Cathedral of Speed GP - Assen

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Starts tomorrow.

Senna and Zarco (sneaky early practice laps) have been racing each other already. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sha1GRJ3upM


Ps. I think I might start watching Eurosport France.

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patchb said:

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Very wet, qualifying will be interesting.

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Only 3 factory bikes in the first 3 rows.

Edited by FourWheelDrift on Saturday 24th June 14:04

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Lorenzo's worst qualifying.

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That was more mental than usual.

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Re-showing the Will Hartog win at Assen in 77, there's a horse on the grass run off just off the circuit at the exit of the chicane. He had a good view but did he pay for his ticket.

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Finishing 3rd after crashing at the chicane earlier was very impressive. the one they had in super slow-mo.

The crash result after his front tyre had tried to escape from under him.

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moanthebairns said:

What was the official reason for Zarco pitting? I heard his rear might be fked, a gamble...It seemed like madness. I was actually annoyed at him, God knows how he felt.

He was pushing at the limit to stay with the 3 in front and then when it started to to rain he knew he would be dropping further back so took the gamble to come straight in for a wet tyres. Every other time it had rained over the weekend it rained a lot, like in warmup. It only had to rain a little bit more than it did and it would have worked, but it didn't.


This is what I read earlier.

Herve Poncheral said:

“This weekend ended in a disappointing way, but we are learning and we will be back stronger in Germany. The performances on Saturday were great, and we all know that Johann clinched an unbelievable pole position and Jonas got his best qualifying result so far. However, there was always going to be the possibility of strange weather and the riders didn’t have a lot of dry track time this weekend so I was a bit nervous on the grid. Our guys decided to choose the full soft tyres, front as well as rear, and Johann had an incredible opening half to the GP. He had a small touch with Valentino, which cost him a bit of time, but from that moment, he held on to fourth. Johann told me that when the first few raindrops fell, it disturbed him more than the guys in front and he couldn’t keep their pace. So, he took the gamble to switch bikes, in case there was a heavy downpour like the one in warm up, yet, unfortunately, this didn’t happen. It’s a disappointing end to the day, but Johann said that we will learn by being at the front, plus, we must remember that he is still a rookie and we are stronger now than when we came here"

Edited by FourWheelDrift on Monday 26th June 13:57