BMW M GP of Styria

[Steve Bass]

Here we go again boys and girls,

get your podium predictions and villain and hero hats at the ready, we're back with a bang.

Truly, the hills are alive with the sound of glorious GP machines.

What'ya say, who's doing what, going where, upsetting who??

I'm predicting MV to disappoint, JZ to bea little more circumspect, Brad to do well (top 10), Miller to impress, Rins and Mir to be in the mix and Dovi to make it a double......

1. Dovi
2. Rins
3. Miller

[Stuart Fordyce]

Rins and Binder suffered (a very) little due to a lack of setup time on the race last weekend, but both did...not too badly. However at the end of the race they were both being reeled in by Rossi.

Rash and uninformed prediction:

1. Dovi
2. Miller (not a fan but he rode a good race last weekend on wearing tyres - whether or not he learns from this will show if he's ready to lead a factory team)
3. Rossi

and the Espagaro brothers to come after Zarco with breaker bars behind the pits...

[hiccy18]

Yamaha don't look as if they have podium pace so assuming a dry race:

1. Rins
2. Dovi
3. Oliveira

Yes I know Oliveira is a controversial pick but Pol is too erratic and Brad didn't have the pace last weekend.

ETA:

JZ is getting his scaphoid operated on, fracture picked up at the weekend and also is accompanying Morbidelli to the headmasters office where he is likely to be sacrificed on the Red Bull altar.

Rossi for top Yamaha, 5 seconds off the podium.

Miller having a clumsy mistake/crash.

Whilst everyone is busy watching who his rider talks to Dovi's manager visits the KTM factory?

Finally Aleix Espargaro crashes and blames Zarco.

Edited by hiccy18 on Friday 21st August 09:51

[Steve Bass]

Stuart Fordyce said:

Rash and uninformed prediction:

.

As we've come to expect from you

But you might not be too far off......

[DuraAce]

1. Rins
2. Dovi
3. Pol

If 1+3 can sort their heads out. Otherwise Dovi for another win...

[ddom]

1. Dovi
2. Rins
3. Binder

[thatdude]

Vinales to score pole position, but get absolutely beaten up during the first few laps as he once against struggles with cold tyres / full tank.

Dovi to win. It's the most likely outcvome given his record at the circuit in previous years, not just last week. Podium positions to be faught between the KTM's, the suzukis and jack miller.

Rossi to finish top 5.

[Stuart Fordyce]

Steve Bass said:

As we've come to expect from you

But you might not be too far off......

My past two predictions have been total bks. For the last race I said it would be a KTM/Petronas battle, and for Brno I suggested Dovi for the win. This is why I don't gamble! Still, the joy of sport is the unpredictability!

[unident]

If only there was some recent racing there to give me some guidance on this, as I’m clearly garbage at predicting the outcomes.

1. Miller
2. Dovi
3. Rins

I’ve swapped the Ducati’s, as they’ll dial Dovi’s down a notch and turn Miller’s up so that they get the number 1 on their bike next year. Oh and the Earth is flat, Kennedy was assassinated by Shergar and Elvis works at my local chip shop.

[Centurion07]

Steve Bass said:

1. Dovi
2. Rins
3. Miller

This^.

[Turn7]

Proper big rain predicted this coming weekend.....

[Stuart Fordyce]

unident said:

If only there was some recent racing there to give me some guidance on this, as I’m clearly garbage at predicting the outcomes.

1. Miller
2. Dovi
3. Rins

I’ve swapped the Ducati’s, as they’ll dial Dovi’s down a notch and turn Miller’s up so that they get the number 1 on their bike next year. Oh and the Earth is flat, Kennedy was assassinated by Shergar and Elvis works at my local chip shop.

You need to work harder on your conspiracy theories! Dovi to have three engine failures, miss Q2 and get nerfed by Rabat into T1 in exchange for a GP20, surely?

https://youtu.be/QccPUSTMriM

[Centurion07]

You're dreaming if you don't think it's a possibility.

[lazybike]

Turn7 said:

Proper big rain predicted this coming weekend.....

Flooding and cancelled then..

[Zarco]

ddom said:

1. Dovi
2. Rins
3. Binder

I like this, although I favour:

1. Dovi
2. Rins
3. P. Esp

Miller will be in the fight and possibly lead early on, but burn his tyres out like he often does.

[ddom]

Zarco said:

I like this, although I favour:

1. Dovi
2. Rins
3. P. Esp

Miller will be in the fight and possibly lead early on, but burn his tyres out like he often does.

I was going to put Pol, but I am not sure if can keep his temper under control

[Steve Bass]

ddom said:

Zarco said:

I like this, although I favour:

1. Dovi
2. Rins
3. P. Esp

Miller will be in the fight and possibly lead early on, but burn his tyres out like he often does.

I was going to put Pol, but I am not sure if can keep his temper under control

I'm not convinced he has the overall race pace.
Good qualifyer but perhaps a bit 'fragile' in the heat of close quarter competition.

Olivera is going to be a good shout and I tip Brad to improve. Apparently he struggled with traction off the corners but he's a very fast learner.
I'm going to say a solid top 6 for BB33

[hiccy18]

Dukes of Dovi & Jack looked good in FP1, Oliveira and P.Esp for KTM, Mir and Nakagami great and Franky top Yam.

JZ to start from pits for the race if he competes, think the stewards bent to peer pressure tbh.

Edited by hiccy18 on Friday 21st August 09:50

[joema]

had to turn off the commentary on bt sport. I think they've repeated their argument about Zarco about 28 times now. Will be 1088 times by the end of FP2 i suspect.

[epom]

Gonna go with Vinales on this one....