MotoGP 2015

[rackbongsen0991]

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[GD66]

I've always maintained that.

[Erelyes]

Holy shitballs, WhoreHey just obliterated the rest of the pack. Well done that man.

This season is getting really interesting. MM has proved that his injury is no obstacle, he now has 2 weeks to get it A OK.

Was a bit disappointed to see Dovi run it through the litter, doesn't do his (admittedly slim) chances of a championship any favours. He did well from the back though.

Aoyama went from bad to worse, he was an ass hair away from scoring one (1) point when he smashed the bike to pieces, and very nearly himself too.

HRC seems to be sticking to this 'steady as she goes, follow the plan' policy but their constructor's chances are slipping fast, and I wonder if at the end of the season they'll be wondering what if. Maybe market research shows that a championship rider sells more bikes than a constructor's title.

[pritch]

Holy shitballs, WhoreHey just obliterated the rest of the pack. Well done that man.

Maybe market research shows that a championship rider sells more bikes than a constructor's title.

Yeah apparently George took 20 seconds off the race record.

It'd probably be difficult to find anyone outside the factories (and their dealers?) who gave a shit about the manufacturers title. The riders' title is the only one that really interests me.

[Autech]

Quatararo (SPL?) that last corner was a tad scary.

I think he may have kicked it down one too many gears, either top riding skills or luck (or both) kept him from clearing both the other boys out. Yet another fantastic Moto3 race to watch

Iannone engaged the "wet map" instead of launch control on the start line These machines may be getting too complicated. Seems like every race somebody screws it up. Crutchlow managed to punch a button twice instead of once and had some issues.

Pol's major achievement was to hold up fellow Yamaha rider Rossi just enough to ruin his race and spoil what might have been another entertaining battle with MM. Thanks muchly.

Redding must be in despair. Lost in the setup wilderness.

Shame both Ducati's scored electronic own goals. Would have been much more entertaining race with them running in the top five or six.

Jorge crushingly on it.

Eeeyaaanooneee must have been properly pissed off with that mistake. I did notice at the end that Melandri managed to beat Miller to the line, at this rate he will have a top ten by the end of the season for sure

Motogp race was properly boring, shame Rossi couldn't get close enough to knock Marquez off again, that would have been hilarious!

[Shaun Harris]

VALENTINO ROSSI

This testing day was positive. We didn?t have many things to try, just some small detail of set up. We focused on improving the bike compared to yesterday and I am very happy because we could also improve the time we did in qualifying.


Very Cool. Rossi never goes fast fast in testing, and yet he went faster than his qualify time already in testing. That looks good for the future to me

[Reckless]

Race was good but we've been spoilt by the drama of the first races LOL

Testing round up off the GP site

Movistar Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo ended the official test at Jerez on top after dominating the Spanish GP over the weekend.
It was cloudy but warm for the first official mid-season MotoGP™ test on Monday in Jerez and Movistar Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo, who had dominated proceedings over the race weekend, ended the day once more on top of the timesheets recording a 1’38.516 to celebrate his 28th birthday.

His teammate Valentino Rossi was only four-hundredths of a second further back in second, as he set his best time of the weekend. The team admitted they did not have any major updates to test, with both riders focusing more on the setup of their bikes, and completing 52 and 66 laps respectively.

CWM LCR Honda’s Cal Crutchlow (+0.306s) followed up his fourth during the race in Jerez by finishing third in the test, as he tried out some new suspension parts and worked on the electronics package on his RC213V as he put in 64 laps.

Team Suzuki Ecstar Aleix Espargaro (+0.382s) completed 63 laps and was 4th fastest as he used the test to try and find out if they had solved the chatter issue which had affected the bike at the three previous races. Chatter can be caused by excess grip, so the team wanted to know if they had fix the problem, or if it was simply down to slippery nature of the Jerez track.

Repsol Honda’s Marc Marquez only completed 31 laps as he tried out a new swingarm for his Repsol Honda team, ending the day in 5th, 0.460 seconds behind Lorenzo as he protected his broken finger from any more damage.

Monster Yamaha Tech 3’s Bradley Smith completed the top six, 0.831s back from Lorenzo, beating his time from Qualifying in the process. The Brit put in 41 laps as he finished three-tenths ahead of his teammate Pol Espargaro.

A number of the Open class teams made use of the extra track time to work on the setup of their Magneti Marelli electronics package, while Avintia Racing’s Hector Barbera had some new parts to test to effectively turn his Open GP14 into the 14.1 Danilo Petrucci rides.

Aprilia Racing Team Gresini debuted their full seamless shift gearbox at the test with Alvaro Bautista, while Marco Melandri had a new swingarm and chassis to test. Bautista made dramatic progress to end the day in 11th 1.2s behind Lorenzo, while Melandri finished last in 22nd.


Pos Rider Team Fastest lap Lead. Gap Prev. Gap Laps Last lap
1 LORENZO, Jorge Movistar Yamaha MotoGP 1:38.508 49 / 52
2 ROSSI, Valentino Movistar Yamaha MotoGP 1:38.550 0.042 0.042 60 / 66
3 CRUTCHLOW, Cal CWM LCR Honda 1:38.814 0.306 0.264 29 / 64
4 ESPARGARO, Aleix Team Suzuki ECSTAR 1:38.890 0.382 0.076 22 / 63
5 MARQUEZ, Marc Repsol Honda Team 1:38.968 0.460 0.078 4 / 31
6 SMITH, Bradley Monster Yamaha Tech 3 1:39.339 0.831 0.371 41 / 41
7 HERNANDEZ, Yonny Pramac Racing 1:39.357 0.849 0.018 54 / 56
8 REDDING, Scott EG 0.0 Marc VDS 1:39.370 0.862 0.013 104 / 105
9 VIÑALES, Maverick Team Suzuki ECSTAR 1:39.475 0.967 0.105 74 / 79
10 ESPARGARO, Pol Monster Yamaha Tech 3 1:39.654 1.146 0.179 6 / 45
11 BAUTISTA, Alvaro Aprilia Racing Team Gresini 1:39.766 1.258 0.112 47 / 53
12 BRADL, Stefan Athina Forward Racing 1:39.887 1.379 0.121 38 / 52
13 PETRUCCI, Danilo Pramac Racing 1:39.892 1.384 0.005 55 / 60
14 HAYDEN, Nicky Aspar MotoGP Team 1:39.909 1.401 0.017 65 / 73
15 LAVERTY, Eugene Aspar MotoGP Team 1:40.101 1.593 0.192 18 / 73
16 BAZ, Loris Athina Forward Racing 1:40.186 1.678 0.085 53 / 59
17 MILLER, Jack CWM LCR Honda 1:40.248 1.740 0.062 33 / 64
18 BARBERA, Hector Avintia Racing 1:40.260 1.752 0.012 29 / 52
19 AOYAMA, Hiroshi Repsol Honda Team 1:40.342 1.834 0.082 28 / 60
20 ABRAHAM, Karel AB Motoracing 1:40.654 2.146 0.312 15 / 63
21 DI MEGLIO, Mike Avintia Racing 1:41.085 2.577 0.431 12 / 62
22 MELANDRI, Marco Aprilia Racing Team Gresini 1:41.825 3.317 0.740 12 / 19

[pritch]

11 BAUTISTA, Alvaro Aprilia Racing Team Gresini

22 MELANDRI, Marco Aprilia Racing Team Gresini

The info we have available suggests that Mr Melandri is not enjoying himself. Perhaps Aprilia should do what Ducati did and refer him to a psychologist?
Sad really, I watched him win at Phillip Island; he is better than this.

[Shaun Harris]

Redding is deff growing on the big bikes now

[george formby]

I think he may have kicked it down one too many gears, either top riding skills or luck (or both) kept him from clearing both the other boys out. Yet another fantastic Moto3 race to watch

Yup. Had me off me seat at the end. Must admit to waving the flag for Kent which made it especially exciting. I watched the slow mo replay a few times and the riders ability to move without getting fixated on the loose unit is amazing.

[Reckless]

Even the best can do the Dumbest things under the high pressure of a race start.
We've all been there I feel for him.

Ducati Team's Andrea Iannone finished in sixth after selecting the wrong mapping for his bike on the starting grid in Jerez.
Iannone, who started from the front row after qualifying third on the grid on Saturday, inserted the ‘wet’ mapping by mistake a few seconds before the start, and as a result his race performance was undermined as the electronic management of his Desmosedici GP15 did not function optimally.

In spite of this handicap, the Italian then produced a good run to the flag, recovering well after a bad start to move up from eleventh to sixth, and he finished just four-tenths away from Pol Espargaro in fifth place.

Andrea Iannone:
“For sure today’s race was very difficult for me, because I made an error that cost me very dear, one that I should have avoided. Unfortunately at the start I switched on the mapping for wet conditions instead of launch control, and as a result had to do the whole race with ‘wet’ set-up because the procedure to return to dry settings is very complicated. I tried to get the best result possible in these conditions, but we could certainly have scored a better result here at Jerez and so I feel very sorry for my team, which worked really well this weekend. In any case we can’t make any excuses, and starting from Le Mans I will try and make up for this weekend with all the guys in my team and Ducati by scoring some good results in the next few races.”


Secondly I bet Rossi wished they had have found the setting for the race they found in testing the day after ???

[Badjelly]

The info we have available suggests that Mr Melandri is not enjoying himself. Perhaps Aprilia should do what Ducati did and refer him to a psychologist?

Yeah, that worked well for Ducati

[roogazza]

Redding is deff growing on the big bikes now

Yes ,I'm keen to see him click and sort CC and BS on a regular basis.
Last year he was the talk of the pits with his size and going to the Motogp class.

[Shaun Harris]

Yes ,I'm keen to see him click and sort CC and BS on a regular basis.
Last year he was the talk of the pits with his size and going to the Motogp class.

He has it for sure ( Or as far as I am concerned anyway) I really like CC, as I like the working class man making it up there

[GD66]

At least he has finished 7-7-3-4, which means so far so good in that he appears to have stopped pitching it up the road. He's always had quite good pace, if he can stay aboard it will be something of a breakthrough but much better all round for results and getting out of the sack in the morning. In saying that he is bloody fit and bounces well. Hopefully this year we will see what he can do with a prolonged effort.