the Rossi and Marquez years, lots of real characters, love 'em or hate 'em it was a pantomime and a great show. Now I'd struggle to name half the riders and just don't feel any connection like I used to. All the big names I followed have gone and now Suzuki too. Just not feeling it with the current line up.
Agree. Im over it now. No blue bikes, Ducati money calling the rules.
The Spanish MotoGP series featuring Ducati motorcycles. ;)
Exactly correct. Lets just give them more power, Oh that didnt work. Lets just let them have 1/3 of bikes entered. Now that worked.
I feel sorry for Rins, he's goin nowhere on that Honda, Mir probably the same, Killed Lorenzo's career. Not to mention Remy Gardner getting the shove. Really hope he can do something in WSBK but I don't know if he's getting a good bike?
Jack Miller, you won't see him in the coverage any more coz he won't be up the front. So who do you root for, for me, nobody now, of course I still hope Jack can do something but you'd need some serious improvements from KTM, Binder did well last race so here's hoping. I'm sort of hoping MM93 can do it again just to stick it up Ducati.