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MotoGP is back ! Michelin® Grand Prix of Styria
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2021 8:04 am
by weeksy
After a 5 week break, the big boys are playing again.
Cal replacing Morbidelli in the Petronas squad, well... interesting !
MArquez to be recovered a bit more now and right on the pace ?
Who will have re-found form and who will have lost it !
Re: MotoGP is back ! Michelin® Grand Prix of Styria
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2021 10:15 am
by Numnut
Apparently Rossi has scheduled an 'exceptional press conference' for later today... I'm guessing it's going to be retirement...
https://www.crash.net/motogp/news/98413 ... ce-austria
Looking forward to seeing Pedrosa on the KTM this weekend though
Re: MotoGP is back ! Michelin® Grand Prix of Styria
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2021 10:18 am
by Yorick
Having a sweep on which lap C.C. bins it ?
Seriously, hope he does OK
Re: MotoGP is back ! Michelin® Grand Prix of Styria
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2021 10:19 am
by weeksy
I wonder if he's gone nuts and gone with "i'm racing the Ducati"
Re: MotoGP is back ! Michelin® Grand Prix of Styria
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2021 10:25 am
by Tricky
Yup, I'm looking forward to this one more than I have others so far this year, due both to Cal coming back in- will be good to see if the fire is still there and he can compete on the Yam, and Dani on the orange bike, which of course we know goes well (or at least did last years in Oliverera's hands) around here.
I have everything crossed for McPhee too, the wee man deserves a bit of luck IMO and (stating the obvious.. ) needs decent results
Re: MotoGP is back ! Michelin® Grand Prix of Styria
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2021 10:28 am
by weeksy
Tricky wrote: Thu Aug 05, 2021 10:25 am
Yup, I'm looking forward to this one more than I have others so far this year, due both to Cal coming back in- will be good to see if the fire is still there and he can compete on the Yam, and Dani on the orange bike, which of course we know goes well (or at least did last years in Oliverera's hands) around here.
I have everything crossed for McPhee too, the wee man deserves a bit of luck IMO and (stating the obvious.. ) needs decent results
Pedrosa is going to be an interesting one for sure this time, he's been lauded as the "reason the KTM is so good", so using that logic, you'd assume he's on the pace as you can't really improve a bike without being on the pace ?
Re: MotoGP is back ! Michelin® Grand Prix of Styria
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2021 10:31 am
by Tricky
weeksy wrote: Thu Aug 05, 2021 10:28 am
Tricky wrote: Thu Aug 05, 2021 10:25 am
Yup, I'm looking forward to this one more than I have others so far this year, due both to Cal coming back in- will be good to see if the fire is still there and he can compete on the Yam, and Dani on the orange bike, which of course we know goes well (or at least did last years in Oliverera's hands) around here.
I have everything crossed for McPhee too, the wee man deserves a bit of luck IMO and (stating the obvious.. ) needs decent results
Pedrosa is going to be an interesting one for sure this time, he's been lauded as the "reason the KTM is so good", so using that logic, you'd assume he's on the pace as you can't really improve a bike without being on the pace ?
Aye, my thoughts too, I don't doubt he's got the capability or the desire to win albeit he hasn't been racing competitively at the highest level for a good while, so will be interesting to see how on-it he is in the actual races
Re: MotoGP is back ! Michelin® Grand Prix of Styria
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2021 10:51 am
by KungFooBob
He's renewed his contract with Yamaha for another 26 years, until he can claim a state pension.
Re: MotoGP is back ! Michelin® Grand Prix of Styria
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2021 11:25 am
by Skub
weeksy wrote: Thu Aug 05, 2021 10:19 am
I wonder if he's gone nuts and gone with "i'm racing the Ducati"
That's a very real possibility.
Didn't the Saudi prince moneybags backing the team want Rossi to race on?
Re: MotoGP is back ! Michelin® Grand Prix of Styria
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2021 11:34 am
by weeksy
Very much so
"It would be fantastic for me if Valentino Rossi could compete in the next few years as a rider in our Aramco Racing Team VR46 together with his brother Luca Marini," said Saudi Arabia's Prince Abdulaziz bin Abdullah bin Saud bin AbdulAziz Al Saud, upon confirming Aramco would sponsor the new VR46 MotoGP project for the next five seasons.
However, Rossi - who has always insisted that results are the key factor in deciding his future - had responded it would be 'very difficult'.
"I will think more deeply [about the future] in the summer break. I also have to speak with Yamaha and the team. We want to try for better performances and better results for sure," said Rossi.
"The season until this moment was not fantastic under this point of view [results]. I think it will be very difficult also that I race next year.
"Always, the Prince pushes me to race next year with my team and Ducati. But at the moment I think it will be very difficult."
Re: MotoGP is back ! Michelin® Grand Prix of Styria
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 8:50 am
by weeksy
mcPhee at the pointy end of Moto3 in FP1...
Just seeing Pedrosa getting kitted up in KTM .... it's kinda weird to see him in something other than Repsol.
Re: MotoGP is back ! Michelin® Grand Prix of Styria
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 9:24 am
by weeksy
Pedrosa doing well until his bike quit on him....
Cal not doing as well. "he's not actually ridden a bike since April" which kinda surprises me... You'd think he'd have at least been out testing 'something' wouldn't you ?
Re: MotoGP is back ! Michelin® Grand Prix of Styria
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 9:42 am
by weeksy
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Re: MotoGP is back ! Michelin® Grand Prix of Styria
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 1:38 pm
by weeksy
Afternoon session is wet.... mostly people taking it fairly steady
Re: MotoGP is back ! Michelin® Grand Prix of Styria
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 2:13 pm
by Yorick
I got so sick of the commentators licking Rossi's arse, I turned the sound off.
Re: MotoGP is back ! Michelin® Grand Prix of Styria
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 2:17 pm
by weeksy
Yorick wrote: Fri Aug 06, 2021 2:13 pm
I got so sick of the commentators licking Rossi's arse, I turned the sound off.
Well, without being too harsh, it's easy to forget what he's done for both racing, the sport, motorbikes in general. He's done a massive amount.
Re: MotoGP is back ! Michelin® Grand Prix of Styria
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 2:20 pm
by Yorick
weeksy wrote: Fri Aug 06, 2021 2:17 pm
Yorick wrote: Fri Aug 06, 2021 2:13 pm
I got so sick of the commentators licking Rossi's arse, I turned the sound off.
Well, without being too harsh, it's easy to forget what he's done for both racing, the sport, motorbikes in general. He's done a massive amount.
I know, but they were creepy.
Re: MotoGP is back ! Michelin® Grand Prix of Styria
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 3:02 pm
by Le_Fromage_Grande
weeksy wrote: Fri Aug 06, 2021 8:50 am
mcPhee at the pointy end of Moto3 in FP1...
Sunday - he'll be in the kitty litter by lap 17 after a series of unwise overtakes following a poor start.
Re: MotoGP is back ! Michelin® Grand Prix of Styria
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 3:13 pm
by Yorick
Little Dani top KTM in dry and wet.
Podium?
Re: MotoGP is back ! Michelin® Grand Prix of Styria
Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2021 11:20 am
by Yorick
Yorick wrote: Fri Aug 06, 2021 3:13 pm
Little Dani top KTM in dry and wet.
Podium?
Still top KTM in FP3 and only 2 hundredths off Q2