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That was an error earlier. They have revised it

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I hate to be at Office from fri-sun. Missed everything, Looks like a close QP... (4th again)..
Its been a while we 've witnessed a fully wet race, aint it?? .

Yea, same old Cal. But they should give him updates. He might be able to take away some points off the Hondas (Optimistic)

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I wish he goes to Ducati next year. To wring the Ducati into submission.
Anyways, More concerned about the 10th Title (just kiddin..........)

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Pedrosa kisses the tarmac!!

And damn, Marquez is a monster... Most people would be a little bit shaken up after a close shave like that. Marquez on the other hand decreased Lorenzo's lead by 0.3 second in the next SECTOR!!!

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Rossi, Bradl, Crutchlow and Bautista all in the scrap for the final podium place after pedrosa's crash, who buy the way had to be stretchered out, which is bad for both Pedrosa and Lorenzo.

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Rossi back on the Podium. Insane fight for 4th between Bradl and Bautista on the last lap. As for Marquez, the less I say the better, lest I be mistaken for being a Marquez fanboy

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Cal starts moaning again saying yamaha has a conspiracy theory when it was quite evident all through race that there was not much diff between rossi and cal.

also cal seems t o have done the job signing with ducati and thats it.

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a couple of interesting/weird events in this race though - that marquez-pedrosa incident (there was a little touching which seems to have destabilised dani's bike a little bit), and more weirdly, lorenzo looking back (never ever does that) and then seemingly letting marquez through, and then 5-6 laps to go decreased the gap between him and marquez to .355 seconds from something like 1.3 secs or something only a couple of laps earlier. then 4 laps to go he lost it at a corner and the gap went on increasing thenceforth.

good rides by marc and lorenzo, and also by rossi, bautista and bradl (all race long battle between the 3).

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okay livio suppo just said that they indeed seem to have touched a little bit and as a result dani's rear wheel sensor was broken, which very likely caused the subsequent highside.

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Yeah, that sounded very lame. He said he was going 15 kmph slower but the TV speedometer (don't know how accurate that data is) showed barely 2-3 kmph difference between Rossi and Crutchlow.

Marquez pulled out a 0.680 second gap to Lorenzo (not 1.3), before Lorenzo reeled that back to 0.355 in 3 laps.

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Rossi didn't seem so happy with the brakes....he said the same in the post race interview as well. Generally he brakes a little late into the corner but today he was braking early.

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MM did touch Ped's bike. That was the second time in the race. I was on a Portuguese channel and hence have no idea of what the commentators were talking.


Lorenzo gave MM all the time in the world to overtake him. That was quite strange. And Lorenzo never fought back. Moments later, his pit board said, "ROS 6".

Somehow Rossi held off the pack of hyenas. Body language told that he had braking problems. Again!

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What an amazing race. Poor Dani crashed out of the race and Title hunt for n fault of his. Worst Birthday anybody could possibly have. Rossi, Bradl and Bautista fighting for 3rd place was Epic. Rossi showed his class.

I think Rossi is running an inferior setup as compared to Lorenzo. Can any one throw some light on this topic. Why does Rossi end up emptying his fuel tank after almost every race. (not todays race)

Next 4 races will be worth watching with JL wanting to win the title very hard. Tough to see a Rookie ride away with the title, no matter how superior machine he is riding.

Will be interesting to get Stoner in this battle.

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Rossi has the muscle memory to fend off most, doesn't matter how bad the set up is.


Now, the question is -
Will race direction do something about the incident or just let it go?

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he did fight back, some time 5-6 laps to go he had reduced the gap to .355 in just like 1.5 laps or something from a gap of about 1 sec earlier (makky are you sure it was .68? before reeling back the gap i am sure i saw the gap was about a second or so, maybe not 1.3, will watch the race again anyway).

pitboards always immediately show the gap of the rider behind you. has nothing to do with anyone fighting or cruising


lorenzo and rossi both said the braking had somehow become worse from the FPs..lorenzo said the corner entry however did improve a little bit in the warmup.

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there is no topic . no one is given an inferior setup. if it's seemingly inferior it's down to the rider's team.


some people confidently say it's because he is heavier and taller (is only 2 kgs heavier than lorenzo though, as per rider details in motogp website)..i am not so sure that's the reason..


edit - sorry i meant to say "dishayu are you sure it was .68? before reeling back the gap i am sure i saw the gap was about a second or so, maybe not 1.3, will watch the race again anyway", not to makky..

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Not sure about the proceedings. But, at some point, it was .68.
I was more wondering about how MM 'd chase down Lorenzo like a truck even after losing time during Ped's crash and further, just walk past Lorenzo.

Well, regarding the pit board, may be you are right. But, somehow I found things a bit unusual. Or may be, it's my thinking. Don't know.

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Well, Rossi is the tallest of all. His top half does protrude a lot out of the bike. This 'd be a factor.

It's the set up mainly. Every rider is running a diff. one compared to his teammate.

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it is clearly mattering though, isn't it ?



purely a racing incident, not like he hit or bumped into dani or something..not as much bad and controversial a situation as jerez or even laguna seca..

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@dishayu: You can be as big a Marquez fan as you want, there's nothing wrong in that...just like I am a Rossi fan Fanboy is a term invented by those who are confused by their rational thinking

Coming to the race...If and only if someone would like to believe in misfortune in MotoGP, then Pedrosa is the greatest example of it. Sad, really sad. This race was probably Pedrosa's best chance to keep his championship hopes alive.

Marquez is brilliant and right now, he is even lethal. It is rumored so far that it was probably a part of Lorenzo's strategy to let Marquez pass so that he could study his moves and pace, but I am not sure if it's a good thing to do against a rider like Marquez.

Rossi was clearly disappointed, he expected to challenge the top 3 riders today. But I am glad he again fought off Bautista and Bradle. The Italian would still be the sweetest thing to watch if he could slug it out with the top 3 riders currently.

@Makky and aditya_YZF-R15: We all know that pit boards are usually used to display the information about the tailing rider, which was Rossi in this particular case after Lorenzo lost 1st to Marquez and Rossi was going 3rd. However, I believe, in certain situations the pit crew also uses the pit board to make their rider aware of the next most threatening rider. Rossi was both tailing Lorenzo and could still be very threatening let's get it straight.

I remember in this year's one of the earlier races, I do not know which one was it, but I think Rossi was tailing Marquez who was tailing Pedrosa, and Rossi was approaching both of them slowly. And when Pedrosa rode past his pit board, it "warned" him of Rossi instead of Marquez!! And in that race, Rossi finished ahead of both of them I guess. So, there it is...

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yes indeed what was unusual was lorenzo glancing back ...he never ever does that...people in GP hardly ever do that anyway..seen that happening in SBK and WSS a bunch of times (kenan sofuoglu does it a lot), but not in GP and certainly not lorenzo...in the replay it did appear like he looked back, and then almost stood up letting marquez through...

in the post race interview when asked about it, lorenzo said he did indeed look back to see how far marquez was because he was pushing too much as it is and wanted to follow marquez for some time to help saving some energy and tyres for the end in case he can hold on to him close enough, but plan didnt work out (except, as we saw, for a little while when he reduced it to .355 all of a sudden, but then made a mistake at a corner running a little wide and lost 2-3 tenths there and from there on he just couldnt hold on to marquez) and plus marquez was very fast and had better pace all the weekend anyway.