Moto GP Thread 2023
Discussion
hiccy18 said:
Struggling to get engaged with it this year, paid the sub but I suspect it's the last time. Ducati domination by weight of numbers is damaging the sport, when they do well they don't have two bikes in front of their opponents but several. I'm quite wary of the sprint races too, and the number of rounds seems excessive. We certainly won't be doing the fantasy league this year, too much of a time sink.
Griping aside I'm really hoping to see some magic from Marc, I'd like to see the Aprillia's go well and I'd really like to see Rins and Mir get to grips with the Honda and measure themselves against MM93.
Franky needs a good start to the season, KTM will be looking for improvement and Augusto Fernandez will be hoping to shine enough to be retained, although he's a clever boy.
I'd like to see Bestia continue his trajectory but that's a big ask. I suppose AM on a Duke is vaguely interesting and I always want Zarco to do well.
Moto2 I'd like to see Rory do well and will keep an eye on Scott Ogden in Moto3.
Oh and if Fabio can ride like he did for a lot of last season I'll be impressed and will enjoy watching that.
Umm... not that I'm that interested of course!
You don't sound at all interested Griping aside I'm really hoping to see some magic from Marc, I'd like to see the Aprillia's go well and I'd really like to see Rins and Mir get to grips with the Honda and measure themselves against MM93.
Franky needs a good start to the season, KTM will be looking for improvement and Augusto Fernandez will be hoping to shine enough to be retained, although he's a clever boy.
I'd like to see Bestia continue his trajectory but that's a big ask. I suppose AM on a Duke is vaguely interesting and I always want Zarco to do well.
Moto2 I'd like to see Rory do well and will keep an eye on Scott Ogden in Moto3.
Oh and if Fabio can ride like he did for a lot of last season I'll be impressed and will enjoy watching that.
Umm... not that I'm that interested of course!
a fit Marc should at least bring fireworks. I always try to watch as much as I can. Race is always the most important. With 2 young kids I have to pick my battles.
Dorna are trying to improve their viewing figures, I’m not sure the sprint races will help a whole pile. Most people that will watch are already watching. It’s all about Dorna an viewing figures, sponsors aren’t getting a whole pile more out of it. The riders and teams certainly aren’t. Squeeze squeeze squeeze.
Is it a way to ensure Ducati don’t walk this year’s championship ?
All for new, exciting and intuitive formulas yet the one thing the riders want with something as simple as the gravel they can’t get.
Having said that I’m looking forward to season getting underway.
Dorna are trying to improve their viewing figures, I’m not sure the sprint races will help a whole pile. Most people that will watch are already watching. It’s all about Dorna an viewing figures, sponsors aren’t getting a whole pile more out of it. The riders and teams certainly aren’t. Squeeze squeeze squeeze.
Is it a way to ensure Ducati don’t walk this year’s championship ?
All for new, exciting and intuitive formulas yet the one thing the riders want with something as simple as the gravel they can’t get.
Having said that I’m looking forward to season getting underway.
Yazza54 said:
egor110 said:
Se7enheaven said:
A result of gaining pole position by slipstream. The honda is an inferior bike on the grid these days ,and MM is no longer the top of the tree. Result is him pushing way beyond both his and bike’s capability in the race. It was said ages ago that MM will never win another World Championship and as time goes on you see this is the case. The day that he had it all and lost it will forever haunt him I guess, but mean time he has to come to terms with riding within his limits before he does more than just injure someone.
Until he gets on a Ducati and no longer has to over ride.
poo at Paul's said:
Whether you are bothered by the wording or not, if it ends up with his poor riding causing Olivera a lost race, and missed race in Argie and all the grief etc, and Marc ends up exactly the same, ie no worse off than Olivera, there’s something fundamentally wrong.
There certainly is. The wording of the penalty given to Marc by the stewards. No court could possibly force him to take it. Fundamentally wrong or not HRC would absolutely mad to take it.
The stewards messed up. It’s like any case where The Police mess up… judge throws it out.
hiccy18 said:
FredericRobinson said:
He had a hearing, and was given a penalty, a few days later, with no further hearing the penalty was changed, there’s no way that can stand
Yeah... except for the "C'mon tae f
k, fair cop!" part where being seen to operate within the spirit of the rules is the best thing to do when it comes to acknowledging and complying with disciplinary action, because it's not like there's any argument over the need for the punishment, or the severity of it.The best thing that can happen is, regardless of the off-track jockeying, Marquez takes his punishment like a man and that ends it.
hiccy18 said:
epom said:
He did take his punishment, he accepted it and agreed to take the punishment he was given.
Yeah, that's the lawyers answer. He's not actually served it, yet.Listen, I'm a Marquez fan, he's held me in slack-jawed wonder since his final Moto2 race, even though I've spent most of the time since rooting for "the other guy" to beat him. His attitude towards other riders has often been questioned, that final Moto2 round he started last because of his behaviour, but I'm never one for piling on, and he has immediately accepted and admitted his fault in this instance. But if he "serves" his penalty at a round he's absent from there'll be an awful lot of disgruntled people, in and out of the paddock.
Rightly Honda are appealing the process, but appealing the punishment for a maneouver that injured three riders is commercial, not sporting. And it is a sport.
Gassing Station | Biker Banter | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff