Moto GP Thread 2023
Discussion
Zarco said:
Hopefully good news for next year regarding the new front tyre:
https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/motorc...
Badly wanted, and then when they ban the aero that will become unusable https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/motorc...
LukeBrown66 said:
So sick of this stuff, he is the typical boy who cried wolf, how may times in his career has he taken people off either by accident or design.
I know he is Ezpeleta's love child and blue eyed boy, and it was a genuine mistake but lesser riders have been penalised for far more. When will this idiot realise that you cannot ride at the limit ALL THE TIME.
The bike is NOT capable of this, and trying to make it do this is endangering himself and others far more than a rider who would perhaps reign it in a few percent.
I really feel he has not got the intelligence to realise this at times. he just turns green every time he gets on the bike, this is Santi, Puig everyone else feeding this idea that he has to be on the limit endlessly the bloke has been out for nearly 3 years now pretty much with a few exceptions, I understand it in a way, but you have to be there at the end and he just isn't most of the time these days. And he is getting paid a fortune, sooner or later Honda will just have enough, regardless of what he has done.
I think Zarco is more to blame on this one, not even blame as such, more at fault say. Marc is on the flying lap and coming at speed. Zarco is the one leaving the pits, it’s he is the one who needs to yield. Of course he didn’t expect Marc to lose it, but isn’t that one of the unwritten rules, expect the unexpected. I know he is Ezpeleta's love child and blue eyed boy, and it was a genuine mistake but lesser riders have been penalised for far more. When will this idiot realise that you cannot ride at the limit ALL THE TIME.
The bike is NOT capable of this, and trying to make it do this is endangering himself and others far more than a rider who would perhaps reign it in a few percent.
I really feel he has not got the intelligence to realise this at times. he just turns green every time he gets on the bike, this is Santi, Puig everyone else feeding this idea that he has to be on the limit endlessly the bloke has been out for nearly 3 years now pretty much with a few exceptions, I understand it in a way, but you have to be there at the end and he just isn't most of the time these days. And he is getting paid a fortune, sooner or later Honda will just have enough, regardless of what he has done.
Yazza54 said:
epom said:
Zarco said:
So MM is partly responsible for HRC building a crap bike. Hokey dokey 
Well you’d have to imagine he is involved or has a massive say on things ?? Then again this is Honda.
Se7enheaven said:
I reckon that after the 5th crash ,and getting dumped hard after a high side that he was medically warned about the potential detached retina scenario. Like I say it’s only my opinion ,but by the time he’d had 5 crashes and realised that nothing within a short period of time could make the bike and rider competitive the risk versus reward has come to the forefront. MM is not one to give up, but seeing the relationship between him and Honda appearing quite strained may have evoked the race retirement.
Was a finger issue not quoted as the reason he didn't race ??LukeBrown66 said:
Can't people just answer the questions are posts instead of being pathetic and personal, for gods sake grow up.
I hope Marquez stays around, he is at least entertaining, but he is clearly damaged goods, if you can;t see that you are blind quite honestly!
And seriously guys, in a recent chat about rivals Rossi did not even mention MM, you think that was not deliberate, it is more than dislike it is disrespect between the pair of them.
There are two reasons why he would never take him at his team, one, he is Spanish and one of the big reasons for this team is to battle the Spanish GP armada (also a big reason for the dislike the way the whole thing was shoved aside to make sure poor Jorge got his day in the sun at Valencia), and the other is well they don't like or respect each other and I doubt that could ever be resolved to a point where he would accept Marquez riding in his team.
See, very hard to disagree with anything in those last two paragraphs. If only you didn’t try to force everyone to agree with everything else you say I hope Marquez stays around, he is at least entertaining, but he is clearly damaged goods, if you can;t see that you are blind quite honestly!
And seriously guys, in a recent chat about rivals Rossi did not even mention MM, you think that was not deliberate, it is more than dislike it is disrespect between the pair of them.
There are two reasons why he would never take him at his team, one, he is Spanish and one of the big reasons for this team is to battle the Spanish GP armada (also a big reason for the dislike the way the whole thing was shoved aside to make sure poor Jorge got his day in the sun at Valencia), and the other is well they don't like or respect each other and I doubt that could ever be resolved to a point where he would accept Marquez riding in his team.
As mentioned earlier in all sports teams have dominant periods. But nothing lasts forever. Ducati really are on the top of their game a the moment. Might see little rule changes coming in, little things like that to chip away at it (Kinda like FFP in Soccer, ahem).
These bikes of course need to be the pinnacle, but I'd be all for less aero, less electronics, tyres that last a full race.
Speculation on who ends up where is good fun, and it might even seem somewhat predictable
Whatever else Moto GP needs Honda and Yamaha, I know it, they know it.
These bikes of course need to be the pinnacle, but I'd be all for less aero, less electronics, tyres that last a full race.
Speculation on who ends up where is good fun, and it might even seem somewhat predictable
Whatever else Moto GP needs Honda and Yamaha, I know it, they know it.
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