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Probably the longest topic title of the year if nothing else.

Results are more important, so .... last year's times.

Podium in the GP last year was Martin, Bezzecchi, Bagnaia.

I predict it will be a Ducati Cup again. I'm going to go with Martin for the win outright in the GP. Not sure about Pecco. Either way it feels like we may be in for some fireworks in Misano. Could MM be involved or will it simply by Martin v. Pecco? But what are the implications right now of the points gap between JM and PB for Ducati? Is Ducati potentially ...... and that #1 plate will be on the RS-GP next season? Heading towards the final stretch, I'd much rather be in Martin's shoes right now because something about the pressure on PB feels heavier than the past two seasons. MM can potentially spoil everything if he shows up at Misano in Aragon form. Then there's also Acosta coming off a great weekend finally, could he be another obstacle? I hope we get a fantastic race this weekend.



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Right around now is the time where previously, Ducati has started to look at team orders, but with the beast leaving, Morbidelli, not being fast enough and the 23s still looking to be a step behind the 24s, it looks like Pecco is going to have to claw back those points himself.
 
Ducati's team orders have been limited (more or less) to not wanting the riders to knock each other out.
Something every sensible manufacturer should implement from FP1 at the 1st round.
 
When I make predictions, I keep on forgetting that there are both the sprint race and the main race.

Bagnaia has a habit of coming back from a bad weekend, so I'll predict Bagnaia for both the sprint and the feature race.

It will be very interesting to see how both M Marquez and Acosta go this weekend. Will their good form of the last race carry over? I have no idea. If MM93 dominates this weekend like last: Marquez championship next year.

The MotoE season ends here, and we will have a champion. With a 38 point advantage, Garzo is going to be hard to beat. And, chances are that he'll seal the championship in the first race. But, stranger things have happened.
 
AnnoyingTwit said:
The MotoE season ends here, and we will have a champion. With a 38 point advantage, Garzo is going to be hard to beat. And, chances are that he'll seal the championship in the first race. But, stranger things have happened.
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Garzo has been on the money in the last races. He needs to be rammed, to lose this.
 
Sennas_Caress said:
Garzo has been on the money in the last races. He needs to be rammed, to lose this.
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I had revised the points before posting, and I noted that.

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Definitely a season of two halves for Garzo. The fight for second place is quite tight however, and that's where the action is likely to be.

But, I do remember Leon Haslam losing a BSB championship to Shakey Byrne when things looked pretty much equally done and dusted.

Moto2: I wonder if Dixon can continue his current form. Whether Ogura will still be limited by injury, and whether Garcia will still be a in funk. Oh, and whether Aldeguer can be both fast and stay upright.

Moto3: I predict Alonso will be back to winning ways.
 
Sennas_Caress said:
Two halves is possibly a bit too harsh? He has only had one bad weekend, and he was on pole...
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I meant him scoring no wins for the entire first half of the season (approx - eight races) and then scoring four wins out of six races for the latter part of the season. With the two non-wins in the second half-ish being a 2nd and a 3rd.
 
I am more interested in how Marc fares on Friday, will they get him up to speed in Practice 1? For his crew it is a new track for a new rider on a new bike. They got it right in Aragon and look what happened.
 
Sennas_Caress said:
Ducati's team orders have been limited (more or less) to not wanting the riders to knock each other out.
Something every sensible manufacturer should implement from FP1 at the 1st round.
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But we have seen mapping 8 and we have seen Ducati's giving positions to riders in contention when the title is going down to the wire.
 
You can see from the camera angle in the video in the linked article that Alex was already leaned over before Bagnaia was visible so Alex saying he didn't see him is spot on

Are there any other riders apart from Bagnaia saying that Alex deliberately crashed into him?

speedcafe.com

Marquez ‘will never accept’ accusations of deliberate crash

Francesco Bagnaia slides under the bike of Alex Marquez, Image: Fox Sports In the dying laps of the Aragon Motorcycle
speedcafe.com speedcafe.com
 
mikesbytes said:
You can see from the camera angle in the video in the linked article that Alex was already leaned over before Bagnaia was visible so Alex saying he didn't see him is spot on

Are there any other riders apart from Bagnaia saying that Alex deliberately crashed into him?

speedcafe.com

Marquez ‘will never accept’ accusations of deliberate crash

Francesco Bagnaia slides under the bike of Alex Marquez, Image: Fox Sports In the dying laps of the Aragon Motorcycle
speedcafe.com speedcafe.com
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Bezz
 
I’d bet even money that the performance pecking order goes back to what it was two races ago, now that the race is not on a not-so-slippery surface. The last race as fun as it was, was IMHO - one of those situations where some well-liked mid-pack rider like Vermulen excels in the rain and everybody starts talking about how they’re back on form, and in the next non-rain race, it’s just the same ol’ same ol’.
… Pecco will disappoint and irritate people by returning to form, until he does something stupid again, which he dependably does.
 

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