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What are the chances, a GP19 sitting with a cover on, but only exposing *that* much. Must be oddly breezy....  [laugh]


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Ducati giving the other mfrs the bird.

Indeed!

~50% chance of rain starting sunset Saturday going thru Sunday.
Certainly won't throw a spanner in the works or anything.

I can't comprehend how they go that fast in the rain.

I don't even like going in a straight line in the rain. It wasn't so bad 25 years ago. :P

I've gone nearly as fast as they do, and it's stupid windy even 170-ish, flat out trying to tear you off the bike even with a fairing.
There's a reason the little kink at Mugello makes MM roll out a bit, it's f'n bonkers.

Jack 2nd in FP1 and FP2.
FP2, Dovi, Jack and Cal. It's tight.

Top five within 0.244

Qualifying 2:

Marc Marquez ESP Repsol Honda (RC213V) 1m 38.304s [Lap 7/8] 326km/h (Top Speed)
Maverick Viñales ESP Monster Yamaha (YZR-M1) 1m 38.458s +0.154s [Lap 6/7] 319k
Andrea Dovizioso ITA Mission Winnow Ducati (GP19) 1m 38.468s +0.164s [Lap 6/7] 326k
Valentino Rossi ITA Monster Yamaha (YZR-M1) 1m 38.545s +0.241s [Lap 6/7] 321k
Jack Miller AUS Pramac Ducati (GP19) 1m 38.548s +0.244s [Lap 6/7] 328k
Franco Morbidelli ITA Petronas Yamaha SRT (YZR-M1) 1m 38.886s +0.582s [Lap 6/7] 318k
Fabio Quartararo FRA Petronas Yamaha SRT (YZR-M1)* 1m 38.897s +0.593s [Lap 6/8] 322k
Cal Crutchlow GBR LCR Honda (RC213V) 1m 38.955s +0.651s [Lap 3/7] 328k
Takaaki Nakagami JPN LCR Honda (RC213V) 1m 39.038s +0.734s [Lap 7/8] 321k
Danilo Petrucci ITA Mission Winnow Ducati (GP19) 1m 39.093s +0.789s [Lap 6/6] 327k
Pol Espargaro ESP Red Bull KTM Factory (RC16) 1m 39.489s +1.185s [Lap 3/8] 327k
Jorge Lorenzo ESP Repsol Honda (RC213V) 1m 39.520s +1.216s [Lap 5/7] 325k
Qualifying 1:

Aleix Espargaro ESP Factory Aprilia Gresini (RS-GP) 1m 39.288s 325k
Miguel Oliveira POR Red Bull KTM Tech3 (RC16)* 1m 39.298s 317k
Karel Abraham CZE Reale Avintia Ducati (GP18) 1m 39.331s 325k
Alex Rins ESP Suzuki Ecstar (GSX-RR) 1m 39.384s 318k
Francesco Bagnaia ITA Pramac Ducati (GP18)* 1m 39.387s 322k
Johann Zarco FRA Red Bull KTM Factory (RC16) 1m 39.571s 322k
Joan Mir SPA Suzuki Ecstar (GSX-RR)* 1m 39.605s 326k
Tito Rabat ESP Reale Avintia Ducati (GP18) 1m 39.978s 326k
Hafizh Syahrin MAL Red Bull KTM Tech3 (RC16) 1m 40.053s 316k
Andrea Iannone ITA Factory Aprilia Gresini (RS-GP) 1m 40.118s 318k

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Wow  ;D

Everyone is practicing for flag to flag during WUP.  [popcorn]

Moto3  [clap] Great race! Masia gets his first win.

Watching Moto2 with frantic Italian commentary - which means I have even less of a clue than usual what's going on.  [thumbsup]

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80 degrados and getting sunny. Tracks gonna get greasy.  [popcorn]

Several teams are swapping out rears on the start grid.  [popcorn]

Will someone please teach my boy how to launch that bike at the start.

Rossi cut Dovi’s nuts out with a great pass.  [clap] Morbidelli crashed my boy out on the final lap.  >:(. MM is gonna run away with it.  [bow_down]

Watched live timing , so I'll watch a recording tonight. Good fight for fourth ? MM smashed em again there.

http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2019/03/31/marquez-obliterates-opposition-in-titanic-termas-showing/288100

MotoGP didn’t really even bother airing much of MM just cruising along at 8 tenths faster than the rest of the field. That was just insane.

Thankfully there was a better fight behind him.

Good on Rins for bringing the heat on Sunday. I enjoy watching him race.

Can’t help but shed a tear when I think about Zarco just turning laps way in the back of the field.

MV's start was bad, but JLo's was terrible. The rookies are makings for a good show, but watching some of the vets become backmarkers is painful. How long do you think daddy will continue to bank roll Abraham?

JLo confirms that a race start with the pitlane speed limiter engaged is largely unsuccessful.
Very fortunate that Zarco didn't hammer into the back of him.

Cal pushed the edge of the envelope, resulting in a severe flesh wound rather than a more appropriate paper cut.
Everybody lost out.

Somehow Argentina can't get a MotoGP race off the grid without some sort of haywire.

Someone qualified behind him?

Cal was robbed.

Very literal and technical infringment considering no obvious advantage was gained. A warning after the race should have sufficed imo. I think the telemetry showed the clutch was fully to the bar and Crusty rolled a cm or two forward while balancing in his toes. :-\

He gained lots more from (legally) acing the timing than he did by that silly little roll.
The side view video is pretty good, he does roll, by my eye ~2".

In this case, the punishment was way past the level of the infraction.
IMO, if the punishment was a "long lap" for a no-advantage jump, and an advantageous jump still pulled the ride through, that would still be deterrent enough.
Or maybe "front axle ahead of the box before the lights go out, and you get a ride through".

Problem is trying to remove the human judgement task, how do you define "advantageous rolling" in a black and white manner......

How do they do it with track and field starts?

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