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**R-series** · 11-14-2013, 06:26 PM

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Originally posted by Makky View Post

@R-series: Is that a production racer? Honda hasn't covered the prdn racer's rear-end. Sensor's exposed!

want to know which pink monkey bit Aleix Esp!

Oh no.. that's the Suzuki XRH-1 MotoGP Race Bike to be used for 2015. I picked this from the link that Monk posted above.

**R-series** · 11-15-2013, 07:47 PM

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This is the best sideways glance of 2013.

A Sideways Glance at Valencia - YouTube

**bprags** · 11-15-2013, 08:28 PM

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I love this kid's attitude. Can't wait for next year.

Marc Marquez backs MotoGP title rival Jorge Lorenzo's aggression - MotoGP news - AUTOSPORT.com

MotoGP champion Marc Marquez reckons Jorge Lorenzo's Valencia moves were more aggressive than he would have tried - but that his rival should not be criticised.
Lorenzo needed to win with Marquez than fourth if he was to retain his title, and admitted to slowing the field up in the early stages of the race to try and drop the rookie into the clutches of Valentino Rossi and Alvaro Bautista.
That led to Marquez's Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa attacking Lorenzo for the lead, with the two trading places throughout the opening laps and making significant contact on two occasions.
The second forced Pedrosa off track at Turn 2, and though he recovered to finish second, Race Direction saw fit to investigate the incident - though no action was taken.
Marquez defended Lorenzo's riding style, despite being criticised by his rival for his own actions earlier in the season.
"We are here for racing, we are here to fight always inside the limits," he said.
"Jorge all year complained about me; complained that I might [injure another] rider. And there he had some movements even stronger than I might want.
"But anyway, I was [supportive of his riding] because I think we are here for racing, and he was fighting for a title.

"He tried to slow the race, and for that reason he did that movement [passing Pedrosa at Turn 2]."
Marquez believes race stewards need to take a more relaxed approach to such incidents.
"I think for the show they need to be a little bit open-minded," he added.
"Jorge was fighting for a championship. He stopped the race, but he did it with a special situation.
"So they need to really be open. I think for me it was OK."

**Makky** · 11-16-2013, 04:48 AM

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All Categories - Wrench Racer

**Makky** · 11-18-2013, 02:21 AM

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"Yes, I have to clean, make the bed... but only in my room! I also lay the table for lunch and my brother Alex clears up when we are finished. It's always been that way"

Soup :: World Champ Marquez Interview From Repsol Honda :: 11-14-2013

**R-series** · 11-18-2013, 07:31 PM

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Lorenzo not dismissing Honda for 2015
“You cannot rule out any team. You never know what can happen.”Lorenzo, whose current deal with Yamaha ends in 2014, continues: “I would like to end my career with Yamaha, retiring as a Yamaha legend. I would like to win another title as Rainey or Lawson did, but I would also like to have the best bike, so hopefully Yamaha will be able to give that to both myself and Valentino (Rossi).”

I would love to see him switch to Honda

**Satellite.kid** · 11-19-2013, 11:03 PM

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Good read:

MotoGP: Valentino Rossi And Jeremy Burgess

From the article:...

As nearly everyone who cares about this sport already knows, Valentino Rossi has taken on a new crew chief, Silvano Gambusera, replacing Jeremy Burgess with whom he has worked for 14 seasons, winning seven top-class championships. I want to address some of the nonsense being said about this.
The first point is that both men are professionals in racing. Both are highly competitive people. If either of them thinks a change will improve his chances of success, he will make that change. When Rossi joinedDucati, his success ended. To rejoin the top group, he returned to Yamaha. Now that even that change has not succeeded, he is changing his crew chief.
Racers race to win, not to participate. With no possibility of winning, there can be no motivation for such intense personalities. They are poor candidates for aging gracefully.
Like neurosurgeons, these men have extraordinary self-confidence, and they are accustomed to acting upon it decisively. True or not, they know they are right. That is just what Rossi has done now. It is not our place to judge him or to apply to him our personal sentimentalities. Yes, JB was surprised, but you can be sure he understands 100 percent.
“In the last few races,” Rossi said, “I’ve felt I wanted to work in a different way.”
There can definitely be “a different way.” Here is an example: About 20 years ago, before rear suspension anti-squat was generally understood, bike setup was based on ride heights and spring and damping rates. Yet such settings didn’t always work; a bike “built to the numbers” might still mysteriously head for the outside as it accelerated off a turn. Even 10 years ago, top teams were still trying to control this squat-and-push problem by brute force—with rear springs too stiff to squat. But the new way of working was to beginwith correct rear anti-squat geometry and only then move on to other variables. More controllable bikes and quicker lap times rewarded those working in the new way.

I doubt Rossi expects such a leap from Gambusera, with whom he worked only briefly some time ago. But just a change can bring a new point of view. As I am fond of saying, a fresh look can bring more result than weeks of staring. As Burgess himself has said, speaking in this case of Ducati, “What do you do when you have a problem? You do something.” In other words, inaction achieves nothing.
Like all the others on the Yamaha YZR-M1, Rossi has had problems with braking. Cal Crutchlow has spoken of special problems in the early laps when fuel load is heaviest. An alternative tank was developed, used first by Jorge Lorenzo but then by Crutchlow, as well. In a conversation this week, Rossi told my CWcolleague, Matthew Miles, “It is correlated from the tires. With this soft front tire, I suffered very much, especially with my style to brake. Also, because I am [taller], I put the front tire under stress. This was the main problem.”
There may or may not be a parallel between Rossi’s actions and those of Giacomo Agostini in his final racing seasons. Just as Rossi disliked sharing the Yamaha he had developed with his increasingly successful teammate, Lorenzo, so Agostini disliked seeing his MV Agusta teammate, Phil Read, winning races on the late four-cylinder MV. Ago left for Yamaha, where he won two more championships (350cc in 1974, 500cc a year later). Then came Ago’s “time of musical bikes,” when he rode an MV in some races, a Yamaha in others, and even bought a privateer Suzuki RG500 just in case. He was looking for answers. He was changing everything, but the one thing he could not change was himself.
Lastly, many careers end because a rider’s style no longer works with what motorcycles and tires have become during his career. At first, he can achieve a workable compromise through setup changes, altering the latest equipment to “feel” more like what he grew up with. Some said, for example, that John Kocinski tried to turn every bike he rode into the Yamaha TZ250 on which he learned. But a time comes when setup can no longer accomplish this, and the rider becomes less comfortable, less confident. What he feels to be strange, the younger riders around him consider normal. They are able to exploit the changes, but the veteran rider just loses confidence.
In 2014, we will see. The above are not predictions, just a menu of possibility. Don’t count Rossi out; he has surprised us before.

**The Monk** · 11-20-2013, 05:51 PM

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The Suzuki MotoGP bike with Randy de Puniet -

**R-series** · 11-20-2013, 07:24 PM

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Originally posted by The Monk View Post

The Suzuki MotoGP bike with Randy de Puniet -

Impressive!

I see you've got a close eye on this project. First the close up shots and now this video.

Watching this in a video reminds me how much I'm missing MotoGP already, it's not even been a week yet. I think I'm going to watch the older races this weekend that I've already downloaded.

Moto3 Teams are lined up and the Moto2 daredevils for 2014:
3 Matteo Ferrari ITA San Carlo Team Italia (MAHINDRA)
4 Gabriel Ramos VEN Kiefer Racing (KALEX KTM)
5 Romano Fenati ITA Team Sky-VR46 (KTM) - Our Very own - Rossi's Team
7 Efren Vazquez SPA Caretta Technology (HONDA)
8 Jack Miller AUS Red Bull KTM Ajo (KTM)
10 Alexis Masbou FRA Ongetta-Rivacold (HONDA)
11 Livio Loi BEL Marc VDS Racing Team (KALEX KTM)
12 Alex Marquez SPA Estrella Galicia 0,0 (HONDA)
14 Francesco Bagnaia ITALIAN Team Sky-VR46 (KTM) - Our Very own - Rossi's Team
15 Bryan Schouten NED CIP Moto3 (MAHINDRA)
17 John McPhee GBR Caretta Technology (HONDA)
19 Alessandro Tonucci ITA CIP Moto3 (MAHINDRA)
23 Niccolo Antonelli ITA Go&Fun Gresini Moto3 (KTM)
31 Niklas Ajo FIN Avant Tecno (KTM)
41 Brad Binder RSA Ambrogio Racing (MAHINDRA)
42 Alex Rins SPA Estrella Galicia 0,0 (HONDA)
43 Luca Grunwald GER Kiefer Racing (KALEX KTM)
44 Miguel Oliveira POR Mahindra Racing (MAHINDRA)
52 Danny Kent GBR Red Bull KTM Ajo (KTM)
55 Andrea Locatelli ITA San Carlo Team Italia (MAHINDRA)
57 Eric Granado BRA Mapfre Aspar Team Moto3 (KALEX KTM)
58 Juanfran Guevara SPA Mapfre Aspar Team Moto3 (KALEX KTM)
61 Arthur Sissis AUS Mahindra Racing (MAHINDRA)
63 Zulfahmi Khairuddin MAL Ongetta-Airasia (HONDA)
65 Philipp Oettl GER Interwetten Paddock (KALEX KTM)
80 Hafiq Azmi MAL Avant Tecno (KTM)
84 Jakub Kornfeil CZE Team Calvo (KTM)
95 Jules Danilo FRA Ambrogio Racing (MAHINDRA)
98 Karel Hanika CZE Red Bull KTM Ajo (KTM)
To Be Confirmed Go&Fun Gresini Moto3 (KTM)
To Be Confirmed RW Racing GP (KALEX KTM)
To Be Confirmed RW Racing GP (KALEX KTM)
To Be Confirmed Team Calvo (KTM)

2 Josh Herrin USA Caterham Moto Racing (CATERHAM)
3 Simone Corsi ITA NGM Mobile Forward Racing (FTR)
4 Randy Krummenacher SWI Iodaracing Project (SUTER)
5 Johann Zarco FRA Caterham Moto Racing (CATERHAM)
7 Lorenzo Baldassarri ITA Gresini Moto2 (SUTER)
8 Gino Rea GBR AGT-Rea Racing (FTR)
10 Thitipong Warokorn THA Stop And Go Racing Team (KALEX)
11 Sandro Cortese GER Dynavolt Intact GP (KALEX)
12 Thomas Luthi SWI Interwetten Paddock Moto2 (SUTER)
15 Alex De Angelis RSM La Fonte Tasca Racing (SUTER)
18 Nicolas Terol SPA Mapfre Aspar Team Moto2 (SUTER)
19 Xavier Simeon BEL Federal Oil Gresini Moto2 (SUTER)
22 Sam Lowes GBR Speed Up (SPEED UP) - Current World Supersport Champion 2013
23 Marcel Schrotter GER Tech 3 (TECH 3)
25 Azlan Shah MAL Idemitsu Honda Team Asia (TBA)
30 Takaaki Nakagami JPN Idemitsu Honda Team Asia (KALEX)
31 Kohta Nozane JPN JiR Moto2 (MOTOBI)
36 Mika Kallio FIN Marc VDS Racing Team (KALEX)
40 Maverick Vinales SPA Tuenti HP 40 (PONS KALEX) - Current Moto3 world Champion
49 Esteve Rabat SPA Marc VDS Racing Team (KALEX)
54 Mattia Pasini ITA NGM Mobile Forward Racing (FTR)
55 Hafizh Syahrin MAL Petronas Raceline Malaysia (KALEX)
60 Julian Simon SPA Italtrans Racing Team (KALEX)
70 Robin Mulhauser SWI Technomag Carxpert (SUTER)
77 Dominique Aegerter SWI Technomag Carxpert (SUTER)
80 Luis Salom SPA Tuenti Hp 40 (PONS KALEX) - Current Moto3 Championship runner up
81 Jordi Torres SPA Mapfre Aspar Team Moto2 (SUTER)
88 Alessandro Nocco ITA Speed Up (SPEED UP)
92 Alex Marinelarena SPA Tech 3 (TECH 3)
94 Anthony West AUS QMMF Racing Team (SPEED UP)
96 Louis Rossi FRA Stop And Go Racing Team (KALEX)
To Be Confimed QMMF Racing Team (SPEED UP)
To Be Confimed Italtrans Racing Team (KALEX)

**R-series** · 11-20-2013, 08:43 PM

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How the hell did I miss this

#4 Andrea Dovizioso ITA Ducati Team (Ducati *)
#5 Colin Edwards USA NGM Mobile Forward Racing (FTR Yamaha)
#6 Stefan Bradl GER LCR Honda MotoGP (Honda *)
#7 Hiroshi Aoyama JPN Power Electronics Aspar (Honda)
#8 Hector Barbera SPA Avintia Blusens (FTR)
#9 Danilo Petrucci ITA Iodaracing Project (TBA)
#17 Karel Abraham CZE Cardion AB Motoracing (Honda)
#19 Alvaro Bautista SPA Go&Fun Honda Gresini (Honda *)
#26 Dani Pedrosa SPA Repsol Honda Team (Honda *)
#29 Andrea Iannone ITA Pramac Racing (Ducati *)
#35 Cal Crutchlow GBR Ducati Team (Ducati *)
#38 Bradley Smith GBR Monster Yamaha Tech 3 (Yamaha *)
#41 Aleix Espargaro SPA NGM Mobile Forward Racing (FTR Yamaha)
#44 Pol Espargaro SPA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 (Yamaha *)
#45 Scott Redding GBR Go&Fun Honda Gresini (Honda)
#46 Valentino Rossi ITA Yamaha Factory Racing (Yamaha *)
#59 Mike di Meglio FRA Avintia Blusens (FTR)
#68 Yonny Hernandez COL Pramac Racing (Ducati)
#69 Nicky Hayden USA Power Electronics Aspar (Honda)
#70 Michael Laverty GBR Paul Bird Motorsport (PBM/ART)
#93 Marc Marquez SPA Repsol Honda Team (Honda *)
#99 Jorge Lorenzo SPA Yamaha Factory Racing (Yamaha *)
To Be Confirmed Paul Bird Motorsport (PBM/ART)

* = Factory Entry

Valentino Rossi is not the only MotoGP™ rider venturing into team management for 2014. Whereas the former World Champion will back a squad in Moto3™, Aleix Espargaro will be helping to boost the careers of up and coming talents in Spain’s CEV Repsol series.

The Official Home of MotoGP

http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2014/Aleix+Espargaro+to+run+CEV+Repsol+team

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**R-series** · 11-21-2013, 04:33 AM

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Time for some technical sessions: Sensors

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**The Monk** · 11-21-2013, 11:03 AM

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Yeah, I was hoping that Suzuki would re-enter next year and be competitive by '15. Same for the Ducati and hoped that Aprilia would also enter as a full factory. Would have been nice to see 5 factories slugging it out. And since i was dreaming, i hoped that BMW would also jump into the fray

But none of that looks like it is going to happen anytime soon. It is going to continue to be Honda vs Yamaha, while the rest can gather dust. Hopefullly the rule changes in 2017, will allow BMW, Aprilia and other manufacturers to comepete.

Anyways, now we wait for a LONG winter to end

**The Monk** · 11-21-2013, 02:04 PM

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Aprilia plans for the future -

Soup :: Aprilia Details First Steps For MotoGP Return In 2016 :: 11-20-2013

**Makky** · 11-22-2013, 05:51 PM

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Michal Fialkowski, Polish journalist interviewed JB at Saxonring - Interviewed At The Sachsenring: Jeremy Burgess Speaks About Ducati, And Rossi's Return To The Yamaha | MotoMatters.com | Kropotkin Thinks

**incipient** · 11-22-2013, 07:08 PM

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Originally posted by Makky View Post

Michal Fialkowski, Polish journalist interviewed JB at Saxonring - Interviewed At The Sachsenring: Jeremy Burgess Speaks About Ducati, And Rossi's Return To The Yamaha | MotoMatters.com | Kropotkin Thinks

Woah! what a cracker of an interview!

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