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how could I miss that :P


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how could I miss that :P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7fep8y0X2w

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Video taken down
Whats up with Fenati, he showed promise last season, and is now frustrated.

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No worries, search with:"Fenati and Ajo clash in Moto3 warm-up" on you tube, you can watch it there.

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Nah, I will stick to the one from BT Sports :P

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That's some outrageous behavior from Fenati. He should get a few match suspension. How can he kick someone?

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Sometimes you have to settle battle to win War.

MM could have stick to second position earning 20 points instead now he is 30 points behind Rossi

Leave all the technicality behind MM you got to remember bro - "Bapp Bapp hota hai"

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Its easy to say MM should have eased up a bit and should have taken 20 points. However, one should not forget, this is not MM's trait. He loves to give a fight, and it is not in his nature to easily give up. It is this trait that has made him youngest double world champion.


Sure, he is learning tricks of the trade, and I am sure he will go on to win lot more titles.

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he may be trailing by 30 points in the championship...

but marquez knows it's 'not a big deal' for him.

Rossi may have had a brilliant comeback at Argentina but he would have had next to no chance of keeping up with Marquez if the Honda didn't have the issue with not being able to use the extra hard tyre.

I really hope VR wins his tenth championship this year. But Marquez is not going to be easy.

Sunday's race went from looking like a Stoner/Jorge esque win to a last lap thriller.

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To be fair to Rossi, he was the only one who made the extra rear tire work -- Lorenzo used it on the same M1 bike, but couldn't make it work well enough. Bridgestone had recommended the extra rear tire to all factory teams before the race, but Marc wasn't sure he could make it work as well as Rossi and gave up at the last minute. He gambled because he had understood that using the extra hard he would probably lose against Rossi, so tried to build up enough advantage with the tire he felt more comfortable with. It almost worked... almost.

If Marc has a strong point, it is that he always gives more than 100% to try and win. Interestingly, that's also his weak point because he will try regardless. Rossi said it: the only way to beat Marc is to be close enough to him to put him under pressure, and then inducing him into making mistakes. This is what happened at Rio Hondo and what Marc refers to when he says he learned another lesson from the Master. Let's not forget another strong point of Marc Marquez: he's a quick learner! This is going to be an interesting season indeed.

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Marquez was actually able to get both the tyres work. Honda never had a problem with either. The only deciding factor was the track temperature. Marc and the team deciding to choose the hard and make a gap, then maintain it till the end. Which was an absolutely perfect strategy. The only fault in this was Rossi on extra hard tyres. With crutch low being able to make them work and steal 3rd place proves the tyres were suitable. Crutchlow also said that he had only one strategy. Choose what Marc chooses. He slowed down in between and conserve the tyres to launch a last lap attack on Iannone which proved successful.

Marc's team also changed the tyres with their warmers on. So the yellow strip tires were just a disguise for others. And that's why Rossi also stated, the key is to not consider Marc's choice and work on your own.
So Marc's only miss I think was not thinking of the attack rather than just launching it into Rossi. If he gave it a second thought this would have been an epic battle to the finish.

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Mate, that is exactly it: that they could make it work as well as Rossi but not at that temperature:
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Got it [MENTION=38865]J4rn0[/MENTION], I though otherwise .

Got more info. This got lost in the excitement of the race weekend, But we have a draft for 2017.
MotoGP News - Ezpeleta outlines 2017 MotoGP proposals











Honda, Yamaha, Ducati, Suzuki and Aprilia already compete in MotoGP, with KTM making its debut in 2017.

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30 points not a big deal yes maybe at this stage of championship but lets not forget MM got his 1st Motogp crown in 2013 after beating Lorenzo by just 4 points...

So every point is important when it comes to bigger picture of championship...

2013 same year when Rossi started working with Yamaha again after 2 years stint at Ducati so it was expected from him to take time to adapt to new M1.. 2014 he progressed finishing second...

Every team and bike faces some or the other issue during race.. every rider makes mistake some or the time... at the end result is what matter...

This year Rossi seems more comfortable with his M1 and I think he is the one who is not going go easy while MM tries to defend his title...

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Marquez being 30 points is not a big deal, really. At least not for Marc and especially not at this stage. That is what he means, @xionite - correct me if I'm wrong.

In 2013, 6 races in and Dani was leading the championship with Jorge 2nd and Marc 30 points behind. Still he went on to win the championship. We still have 15 rounds to go and only 16% of the championship is done.

Not only theoretically, even practically it's anyone's championship. I say all top 5 are in for a shot at the title. Although I'm optimistic about Rossi's chances this year I'm in no way going to write off the likes of Jorge and Marc. The miracles they've done in past years had come a long way. They just didn't start winning championships all of a sudden. They've grown winning championships.

So we can root for whoever we want, but it is anyone's game at the moment..and my favorite for the title is Rossi

Apart from that, got more interesting news on Engines:

Factory class:
Marco Melandri (Aprilia): 5 engines [1 withdrawn]


Andrea Iannone (Ducati): 3 engines
Marc Marquez* (Honda): 3 engines
Alvaro Bautista (Aprilia): 3 engines


Valentino Rossi (Yamaha): 2 engines
Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha): 2 engines
Bradley Smith (Yamaha): 2 engines
Pol Espargaro (Yamaha): 2 engines
Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati): 2 engines
Danilo Petrucci (Ducati): 2 engines
Yonny Hernandez** (Ducati): 2 engines
Dani Pedrosa (Honda): 2 engines
Cal Crutchlow (Honda): 2 engines
Scott Redding (Honda): 2 engines
Aleix Espargaro (Suzuki): 2 engines
Maverick Vinales (Suzuki): 2 engines
Alex de Angelis (Aprilia): 2 engines

Even though Marc has used his 3rd engine, the engine which caused problems in Austin is still not withdrawn, so they can still use the same one if required.

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From what I have read, Honda's lacked corner grip on the extra hard compound. This is something I read lot of places. MM, knew that with extra hard, they would loose out on corner grip, and this may help Rossi to win.

They took a gamble of using Hard tyre, and setting a lead early on, hoping to maintain it for the race distance. Seems like Rossi was the only one who could make extra hard compound work.