MotoGP 2025

[iYRe]

News just in yamaha made a booboo

On Saturday morning at the 2025 Thai MotoGP season opener, the FIM Stewards announced that all the Friday lap times for Monster Yamaha’s Alex Rins have been cancelled due to an unusual technical infringement.

The Spaniard’s M1 was found to be using “a X2 Race Link unit… that had not been approved by official Timekeeping. This then allowed the possibility to access GPS, which is banned in MotoGP.”


It is thought the Yamaha unit was from testing and, even if it would have been legal, the crucial mistake was not getting it officially approved for use in a grand prix event.


With GPS allowed only for TV, teams have to use other methods to determine the live location of their bikes on the track - needed for things like corner-by-corner set-up of the electronics.


The official rules on GPS are as follows:


GPS
In the MotoGP class, satellite Global Positioning Systems (GPS and similar) are not permitted, except those GPS units supplied by the Organisers and used for their media and promotional purposes.

The use of the Airbag’ GPS is permitted within the rider’s race suit with the sole purpose to allow both the suit manufacturers and the organisers to analyse crash data. It is strictly forbidden for the GPS data to be shared with manufacturers, teams, or riders.

[iYRe]

Love the live graphics updates.. not too sure about the star wars font though. Ai Ogura.. what a ride. MM looking pretty scary.

[onearmedbandit]

I read today that race officials have issued an apology to Pecco and Ducati as he was incorrectly deemed to have completed his fastest lap in practice under a yellow flag situation. I missed qualifying but see he still made it into Q2 and made the front row.

[iYRe]

I read today that race officials have issued an apology to Pecco and Ducati as he was incorrectly deemed to have completed his fastest lap in practice under a yellow flag situation. I missed qualifying but see he still made it into Q2 and made the front row.

Yeah, I didnt hear how through, because the official announcement suggested it was "sorry bro, thems the rules"

[onearmedbandit]

Yeah, I didnt hear how through, because the official announcement suggested it was "sorry bro, thems the rules"

https://www.crash.net/motogp/news/10...low-flag-error

Human error. He wasn’t in a sector that was affected by the incident.

[iYRe]

https://www.crash.net/motogp/news/10...low-flag-error

Human error. He wasn’t in a sector that was affected by the incident.

Yeah but they said:

“We cannot reverse any cancellation of a lap for any rider who has seen a yellow flag. But we can - and do - apologise to Bagnaia and the Ducati Lenovo Team for the human error.”

So how did he end up P3? I thought his pace previously wasnt up there.

[onearmedbandit]

So how did he end up P3? I thought his pace previously wasnt up there.

He made it from Q1 to Q2 and qualified 3rd.

[iYRe]

He made it from Q1 to Q2 and qualified 3rd.

Well, interesting, I thought the yellow flag incident meant he didnt get to Q2. I didnt watch the practice laps though, maybe i should from now on lol

[onearmedbandit]

Well, interesting, I thought the yellow flag incident meant he didnt get to Q2. I didnt watch the practice laps though, maybe i should from now on lol

Don't forget, the fastest 2 from Q1 go through to Q2.

[iYRe]

Don't forget, the fastest 2 from Q1 go through to Q2.

Yeah, I guess I missed something.

MM leading.. tyre gets too cold, drops back, rides behind his brother, warms it up, passes him and puts 1.3 secs on him in about a lap.

Sheesh - Pecco says "Marc was just playing with us today".

[onearmedbandit]

Yup, Davide made it pretty clear to Marc not to talk about it, and when asked in Parc Ferme Marc ignored the question. I haven't seen the interview that happened later but Marc apparently did acknowledge it was for tyre pressure. I'd like to see that rule gone but not my worry.

Edit - https://www.crash.net/motogp/news/10...ty-thai-motogp

[F5 Dave]

Watched last night after trying to avoid spoilers.

Great to have racing back on.

Lot of non duclatteys near frontier. Hope that can sustain other tracks though.

Also shows when riders get on the gp24 how the shoot up the placings.

[iYRe]

This was quite an interesting analysis of MM's tyre warming antics:

[F5 Dave]

So even the new Simon said that as soon as it happened and he did it last year with Digi.

The question is why was he allowed to go out so low when they knew he was going to lead all race?
Was there a slow leak in tyre, wheel or union? Seems bizarre as this must be checked and there's history here.

[onearmedbandit]

The question is why was he allowed to go out so low when they knew he was going to lead all race?
Was there a slow leak in tyre, wheel or union? Seems bizarre as this must be checked and there's history here.

I haven't watched the video yet but Marc did say that his team is still learning how he rides the bike (with respect to the tyre pressure).