Moto gp - Sepang

[egor110]

No Kiefer racing this weekend as Stefan Keifer has died overnight .

[CookieR32]

Good showing from Dovi so far.

Highlight of FP2 for me was Zarco binning the bike, picking it up, and it just toppling over again

[Rawwr]

Permutation time! \o/

Marquez 1st = Marquez WC
Dovizioso 1st and Marquez 2nd = Marquez WC
Dovizioso 1st and Marquez >=3rd = To Valencia
Dovizioso 2nd and Marquez >=5th = To Valencia
Dovizioso 3rd and Marquez >=9th = To Valencia
Dovizioso 4th and Marquez >=12th = To Valencia
Dovizioso 5th and Marquez >=14th = To Valencia
Dovizioso 6th and Marquez 15th = To Valencia

[NAS]

Curious how v/d Mark will do.....

[dukeboy749r]

Would a) love to see Dovi win

b) like to see it go to Valencia

c) see a...

[CookieR32]

Amazing end to Q2 there!

Shame Dovi didn't get pole, but Marquez in the third row!

[DuraAce]

Bit of sunshine and little Dani wakes up!

MM looking really ragged on his second run, how he didn't crash again I don't know.
Cal on the deck, again.

[mckeann]

Awesome qually. I really hope Dovi can drag this back

[Johno]

Marquez' save in FP4 was a crash, that he somehow managed to turn into a save. Simply unbelievable.

If only Dani could get heat into the tyres at the rest of the circuits on the calendar .... TOP effort Dovi and a front row for every fly away round for Zarco.

So who should be on the factory bike, Rossi or Zarco?

I can see tomorrow being equally as feisty as PI was if the front group stay together longer than 5-8 laps.

[rodericb]

1 26 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 322.9 1'59.212
2 5 Johann ZARCO FRA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 320.2 1'59.229 0.017 / 0.017
3 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Ducati Team Ducati 324.2 1'59.236 0.024 / 0.007
4 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha 318.3 1'59.498 0.286 / 0.262
5 25 Maverick VIÑALES SPA Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha 322.1 1'59.538 0.326 / 0.040
6 99 Jorge LORENZO SPA Ducati Team Ducati 322.0 1'59.622 0.410 / 0.084
7 93 Marc MARQUEZ SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 320.9 1'59.694 0.482 / 0.072
8 42 Alex RINS SPA Team SUZUKI ECSTAR Suzuki 316.8 1'59.992 0.780 / 0.298
9 29 Andrea IANNONE ITA Team SUZUKI ECSTAR Suzuki 315.9 2'00.119 0.907 / 0.127
10 35 Cal CRUTCHLOW GBR LCR Honda Honda 318.6 2'00.181 0.969 / 0.062
11 43 Jack MILLER AUS EG 0,0 Marc VDS Honda 319.6 2'00.326 1.114 / 0.145
12 44 Pol ESPARGARO SPA Red Bull KTM Factory Racing KTM 319.0 2'00.770 1.558 / 0.444

[rodericb]

Rawwr said:

Permutation time! \o/

Marquez 1st = Marquez WC
Dovizioso 1st and Marquez 2nd = Marquez WC
Dovizioso 1st and Marquez >=3rd = To Valencia
Dovizioso 2nd and Marquez >=5th = To Valencia
Dovizioso 3rd and Marquez >=9th = To Valencia
Dovizioso 4th and Marquez >=12th = To Valencia
Dovizioso 5th and Marquez >=14th = To Valencia
Dovizioso 6th and Marquez 15th = To Valencia

Marquez crashes out at Sepang, Dovi wins at Valencia, Marquez comes 4th = Dovizioso World Champion!!!!1

I can only live in hope....

[DuraAce]

Another weather lottery then... Drying track... Bike change? Another strategy winner from marquez?

[Rawwr]

And so it goes on.

I'm really glad Lorenzo made that T15 mistake. If he hadn't, it would've been heartbreaking if he had to yield to Dovizioso because of team orders.

[CookieR32]

Masterful race from Dovi, kinda glad team orders didn't quite come into play after Lorenzo's slide

On to Valencia!

[DuraAce]

Meh. Bit of an anti climax in the end. Would've been nice to see a dry race and some decent battles.
Poor show from both factory yamaha.
At least the title stays open until valencia..

[egor110]

Rawwr said:

And so it goes on.

I'm really glad Lorenzo made that T15 mistake. If he hadn't, it would've been heartbreaking if he had to yield to Dovizioso because of team orders.

Although handing the win to dovi might of been a good idea, if in a year or 2 lorenzo is in a chance to win the championship and he has a favour to call in ?

What happened to Iannone ? dissapointing compared to last weekends antics.

Rider of the day for me was Petrucci.

[rodericb]

egor110 said:

Rider of the day for me was Petrucci.

Oh yeah, from last place to sixth! He was edging closer to the Pedrobot at the end too. Great race by Zarco too managing that soft rear which Michelin was saying would start going off seven laps from the end.

[hairyben]

rodericb said:

Marquez crashes out at Sepang, Dovi wins at Valencia, Marquez comes 4th = Dovizioso World Champion!!!!1

I can only live in hope....

Dovi needs all the points and for marc to have none... wonder if rossi will be thinking of 2015...

[WaferThinHam]

Championship will be decided on Saturday, racing around that car park is pretty pointless. It's still very much Marc's championship to lose. That Ducati isn't super fast around Valencia compared to the Honda unless your surname is Bayliss.

[mak]

rodericb said:

Marquez crashes out at Sepang, Dovi wins at Valencia, Marquez comes 4th = Dovizioso World Champion!!!!1

I can only live in hope....

I feel your pain mate. Its a big ask now but fingers crossed .