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Post by Pistola on Jun 5, 2022 16:32:10 GMT -8
Rins has a broken left wrist while Nakagama has nothing serious but will stay overnight in hospital.
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Post by Pistola on Jun 5, 2022 16:33:58 GMT -8
The dumb luck part.
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Post by truenorth on Jun 5, 2022 17:33:15 GMT -8
Martin Raines: Fabio Quartararo’s winning margin today in Catalunya was 6.473 seconds, the biggest winning margin in a fully dry MotoGP race since Marquez won at Phillip Island in 2019 by 11.413 seconds, and the biggest by a Yamaha rider since Lorenzo at Le Mans in 2016 by 10.654 seconds
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Post by truenorth on Jun 5, 2022 17:34:54 GMT -8
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Post by truenorth on Jun 5, 2022 17:35:54 GMT -8
"It was my fault. I apologise to my team. I had no time to see the lap and so I watched the tower. My mistake. I need to watch my people, not the tower."
Nothing but respect to Aleix Espargaró for fronting up and owning the error.
He'll come back stronger
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Post by truenorth on Jun 5, 2022 17:37:52 GMT -8
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Post by truenorth on Jun 5, 2022 19:37:44 GMT -8
Alex Rins: “I'm injured, I think I have a broken wrist, Pecco lost the championship because of Taka, and no action is taken against him. The Stewards have shown their incompetence and need to be replaced. »
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Post by truenorth on Jun 5, 2022 19:46:06 GMT -8
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Post by truenorth on Jun 5, 2022 20:13:45 GMT -8
Pecco Bagnaia: I am happy that takanakagami30 and Rins42 are doing well, that is the most important thing. We are professional riders and we can't make mistakes like that with our experience. Unfortunately racing is also this, but safety comes first and something has to change.
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Post by truenorth on Jun 7, 2022 9:03:54 GMT -8
Takaaki Nakagami First of all, I want to apologize to Rins42 suzuki motogp, and Pecco Bagnaia ducati corse for the accident at turn 1. I’m really sorry destroyed your race. It was a scary one but fortunately I’m OK, no serious injury. I’ll try to recovery asap.
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Post by truenorth on Jun 7, 2022 9:26:47 GMT -8
Alex Rins I’m glad that you are okay! Get well soon taka nakagami30 !
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Post by truenorth on Jun 7, 2022 9:54:32 GMT -8
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Post by truenorth on Jun 7, 2022 10:32:16 GMT -8
Rd.09 Catalan GP - Track Report Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya Track Report by Alberto Puig [Repsol Honda Team - Team Manager] What is the latest news on Marc Marquez? The surgery went well, Dr Sanchez Sotelo was very happy and Marc is already now back in Spain. He will start his recovery slowly, following the instructions from the doctor. We are very happy that he is back home, and he can start thinking about the recovery of his right humerus. It’s good when you are able to return home promptly from hospital, limiting the time away from your house. Is there an indication of what the recovery time will be? The doctor said that Marc needs to take everything step by step, with periodic checks together with Dr Samuel Antuña in Spain. Both medical teams are working closely together, and this is very important. They will be evaluating the situation more or less every two to three weeks. The priority now is the healing of the bone and avoiding any major complications. Stefan Bradl replaced him in Barcelona and will again be in Sachsenring and Assen. It’s never easy! When you are a test rider like Stefan and suddenly you are racing, you have to change your mentality. You go from performing a certain type of work with a certain bike and training in a certain way to being a MotoGP rider again. As a rider you have to do everything at once, you have to give everything you have in just a few hours over three days, for this you need to readjust your mind. This is what Stefan was doing this weekend. Unfortunately, he crashed and has some pain from the fall, especially in the knee, but he was able to complete laps during the Monday Test and help Honda with the new things we had. What’s the Test Team’s if Stefan stays in the Repsol Honda Team? At this moment is difficult to understand what we can do because we need Stefan for the races. The other Honda HRC riders also had a hard weekend. Takaaki Nakagami’s crash was a big one. He was lucky in some ways. He went to the hospital and was under observation in the UCI for 24 hours. He has now already been moved and probably on Tuesday he can go home. We feel very sorry for Rins and Bagnaia who were involved in the accident. Pol Espargaro has some problems in the race. He started very well and was fourth on the first lap but he was missing grip compared to the days before. This stopped him from performing well, it was really a pity. The balance is not good. On the other hand, Alex Marquez did a good race, even after his big crash on Saturday, he recovered to finish tenth and get some good points.
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Post by truenorth on Jun 7, 2022 10:54:36 GMT -8
Catalunya Test: Quartararo betters Bagnaia by 0.004 at busy Catalunya Test All six factories worked on new technical innovations as they try to catapult themselves towards glory in the second half of 2022 Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP's Fabio Quartararo flexed his muscles yet again around the Circuit de Barcelona - Catalunya by setting the fastest lap of the Official Catalunya Test just one day on from his victory in the Monster Energy Catalan Grand Prix. The Frenchman's 1:39.447 in the opening part of the eight-hour Official Test was enough for him to cling on to top spot by the narrowest of margins, with Ducati Lenovo Team's Francesco Bagnaia only 0.004 seconds adrift in second. Completing the top three was Prima Pramac Racing's Johann Zarco, who, despite claiming the final podium place on Sunday, completed a tiring 93 laps during the day. A small crash at Turn 2 didn't deter Aprilia Racing's Aleix Espargaro, as he quickly put Sunday's embarrassment behind him by finishing the day fourth on the timesheets and only a tenth away from his title rival Quartararo. Repsol Honda will be hopeful they've managed to make a breakthrough on the new RC213V after Pol Espargaro grabbed the final spot inside a top five split by only a quarter of a second. Ducati Lenovo Team's Jack Miller posted a 1:39.742 inside the opening hour to end up sixth, half a tenth clear of Aprilia Racing's Maverick Viñales. Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP's Franco Morbidelli suffered a crash late in the day at Turn 5 but showed positive signs of improvement by closing the Official Test in eighth. Completing the top ten was the Gresini Racing duo of Enea Bastianini and Fabio Di Giannantonio. Top KTM was Brad Binder in eleventh, ahead of the top, and only, Suzuki, Joan Mir, in twelfth. All six factories unveiled a raft of brand-new parts throughout the course of the day, as they look to springboard themselves towards title glory in this pivotal middle part of the 2022 World Championship. Let's take a look, factory by factory, at what was spotted in pitlane at the Catalunya Test. YAMAHA World Champion and our most recent race winner Fabio Quartararo was focussing his work on a revised swingarm - the one he used to great effect in Sunday’s race. The Frenchman was swapping between the updated version and the one he started the year on as Yamaha's search of more rear grip continues. WithU Yamaha RNF’s Andrea Dovizioso was also seen with the latest swingarm, plus the aerodynamic upgrade as they try to get the Italian comfortable on the Yamaha M1 Franco Morbidelli, meanwhile, was working with a carbon swingarm, plus continued to use the upgraded aerodynamics package. Speaking afterwards, Quartararo and team boss Maio Meregalli confirmed that El Diablo has permanently reverted back to the original 2022 aero package and will not use the upgrade first seen at Mugello for the rest of the season. DUCATI As usual, there was a lot going on down at Ducati and the most interesting innovation was a rather different chassis spotted on Michele Pirro's GP22 and, rather more interestingly, Johann Zarco’s Prima Pramac Ducati. Both the Frenchman and Davide Tardozzi refused to confirm whether we could see the chassis in action at some stage through 2022 or whether it was early work on the GP23. Ducati Lenovo duo Jack Miller and Francesco Bagnaia, plus Gresini's Enea Bastianini were all seen testing a slightly revised aerodynamics package with the Bologna factory yet to use their one allowed upgrade for the 2022 campaign. APRILIA Aprilia had the entirety of pitlane talking when they rolled out a radically new side fairing that you can see pictured below. Both Maverick Viñales and Aleix Espargaro tried it throughout the course of the day. Espargaro was also spotted trying the new rear wing that Lorenzo Savadori first used in Mugello. Viñales had a slightly different chassis to try during the day, plus the pair worked on an upgraded engine that Technical Director Romano Albesiano confirmed they hoped to be able to use at the Austrian Grand Prix. SUZUKI It was expected we wouldn't see too much from the Hamamatsu factory due to their possible departure from MotoGP™ at the end of the current season, but Joan Mir did have two different aerodynamic packages to try during the day. One had side pods added to the current version, and the second was a totally new design. The 2020 World Champion confirmed he would be using one of them from the German Grand Prix onwards. KTM The Austrian factory will be hoping they've made a step forward at the Catalunya Test and they had plenty of items to try. Team boss Francesco Guidotti confirmed they were trying new parts, doing further work on current parts even re-evaluating last year’s parts. Slight changes to the chassis and switching between aero packages were the most notable things from the orange part of pitlane. HONDA The importance of this Official Test to HRC is evident by the fact nobody did more laps of the Circuit de Barcelona - Catalunya today than Alex Marquez (LCR Honda Castrol). The former Moto3™ and Moto2™ World Champion had two different chassis to try during the day, plus got the chance to try the swingarm first seen on brother Marc Marquez's bike in Mugello. Pol Espargaro was seen with a third different chassis that had carbon bonded to the main beam.
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Post by truenorth on Jun 7, 2022 11:05:38 GMT -8
Lawrence Peeney: Aleix Espargaró's dernier tour detour reminded me of proddy racer Gary Stronge who once won an 8 lap club race at Brands but didn't see the 🏁 because the flag post had been moved. Thinking that the race hadn't finished Gary continued regardlessly and crashed out on his 9th lap! La Mala Suerte Ediciones I read an interview with Kenny Roberts in which he said that in his first roadrace he was fighting with another guy three laps after the race finished. The race direction had to pull a huge Cadillac onto the track to make them realise that the race had already finished.
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Post by truenorth on Jun 8, 2022 5:39:05 GMT -8
Jack Gorst: The new Aprilia fairing is an interesting one as when it's cranked over it pretty much looks as though it's trying to make a 'floor'. I'm certainly no aerodynamicist but it does make you wonder if it's a more blatant way of doing what Ducati are doing with the downwash ducts
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Post by truenorth on Jun 9, 2022 7:34:04 GMT -8
KTM Factory Racing BREAKING NEWS jackmilleraus will race for Red Bull KTM Factory Racing from the 2023 MotoGP season.
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Post by truenorth on Jun 9, 2022 7:37:43 GMT -8
Pecco Bagnaia It is a real honour for me to share the box with you these four years. You are one of the coolest people in the paddock, and one of the most talented and fastest riders. We still have many battles ahead of us on the track my friend. Thank you Thriller jack milleraus
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Post by truenorth on Jun 10, 2022 4:57:56 GMT -8
Repsol: Are technological advances affecting the spectacle in MotoGP? The MotoGP World Championship isn’t just a competition, it is also a global spectacle whose format attracts millions of people around the world, but sometimes it isn’t easy to combine all the factors without making races less attractive. It is a recurring debate that, from time to time, shakes the foundations of MotoGP. It usually happens because this championship isn't something hieratic and unmovable, as if it were set in stone; it is a living competition that evolves at the pace of technology and, therefore, must adapt to it. Although, sometimes, it isn't easy at all to get the right balance. The regulations that have been introduced in the MotoGP World Championship have been an effective response to making the competition as fair and balanced as possible. In the past, when the new category was rolled out in 2002, replacing the spectacular and complicated 500cc bikes, it enjoyed an open regulation. There were all types of engine configurations: V5, V4, straight-four, straight-three… There were even up to three different tire suppliers at the same time. But that diversity and that openness gave way to some huge inequalities. To start, not everyone had access to the same type of tires, not even riders that worked with the same supplier. Tailor-made tires were made based on the telemetry data collected on the first day of practice. That is what Michelin did for several seasons in the European races on certain occasions, working against the clock in its Clermont-Ferrand factory (France) to send out a new batch of special race tires for Valentino Rossi on Saturday night in a fast road service. When in 2009 the sole supplier system was introduced, these differences between riders were eliminated, leveling race conditions and benefiting the spectacle. Little by little, lap and race time records were adjusted, and that increased the excitement on the track. The next step was taken in 2015 with the introduction of the unified ECU. Electronics also made a huge difference, because they were very expensive to develop, and not all manufacturers were in a position to afford such an expense, nor did all MotoGP satellite teams have the sufficient economic potential to address the necessary upgrades required for these complex systems. All of this has led us to some very equal and balanced competition conditions, with riders performing at an extraordinary level, which makes us have the most balanced championship in history, with hardly any differences between them. Races are no longer won by wide margins of seconds; now, the victory or podium finishes are decided by a few tenths or a few thousandths of a second. Technology vs. spectacle This season the situation has exacerbated to the point that it is more and more complex to overtake. Implementing new technologies, like massive use of aerodynamic elements, or systems that modify the height of the bike to gain acceleration efficiency, make overtaking more and more difficult. You now no longer depend only on the potential of your engine and your skills. You drive faster and brake in less time, and that makes it much more difficult to gain enough time and meters to carry out the overtaking maneuver safely. A few weeks ago, the Grand Prix Commission, the body in charge of regulating the championship, made up of representatives from the International Motorcycling Federation, the championship promoter, the manufacturers association, and the teams’ association, decided to ban from 2023 the use of devices that modify the height of the bike in movement, the popularly known “holeshot”. From then, they may not be used in movement and will only be activated with their original purpose: to vary the height of the bikes at the start. However, no consideration has been given to the rear axle, whose use of a manual device to reduce the height of the bike is also usual. MotoGP Technical Director, Corrado Cecchinelli, will be responsible for determining what is considered as a front ride height device. These measures try to return part of the combativeness lost by MotoGP. Furthermore, this technology has made the qualifying session vitally important, as a behind grid position will doom race aspirations. But, on the other hand, starting behind forces you to be combative in order to make up ground, and in many races we have witnessed spectacular comebacks that have added spice to the competition. One detail that cannot be overlooked about this technology is its influence on the pilots' physical appearance. Muscle injuries in the forearms of riders are becoming more and more frequent, a common problem for most riders. Much of the responsibility for this discomfort lies with aerodynamics. Spoilers and other devices that apply a large load on the bike make the bikes physically tougher to ride. The aerodynamic improvements introduced in the last few years in MotoGP aren't a contemporary invention. As they began to become commonplace with most manufacturers, Shuhei Nakamoto, vice-president of HRC and visible head of the Repsol Honda team, revealed that the Japanese manufacturer had already worked on similar designs thirty years earlier with 500cc bikes, and they had proved highly competitive. Nakamoto ensured that almost two seconds per lap were gained compared to conventional 500 bikes. Still, they were catastrophic for the rider’s arms as they could not continuously ride at that pace. Now, although the new aerodynamics generate tremendous forces that continue to be very demanding for riders' physique, other technological elements such as some tire improvements, the seamless gearbox, control systems, and the adjustment of the bike height make riding more tolerable. But we must not forget that MotoGP is handling figures over 270 hp for 157 kilograms of weight, giving a power-to-weight ratio of 1.7 hp/kilo. Another detail that may also explain a certain lack of combativeness in races is the extension of the championship. Riders must be able to perform over more than eight continuous months of competition, a very long time for top-level competition. The championship has become a test of consistency, and it is almost more important not to make mistakes or accumulate zeros or bad scores than the scarce advantage that a win gives over second or third place. That's why riders are somewhat more conservative, because a bad result is sometimes tough to come back from, and the MotoGP points system grants a slight advantage for winning a race. With this approach, it is easy to understand why we miss Marc Márquez; ambitious and non-conformist, he has always distinguished himself by his continuous fight for victory, trying until the last turn when he has the chance. With him in an optimal state of form, combativeness and the spectacle are guaranteed.
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Post by truenorth on Jun 10, 2022 5:23:51 GMT -8
New beginnings Thoughts on Jack Miller’s move to Red Bull KTM after half a decade with Ducati and, despite some trying moments for Honda in MotoGP, we look back to one of their most memorable sports bikes… ontrackoffroad.com/2022/06/09/new-beginnings/
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