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Post by truenorth on Mar 23, 2024 4:40:34 GMT -8
Mat Oxley Q1: Acosta losing the front in the first part of the final corner where it goes negative camber but never backs off. Last year I asked him what's his biggest talent: “Big balls!” he said. “Big balls. From the moment I arrived here I tried to show people that I’m not afraid of anyone. I remember Moto3 races when I started 28th and by lap five I was first. So, big balls, why not?"
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Post by truenorth on Mar 23, 2024 4:55:11 GMT -8
Mat Oxley Miller now has the new seat aero used by Binder & Acosta yesterday. Seat is not a homologation area, so factories can change it as often as they like. Also, a good view of the 2-skin lower fairing: the outer skin increases ground effect by better controlling air flow at full lean
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Post by truenorth on Mar 23, 2024 5:48:54 GMT -8
2024 Portimão Moto3 Qualifying Result: A Late Attack On The Lap Record
By Zara Daniela | Sat, 23/Mar/2024
The battle for pole position in the lightweight class got underway under a truly sunny sky for the first time this weekend and it was Jose Antonio Rueda’s time to shine in Portimão. The lap record came under threat from the Spaniard early on but it wasn’t until his final flying lap that he found something special in the final sector to secure his first grand prix pole position and break the all-time lap record by nearly half a second. Joel Kelso did his best to respond but had to make do with second position by five hundredths of a second, while David Alonso made a late jump onto the front row, only a tenth off pole.
Dani Holgado also joins the party on row two, followed by Riccardo Rossi and Collin Veijer, while Ivan Ortola opens row three from Q1 graduate Filippo Farioli and Scott Ogden. Stefano Nepa completed the top 10 places and shares fourth row with top rookie Joel Esteban and Matteo Bertelle. Even with some help from his teammate, David Muñoz ended up down in 13th position and a whole second off the pole time, opening fifth row from rookie Jacob Roulstone and Adrian Fernandez, whose crash at turn 8 affected his result but also others, as it brought out yellow flags with one minute remaining of the session.
The rest of the Q1 graduates will share sixth row, Nicola Carraro ahead of Ryusei Yamanaka and Vicente Perez. The Spaniard got his timing right in Q1, at the expense of rookie Angel Piqueras, but wasn’t quite able to replicate that in Q2. Another of the noteworthy rookies, Luca Lunetta, was unfortunate to suffer a high-side at turn five at the start of Q1 and never got the chance to put a lap on the board, leaving himself with a lot of work to do from the back of the grid.
Results:
Pos No. Rider Bike Time Diff Prev
1 99 Jose Antonio Rueda KTM 01:46.379
2 66 Joel Kelso KTM 01:46.438 0.059 0.059
3 80 David Alonso CFMOTO 01:46.497 0.118 0.059
4 96 Daniel Holgado GASGAS 01:46.547 0.168 0.050
5 54 Riccardo Rossi KTM 01:46.817 0.438 0.270
6 95 Collin Veijer Husqvarna 01:46.874 0.495 0.057
7 48 Ivan Ortola KTM 01:46.949 0.570 0.075
8 7 Filippo Farioli Honda 01:47.030 0.651 0.081
9 19 Scott Ogden Honda 01:47.173 0.794 0.143
10 82 Stefano Nepa KTM 01:47.207 0.828 0.034
11 78 Joel Esteban CFMOTO 01:47.336 0.957 0.129
12 18 Matteo Bertelle Honda 01:47.366 0.987 0.030
13 64 David Muñoz KTM 01:47.394 1.015 0.028
14 12 Jacob Roulstone GASGAS 01:47.463 1.084 0.069
15 31 Adrian Fernandez Honda 01:47.500 1.121 0.037
16 10 Nicola Carraro KTM 01:47.694 1.315 0.194
17 6 Ryusei Yamanaka KTM 01:47.871 1.492 0.177
18 21 Vicente Perez KTM 01:47.999 1.620 0.128
Q1 Results:
Q2 6 Ryusei Yamanaka KTM 01:47.979
Q2 10 Nicola Carraro KTM 01:48.104 0.125 0.125
Q2 7 Filippo Farioli Honda 01:48.256 0.277 0.152
Q2 21 Vicente Perez KTM 01:48.342 0.363 0.086
19 36 Angel Piqueras Honda 01:48.359 0.380 0.017
20 24 Tatsuki Suzuki Husqvarna 01:48.381 0.402 0.022
21 72 Taiyo Furusato Honda 01:48.439 0.460 0.058
22 70 Joshua Whatley Honda 01:48.498 0.519 0.059
23 5 Tatchakorn Buasri Honda 01:50.313 2.334 1.815
24 71 Hamad Al Sahouti Honda 01:51.625 3.646 1.312
Not Classified
25 55 Noah Dettwiler KTM 0.000 0.000
26 58 Luca Lunetta Honda 0.000 0.000
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Post by truenorth on Mar 23, 2024 6:50:51 GMT -8
2024 Portimão Moto2 Qualifying Result: A Maiden Poleman Demotes The Usual Suspects By Zara Daniela | Sat, 23/Mar/2024 - 07:46 Portimão finally swapped the cloud cover for some sunshine and Manuel Gonzalez took advantage to convert the speed he’s shown throughout practice into a maiden grand prix pole position. The Spaniard had a few challengers to overcome but improving his own lap record by another couple of tenths sealed the deal for top spot. Fermin Aldeguer was one of said challengers, the SpeedUp rider leading the way after the first run and his best time stood until the final couple of minutes of Q2, when he had to admin defeat and settle for reclaiming second from Aron Canet, who completed an all-Spanish front row.
Alonso Lopez wasn’t that much of a threat on Saturday, ending the day two tenths off front row, but will most likely be one tomorrow, headlining row two ahead of Joe Roberts and Albert Arenas. Ai Ogura battled his way out of Q1 on his way to seventh, sharing the third row with teammate Sergio Garcia and former teammate and Q1 leader Somkiat Chantra.
Jeremy Alcoba completed the top 10, six tenths off pole and will be joined by Marcos Ramirez and Tony Arbolino on row four – the Italian spending some time at the top of the timing screens at the start of the session but fading to 12th position as he failed to improve on his early benchmark. Q1 graduate Senna Agius headlines fifth row ahead of Celestino Vietti and Dennis Foggia, while Barry Baltus dropped to 16th, followed by Diogo Moreira and Bo Bendsneyder. After a strong weekend in Qatar, Zonta Van Den Goorbergh missed out on Q2 by half a tenth and was left quite frustrated by rivals impeding him and leaving him 19th on the grid, ahead of Darryn Binder, who seemed to have suffered some technical issues, and a subdued Ayumu Sasaki.
Results:
Pos No. Rider Bike Time Diff Prev 1 18 Manuel Gonzalez Kalex 01:41.514 2 54 Fermin Aldeguer Boscoscuro 01:41.648 0.134 0.134 3 44 Aron Canet Kalex 01:41.713 0.199 0.065 4 21 Alonso Lopez Boscoscuro 01:41.929 0.415 0.216 5 16 Joe Roberts Kalex 01:42.031 0.517 0.102 6 75 Albert Arenas Kalex 01:42.070 0.556 0.039 7 79 Ai Ogura Boscoscuro 01:42.143 0.629 0.073 8 3 Sergio Garcia Boscoscuro 01:42.159 0.645 0.016 9 35 Somkiat Chantra Kalex 01:42.174 0.660 0.015 10 52 Jeremy Alcoba Kalex 01:42.180 0.666 0.006 11 24 Marcos Ramirez Kalex 01:42.188 0.674 0.008 12 14 Tony Arbolino Kalex 01:42.188 0.674 0.000 13 81 Senna Agius Kalex 01:42.191 0.677 0.003 14 13 Celestino Vietti Kalex 01:42.241 0.727 0.050 15 71 Dennis Foggia Kalex 01:42.320 0.806 0.079 16 7 Barry Baltus Kalex 01:42.363 0.849 0.043 17 10 Diogo Moreira Kalex 01:42.436 0.922 0.073 18 64 Bo Bendsneyder Kalex 01:42.508 0.994 0.072 Q1 Results: Q2 35 Somkiat Chantra Kalex 01:42.064 Q2 79 Ai Ogura Boscoscuro 01:42.259 0.195 0.195 Q2 10 Diogo Moreira Kalex 01:42.441 0.377 0.182 Q2 81 Senna Agius Kalex 01:42.479 0.415 0.038 19 84 Zonta Vd Goorbergh Kalex 01:42.531 0.467 0.052 20 15 Darryn Binder Kalex 01:42.676 0.612 0.145 21 22 Ayumu Sasaki Kalex 01:42.710 0.646 0.034 22 28 Izan Guevara Kalex 01:43.109 1.045 0.399 23 5 Jaume Masia Kalex 01:43.272 1.208 0.163 24 11 Alex Escrig Forward 01:43.518 1.454 0.246 25 53 Deniz öncü Kalex 01:43.626 1.562 0.108 26 20 Xavi Cardelus Kalex 01:43.852 1.788 0.226 27 34 Mario Aji Kalex 01:44.068 2.004 0.216
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Post by truenorth on Mar 23, 2024 7:41:42 GMT -8
Mat Oxley Respect to Vinales for his first Aprilia win. We're always saying he's a genius until the lights go out. Same today - he went from 2nd on the grid to 3rd in the first few corners - but this time he fought back & made it happen. Maybe the gastroenteritis made the difference
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Post by truenorth on Mar 23, 2024 7:43:49 GMT -8
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Post by truenorth on Mar 23, 2024 7:47:25 GMT -8
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Post by truenorth on Mar 23, 2024 7:53:42 GMT -8
Peter Bom Vinales / Aprilia finally wins again! Bastiannini couldn’t engage front ride height for start = race over Marquez and Bagnaia both throwing away their chances to win by making mistakes. Acosta needs to practise his starts. Sprint results
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Post by truenorth on Mar 23, 2024 8:02:25 GMT -8
2024 Portimão MotoGP Sprint Result: It's Been A Long Time Coming By Zara Daniela | Sat, 23/Mar/2024 - 08:55 The sun bought a ticket for the premier class sprint and it was in for a treat, getting to enjoy Maverick Viñales’s first win for Aprilia, Marc Marquez’s first podium with Ducati and, more predictably, Jorge Martin adding to his endless sprint podium appearances.
Quite a bit of action was packed into the 12 laps of the sprint, starting with Jack Miller making one of those fine KTM launches to take the lead into the first corner from a similarly fast-stating Pecco Bagnaia, demoting front row starters Viñales, Martin and Enea Bastianini, the poleman’s poor start dropping him down to fourth. Having started from the middle of third row, Marc Marquez found a couple of positions off the line and was soon joining the top 4 after Martin got nudged down to 6th and the poleman handed him another place after running wide on the opening lap. Binder also made some quick progress from 10th on the grid into 7th position, joined by Alex Rins, Aleix Espargaro and Pedro Acosta in the top 10, while the men who lost most ground on the first lap were Fabio Quartararo in 11th and Marco Bezzecchi in 12th position.
Miller continued to lead the way going into lap 2 but chasers had no intention to bide their time in the short sprint and Bagnaia took advantage of Australian’s wider line in turn 15 to easily take control of proceedings. Meanwhile, Marquez squeezed Viñales out of 3rd position and then Miller of 2nd place by lap 4. The KTM man started to look vulnerable as Viñales was next to attack him and there were several other contenders looking to do the same in the eight-man lead group, including Martin, Bastianini, Binder, Espargaro and Acosta. However, he was left with one less threat when Binder crashed out of seventh position on lap four.
As soon as Bagnaia took the lead, the Ducati man extended a full second of advantage, helped by exchanges between the Spaniards behind, Viñales taking over the pursuit from Marquez on lap five, after the Gresini rider made a mistake at turn five. Bagnaia wasn’t as easy to reel in and his advantage went unchallenged by Viñales over the next couple of laps, while Martin was keen to rejoin the action after the poor start and promptly attacked Marquez. The hot pace at the front meant that the rest of the challengers were steadily being dropped behind, Miller now eight tenths down by lap 9, with Bastianini another second back and being reeled in by Acosta.
Although Bagnaia looked nearly untouchable until this point, his one mistake at the start of lap 9 ended up costing him quite a bit, the Italian running well wide at the first corner and finding himself fourth in the blink of an eye, allowing Viñales, Martin and Marquez past. The world champion had over a second to recover on the three leaders and was not fully safe from the men behind him, with Miller, Bastianini and Acosta about half a second back and keen to catch up with the illustrious target ahead.
Despite still being a little under the weather and facing intense pressure from Martin, Viñales held his nerve and also the lead - with little help from Marquez, who had decided to cool off his front tyre and kept just out of striking distance. The tables seemed to suddenly turn with two laps remaining, when Viñales was gifted a six tenths gap at the front due to a mistake from Martin, which left the Pramac man within Marquez’s grasp. The Gresini rider obviously took advantage to make a bold move at turn five and claim second, but Viñales was out of his reach by then and the Aprilia man claimed his first sprint victory with one second’s advantage. Bagnaia took fourth place three seconds later, never leaving any gaps for Miller and Bastianini to have a go. Acosta secured seventh position ahead of Espargaro, while Quartararo took the final point on offer.
Despite the slight blight, Bagnaia keeps the lead in the world championship by two small points over Martin, with Binder dropping 8 points back and Marquez recovering to a 10-point deficit.
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Post by truenorth on Mar 23, 2024 10:33:04 GMT -8
Mat Oxley Aleix Espargaro just told us that in Safety Commission meetings (no journos allowed) all the riders say they don't like the current format. Teams hate it too. "We give our opinion... but it's Dorna's championship". I'm disappointed with their lack of balls in this situation
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Post by truenorth on Mar 23, 2024 10:37:11 GMT -8
Viñales victorious as Marc Marquez strikes late on Martin Top Gun crossed the line to hold off Marc Marquez and Martin in a thrilling end to the Portuguese GP Sprint Maverick Viñales (Aprilia Racing) is victorious after an exciting Grande Prémio Tissot de Portugal MotoGP™ Tissot Sprint, coming across the line to take a heroic victory in a monumental moment for his season. Marc Marquez (Gresini Racing MotoGP™) ended the race in second after a brave last-lap overtake at turn five on Jorge Martin (Prima Pramac Racing) who was unable to show his full potential in a Sprint that was full of twists across a fast and furious 12 laps. It was a brilliant start to the race from Jack Miller (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing) who took the lead on the exit of turn one - storming away on the first lap. Polesitter Enea Bastianini (Ducati Lenovo Team) got swallowed by the front group as the Italian was demoted to P5 following an issue with his rear ride height device. Meanwhile, Marc Marquez was one of the riders who found a way through on Bastianini – jumping into third place after passing Viñales. Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati Lenovo Team) hit the front of the race – trying to build a comfortable gap quickly. Marc Marquez soon found his way through to pass Viñales, taking second position to the delight of the #93 fans in the grandstand. Marc Marquez kept second position for a handful of laps before making a vital mistake and running wide at the tricky turn five. Multiple riders crashed in the early stages of the Sprint including Alex Rins (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP™) and Johann Zarco (CASTROL Honda LCR). Before being swiftly followed by Fabio Di Giannantonio and Brad Binder (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing) in a disastrous end to their races. Aprilia Racing's riders were moving up the field throughout the Sprint as Viñales battled for the win and Aleix Espargaro made his way from 13th on the grid to eighth. The fastest lap also changed hands throughout the race with Pedro Acosta (Red Bull GASGAS Tech3) soon setting the best lap. Martin was pushing to keep his style as the King of the Sprints – overtaking Marc Marquez and stealing the fastest lap from the rookie. Bagnaia made a big mistake on the entry to turn one, running wide and re-joining in fourth position in a pivotal moment. This mistake blew the Sprint wide open and created an all-out duel for the second Sprint victory of the year. Viñales expertly held off Martin with nothing separating them in what was turning out to be a nail-biting finish at the Portuguese GP. However, Martin ran wide with just over two laps to go, which gave Viñales half a second of breathing space, and allowed Marc Marquez to plan his attack. The move from #93 came at turn five in a thrilling and brave move that allowed the eight-time World Champion to secure second place in his second weekend with Ducati. This battling behind allowed Viñales to take the 12 points and to cross the line to win the MotoGP™ Sprint after a heroic ride for Top Gun. Marc Marquez celebrated a second-place finish, with his mission to return to the top of the Championship becoming one step closer as Martin finished in a subdued third position with his eyes now set towards Sunday's Portuguese GP. Bagnaia did manage to hold onto fourth place, holding off Miller after a magnificent display of defending. Further down the field after beginning the Sprint from pole position, Bastianini arrived to finish sixth at the line, unable to recover the ground he lost at the start of the Sprint. Meanwhile, Acosta finished in seventh in his second MotoGP™ weekend – ahead of Espargaro and Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP™), the latter taking the final point in the Sprint.
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Post by truenorth on Mar 23, 2024 10:41:43 GMT -8
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Post by truenorth on Mar 23, 2024 10:42:43 GMT -8
Steve Day Struggling with illness, his ride for next year under threat, and out of nowhere, Mack is back! Viñales has now won GP races in 125cc, Moto3, Moto2 and won races for three different manufacturers in MotoGP!
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Post by truenorth on Mar 23, 2024 10:45:14 GMT -8
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Post by truenorth on Mar 23, 2024 10:47:35 GMT -8
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Post by truenorth on Mar 23, 2024 10:54:02 GMT -8
Mat Oxley Bastianini had a horrible start because his front holeshot disengaged on the grid. MM crashed in QP because he engaged the ride-height device too early - his mistake but still. Can’t wait until these gadgets are consigned to the dustbin bin of history. Like dustbin fairings
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Post by truenorth on Mar 24, 2024 4:01:49 GMT -8
Moto3 Race
1 96 D.Holgado 34:09.038 2 99 J.Rueda +0.044 3 48 I.Ortola +0.820 4 80 D.Alonso +2.218 5 66 J.Kelso +2.246 6 95 C.Veijer +2.263 7 82 S.Nepa +4.499 8 78 J.Esteban +5.430 9 64 D.Muñoz +16.018 10 31 A.Fernandez +16.143 11 12 J.Roulstone +16.213 12 18 M.Bertelle +16.757 13 24 T.Suzuki +20.682 14 21 V.Perez +20.776 15 19 S.Ogden +21.163 16 10 N.Carraro +21.172 17 7 F.Farioli +23.285 18 72 T.Furusato +32.751 19 70 J.Whatley +38.600 20 55 N.Dettwiler +42.061 21 5 T.Buasri +53.651 22 71 H.Al Sahouti +1:10.193 23 58 L.Lunetta +1:25.798 24 54 R.Rossi 25 6 R.Yamanaka 26 36 A.Piqueras
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Post by truenorth on Mar 24, 2024 4:36:10 GMT -8
Mat Oxley “I fucked up!” Lost the lead cos rear came up into Turn 1 due to lowering fuel load and also cos of the crazy drop down to Turn 1. “I learned something more”
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Post by truenorth on Mar 24, 2024 4:56:41 GMT -8
After 69 previous attempts, 15 second places, Canet wins Moto2. First win!
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Post by truenorth on Mar 24, 2024 5:01:22 GMT -8
2024 Portimão Moto3 Race Result: A Triumph Of Patience By Zara Daniela | Sun, 24/Mar/2024 - 05:00 Another overcast day greeted the lightweight class for their battle in Portugal and a handful of contenders came to the fore but Dani Holgado’s patience eventually paid off as the Spaniard took victory by only four hundredths of a second. Maiden poleman Jose Antonio Rueda came close to the win but had to settle for second, while Ivan Ortola progressed from the third row of the grid into the third podium position.
Rueda had made an excellent launch off the grid and tried to stretch a small gap over David Alonso and Holgado early on. Although the poleman could not maintain his half-second advantage, he continued leading the way while his rivals were squabbling behind him, Holgado taking over the pursuit on lap 3 but not making a move for the lead just yet. Riccardo Rossi, Joel Kelso, Ortola and Alonso were putting pressure from behind, while the rest of the leading group, composed of David Munoz, Collin Veijer, rookie Joel Esteban, Stefano Nepa and Matteo Bertelle had started to drop back by lap 6. Not keen to be left out of podium contention, Veijer soon took control of the pursuit and pushed to reel in the six men ahead, quite successfully so, while the rest of the group struggled to keep up and were left behind.
Although Holgado and Alonso seemed quite interested in showing Rueda a wheel, the exchanges between the duo meant that Rueda got to enjoy some more time in the limelight – at least until lap 10 when Alonso found a way around him at turn 10 and the poleman got roughed up all the way down to 5th position. The pace set by Alonso was a bit of a challenge for his rivals over the next laps, the Colombian extending a gap of over half a second within a couple of laps, Holgado seemingly unable to match him. Rueda soon made his way back up into the provisional podium positions, with Veijer, Ortola and Kelso in tow, while Rossi lost touch with the leaders for the second half of the race and eventually crashed out with a handful of laps left.
Alonso’s lead went unchallenged over the next few laps but then the leader started dropping the pace quite notably, allowing Holgado and Rueda to reel him in and Holgado made his move for the lead heading into turn 1 with five laps remaining. The more sensible pace also allowed Kelso, Veijer and Ortola to catch up and get involved in the podium battle.
With three laps to go, Alonso got bullied out of the podium positions by Rueda and Ortola, and only the poleman seemed able to keep up with leader Holgado, the duo half a second ahead heading into the final lap. Although Rueda came within four hundredths of a second of victory after an attempt at turn 14, Holgado crossed the finish line first to claim back to back wins in Portimão. Ortola struggled to keep up with the two leaders in the closing stages but joined his compatriots on the podium, while Alonso fended off Kelso and Veijer to keep fourth place despite his fading pace. Nepa claimed seventh place two seconds later, ahead of top rookie Esteban, while Muñoz and Adrian Fernandez completed the top 10 positions.
Holgado’s victory hands him the lead in the world championship by seven points ahead of Alonso, with Ortola 22 points back, 2 more than Veijer.
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