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Average Lettuce posted:What's the best way to follow MotoGP news? Gay Nudist Dad posted:Motomatters.com is my favorite. A lot of his deeper stuff is paywalled but I think it’s worth it, I’ve been reading his coverage since I got into MotoGP back in like 2008. Mat Oxley at Motorsport.com is also good, the-race.com has some good news coverage if a little clickbaity, and all of these are active on Twitter which is great. Dave from Motomatters does a good podcast with a bunch of other journalists and Neil Morrison who commentates on the moto3 and 2 qualifying. They also do a lot of WSBK news. https://twitter.com/PaddockPassPod/ echomadman fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Oct 16, 2022 |
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Thanks, I'll check Motomatters!
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Haha holy poo poo Rins! Riding it like he stole it the whole way. Great fun in Moto3 as well, well done Guevara. Can't remember Moto2 but that's the fever talking.
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italian quid posted:I honestly think the Nakagami thing happened purely because Ogura very wisely realised that the more time Honda has to sort out their poo poo show before he gets on the bike the better he will look so he isn't in a rush to grab that seat. Yeah this is how it feels to me too, Honda want a Japanese rider and Ogura isn’t ready/wanting to step up yet.
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I'm so happy I didn't spoil this race before watching it. Miller getting taken out in his own corner was ![]()
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Sucks for Miller, I was hoping he'd stay in the champion points. Though with him going on mediums and knowing how he tends to chew his tires up he probably wouldn't have been able to keep up to the end anyway. Wonder how harsh they'll get on Álex.
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I hope the stars align and Aleix wins the championship.
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Collateral Damage posted:Sucks for Miller, I was hoping he'd stay in the champion points. Though with him going on mediums and knowing how he tends to chew his tires up he probably wouldn't have been able to keep up to the end anyway. Wonder how harsh they'll get on Álex. Long lap pinger at sepang was the verdict
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I know they're trying to dissuade bad behaviour but that's a pretty bullshit penalty for what was clearly a racing incident. Alex got it wrong, went straight over to check on miller, them went to apologise after.
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Long lap feels consistent with other incidents this season.
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Oh no, so Alex will finish 14th instead of 9th next race?
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The stewards having no consistency, transparency or competence has been a running theme for a few years now.Russian Bear posted:Oh no, so Alex will finish 24th instead of 19th next race? Fixed
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Ever since Freddie Spencer took over its just been a poo poo show. something is a racing incident one weekend, next week its two long lap penalties. It sounds like he refuses to talk to anybody about his decisions so maybe its an ego thing
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Michael Masi was at the track this weekend. Just make him the race director/chief steward/whatever. What could go wrong?
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KodiakRS posted:Michael Masi was at the track this weekend. Just make him the race director/chief steward/whatever. What could go wrong? This is bad. F1 should not be allowed to diffuse its evil non-racing ways into this sport
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KodiakRS posted:Michael Masi was at the track this weekend. Just make him the race director/chief steward/whatever. What could go wrong? I thought he’d gone back to the Supercars in Australia, where he was before Formula 1 and (in fairness) getting promoted too early because Charlie Whiting died.
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Lol at Crutchlow being tops at the end of FP2.
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Q2 never disappoints.
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who wants to win this championship? <crickets>
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My schadenfreude for Pecco losing this while so close is at an all time high.
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The Yamaha is too slow and it's cost them the championship. But one of the ways it did that was by undermining Fabio psychologically - I can't imagine any other reason for him qualifying so badly when morbidelli got on the second row besides having already decided his bike is too slow; he's lost in his head.
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most of the top runners did badly in q2...are they running race/dry spec setups maybe?
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I'm guessing it's just the pressure, pushing hard to be on the front row. Unless it's actually wet the bikes are always setup for dry, as far as I know anyway. Once the race starts I think most teams change the second bike over to wet, just in case.
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It's psychological pressure in difficult conditions, the guys with nothing to lose conversely did well
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I’m also happy that Marq is back near the front being an annoying buzzy bee following people.
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Is that kid in Moto2 that got seriously hosed up at PI doing okay?
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yep both riders did what they needed to do. Enea’s got some balls though!
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That was a bloody tense race Would love to know whether bastianini couldn't or wouldn't pass bagnaia at the end there
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He was saying he had some grip issues near the end, so who knows the real story. Great result from Rins, even though it doesn't matter overall, he's still got the race in him.
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Slavvy posted:That was a bloody tense race Felt like he made that pass ten to go to let Pecco know what’s up and then dropped back like a good boy. So excited to cheer for Enea next year.
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Great to see Fabio get on the podium. Dude in the cool down room with his hand in a literal bag of ice cuz of the broken finger. Enea is really fun to watch. Moto 2 and 3 were no slouches either. Some pretty brutal crashes particularly the highsides. E: almost forgot. Lol @ Martin crashing out with a comfortable lead. SocksAndSandals fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Oct 24, 2022 |
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Toe Rag posted:Good job Fabio Super intense race. Glad I didn't know the results. Out of the Ducati half of the grid, I'm pulling for Enea next year.
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SocksAndSandals posted:E: almost forgot. Lol @ Martin crashing out with a comfortable lead. Martin seems well placed to inherit Miller's crown of "Ducati rider who constantly blows good results by crashing out or just abusing the poo poo out of his tire in the first half of the race"
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It's easy to cheer for Enea he's awesome and I think it's rad he's going Full Ducati but I am enjoying watching Pecco a lot more the second half of the season.
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Enea is much more likeable because he's his own man and seems to just get on with the job. Pecco is constantly talking about consulting Stoner and Rossi which to me very much says he lives in the shadow of giants and is gonna get rolled psychologically by Marc next year.
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italian quid posted:Enea is much more likeable because he's his own man and seems to just get on with the job. Pecco is constantly talking about consulting Stoner and Rossi which to me very much says he lives in the shadow of giants and is gonna get rolled psychologically by Marc next year. just lol at consulting stoner the textbook example of someone who can't explain what they're doing hope rossi makes more sense in Italian
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I took the "consulting Stoner and Rossi" stuff as an attempt to curry favor with fans of those riders.
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the paradigm shift posted:hope rossi makes more sense in Italian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ecs0xG2uaU ![]()
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italian quid posted:Enea is much more likeable because he's his own man and seems to just get on with the job. Pecco is constantly talking about consulting Stoner and Rossi which to me very much says he lives in the shadow of giants and is gonna get rolled psychologically by Marc next year. Marc and bastianini yeah. TBH I think Marc will crush all these young upstarts if HRC can pull their head out their rear end but I'm also wary of sounding like the rossi tragics did in the mid 10's. I can't see anyone but bestia and maybe fabio being able to withstand the psychological onslaught of the great one.
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