2024 MotoGP Round 7: Gran Premio d'Italia Brembo - Mugello

Sennas_Caress said:

Another solid race from Digga!

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I believe that the best is yet to come for him !

So #93 to take Ducati’s 93rd victory?

mikesbytes said:

So #93 to take Ducati’s 93rd victory?

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Nah, 2nd place is better and I want him to always come 2nd and take title with laughter by 0 wins.

If Pecco has this kind of pace tomorrow, he'll be tough to beat even starting 5th. Barring a catastrophic start, he should win. He was comfortably faster than everyone today. Unless Ducati have already made their decision, I feel like tomorrow is an important race for Martin and he cannot bin it again and watch Marc take another podium, much less a victory. It's deja vu all over again. I hope both Marc and Pedro can get great starts tomorrow. Marc's was not so good today but he recovered nicely.

Did Jack and Brad switch bikes?

Bern1 said:

If not for…….
Quite a few things could be different.

I will happily applaud any rider who wins a race and/or a championship cleanly.

How clean is clean? That is the question.

How clean are everybody’s hands? Of course there are many interpretations.

I don’t care about Pecco’s association with vr, who I personally despise. If he can rock like he did this morning, I am all for him going all the way.

Of course there will be some crashing but I am not wishing it on anybody or assuming who will or won’t. I’m not quite sure if there is any rider who hasn’t hit the ground this year.

Gestures, words, be my guest, all sports are full of them. Of course they are revealing about who utters them, that’s a given in life. I admire how MM does not indulge in that and how he ignores the camera when it’s on him in the box. It’s a warrior outlook that all of them should adopt. All those who want to be warriors that is……. Maturity will come for some, they are mostly all young still.

Looking forward to a good race tomorrow.

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Sure, there is much that is admirable about Bagnaia’s riding which was again in evidence yesterday. He iindeed rides like Jorge Lorenzo of whom I was a big fan, although Jorge’s treatment by Rossi and the Valeban is a major reason I came to disdain Valentino.

I have no problem with Bagnaia winning fair and square as has been his wont in recent seasons, he has definitely been the best and fastest rider of the aero age, and yesterday again demonstrated he perhaps responds better to pressure than Martin does.

I haven’t warmed to him as I did to jorge Lorenzo however, and might do so more if he was his own man rather than Valentino’s, not that he would care of course. MM hasn’t done anything to him, not that he really did anything to Rossi imo as we have discussed ad nauseum, rather the reverse this year. I strongly suspect Bagnaia might have complained vociferously instead of taking it in his stride as MM did had MM been mainly responsible for the incident at Portimao.

My problem is mainly with Rossi not Pecco though. I guess the word vendetta comes from the Italian language, but I would add childish to vendetta in Rossi’s case, particularly now he appears to have delegated his vendetta against MM to proxies. He managed to make the end of Jorge Lorenzo’s career miserable, but thus far has only emboldened MM, who is indeed a warrior as you say, and pretty close to the ultimate gp bike racing. warrior imo. I have some concerns Rossi continues to have enough influence to affect which equipment is available to MM, but MM is a big boy and is responsible for his own choices, and if he has chosen to reject what was a good option imo ie a Pramac GP 25 ride particularly for reasons involving the same feud that is his problem.

PRS717 said:

If Pecco has this kind of pace tomorrow, he'll be tough to beat even starting 5th. Barring a catastrophic start, he should win. He was comfortably faster than everyone today. Unless Ducati have already made their decision, I feel like tomorrow is an important race for Martin and he cannot bin it again and watch Marc take another podium, much less a victory. It's deja vu all over again. I hope both Marc and Pedro can get great starts tomorrow. Marc's was not so good today but he recovered nicely.

Did Jack and Brad switch bikes?

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Except MM had pretty much the same pace including registering the fastest lap of the race, and the boot might be on the other foot should Bagnaia come out of the first lap several places behind MM, which admittedly I don’t overly expect.

Bagnaia is always hard to beat in any case, he is a really fast rider.

Was anybody watching the Moto 1. Q2 live , and noticed the false start that Pecco did on Mark.

Mark was waiting for Pecco to go, after their second tyre change, Pecco came out the bike was started and he took-off, but only for 1 meter stopped and they put the bike back in the pit. Mark took off to lead so that Pecco would have to pass him, so he could follow him, spent the first half of the lap looking around for him,. Wondering where the .... did he go.?

The thing is Ducati did this to Mark last year, you wouldn’t think he would fall for I again, this time they, made it look real.

Missed that, but did notice Marc cruising and looking back

Podium picks?
I'll go
MM
Bagnaia
Martin

Havey said:

Was anybody watching the Moto 1. Q2 live , and noticed the false start that Pecco did on Mark.

Mark was waiting for Pecco to go, after their second tyre change, Pecco came out the bike was started and he took-off, but only for 1 meter stopped and they put the bike back in the pit. Mark took off to lead so that Pecco would have to pass him, so he could follow him, spent the first half of the lap looking around for him,. Wondering where the .... did he go.?

The thing is Ducati did this to Mark last year, you wouldn’t think he would fall for I again, this time they, made it look real.

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Was that when Marc noticeably braked whilst on the line and caused the following rider to brake as well? I think it was Acosta but he wasn’t going that fast himself and didn’t make an issue out of it. But I did think Marc could get a penalty for it given that Bagnaia got one although his actions were worse.

mikesbytes said:

Podium picks?
I'll go
MM
Bagnaia
Martin

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Marc, Pedro,pecco

Terrible, terrible crash in Arrabiata 2 in the Moto3 race. Hope Zurutuza is OK.

All riders conscious. Thank God, that looked an awful lot like Dupasquier.

Moto2 shortened to 12 laps. It's a joke how they're treating the lower classes. There's a one hour gap in the schedule before the MotoGP race.

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1. Frantisek
2. Enea
3. Acosta

Jörg just doesn't seem to have the pace this weekend and I don't see Marc being able to hang with Pecco over a full distance with the GP23.
After Casey got win #27, Frantisek got win #63, Bezecchi got win #72 and Jörg got win #89, I unfortunately can't see this pattern continue.

Very very boring race so far.

Marc on a 24 would be leading

MdubSTYLIE said:

Marc on a 24 would be leading

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I thought this race really showed the difference between the two bikes.

Most processional race I have watched in quite a while.