MotoGrandPrix- Austria 2020

Race Predictions

  • Fabio QUARTARARO

    Votes: 8 22.9%

  • Maverick VIÑALES

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Franco MORBIDELLI

    Votes: 3 8.6%

  • Andrea DOVIZIOSO

    Votes: 9 25.7%

  • Brad BINDER

    Votes: 6 17.1%

  • Johann ZARCO

    Votes: 2 5.7%

  • Valentino ROSSI

    Votes: 7 20.0%

  • Takaaki NAKAGAMI

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Jack MILLER

    Votes: 2 5.7%

  • Alex RINS

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Pol ESPARGARO

    Votes: 2 5.7%

  • Miguel OLIVEIRA

    Votes: 1 2.9%

  • Alex MARQUEZ

    Votes: 1 2.9%

  • Joan MIR

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Someone Else (Probably Tito)

    Votes: 1 2.9%
  • Total voters
    35
Map8

Map8

I want nothing
Staff member
Crutchlow had a brake failure at Jerez when he rode for Ducati. Thankfully, Cal did not crash but it ended his race on the first lap and gave him a good scare. The announcers today mentioned that Eugene Laverty has had to bail off three times or more; most spectacularly at Imola in 2018. Michael Ruben Rinaldi jumped off his Panigale V4R due to brake failure during WSBK FP1 at Jerez entering Pedrosa corner a few weeks ago.

Brake failure is still pretty damn rare considering these components are pushed to the limit several times each lap over thousands and thousands of rider laps each year at the World Championship level.
 
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Lucky Jones

Lucky Jones

Ride on #69
Watched the first half this morning, was about to watch the second when my bro-in-law showed up to help with tree trimming (my wife told him to not come today, but...)so, after ALL DAY spent in my yard with him and branches and chainsaws and all - WOOOOOOOOO!!!! What a second half!

Stoked for MO88, and Tech-3. Talk about snatching victory - that last corner scoot was PERFECT. Miller and Asparagus too focused on each other and - ZOOP! - there went the win. Tech-3 have always been my fav. of the "second tier" teams, was sad when they had to switch to KTM, but not no more!

Too fun.

Gotta get caught up with 2 and 3 now, but I don't know if I've got in in me. Who am I kidding? Off I go!
 
Map8

Map8

I want nothing
Staff member
A poster in one of the ADVRider.com race threads brought this up: when was the last time there wasn't a Japanese bike on the podium in premier class motorcycle GP? Anyone know?
 
firstbuell

firstbuell

GO! 04,16,23,31,64,69,95
Map8 said:
A poster in one of the ADVRider.com race threads brought this up: when was the last time there wasn't a Japanese bike on the podium in premier class motorcycle GP? Anyone know?
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now THAT is a great Q !
worthy of a MotoGP Data Dan-type

an EZ answer is sometime in mid-'60s, before overbored Honda (& Yamaha?) 350s ran in 500 class- this immediately before legit Honda 500-4s appeared

dunno the exact date, but itz a genuine puzzler.....
 
Maddevill

Maddevill

KNGKAW
JakesKTM said:
Rossi was a very aggressive rider and made some punk moves in his day. He made the hard block pass a standard and acceptable move in motogp, whereas before it was considered dirty and scandalous and pissed off a lot of riders, especially hotheads like Sete and Max often.

MM is the next evolution of hard passes. He will slide in underneath, cut your line short from the outside or inside, and isn't much concerned with hard contact. He's crashing the bike into his competitors, but as we have seen he miraculously controls the crash. Others see it as reckless.

I saw this style coming with Simoncelli. He had a similar overly aggressive style. He would try and control the edge rather than let go, and push the bike into doing what he needed it to do, not crash. I truly believe this was his final error in judgement.

Rossi was humbled to the core by that crash. And his words today are coming from that perspective. Sometimes a rider needs to let go of the need to make that unsafe move, that need to push harder even if it means giving up one place.

Sometimes a rider needs to use his head to get back in the game of the reality of the situation. Yes its high stakes competitive racing. But it's also a very real risk of life.
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I'm guessing you're forgetting when Biaggi nerfed Rossi off the track at Suzuka at very high speed.

Mad
 
budman

budman

General Menace
Staff member
Map8 said:
A poster in one of the ADVRider.com race threads brought this up: when was the last time there wasn't a Japanese bike on the podium in premier class motorcycle GP? Anyone know?
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Damn!!! Truth.

Crazy to think about it.

Without looking..... 1973

Too tired to look. :laughing
 
afm199

afm199

Well-known member
Maddevill said:
I'm guessing you're forgetting when Biaggi nerfed Rossi off the track at Suzuka at very high speed.

Mad
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Yep. A one off that used to happen once every five years. Until the current times, when a certain young Spanish rider decided to bring it to a new level.
 
Map8

Map8

I want nothing
Staff member
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NSR500

NSR500

すけべ
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I'd say that's a 70/30 that the engine is done.
 

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R3DS!X

R3DS!X

Whatever that means
Viñales said he felt his brakes fading not necessarily failing. He was trying to get a point or two. But fail they did. Massively
 
ThinkFast

ThinkFast

Live Long
R3DS!X said:
Viñales said he felt his brakes fading not necessarily failing. He was trying to get a point or two. But fail they did. Massively
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In the car world, spongey brakes are the warning to watch for. When you feel this it means it’s time to get off the track. They don’t come back quickly enough to allow continued lapping at slower speed. (I learned this myself the hard way).
 
R3DS!X

R3DS!X

Whatever that means
Meh, I mainly just use crash.net. I'm a busy man i ain't got time to go to multiple websites. Too much work. kids these days...
 
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