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I feel awful for Zarco
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JLo gave up as soon as petrux passed him ...
I feel awful for Zarco
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It's fascinating how as soon as his tires start dropping he has nothing left to give.
But man he needs to get off the Ducati. Watching the shape the bike makes through the corners, it is absolutely the wrong bike for his style. He cannot generate corner speed like he used to. It's madness riding a bike so ill-suited for one's style.
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But if you are Suzuki do you take the expensive gamble of JLo?
I'd say don't do it....make JLo pay for his ride in 2019 at Suzuki
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I think you offer a few million and that's it. Ducati surely is not going to offer anything better.
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1.2 million euro a year is his value in my view....10% of his current contract and same what Dovi got paid this past 2 years I had read somewhere
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Good Victory and boring race
Petrux number 1 Duc
Rossi number 1 Yamaha
Miller great ride and good job beating JLo
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He does have 3 world titles so I figure a million for each one of them. Dovi didn't have anything going till last year, so the pay made sense.
Petrucci and Miller both went soft and soft and pretty much lasted till the end of the race. Lorenzo on the Yamaha was renowned for lasting on soft tires, he certainly is very ill-matched to the Ducati as you say.
Dovi was perhaps feeling his oats too much after signing the new contract, he didn't need to get out of shape that early in the race, last year he won races with late race pace.
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Might as well say this.
Smart, smart race by Rossi. He had decent pace, but not race winning pace (Or even podim pace if no one crashed out). But he rode well, kept the right side up and gapped Miller when it was needed to ensure P3. Kudos.
Smart, smart race by Rossi. He had decent pace, but not race winning pace (Or even podim pace if no one crashed out). But he rode well, kept the right side up and gapped Miller when it was needed to ensure P3. Kudos.
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Someone like Monster will need to bring a lot of pressure to pay that much money for JLo to ride around with a poor attitude and being a vindictive unfriendly teammate....
He should talk to Tech 3 about getting the other KTM ride instead....and pay for it....
You hate Lorenzo though as you have most of Rossi's rivals.
Lorenzo didn't learn from history however, it was obvious to most on here before he sat on the bike that he wouldn't be suited to the Ducati and was repeating Rossi's mistake in signing with them.
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Sure, good ride by him, he probably would have beaten Zarco even if he stayed on his bike.
I feel really bad for Zarco. I would have really loved to see him win today.
The two times he overtook Marquez, he gave zero ...... If that KTM is even remotely competent next year, he is going to raise a lot more eyebrows than he already has.
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Marquez - only one to use a hard rear. Good choice for not pushing the front end overmuch on a low abrasion surface.
I don't think Zarco would have lasted to the end of the race on soft/soft.
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