^^ very exciting..lets hope and pray for yamaha.... & rossi..

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Rossi no chance.

Cheers!
VJ

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Yup... But will be hard to get a podium for both of them.. anyways lets see and enjoy!!

Marquez creates history.
Pedrosa second.
Lorenzo third.
Amazing ride by Crutchlow, finishes fourth.
Bradl fifth.
Rossi sixth.

Quite an unexciting race in terms of "battles". Congratulations to Marquez. Great ride.
Cal finished well ahead of Rossi despite being on a '12 M1. Satellite teams are never supposed to be beating Factory teams. Not good for Rossi. Somehow, he needs to break away from Bradl-Cal-Bau-Dovi group and run with the top 3.
Lo seems to be in his own world, lap after lap hitting the same consistency.
Well, looks like Ped is going to be the #2 in the Honda camp all his life!

For me the best rider was Alex Espargaro.

Valentino Rossi congratulating Marc Marquez on his first ever GP win.

Spanish riders take their first wins in all three classes.

17 year old Alex Rins won the first ever race at Austin, Texas. He kept the experienced Vinales and dogfighter Salom at Bay in a restarted race. Indian team Mahindra's Miguel Oliveira took a credible 5th place after starting from 18th on the grid. -

2013 COTA Moto3 Race Result | MotoMatters.com | Kropotkin Thinks

In Moto 2 Nicolas Terol won the race convincingly, with Rabat and Kallio taking the remaining two podiums. Rabat took Kallio on the last corner of the very last lap. Scott Redding was suffering from tyre wear issues from the 3rd lap itself, while Pol crashed out of the race. -

2013 COTA Moto2 Race Result | MotoMatters.com | Kropotkin Thinks

MotoGP saw an old record being broken by Marc Marquez of Freddie Spencer. He stalked teammate Pedrosa for more than half race distance before finally making his move, after which he rode a solid race coming under pressure from Dani who tried to fight back unsuccessfully. Lorenzo took a lonely third, while Brit Crutchlow did a stellar job of taking 4th ahead of Bradl and Rossi who had prior track experience. The first Ducati was Dovi who fought with Bautista to take 7th. While the top American was a disappointed Hayden. Marquez also took the Championship lead, even though he is tied on points with Jorge Lorenzo, with Dani Pedrosa and Valentino Rossi just 8 and 11 points adrift respectively. Lorenzo also secured his 100th podium.

2013 COTA MotoGP Race Result | MotoMatters.com | Kropotkin Thinks

Roundup of Sunday's race -

2013 Austin MotoGP Sunday Round Up: Of Record Breakers, Deserved And Undeserved Attention, and Banquo's Ghost | MotoMatters.com | Kropotkin Thinks

congrats to marc for breaking and making a world record.

one thing i hate about motogp is that the race is so god damn machine oriented, and if you are not on the best machine, you are doomed. still lorenzo fought bravely.

in both the races till now, marc was ahead of dani and lorenzo was ahead of rossi.

is it going to be a championship fight between lorenzo and marc... ??

rossi needs to improve his qualifying, you can't fight for podiums from 3rd row.

crutchlow was superb, brilliant, man he deserves to be on a factory ride.

Hmmm. Yet Cal with inferior machinery went faster than Rossi and Bradl, who both have factory spec bikes. He was also quite close to Lorenzo and was setting the fastest laps of the race after overtaking Bradl. Fighting spirit takes precedence over machinery. Even Aleix Espargaro was faster than Smith and Spies and not far off Iannone, all on higher spec prototypes!

Rossi very well did it in the first race On this new track COTA, Rossi was uncomfortable from the first time they practiced on it. It was always going to be a difficult race for him. And it seems that he faced quite a serious issue with the brakes on his motorcycle during the race...:



Next races shall be better. But an amazingly fantastic race by Marc Marques. He out-performed Pedrosa again consecutively.

Yeah, he told that in the post-race debrief. But, I 'd still say that he is 'wasting' a lot of time in most races riding behind these racers in the first half of the race. What he loses there can't be made up even if, he sets the fastest lap-times in the second half. That's where JLo is capitalizing. Vettel has a similar strategy too - get the lead, maintain the pace and see the chequered flag.

Don't why, but, I felt right from the beginning that COTA is built more in favour for an F1 than MotoGP.

Well, this is quite disappointing:

COTA & BIC = Herman Tilke = F1. These are not motorcycle racing friendly tracks.

Fresh from a best-ever result in the opening round at Qatar for the only Indian team in Grand Prix motorcycle racing, the all-new Mahindra MGP3O went two better at a tense two-part race at the Circuit of The Americas in Texas, when Portuguese rider Miguel Oliveira claimed a superlative fifth place finish.

I agree on this. Rossi must improve on his qualifying so that his fight for the front doesn't become unnecessarily difficult.

In my opinion, even though Lorenzo came 3rd on COTA, this still wasn't a good race for him and Rossi. For Rossi, it was obviously a bad race. But even Lorenzo couldn't challenge the 2 factory hondas. Yes, he came 3rd but his race was without a challenge in any which way you see it (neither could he challenge nor was he challenged).

Yeah, I know. And Nick Harris said that, COTA is a mixture of bits and pieces from many tracks.


He couldn't challenge the Hondas nevertheless lowering the second gear paid off for him and he 'd move away from the mid-pack. IMO, give a track that doesn't favour either of the 2 machines and I reckon that JLo 'd claim the top spot in most cases.