Motogp Aragon

[Skub]

Not historically a good track for Fabio,but he says it'll be different this year.

Mav's first race weekend on the Aprilia,bets on that one? I just don't know. Maybe he'll come out all fired up,he has the talent for sure.

Rins is on form and likes Aragon,his teamate Mir could be there too.

Dunno about the Ducatis or the KTbooms.

It's pretty sad to think Mark Marquez probably won't figure much in the result,but he may surprise too.

[Yorick]

If Mav beats Spag the whiner, he'll go into whining overload.

[weeksy]

If Mav beats Spag I'll eat fried monkey balls

[Yorick]

If Mav beats Spag I'll eat monkey balls

Fried or boiled ?

[Skub]

If Mav beats Spag I'll eat fried monkey balls

Quoted just in case.

[Bigyin]

The Ducatis will be fast as fuck on the straight but suffer on other parts and will pass and get passed by pretty much all other brands ...... especially Suzuki which seem to work well there> Fabio will be in the bun fight as always but the rest of the Yamaha's will be down field.

[weeksy]

1 Marc Marquez SPA Repsol Honda (RC213V) 1'48.048s 18/20 343k
2 Joan Mir SPA Suzuki Ecstar (GSX-RR) +0.971s 17/18 340k
3 Francesco Bagnaia ITA Ducati Team (GP21) +1.145s 16/19 343k
4 Alex Marquez SPA LCR Honda (RC213V) +1.158s 18/18 343k
5 Jack Miller AUS Ducati Team (GP21) +1.214s 16/21 346k
6 Aleix Espargaro SPA Aprilia Gresini (RS-GP) +1.265s 15/18 343k
7 Johann Zarco FRA Pramac Ducati (GP21) +1.324s 17/17 346k
8 Fabio Quartararo FRA Monster Yamaha (YZR-M1) +1.403s 14/19 334k
9 Takaaki Nakagami JPN LCR Honda (RC213V) +1.411s 8/21 345k
10 Pol Espargaro SPA Repsol Honda (RC213V) +1.541s 13/18 346k
11 Enea Bastianini ITA Avintia Ducati (GP19)* +1.604s 13/17 344k
12 Cal Crutchlow GBR Monster Yamaha (YZR-M1) +1.622s 14/17 340k
13 Danilo Petrucci ITA KTM Tech3 (RC16) +1.693s 15/18 340k
14 Alex Rins SPA Suzuki Ecstar (GSX-RR) +1.736s 11/18 339k
15 Luca Marini ITA Sky VR46 Avintia Ducati (GP19)* +1.888s 17/18 341k
16 Iker Lecuona SPA KTM Tech3 (RC16) +1.894s 12/13 341k
17 Jorge Martin SPA Pramac Ducati (GP21)* +1.899s 10/17 347k
18 Miguel Oliveira POR Red Bull KTM (RC16) +1.916s 17/19 344k
19 Maverick Viñales SPA Aprilia Gresini (RS-GP) +2.139s 16/21 343k
20 Valentino Rossi ITA Petronas Yamaha (YZR-M1) +2.251s 11/12 335k
21 Brad Binder RSA Red Bull KTM (RC16) +2.305s 14/17 346k
22 Jake Dixon GBR Petronas Yamaha (YZR-M1) +3.140s 14/20 332k

[Yorick]

Jake is 0.9 behind Rossi on same bike.

[Yorick]

Miller looks happy, whipping his bike in fake drag race

[Yorick]

And Dixon only 1 second behind the world champ

[weeksy]

And Dixon only 1 second behind the world champ

1 second is night and day though. It doesn't sound much but in that session, 1 second was the difference between 3rd and 19th for a lot of the session.

I know it sounds good saying he's 1s off, bit it's a lifetime in reality

[weeksy]

FP2

1 ^4 Jack Miller AUS Ducati Team (GP21) 1'47.613s 15/17 344k
2 ^4 Aleix Espargaro SPA Aprilia Gresini (RS-GP) +0.273s 18/19 346k
3 ^9 Cal Crutchlow GBR Monster Yamaha (YZR-M1) +0.284s 17/19 341k
4 ^3 Johann Zarco FRA Pramac Ducati (GP21) +0.375s 18/18 346k
5 ^12 Jorge Martin SPA Pramac Ducati (GP21)* +0.410s 17/17 345k
6 ˅3 Francesco Bagnaia ITA Ducati Team (GP21) +0.419s 15/15 350k
7 ^1 Fabio Quartararo FRA Monster Yamaha (YZR-M1) +0.421s 16/17 337k
8 ^1 Takaaki Nakagami JPN LCR Honda (RC213V) +0.444s 17/19 344k
9 ^2 Enea Bastianini ITA Avintia Ducati (GP19)* +0.473s 16/17 344k
10 = Pol Espargaro SPA Repsol Honda (RC213V) +0.553s 15/16 348k
11 ^3 Alex Rins SPA Suzuki Ecstar (GSX-RR) +0.654s 20/20 342k
12 ^9 Brad Binder RSA Red Bull KTM (RC16) +0.665s 16/17 345k
13 ˅9 Alex Marquez SPA LCR Honda (RC213V) +0.701s 17/19 343k
14 ˅1 Danilo Petrucci ITA KTM Tech3 (RC16) +0.738s 16/17 339k
15 = Luca Marini ITA Sky VR46 Avintia Ducati (GP19)* +0.843s 18/18 342k
16 = Iker Lecuona SPA KTM Tech3 (RC16) +0.913s 15/18 340k
17 ^1 Miguel Oliveira POR Red Bull KTM (RC16) +1.010s 3/20 345k
18 ^2 Valentino Rossi ITA Petronas Yamaha (YZR-M1) +1.036s 15/17 341k
19 = Maverick Viñales SPA Aprilia Gresini (RS-GP) +1.142s 20/20 342k
20 ˅19 Marc Marquez SPA Repsol Honda (RC213V) +1.214s 8/15 347k
21 ˅19 Joan Mir SPA Suzuki Ecstar (GSX-RR) +1.273s 11/16 342k
22 = Jake Dixon GBR Petronas Yamaha (YZR-M1) +2.374s 11/17 337k

[weeksy]

LEts hope McPhee gets a bit closer
32 John McPhee GBR Petronas Sprinta Racing (Kalex) 1m 57.695s

1 Jorge Navarro SPA +EGO Speed Up (Boscoscuro) 1m 53.100s

[Nobby]

Jake is 0.9 behind Rossi on same bike.

Are they having to share ?

[Demannu]

Vinales quicker than 2 Yamaha's shocker!

[Skub]

LEts hope McPhee gets a bit closer
32 John McPhee GBR Petronas Sprinta Racing (Kalex) 1m 57.695s

1 Jorge Navarro SPA +EGO Speed Up (Boscoscuro) 1m 53.100s

Well,he made progress which is good. I think it was about a 3 second gap by the end.

[Yorick]

And Dixon only 1 second behind the world champ

1 second is night and day though. It doesn't sound much but in that session, 1 second was the difference between 3rd and 19th for a lot of the session.

I know it sounds good saying he's 1s off, bit it's a lifetime in reality

0.3 behind Rossi.

Wish I could be that close.

[weeksy]

And Dixon only 1 second behind the world champ

1 second is night and day though. It doesn't sound much but in that session, 1 second was the difference between 3rd and 19th for a lot of the session.

I know it sounds good saying he's 1s off, bit it's a lifetime in reality

0.3 behind Rossi.

Wish I could be that close.

Aye, deffo improvement.

But you're not a current MotoGP protagonist. Rossi ain't a benchmark for anyone coming into the series.

[Bigyin]

Aye, deffo improvement.

But you're not a current MotoGP protagonist. Rossi ain't a benchmark for anyone coming into the series.

0.5 behind Crutchlow on the full fat bike and less than a second off Zarco who went through to Q1. The boy is learning as he goes on a Yamaha that isnt the best around that circuit as only Fabio is at the front as always and Jake is on the shopping spec bike


As for the Qualifying i wasnt surprised to see the Ducati's up at the front because with no other bikes around them they can show their top speed and allowed to run the lines they need but i doubt that will be allowed to happen in the race. The big surprise to me was the fastest in sector 4 which is the back straight and last corner wasnt a Ducati, it was Marc Marquez

[weeksy]

No thoughts on the racing then fellas ?

I thought MotoGP was awesome, sure it was a 2 horse race, but what a race it was between them ! Fab stuff.

Moto2 was a little on the disappointing side

Moto3 was what moto3 is and a twist or 2 thrown in late on for excitement.

Spag A showed Vinales a clean pair of heels as i predicted... i don't/didn't see how it was ever open to debate. Not that Vinales did badly as such, he did how well i'd expect for a debut ride on a bike.