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2024 MotoGP Round 6: Gran Premi Monster Energy de Catalunya - Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya
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Francesco Bagnaia is really a mystery to me.
Who's the last rider that could ride as fast as he can, has won world titles, yet is at risk of binning the bike every single race?
He inspires so little confidence because he seems to be one moment away from a crash every single corner he approaches. Jorge Martin seemed to have learned not to push it if you don't have the pace which is the smart move. Take the points you can get and move on to tomorrow's race.
Who's the last rider that could ride as fast as he can, has won world titles, yet is at risk of binning the bike every single race?
He inspires so little confidence because he seems to be one moment away from a crash every single corner he approaches. Jorge Martin seemed to have learned not to push it if you don't have the pace which is the smart move. Take the points you can get and move on to tomorrow's race.
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Martin has done well only loosing 1 point in his lead with M Marquez now in second place. All 3 riders in contention for the second factory seat are in front of Bagnaia. MM another ride thru the field, what can one say
Acosta is now top KTM and only a few points away from Viñales to be top non Ducati
Acosta is now top KTM and only a few points away from Viñales to be top non Ducati
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As a sort of half-... history buff, I’d say not much has changed with the ruling class.
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I was just logging in to comment assuming a Bagnaia sprint win. He blew it.
Raul and Brad had an excuse to wipe out. Bagnaia did not.
Raul and Brad had an excuse to wipe out. Bagnaia did not.
Martin is doing to Pecco what Pecco did to Quartararo. The difference is that Martin cannot rely on superior bike performance to win the day. He is counting on Pecco's anxiety and factory Ducati's historical mismanagement of riders.
Long way to go, but Martin is in good shape. it will be interesting to see if Marc can get in his head. The GP23 is requiring frequent Herculean efforts to finish on the podium, but it must be uncomfortable to feel Marquez chipping away at your lead. Even if it's only 2-3 points at a time. Bastianini is in 3rd, and I'd like to consider him a challenger, but he can't score against Martin. He just loses point slowly, and then claws back half of what he lost whenever Martin has a mishap.
Don't want to look ahead because tomorrow could be awesome, but it seems like Mugello will be mental this year.
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I suspect you will be correct on that prediction, unless the teams/riders have analysed the crashes at that corner and determined what course of action is needed. If I was a betting man I'd say that turn 5 will claim more crashes than any other corner.
As I said he looks like he has been rattled by MM, which is crazy. Listening to Valentino might not have been the best thing for him. He is maintaining post race it was the bike not him as is his wont, but Aleix Espargaro in the post race interview said he considered Bagnaia to be pushing too hard rather than cruising as Pecco himself claimed. If he wasn’t already contracted I doubt even Ducati would dump a guy who has just won 2 world titles as well as so many races for them, but he doesn’t look much like one of the top 2 Ducati riders in the field at this particular point in time.
MM keeps upping the ante/increasing the degree of difficulty, 13th to 2nd twice wasn’t enough, he did it a 3rd time from 14th with a broken front wing. Another fairly high quality pass, this time on Acosta, as well. Actually winning a race might be more difficult though, it looks like this would require both Bagnaia and Martin having difficulties in the same race.
If you add the points Bagnaia deprived him of at Portimao MM would be closer to Martin, and he maintains the other two dnfs were not due to riding errors, which in his case I am more inclined to believe than in Bagnaia’s as he doesn’t have a history of blaming his equipment, despite having more than adequate grounds to do so for several years at Honda. I saw something from Carchedi his crew chief taking responsibility for a brake problem causing the dnf in the US race.
One thing about which I am quite confident is that MM will be offered a seat on a GP25 next year. Particularly after this race with the broken front wing Gigi et al absolutely will not want to see him on a KTM or Aprilia next season.
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So this is said to be the tailormade track for the aprilia…so wtf is vinales doing? It proofs that he can only have the occasional race win on his day but never fight for a championship
He’s always struggled with greasy tracks IIRC.
He is somewhat like Dani Pedrosa, on a weekend when everything is perfect he is invincible, otherwise not so much. Dani’s weekends were rather more frequent of course, if not frequent enough.
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With 3 crashes from the front one has to ask why? Is there a common link? I'm wondering if the nature of the grip is that the edge comes suddenly on specific parts of the track and in each case it was the rider pushing it to get a gap?
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Raul and Binder were pushing, while Bagnaia said he went slower with 2 degrees less lean angle and he crashed.
It is never his fault though.
Back in the Casey Stoner days the Ducati only worked when ridden flat out however, if he tried to ride conservatively he often crashed.
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