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Post by truenorth on Mar 10, 2024 10:32:59 GMT -8
Autódromo Internacional do Algarve Nestled in the beautiful setting of Portugal’s Algarve, the 100,000 capacity Autodromo Internacional do Algarve – known more colloquially as Portimao, after the port city it sits half an hour outside of – was opened on the 2nd of November 2008. The circuit was inaugurated by WorldSBK when they headed to Portugal for their final round of that season – but it’s not just a racetrack. The Algarve Motorsports Park is a state-of-the-art complex which boasts the stunning racetrack, a go-kart track, an off-road park, a hotel, an apartment complex, a technology park and a sports complex – it really is the bee’s knees. In terms of the actual circuit layout, the Autodromo Internacional do Algarve has 15 corners – nine right, six left. The undulation in Portimao is incredible and the front straight will allow the MotoGP™ riders to really stretch the legs of their machines, before a unique downhill descend into Turn 1.
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Post by truenorth on Mar 18, 2024 8:57:30 GMT -8
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Post by truenorth on Mar 18, 2024 9:11:19 GMT -8
Sir Guy of Guisborne Aldeguer to Ducati. So no room for Basti or Martin factory team in 25????
Martin is going to go ballistic
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Post by truenorth on Mar 18, 2024 9:15:29 GMT -8
Ducati Corse @ducaticorse Welcome to the ducaticorse family, Aldeguer54! The Spanish rider will move up to motog in 2025 as he has signed a two-year agreement that will see him ride a Desmosedici GP starting next year, with the option to extend his contract for another two years.
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Post by truenorth on Mar 19, 2024 10:02:23 GMT -8
The Portuguese race will be the first GP without tests. An opportunity to discover the actual numbers of the GP24 and also what point Marc is in adapting to the Ducati and Acosta to the MotoGP.
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Post by truenorth on Mar 20, 2024 6:26:25 GMT -8
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Post by truenorth on Mar 20, 2024 6:29:24 GMT -8
MotoGP™ Last year marcmarquez93 defied the odds to break the all-time lap record and claim pole at Portimao. Who will do it on Saturday?
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Post by truenorth on Mar 20, 2024 6:33:57 GMT -8
Pedro Acosta: During the long GP in Qatar, the GasGas rider experienced a lot of pain in his forearms and lost several positions. However, looking ahead to the Portugal GP, he said: "I’ll give it my best in free practice…
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Post by truenorth on Mar 20, 2024 6:41:54 GMT -8
Repsol Honda Team Box building day!
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Post by truenorth on Mar 20, 2024 7:15:13 GMT -8
Mat Oxley Crucial weekend for Yamaha at Portimao - let’s hope they can step it up at a track that should be friendlier to the M1
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Post by truenorth on Mar 21, 2024 10:17:34 GMT -8
Without them, none of this would have happened To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the World Championship, Nick Harris takes a personal look back through the decades. He starts this week when it all started in 1949 That in-built desire and hunger to win was the same but everything else was totally different. Just what would those riders dressed in two-piece black leathers, pudding basin helmets and goggles, made of the MotoGP™ grid that lined up under the Qatar floodlights last Sunday? Seventy-five years earlier the World was a very different place. To launch a World Championship less than four years after the finish of the most devastating war the World had ever witnessed was brave, some would have thought impossible, but it happened. The first ever Motorsport World Championship and one of the first in any sport since the Second World War ended. The six-round Motorcycle World Championship was launched in June on the TT Mountain circuit in the Isle of Man. Six European countries had been involved in a bitter bloody conflict that cost hundreds of thousands of lives. Countries that had been occupied by the enemy and countries that had fought each other just four years earlier, came together to produce the birth of a dream. Great Britain, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Ireland, and Italy hosted the new Championship that incorporated five separate classes. The 500, 250, 350 and 125cc solos and sidecars lit up the darkness that clouded a recovering Europe. The quality and intensity of the racing between riders and manufacturers set the benchmark for the next 75 years. It was a long and painful ten years for riders and manufacturers since the last international races. Star riders from the thirties had to wait a decade before returning to the saddle on the international stage. Many had represented their countries in a very different way. Some paid the ultimate price never to return home. Others fought and then returned home to continue their racing careers with great success. Les Graham the first 500cc World Champion was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for bravery, flying a Lancaster bomber in 1944. Bespectacled Harold Daniell won that first round of the 500cc World Championship on the Norton. He had been refused entry to the armed forces to fight in the war because of poor eyesight. It was tough for the Italian riders, especially at the opening round on the Isle of Man which had been the site for an Italian Prisoner of War camp, but they did so much to restore national pride and respect. Bruno Ruffo won the 250cc world title riding the Italian Moto Guzzi. In the 125cc class, Nello Pagani clinched the world title for Mondial in the final round at Monza. Freddie Frith brought the British Velocette factory victory in the 350cc class after winning that very first Grand Prix on the Isle of Man. The ever-popular sidecar Championship went to the British pair of Eric Oliver and Denis Jenkinson. It was equally tough for the manufacturers ravaged by the effects of war. Many of the Midland-based British factories had been damaged by German bombs. They realised their resurgence was based on the publicity gained from international success. The lack of development in the war meant that changes in design and engines were just beginning. The biggest change was that supercharged engines were banned. Otherwise, the World Championship grid looked very similar both in personnel and machinery to the late thirties. However, missing were the German manufacturers like BMW. They had dominated the 1939 TT race with their Boxer Supercharged 500, but were banned from competing in that first World Championship. The only challenge to the British domination in the 500cc class came from Italy and the Ancore-based Gilera factory. They only had to wait one more year for success. It's a truly amazing story. When the grid lines up at Portimao on Sunday, close your eyes, remember and salute those pioneers. Without them, none of this would have ever happened.
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Post by truenorth on Mar 21, 2024 12:41:10 GMT -8
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Post by truenorth on Mar 21, 2024 12:53:42 GMT -8
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Post by truenorth on Mar 21, 2024 12:54:24 GMT -8
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Post by truenorth on Mar 21, 2024 12:55:11 GMT -8
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Post by truenorth on Mar 21, 2024 12:55:46 GMT -8
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Post by truenorth on Mar 22, 2024 4:44:48 GMT -8
results not posted yet Mat Oxley Portimao FP1 - very dusty out there after overnight rain full of dust. Race lap record is 1m 38.9
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Post by truenorth on Mar 22, 2024 4:48:22 GMT -8
track dirty, dusty from overnight rain, times will fall
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Post by truenorth on Mar 22, 2024 5:30:20 GMT -8
Moto3 FP1 results not posted
Moto2 Free Practice 1 18 KALEX Manuel GONZALEZ SPA 284.2 1 1'44.900 11 11 QJMOTOR Gresini Moto2 2 75 KALEX Albert ARENAS SPA 282.7 2 1'45.488 12 13 0.5880.588 QJMOTOR Gresini Moto2 3 54 BOSCOSCURO Fermin ALDEGUER SPA 281.2 3 1'45.598 18 19 0.6980.110 Beta Tools SpeedUp 4 35 KALEX Somkiat CHANTRA THA 283.4 4 1'45.759 15 16 0.8590.161 IDEMITSU Honda Team Asia 5 96 KALEX Jake DIXON GBR 284.2 5 1'45.850 11 13 0.9500.091 CFMOTO Inde Aspar Team 6 14 KALEX Tony ARBOLINO ITA 284.9 6 1'45.961 18 21 1.0610.111 Elf Marc VDS Racing Team 7 44 KALEX Aron CANET SPA 282.7 7 1'46.335 12 12 1.4350.374 Fantic Racing 8 21 BOSCOSCURO Alonso LOPEZ SPA 282.7 8 1'46.689 17 18 1.7890.354 Beta Tools SpeedUp 9 13 KALEX Celestino VIETTI ITA 281.2 9 1'46.776 17 17 1.8760.087 Red Bull KTM Ajo 10 3 BOSCOSCURO Sergio GARCIA SPA 281.2 10 1'46.874 11 14 1.9740.098 MT Helmets - MSI 11 7 KALEX Barry BALTUS BEL 279.0 11 1'46.916 15 16 2.0160.042 RW-Idrofoglia Racing GP 12 84 KALEX Zonta VD GOORBERGH NED 279.0 12 1'46.979 10 10 2.0790.063 RW-Idrofoglia Racing GP 13 79 BOSCOSCURO Ai OGURA JPN 284.2 13 1'46.980 11 13 2.0800.001 MT Helmets - MSI 14 16 KALEX Joe ROBERTS USA 278.3 14 1'47.182 18 18 2.2820.202 OnlyFans American Racing Team 15 24 KALEX Marcos RAMIREZ SPA 279.7 15 1'47.191 18 18 2.2910.009 OnlyFans American Racing Team 16 53 KALEX Deniz ÖNCÜ TUR 281.2 16 1'47.409 17 17 2.5090.218 Red Bull KTM Ajo 17 81 KALEX Senna AGIUS AUS 279.0 17 1'47.422 18 18 2.5220.013 Liqui Moly Husqvarna Intact GP 18 5 KALEX Jaume MASIA SPA 276.2 18 1'47.502 13 13 2.6020.080 Pertamina Mandalika GAS UP Tea 19 52 KALEX Jeremy ALCOBA SPA 277.6 19 1'47.539 13 13 2.6390.037 Yamaha VR46 Master Camp Team 20 71 KALEX Dennis FOGGIA ITA 279.0 20 1'48.242 18 18 3.3420.703 Italtrans Racing Team 21 28 KALEX Izan GUEVARA SPA 280.5 21 1'48.347 14 17 3.4470.105 CFMOTO Inde Aspar Team 22 20 KALEX Xavi CARDELUS AND 280.5 22 1'48.981 10 12 4.0810.634 Fantic Racing 23 64 KALEX Bo BENDSNEYDER NED 281.9 23 1'49.228 17 17 4.3280.247 Pertamina Mandalika GAS UP Tea 24 10 KALEX Diogo MOREIRA BRA 281.9 24 1'49.420 18 18 4.5200.192 Italtrans Racing Team 25 34 KALEX Mario AJI INA 278.3 25 1'49.841 17 17 4.9410.421 IDEMITSU Honda Team Asia 26 22 KALEX Ayumu SASAKI JPN 276.9 26 1'50.598 12 13 5.6980.757 Yamaha VR46 Master Camp Team 27 15 KALEX Darryn BINDER RSA 280.5 27 1'51.845 13 17 6.9451.247 Liqui Moly Husqvarna Intact GP 28 11 FORWARD Alex ESCRIG SPA 279.0 28 1'52.476 12 12 7.5760.631 KLINT Forward Factory Team 43 FORWARD Xavier ARTIGAS SPA 276.2
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Post by truenorth on Mar 22, 2024 5:43:19 GMT -8
MotoGP FP 1 93 DUCATI Marc MARQUEZ SPA 342.8 1 1'40.484 18 18 Gresini Racing MotoGP 2 12 APRILIA Maverick VIÑALES SPA 337.5 2 1'40.649 17 17 0.1650.165 Aprilia Racing 3 33 KTM Brad BINDER RSA 342.8 3 1'40.689 20 22 0.2050.040 Red Bull KTM Factory Racing 4 43 KTM Jack MILLER AUS 340.6 4 1'40.840 17 17 0.3560.151 Red Bull KTM Factory Racing 5 21 DUCATI Franco MORBIDELLI ITA 338.5 5 1'40.861 21 21 0.3770.021 Prima Pramac Racing 6 89 DUCATI Jorge MARTIN SPA 339.6 6 1'40.906 18 19 0.4220.045 Prima Pramac Racing 7 42 YAMAHA Alex RINS SPA 337.5 7 1'40.934 15 19 0.4500.028 Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP 8 88 APRILIA Miguel OLIVEIRA POR 340.6 8 1'41.107 14 18 0.6230.173 Trackhouse Racing 9 73 DUCATI Alex MARQUEZ SPA 334.3 9 1'41.119 11 16 0.6350.012 Gresini Racing MotoGP 10 36 HONDA Joan MIR SPA 338.5 10 1'41.190 15 15 0.7060.071 Repsol Honda Team 11 20 YAMAHA Fabio QUARTARARO FRA 340.6 11 1'41.242 20 20 0.7580.052 Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP 12 49 DUCATI Fabio DI GIANNANTONIO ITA 337.5 12 1'41.277 16 16 0.7930.035 Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Te 13 1 DUCATI Francesco BAGNAIA ITA 341.7 13 1'41.289 18 19 0.8050.012 Ducati Lenovo Team 14 37 KTM Augusto FERNANDEZ SPA 339.6 14 1'41.531 20 20 1.0470.242 Red Bull GASGAS Tech3 15 31 KTM Pedro ACOSTA SPA 339.6 15 1'41.606 16 19 1.1220.075 Red Bull GASGAS Tech3 16 5 HONDA Johann ZARCO FRA 337.5 16 1'41.672 16 17 1.1880.066 CASTROL Honda LCR 17 25 APRILIA Raul FERNANDEZ SPA 338.5 17 1'41.687 18 18 1.2030.015 Trackhouse Racing 18 72 DUCATI Marco BEZZECCHI ITA 340.6 18 1'41.715 13 17 1.2310.028 Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Te 19 23 DUCATI Enea BASTIANINI ITA 339.6 19 1'41.728 14 18 1.2440.013 Ducati Lenovo Team 20 41 APRILIA Aleix ESPARGARO SPA 338.5 20 1'41.784 12 16 1.3000.056 Aprilia Racing 21 10 HONDA Luca MARINI ITA 337.5 21 1'41.977 15 17 1.4930.193 Repsol Honda Team 22 30 HONDA Takaaki NAKAGAMI JPN 335.4 22 1'42.082 12 17 1.5980.105 IDEMITSU Honda
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