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Post by Pistola on Mar 7, 2019 11:48:08 GMT -8
Where's the cup holders?
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Post by truenorth on Mar 7, 2019 16:41:16 GMT -8
Marc Marquez is the Cup holder.
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Post by truenorth on Mar 7, 2019 17:02:45 GMT -8
Marquez: "Rivals for the title? I'll find out between five or six races ":" For the race the favorites are the two Yamaha, the two duchies, Rins and Lorenzo. Spencer? He was a pilot, he knows what the adrenaline of the last lap can be. " ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1Eub4KVAAAFH_t.jpg)
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Post by truenorth on Mar 7, 2019 17:05:10 GMT -8
Lorenzo: "It's easier to adapt to the Honda than the Ducati": "I still have a lot to learn and right now I'm not one of the favourites, but I don't count anything out" ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1Ep27fU4AAC3eo.jpg)
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Post by truenorth on Mar 7, 2019 17:09:14 GMT -8
Rossi: "The years increase but not the certainties": "Experience doesn't help before you start, you need to know how to adapt to the new bikes. This is the most level playing field I ever remember" ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1EjrzyU0AAvvqX.jpg)
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Post by truenorth on Mar 8, 2019 4:26:39 GMT -8
Mat Oxley:Triumph 'will' win its first GP on Sunday. The factory has never run a GP effort. Scored its only GP podium at Spa in 1969, with racer/road tester Percy Tait riding this 500cc T100: 32hp stock but 53bhp once genius engineer Doug Hele had (unofficially) got his hands on it ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1ItG0IX4AAl2FF.jpg)
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Post by truenorth on Mar 8, 2019 4:28:39 GMT -8
2019 Qatar Moto3 FP1 Result: Fenati Always Makes An Entry Zara Daniela on Fri, 2019-03-08
Lightweight class bikes finally celebrated the official end of the off season in Qatar sunshine and no man was happier to be back than the perpetually prodigal son of Moto3, Romano Fenati. The Italian repented of his highly publicised sins and was welcomed back into the Snipers Team, rewarding them with excellent form in testing and following it through with the fastest time in FP1. Some challengers did present in the final ten minutes of the session but the Italian hit back and became the only rider to dip into the 2:05s and near the outright fastest lap of the circuit for the class.
The seven tenths of a second chasm was eventually cut to half by class veteran Jakub Kornfeil, who left it late to climb the timesheets to second position. Lorenzo Dalla Porta was hindered by some track limits infringements but managed to join the top three, half a second off the leader. A more settled Dennis Foggia proved his value in the SKY team once again with a fourth position in FP1, ahead of the equally familiar face of Ayumu Sasaki.
Toni Arbolino, Aron Canet, Alonso Lopez and Kaito Toba completed the top nine, all four riders within half a tenth of each other. The top ten was rounded out by the (theoretically) rookie Celestino Vietti, the SKY rider the first to miss the one second cut-off to the leader.
Down in 13th position, Niccolo Antonelli took the unpleasant honour of recording the first crash of the season early on in turn nine, while the likes of Gabriel Rodrigo and Jaume Masia had a slower start while still recovering from fairly recent injuries.
Results:
Pos. Num. Rider Bike Time Gap 1st Prev. 1 55 Romano FENATI Honda 2'05.917 2 84 Jakub KORNFEIL KTM 2'06.217 0.300 0.300 3 48 Lorenzo DALLA PORTA Honda 2'06.374 0.457 0.157 4 7 Dennis FOGGIA KTM 2'06.538 0.621 0.164 5 71 Ayumu SASAKI Honda 2'06.683 0.766 0.145 6 14 Tony ARBOLINO Honda 2'06.764 0.847 0.081 7 21 Alonso LOPEZ Honda 2'06.810 0.893 0.046 8 27 Kaito TOBA Honda 2'06.816 0.899 0.006 9 13 Celestino VIETTI KTM 2'06.930 1.013 0.114 10 16 Andrea MIGNO KTM 2'06.963 1.046 0.033 11 75 Albert ARENAS KTM 2'07.110 1.193 0.147 12 44 Aron CANET KTM 2'07.219 1.302 0.109 13 23 Niccolò ANTONELLI Honda 2'07.268 1.351 0.049 14 25 Raul FERNANDEZ KTM 2'07.273 1.356 0.005 15 22 Kazuki MASAKI KTM 2'07.287 1.370 0.014 16 6 Ryusei YAMANAKA Honda 2'07.341 1.424 0.054 17 77 Vicente PEREZ KTM 2'07.365 1.448 0.024 18 40 Darryn BINDER KTM 2'07.530 1.613 0.165 19 19 Gabriel RODRIGO Honda 2'07.583 1.666 0.053 20 17 John MCPHEE Honda 2'07.595 1.678 0.012 21 76 Makar YURCHENKO KTM 2'07.666 1.749 0.071 22 79 Ai OGURA Honda 2'07.741 1.824 0.075 23 42 Marcos RAMIREZ Honda 2'07.869 1.952 0.128 24 5 Jaume MASIA KTM 2'07.932 2.015 0.063 25 12 Filip SALAC KTM 2'08.144 2.227 0.212 26 24 Tatsuki SUZUKI Honda 2'08.150 2.233 0.006 27 61 Can ONCU KTM 2'08.439 2.522 0.289 28 69 Tom BOOTH-AMOS KTM 2'09.024 3.107 0.585 29 54 Riccardo ROSSI Honda 2'09.621 3.704 0.597
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Post by truenorth on Mar 8, 2019 5:00:39 GMT -8
2019 Qatar Moto2 FP1 Result: Dibs To Schrotter Zara Daniela on Fri, 2019-03-08
The wind in Losail was no match for the enthusiasm of the intermediate class and one man who was keen to get back to familiar pastures was Tom Luthi, the MotoGP renegade leading the way for the Dynavolt squad for much of the session. However, the pastures were not all that familiar since the new season means Triumph making their loud entry in Moto2, marking a fresh start for the entire field. Teammate Marcel Schrotter took over top honours in the final few minutes of the session and led by two tenths of a second by the checkered flag.
Xavi Vierge seemed to take to his new team and new bike very well, straight into the top two and four tenths faster than his friend / teammate Alex Marquez, who had a steady start just outside the top ten. Bo Bendsneyder promised to enjoy the new season much more than the old one and started off with third position in FP1, narrowly edging ahead of Luthi, who got pushed back to fourth after beign dethroned from his early lead.
Andrea Locatelli also enjoyed some time in the limelight and finished fifth, with Augusto Fernandez and Jorge Navarro also within half a second of the leader. The familiar Italian trio of Luca Marini, Enea Bastianini and Lorenzo Baldassarri completed the top ten, while 18 riders managed to finish within a second of Schrotter. Amongst them was testing headliner Sam Lowes, whose 16th position was not all that representative since a mechanical niggle cut his session short, and Moto3 champion Jorge Martin, the Spaniard seven tenths off the lead in 14th position.
Results:
Pos. Num. Rider Bike Time Gap 1st Prev. 1 23 Marcel SCHROTTER Kalex 1'59.591 2 97 Xavi VIERGE Kalex 1'59.784 0.193 0.193 3 64 Bo BENDSNEYDER NTS 1'59.920 0.329 0.136 4 12 Thomas LUTHI Kalex 1'59.933 0.342 0.013 5 5 Andrea LOCATELLI Kalex 1'59.961 0.370 0.028 6 40 Augusto FERNANDEZ Kalex 1'59.979 0.388 0.018 7 9 Jorge NAVARRO Speed Up 2'00.029 0.438 0.050 8 10 Luca MARINI Kalex 2'00.109 0.518 0.080 9 33 Enea BASTIANINI Kalex 2'00.166 0.575 0.057 10 7 Lorenzo BALDASSARRI Kalex 2'00.202 0.611 0.036 11 73 Alex MARQUEZ Kalex 2'00.228 0.637 0.026 12 41 Brad BINDER KTM 2'00.234 0.643 0.006 13 45 Tetsuta NAGASHIMA Kalex 2'00.254 0.663 0.020 14 88 Jorge MARTIN KTM 2'00.266 0.675 0.012 15 87 Remy GARDNER Kalex 2'00.277 0.686 0.011 16 22 Sam LOWES Kalex 2'00.416 0.825 0.139 17 24 Simone CORSI Kalex 2'00.496 0.905 0.080 18 11 Nicolo BULEGA Kalex 2'00.514 0.923 0.018 19 2 Jesko RAFFIN NTS 2'00.665 1.074 0.151 20 89 Khairul Idham PAWI Kalex 2'00.935 1.344 0.270 21 77 Dominique AEGERTER MV 2'00.962 1.371 0.027 22 27 Iker LECUONA KTM 2'01.022 1.431 0.060 23 21 Fabio DI GIANNANTONIO Speed Up 2'01.040 1.449 0.018 24 35 Somkiat CHANTRA Kalex 2'01.353 1.762 0.313 25 3 Lukas TULOVIC KTM 2'01.523 1.932 0.170 26 72 Marco BEZZECCHI KTM 2'01.569 1.978 0.046 27 65 Philipp OETTL KTM 2'01.606 2.015 0.037 28 16 Joe ROBERTS KTM 2'01.691 2.100 0.085 29 62 Stefano MANZI MV 2'02.045 2.454 0.354 30 96 Jake DIXON KTM 2'02.326 2.735 0.281 31 18 Xavi CARDELUS KTM 2'02.816 3.225 0.490 32 20 Dimas EKKY PRATAMA Kalex 2'03.050 3.459 0.234
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Post by truenorth on Mar 8, 2019 5:51:14 GMT -8
MotoGP Free Practice Nr. 1 Classification 2019
Doha, Friday, March 08, 2019
Pos. Num. Rider Nation Team Bike Km/h Time Gap 1st/Prev. 1 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha 336.2 1'55.048 2 99 Jorge LORENZO SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 337.7 1'55.127 0.079 / 0.079 3 93 Marc MARQUEZ SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 341.9 1'55.164 0.116 / 0.037 4 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Mission Winnow Ducati Ducati 342.3 1'55.217 0.169 / 0.053 5 9 Danilo PETRUCCI ITA Mission Winnow Ducati Ducati 341.8 1'55.267 0.219 / 0.050 6 12 Maverick VIÑALES SPA Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha 332.9 1'55.312 0.264 / 0.045 7 21 Franco MORBIDELLI ITA Petronas Yamaha SRT Yamaha 331.3 1'55.324 0.276 / 0.012 8 43 Jack MILLER AUS Alma Pramac Racing Ducati 344.8 1'55.396 0.348 / 0.072 9 42 Alex RINS SPA Team SUZUKI ECSTAR Suzuki 338.2 1'55.409 0.361 / 0.013 10 30 Takaaki NAKAGAMI JPN LCR Honda IDEMITSU Honda 338.1 1'55.496 0.448 / 0.087 11 20 Fabio QUARTARARO FRA Petronas Yamaha SRT Yamaha 335.9 1'55.509 0.461 / 0.013 12 44 Pol ESPARGARO SPA Red Bull KTM Factory Racing KTM 338.2 1'55.620 0.572 / 0.111 13 41 Aleix ESPARGARO SPA Aprilia Racing Team Gresini Aprilia 336.6 1'55.778 0.730 / 0.158 14 36 Joan MIR SPA Team SUZUKI ECSTAR Suzuki 339.1 1'55.828 0.780 / 0.050 15 29 Andrea IANNONE ITA Aprilia Racing Team Gresini Aprilia 336.6 1'55.828 0.780 16 63 Francesco BAGNAIA ITA Alma Pramac Racing Ducati 337.0 1'55.835 0.787 / 0.007 17 35 Cal CRUTCHLOW GBR LCR Honda CASTROL Honda 346.1 1'55.869 0.821 / 0.034 18 88 Miguel OLIVEIRA POR Red Bull KTM Tech 3 KTM 336.1 1'56.061 1.013 / 0.192 19 5 Johann ZARCO FRA Red Bull KTM Factory Racing KTM 334.1 1'56.206 1.158 / 0.145 20 17 Karel ABRAHAM CZE Reale Avintia Racing Ducati 335.8 1'56.249 1.201 / 0.043 21 53 Tito RABAT SPA Reale Avintia Racing Ducati 340.1 1'56.289 1.241 / 0.040 22 55 Hafizh SYAHRIN MAL Red Bull KTM Tech 3 KTM 330.3 1'57.181 2.133 / 0.892 23 38 Bradley SMITH GBR Aprilia Factory Racing Aprilia 338.9 1'57.189 2.141 / 0.008
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Post by truenorth on Mar 8, 2019 7:11:20 GMT -8
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Post by truenorth on Mar 8, 2019 8:23:44 GMT -8
2019 Qatar Moto3 FP2 Result: Canet Still Can Zara Daniela on Fri, 2019-03-08
The familiar night lights of Losail kicked off the second session of the day for the lightweight class but the change in conditions brought many of the same names to the fore. Aron Canet’s own change of scenery to Max Biaggi’s squad seems to have benefited the young Spaniard, who set up at the top of the standings halfway through the session and the seven tenths of a second gap proved a hurdle too high for his rivals.
With the new qualifying format in mind and the presumably slower FP3 session, the final half of FP2 turned into a group time attack, most of the riders attempting to make use of a good tow to secure a provisional top 14 position. FP1 leader Romano Fenati was still near the limelight, six tenths down on leader Canet, while Niccolo Antonelli quickly brushed off his earlier tumble to join the top three. Andrea Migno made him new team proud with a fourth place but no one would have been as proud as the Gresini squad, seeing Gabriel ‘fresh off the operating table’ Rodrigo in fifth, albeit eighth tenths off the leader.
And the fun only just started, with positions six to 15 within one tenth of a second, the entire group nine tenths off Canet. The sizeable pack included Jakub Kornfeil in sixth position, Lorenzo Dalla Porta seventh, Toni Arbolino eighth, Kazuki Masaki ninth and Albert Arenas rounding out the top ten. The new youngest GP winner crowned in Valencia last year, Can Oncu, also slipped into that group in 13th position after featuring as high as fourth throughout the session
Moto3 Free Practice Nr. 2 Classification 2019
Doha, Friday, March 08, 2019
Pos. Num. Rider Nation Team Bike Km/h Time Gap 1st/Prev.
1 44 Aron CANET SPA Sterilgarda Max Racing Team KTM 231.8 2'04.561
2 55 Romano FENATI ITA Snipers Team Honda 229.7 2'05.156 0.595 / 0.595
3 23 Niccolò ANTONELLI ITA SIC58 Squadra Corse Honda 234.8 2'05.240 0.679 / 0.084
4 16 Andrea MIGNO ITA Bester Capital Dubai KTM 232.2 2'05.375 0.814 / 0.135
5 19 Gabriel RODRIGO ARG Kommerling Gresini Moto3 Honda 234.2 2'05.385 0.824 / 0.010
6 84 Jakub KORNFEIL CZE Redox PruestelGP KTM 233.5 2'05.475 0.914 / 0.090
7 48 Lorenzo DALLA PORTA ITA Leopard Racing Honda 234.2 2'05.480 0.919 / 0.005
8 14 Tony ARBOLINO ITA Snipers Team Honda 231.6 2'05.490 0.929 / 0.010
9 22 Kazuki MASAKI JPN BOE Skull Rider Mugen Race KTM 232.0 2'05.522 0.961 / 0.032
10 75 Albert ARENAS SPA Sama Qatar Angel Nieto Team KTM 235.4 2'05.523 0.962 / 0.001
11 27 Kaito TOBA JPN Honda Team Asia Honda 236.9 2'05.530 0.969 / 0.007
12 77 Vicente PEREZ SPA Reale Avintia Arizona 77 KTM 235.8 2'05.545 0.984 / 0.015
13 61 Can ONCU TUR Red Bull KTM Ajo KTM 231.6 2'05.547 0.986 / 0.002
14 7 Dennis FOGGIA ITA SKY Racing Team VR46 KTM 236.9 2'05.560 0.999 / 0.013
15 40 Darryn BINDER RSA CIP Green Power KTM 231.5 2'05.567 1.006 / 0.007
16 17 John MCPHEE GBR Petronas Sprinta Racing Honda 234.1 2'05.618 1.057 / 0.051
17 24 Tatsuki SUZUKI JPN SIC58 Squadra Corse Honda 235.2 2'05.765 1.204 / 0.147
18 79 Ai OGURA JPN Honda Team Asia Honda 236.6 2'05.824 1.263 / 0.059
19 71 Ayumu SASAKI JPN Petronas Sprinta Racing Honda 235.0 2'05.881 1.320 / 0.057
20 42 Marcos RAMIREZ SPA Leopard Racing Honda 234.5 2'05.956 1.395 / 0.075
21 25 Raul FERNANDEZ SPA Sama Qatar Angel Nieto Team KTM 234.5 2'05.997 1.436 / 0.041
22 5 Jaume MASIA SPA Bester Capital Dubai KTM 232.8 2'06.129 1.568 / 0.132
23 12 Filip SALAC CZE Redox PruestelGP KTM 231.6 2'06.130 1.569 / 0.001
24 13 Celestino VIETTI ITA SKY Racing Team VR46 KTM 235.4 2'06.190 1.629 / 0.060
25 21 Alonso LOPEZ SPA Estrella Galicia 0,0 Honda 235.2 2'06.295 1.734 / 0.105
26 76 Makar YURCHENKO KAZ BOE Skull Rider Mugen Race KTM 232.0 2'06.656 2.095 / 0.361
27 69 Tom BOOTH-AMOS GBR CIP Green Power KTM 231.5 2'06.946 2.385 / 0.290
28 6 Ryusei YAMANAKA JPN Estrella Galicia 0,0 Honda 233.7 2'07.188 2.627 / 0.242
29 54 Riccardo ROSSI ITA Kommerling Gresini Moto3 Honda 233.0 2'07.347 2.786 / 0.159
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Post by truenorth on Mar 8, 2019 9:00:14 GMT -8
Moto2 Free Practice Nr. 2 Classification 2019 Doha, Friday, March 08, 2019 Pos. Num. Rider Nation Team Bike Km/h Time Gap 1st/Prev. 1 7 Lorenzo BALDASSARRI ITA Flexbox HP 40 Kalex 290.4 1'58.635 ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1JywoSU8AAf6sf.jpg) 2 23 Marcel SCHROTTER GER Dynavolt Intact GP Kalex 291.7 1'58.869 0.234 / 0.234 3 87 Remy GARDNER AUS ONEXOX TKKR SAG Team Kalex 292.8 1'58.899 0.264 / 0.030 4 22 Sam LOWES GBR Federal Oil Gresini Moto2 Kalex 287.5 1'58.954 0.319 / 0.055 5 73 Alex MARQUEZ SPA EG 0,0 Marc VDS Kalex 289.3 1'58.964 0.329 / 0.010 6 9 Jorge NAVARRO SPA +Ego Speed Up Speed Up 291.5 1'59.036 0.401 / 0.072 7 5 Andrea LOCATELLI ITA Italtrans Racing Team Kalex 290.8 1'59.054 0.419 / 0.018 8 41 Brad BINDER RSA Red Bull KTM Ajo KTM 291.9 1'59.059 0.424 / 0.005 9 97 Xavi VIERGE SPA EG 0,0 Marc VDS Kalex 294.4 1'59.094 0.459 / 0.035 10 33 Enea BASTIANINI ITA Italtrans Racing Team Kalex 288.6 1'59.111 0.476 / 0.017 11 40 Augusto FERNANDEZ SPA Flexbox HP 40 Kalex 291.1 1'59.143 0.508 / 0.032 12 64 Bo BENDSNEYDER NED NTS RW Racing GP NTS 281.6 1'59.182 0.547 / 0.039 13 12 Thomas LUTHI SWI Dynavolt Intact GP Kalex 288.4 1'59.211 0.576 / 0.029 14 88 Jorge MARTIN SPA Red Bull KTM Ajo KTM 290.6 1'59.235 0.600 / 0.024 15 45 Tetsuta NAGASHIMA JPN ONEXOX TKKR SAG Team Kalex 290.5 1'59.375 0.740 / 0.140 16 10 Luca MARINI ITA SKY Racing Team VR46 Kalex 291.8 1'59.657 1.022 / 0.282 17 24 Simone CORSI ITA Tasca Racing Scuderia Moto2 Kalex 290.0 1'59.697 1.062 / 0.040 18 27 Iker LECUONA SPA American Racing KTM KTM 288.3 1'59.708 1.073 / 0.011 19 11 Nicolo BULEGA ITA SKY Racing Team VR46 Kalex 290.7 1'59.725 1.090 / 0.017 20 2 Jesko RAFFIN SWI NTS RW Racing GP NTS 283.0 1'59.790 1.155 / 0.065 21 21 Fabio DI GIANNANTONIO ITA +Ego Speed Up Speed Up 280.3 1'59.831 1.196 / 0.041 22 77 Dominique AEGERTER SWI MV Agusta Idealavoro Forward MV Agusta 279.5 1'59.904 1.269 / 0.073 23 89 Khairul Idham PAWI MAL Petronas Sprinta Racing Kalex 287.0 2'00.015 1.380 / 0.111 24 16 Joe ROBERTS USA American Racing KTM KTM 286.0 2'00.258 1.623 / 0.24325 35 Somkiat CHANTRA THA IDEMITSU Honda Team Asia Kalex 289.2 2'00.529 1.894 / 0.271 26 3 Lukas TULOVIC GER Kiefer Racing KTM 289.2 2'00.720 2.085 / 0.191 27 72 Marco BEZZECCHI ITA Red Bull KTM Tech 3 KTM 289.9 2'00.852 2.217 / 0.132 28 62 Stefano MANZI ITA MV Agusta Idealavoro Forward MV Agusta 283.6 2'00.969 2.334 / 0.117 29 65 Philipp OETTL GER Red Bull KTM Tech 3 KTM 289.2 2'01.224 2.589 / 0.255 30 96 Jake DIXON GBR Sama Qatar Angel Nieto Team KTM 280.9 2'01.526 2.891 / 0.302 31 20 Dimas EKKY PRATAMA INA IDEMITSU Honda Team Asia Kalex 283.9 2'02.235 3.600 / 0.709 32 18 Xavi CARDELUS AND Sama Qatar Angel Nieto Team KTM 284.9 2'05.415 6.780 / 3.180
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Post by truenorth on Mar 8, 2019 9:26:49 GMT -8
![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1JwPa6XcAE65RH.jpg) Marquez slices under Rabat FP2
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Post by truenorth on Mar 8, 2019 9:36:33 GMT -8
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Post by truenorth on Mar 8, 2019 10:09:26 GMT -8
MotoGP Free Practice Nr. 2 Classification 2019
Doha, Friday, March 08, 2019
Pos. Num. Rider Nation Team Bike Km/h Time Gap 1st/Prev. 1 93 Marc MARQUEZ SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 351.7 1'53.380 2 12 Maverick VIÑALES SPA Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha 337.1 1'53.854 0.474 / 0.474 3 43 Jack MILLER AUS Alma Pramac Racing Ducati 351.6 1'53.908 0.528 / 0.054 4 9 Danilo PETRUCCI ITA Mission Winnow Ducati Ducati 343.8 1'54.053 0.673 / 0.145 5 20 Fabio QUARTARARO FRA Petronas Yamaha SRT Yamaha 337.3 1'54.154 0.774 / 0.101 6 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Mission Winnow Ducati Ducati 349.1 1'54.256 0.876 / 0.102 7 21 Franco MORBIDELLI ITA Petronas Yamaha SRT Yamaha 343.1 1'54.275 0.895 / 0.019 8 42 Alex RINS SPA Team SUZUKI ECSTAR Suzuki 341.2 1'54.320 0.940 / 0.045 9 41 Aleix ESPARGARO SPA Aprilia Racing Team Gresini Aprilia 346.9 1'54.367 0.987 / 0.047 10 36 Joan MIR SPA Team SUZUKI ECSTAR Suzuki 346.1 1'54.402 1.022 / 0.035 11 99 Jorge LORENZO SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 342.9 1'54.428 1.048 / 0.026 12 30 Takaaki NAKAGAMI JPN LCR Honda IDEMITSU Honda 347.3 1'54.444 1.064 / 0.016 13 35 Cal CRUTCHLOW GBR LCR Honda CASTROL Honda 350.7 1'54.452 1.072 / 0.008 14 63 Francesco BAGNAIA ITA Alma Pramac Racing Ducati 343.2 1'54.801 1.421 / 0.349 15 53 Tito RABAT SPA Reale Avintia Racing Ducati 347.2 1'55.032 1.652 / 0.231 16 44 Pol ESPARGARO SPA Red Bull KTM Factory Racing KTM 344.7 1'55.053 1.673 / 0.021 17 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha 343.0 1'55.137 1.757 / 0.084 18 5 Johann ZARCO FRA Red Bull KTM Factory Racing KTM 341.4 1'55.412 2.032 / 0.275 19 29 Andrea IANNONE ITA Aprilia Racing Team Gresini Aprilia 343.1 1'55.432 2.052 / 0.020 20 88 Miguel OLIVEIRA POR Red Bull KTM Tech 3 KTM 345.0 1'55.635 2.255 / 0.203 21 17 Karel ABRAHAM CZE Reale Avintia Racing Ducati 342.0 1'55.654 2.274 / 0.019 22 55 Hafizh SYAHRIN MAL Red Bull KTM Tech 3 KTM 337.8 1'56.437 3.057 / 0.783 23 38 Bradley SMITH GBR Aprilia Factory Racing Aprilia 345.6 1'56.834 3.454 / 0.397
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Post by Pistola on Mar 8, 2019 12:44:49 GMT -8
Hot lap by MM, bad news for everybody else. Mir rode the Suzuki like it was a horse.
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Post by truenorth on Mar 8, 2019 14:21:38 GMT -8
Mat Oxley
Rossi destroyed a front tyre in FP2. Doesn't know why; says it wasn't a dud tyre. Says they have a narrow window of performance. Currently out of Q2,. doesn't think conditions will be right in FP3 to get him into the top ten
Marquez also sounding v confident. Him & Lorenzo say their styles are night & day different but both are fast. Lorenzo using a leather (buck skin) seat cover to improve bum-to-seat grip. Maybe a new area for Alpinestars business?
Riders are in safety commission meeting now. Most likely they will vote for a 7pm start. Problem is dew can form very early if the temperature drops fast & it's difficult to predict the rate of drop. Cal says that if the dew does form during the race there will be no finishers
Dovizioso: "I followed Lorenzo, Honda makes you say ' wow '": Andrea, now 6th, is worried by the forward steps of the rivals HRC: "They have a great engine and I am not sure that the front is really their weak point"
Marc Marquez: "The lap was fast but the most important thing is our rhythm"
Jorge Lorenzo: "We have a lot of potential"
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Post by truenorth on Mar 8, 2019 14:44:35 GMT -8
Fabio Quartararo: P5 for our first day ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1KQoNCWoAI2oFM.jpg)
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Post by truenorth on Mar 8, 2019 18:56:36 GMT -8
2019 Qatar MotoGP Friday Round Up: Explaining New Tech, Viñales' New Crew, And Not Moving The Race Start Submitted by David Emmett on Sat, 2019-03-09 01:45
And so hope and expectation meet reality. On Friday, we could stop fantasizing about just how good this season might be, and see for ourselves just how close the field is in the premier class. Well, how close it is outside Marc Márquez' insane record-crushing lap in FP2, made following Maverick Viñales around and using him as a target. It may only be Friday, but Márquez beat Johann Zarco's pole-setting lap record from last year by three tenths of a second. And they will only be going faster gain tomorrow.
Any concerns that Marc Márquez might ease himself back into MotoGP, nursing the shoulder he had operated on last year until it was back at 100%, were laid to rest. "No, I ride full attack. I am riding full attack, I am pushing," Márquez said.
Viñales, who knew that Márquez had been following him when he made his fastest time, joked about it being a magnanimous gesture towards a weakened rival. "Yeah, I knew he was there, but I know he is injured, so I tried to help him a little bit... " the Monster Energy Yamaha rider joked. "Maybe I helped him too much! But it was important to see where our competitors are, so at the moment, we have to put the head down and work, work, work. They are ahead at the moment, some tenths ahead, so we need to keep working really hard."
From development to practice
Friday also marked the end of testing, and the start of the period of slow evolution which happens through the racing season, as the factories start to refine the package they found in testing and move forward with less time to spend racking up laps. That also meant that we got a proper look at the bikes as they will be used throughout 2019.
With the fairings now frozen until the factories bring their one permitted update for the year, we got to see what everyone was running. Even though aerodynamics packages are homologated for each rider individually, most teammates elect to use the same fairing. That is not the case in the Yamaha garage this year, Valentino Rossi sticking with the package from last year, while Maverick Viñales has elected to use the new, double-wing version debuted at Sepang.
But aerodynamics are not frozen as the rule makers intended them to be. As is his wont, Ducati Corse boss Gigi Dall'Igna has conducted a thorough search of the rules and uncovered a couple of loopholes in the process. The rules specify that the aerodynamic body (as the aero package is formally known) consists of two parts: the fairing and the mudguard or fender. Useful drawings are provided to illustrate the meaning.
Loopholes are made for exploiting
What the rule makers forgot is that there were parts of the bike still left uncovered. Ducati have created a couple of curved carbon fiber covers which attach to the bottom of the front forks, and cover a large part of the front wheel, down to the tire. They have also created a spoiler which sits on the bottom of the swing arm, rather than the fairing. Both parts neatly circumvent the rules, much to the chagrin of the scrutineers. Ducati can fit and remove the parts whenever they want.
What are they for? "We saw on television that it was for cooling down the rear tire, but it is not like this," Danilo Petrucci said. "But I can’t tell you because Gigi gets angry! We saw on television that they said it was to cool down the rear tire but in fact that is not the real reason. There is also another part on the front and when I saw it I asked what is its purpose but unfortunately I cannot tell you as it is my contract. There are some small changes riding the bike but not as big as we expected."
Key to understanding what the two parts do is the fact that the front and rear aero parts never appear on the bike separately. That means the function of the two is interconnected. Former Moto2 and Moto3 crew chief Peter Bom believed the parts around the front wheel would minimize the turbulence generated by the spokes of the front wheel rotating. The smoother air that generates would then flow along and underneath the fairing, creating less drag, and possibly creating more downforce on the steeply angled vanes of the rear spoiler.
A spoiler mounted on the rear swing arm would help push the rear into the ground more effectively, helping to keep the rear from coming loose from the ground. That may provide more initial stability when braking from high speed. This is just speculation, of course. The only people who know the truth work at Ducati Corse, and would incur the wrath of Gigi Dall'Igna were they ever to spill the beans.
Starting is everything
While the spoilers were relatively new, Ducati's holeshot device has been around for a little longer. There has been much speculation over what it might do, but an observant Dorna video editor found conclusive evidence during FP2. As Andrea Dovizioso slowed to do a practice start, he could be seen twisting the lever on the triple clamp, while at the same time lifting the rear to engage the device. He then does a practice start, and from the onboard shot, the Ducati GP19 remained beautifully stable as he took off.
Jack Miller gave a little bit away speaking to the media on Friday night, when asked about the holeshot device. "It’s good," he said. "I didn't do one start all winter and I couldn't even remember where the button was today in FP1. I was like ‘is it the blue one?!’ Here is it never the same because you always tend to have a head wind and where the practice start is you have to deal with the crosswind and it hits the front tire like that. I wasn't particularly happy with the practice starts but generally in the race we are pretty good at them."
Does the holeshot device help the bike stay flatter and more level at the start? "Yeah, that's the general idea," the Pramac Ducati rider acknolwedged. "You can use a little bit more torque, and you can feel it. You just have to get used to it popping up and remember it’s going to pop up."
Carboned up
In the LCR Honda garage, Cal Crutchlow's bikes were equipped with the carbon swing arm he had longed for through 2018. Though he downplayed the significance, he believed it brought benefits over race distance.
It was still hard to understand the difference directly, Crutchlow explained. "Don’t forget I’m on a different package," he said. "The package is completely different to last year, or my feeling with the package is completely different to last year. As we know the bike is not so different but my feeling with the carbon swing arm is better than without it, because I have ridden the 2019 bike without it. And I think it will be a positive for the race but they did a good job with that."
In the Repsol Honda garage, Jorge Lorenzo had a leather-look saddle on one bike to allow him to move more smoothly around the seat, more in line with his normal style. Marc Márquez noted that Lorenzo rode entirely differently to him. "I mean we are day and night, on the way to ride the bike. I ride one way and rides the opposite, completely opposite, and it is time to understand this. I am very aggressive and he is very smooth so of course he will be very fast in some corners and I will be very fast in other corners. Now it is time to understand. He will check my data, I will check his data."
Close bar Marc
With track temperatures way too high during the day to set times faster than the cooler conditions of FP2, the entrants to Q2 look pretty much set. Márquez set a stunning single lap, but he was also very consistent in race pace, as was Maverick Viñales. But in terms of a fast lap, the field was exceptionally close behind the vast gap which loomed to Márquez.
Between Viñales in second and Cal Crutchlow in thirteenth, there was less than six tenths of a second. The riders in eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth – Jorge Lorenzo, Taka Nakagami, and Cal Crutchlow – missed out on Q2 by just a few hundredths. Crutchlow was five hundredths slower than Joan Mir in tenth. The gaps are very small indeed.
Márquez fast lap and strong race pace could spell trouble for most of the rest of the field. Despite still not being at full fitness, Márquez was very happy with where the Repsol Honda is now. "I feel even better on the bike with more power and also we are improving on the setup," Márquez said. We are still at the first race with a new bike, and a new engine, so we need to understand many things. Even like this, the philosophy is a lot like last year, when we need to suffer we will suffer and this circuit is one of the most difficult for me and the one I suffer at a little bit but we are in a good way. But it is only Friday and my championship is still zero points. Sunday is the day."
The right environment is worth half a second
Maverick Viñales was second quickest, but is his speed an illusion, as it proved to be last year? Viñales said he believed that much of the improvement came from a better feeling with his new crew chief Esteban Garcia, and riding coach Julian Simon.
"We have a really good feeling," Viñales said. "The atmosphere inside the team is completely different to last year, I can be much more calm inside, relaxed. And they make me stay really calm, and that's really positive. When everything is good, it's easy to be like this, but when things go wrong, I think Esteban and Julito will help me much more than when they are correct."
How did they help him keep calm? By taking a more methodical approach more in line with Viñales own temperament. "We have a good plan," he said. "We follow the plan, and we don't go out of the plan, and that's very important. Like, sometimes last year I made 10 laps in 1 run, or whatever. Now we follow the plan: we make 4 laps, 4 laps, 4 laps. And we don't go out of the plan. And I think that's really important, because that's the way to test everything. And like today, I made good runs. So I think that the way they help make me calm is we have a plan, they give me the things to try, and we never hurry up, and that's really important."
Highs and lows
Viñales' teammate was much less fortunate in the evening, after ending the first session of practice as fastest. The front tire he had used in FP1 and was saving for FP2 wore itself out much quicker than expected, creating a huge vibration when leaned over. That left him incapable of setting a fast lap, and languishing down in seventeenth, out of Q2.
"This morning I was not so bad, and this afternoon we didn’t modify the bike and we entered this afternoon with the plan to use the tire on a race distance as we don’t have other tires," Rossi explained. "But unfortunately after five laps I destroyed the front so in that moment we don’t understand why, and secondly we didn’t have any more tires."
"It is a shame because we were optimistic after this morning to try with our pace, which was better," Rossi said. "It is very difficult to understand what has happened. It looks like the line is narrow for us to go fast." The Yamaha M1 is capable of going very fast, but if you are not precisely within the operating window, you are in trouble, it seems.
That is doubly so in this era when so many riders are so close together. "With 18 riders in one second it is like in MotoGP, if you don’t push at the maximum it is very easy to go out of the top 15," Rossi said. "We have to find a way to improve tomorrow to have a good pace."
Unlike testing, there is not much time left for him to do that. The FP3 session will take place in the heat of the day, meaning not much will be learned. That leaves the 30 minutes of FP4 before qualifying to get it right. It is a very tight window, but tight windows make for close racing.
No movement on race time
At the end of the day, the riders all attended the Safety Commission, where they discussed whether to move the race an hour earlier, from 8pm to 7pm. That request was turned down, as conditions looked to be favorable for Sunday, though the riders weren't exactly overjoyed with the decision.
"Most of the riders preferred 7pm because it is less risk," Marc Márquez said. "For today it was perfect conditions but you never know, yesterday was very, very cold. So, most of the riders prefer 7pm, but they said 8pm would be the race time. Last year was 7pm and they said next year might be 7pm again but this year it will be 8pm. We pushed, all the riders pushed for 7pm. But they said we rode very fast today and with not many crashes. Today was a very nice day but on Sunday we will see."
If the weather does get worse, then Cal Crutchlow was worried about the effect it could have on the race. "Today is perfect at 8pm but tomorrow could be light raining. As we saw in the Moto2 test last week it was 17 degrees at 8pm. In our test there were twelve crashes after 7:30. Our feeling about it, last week after the test I was told it couldn’t be moved."
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Post by truenorth on Mar 9, 2019 5:14:11 GMT -8
Moto3 Free Practice Nr. 3 Classification 2019
Doha, Saturday, March 09, 2019
Pos. Num. Rider Nation Team Bike Km/h Time Gap 1st/Prev. 1 77 Vicente PEREZ SPA Reale Avintia Arizona 77 KTM 230.3 2'06.561 2 14 Tony ARBOLINO ITA Snipers Team Honda 230.7 2'06.653 0.092 / 0.092 3 27 Kaito TOBA JPN Honda Team Asia Honda 230.8 2'06.793 0.232 / 0.140 4 21 Alonso LOPEZ SPA Estrella Galicia 0,0 Honda 223.9 2'06.794 0.233 / 0.001 5 55 Romano FENATI ITA Snipers Team Honda 228.8 2'06.879 0.318 / 0.085 6 84 Jakub KORNFEIL CZE Redox PruestelGP KTM 228.2 2'07.000 0.439 / 0.121 7 22 Kazuki MASAKI JPN BOE Skull Rider Mugen Race KTM 231.4 2'07.088 0.527 / 0.088 8 44 Aron CANET SPA Sterilgarda Max Racing Team KTM 225.7 2'07.205 0.644 / 0.117 9 75 Albert ARENAS SPA Sama Qatar Angel Nieto Team KTM 226.7 2'07.278 0.717 / 0.073 10 13 Celestino VIETTI ITA SKY Racing Team VR46 KTM 227.0 2'07.282 0.721 / 0.004 11 61 Can ONCU TUR Red Bull KTM Ajo KTM 230.6 2'07.293 0.732 / 0.011 12 42 Marcos RAMIREZ SPA Leopard Racing Honda 233.1 2'07.361 0.800 / 0.068 13 16 Andrea MIGNO ITA Bester Capital Dubai KTM 230.9 2'07.412 0.851 / 0.051 14 48 Lorenzo DALLA PORTA ITA Leopard Racing Honda 228.7 2'07.495 0.934 / 0.083 15 25 Raul FERNANDEZ SPA Sama Qatar Angel Nieto Team KTM 226.3 2'07.638 1.077 / 0.143 16 76 Makar YURCHENKO KAZ BOE Skull Rider Mugen Race KTM 229.9 2'07.666 1.105 / 0.028 17 19 Gabriel RODRIGO ARG Kommerling Gresini Moto3 Honda 227.2 2'07.741 1.180 / 0.075 18 23 Niccolò ANTONELLI ITA SIC58 Squadra Corse Honda 233.5 2'07.744 1.183 / 0.003 19 7 Dennis FOGGIA ITA SKY Racing Team VR46 KTM 227.7 2'07.844 1.283 / 0.100 20 24 Tatsuki SUZUKI JPN SIC58 Squadra Corse Honda 227.9 2'08.020 1.459 / 0.176 21 5 Jaume MASIA SPA Bester Capital Dubai KTM 225.4 2'08.131 1.570 / 0.111 22 79 Ai OGURA JPN Honda Team Asia Honda 230.9 2'08.234 1.673 / 0.103 23 17 John MCPHEE GBR Petronas Sprinta Racing Honda 227.8 2'08.353 1.792 / 0.119 24 40 Darryn BINDER RSA CIP Green Power KTM 221.5 2'08.365 1.804 / 0.012 25 6 Ryusei YAMANAKA JPN Estrella Galicia 0,0 Honda 226.8 2'08.373 1.812 / 0.008 26 71 Ayumu SASAKI JPN Petronas Sprinta Racing Honda 225.0 2'08.838 2.277 / 0.465 27 54 Riccardo ROSSI ITA Kommerling Gresini Moto3 Honda 230.0 2'08.864 2.303 / 0.026 28 12 Filip SALAC CZE Redox PruestelGP KTM 224.9 2'08.883 2.322 / 0.019 29 69 Tom BOOTH-AMOS GBR CIP Green Power KTM 225.2 2'09.395 2.834 / 0.51
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