MotoGP Misano

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What? No thread on this already?! Shame on you!

Are Lorenzo & Marquez going to have a decent race this weekend or will Rossi win it like he did last year?

Another walkover for Mr Kent?

Will Sam finish the race?

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egor110 said:

If it's dry lorenzo will win and what better place to beat rossi than Italy.

I dunno, he didn't have enough to beat Rossi last year, and Marquez fell off trying to stay with him too.

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egor110 said:

Next years provisional calendar :

20 March Qatar* Losail International Circuit
03 April Argentina Termas de Río Hondo
10 April Americas Circuit of The Americas
24 April Spain Circuito de Jerez**
08 May France Le Mans
22 May Italy Autodromo del Mugello
05 June Catalunya Barcelona - Catalunya
26 June Netherlands TT Circuit Assen
10 July Germany Sachsenring
17 July Great Britain Silverstone Circuit
14 August Austria Red Bull Ring - Spielberg
21 August Czech Republic Automotodrom Brno**
11 September San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli
25 September Aragón MotorLand Aragón
09 October Malaysia Sepang International Circuit
16 October Japan Twin Ring Motegi
23 October Australia Phillip Island
06 November Comunitat Valenciana Comunitat Valenciana

That's my hols sorted then: Austria combined with Czech Republic along with popping over to Barcelona & Assen, maybe Valencia & Le Mans and of course, Silverstone.

Although last time I planned holidays around MotoGP, Argentina wasn't ready in time & messed up all my plans!

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What exactly do they do again? Or is it a case of the Doctor's Dangle and no-one can actually definitively say?

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He runs a MotoGP team and I don't so.....

but I would be amazed if they do anything measureable. Surely the speed at which the front of the bike lifts under power is not enough to take advantage of the aerodynamic resistance these wings offer? Or is it just the extra weight they add?

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If no-one else gets a penalty for exceeding track limits then I'm calling fix!!!

Just showed Danny going a little wide swiftly followed by the next 3 or 4 behind him going even wider. I find it impossible to believe he was the only that's done it enough to get a penalty.

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LoonR1 said:

Johno said:

The best idea I heard yesterday was that the wings help to reduce front wheel lift on exit of the corners, thereby allowing the anti wheelie to be dialect back a little which simply means less power is cut, better corner exit acceleration. Plausible .... At speed in any other part of a lap I do not see much benefit ....

That's the official line, but is the bike going fast enough out of the corners to make the wings work?

That's my thinking too. The downforce must be microscopic.

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And there he goes for good....

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The commentators mentioned something being flicked up off the track just before he took a long look down at his bike, which was just before he then slowed up and dropped those places. Also on the replay it sounded like he lost power rather than just missed a gear.

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Come on Scotty!! I reckon if you offered him 8th before the race he'd have taken it.

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Scott completely ignoring the rain!!

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bks

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fk. ME.

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Scott for third!!!!!!!

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SkySailing said:

Esceptico said:

I need to buy access to the MotoGP races....

Until I do...can someone tell me what happened? From the comments I am sort of guessing it rained, they had to change bikes, Rossi didn't change at the right time and Lorenzo binned it.

Correct?

It rained, they changed. Rossi caught Marc and George, Rossi went to second. It dried out, Marc changed to dry whilst Yamaha messed up their strategy, Marc won by 7 light years, and Lorenzo destroyed his bike, and his ego

Not forgetting Bradley was the only one that stayed out for the whole race and Redding also crashed before changing bikes.

And no, Lorenzo falling off was not good.