2024 Round 14: Gran Premio Pramac dell’Emilia-Romagna - Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli

What a monster lap from Pecco.

GP24 front row lockout. Amazing what testing data will get you.

Naughty Morbidelli.

Morbidelli is brain dead.

Has his memory really recovered because he seems to forget anyone else is on the circuit.

JPSLotus said:

I figure Pecco will be on pole...I think he has unbelievable speed this weekend, so I can't see him not being on pole unless he makes a mistake.

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Great call.
He absolutely steamrolled it, GP24 lockout as well.

Improved showing from the KTMs, maybe they’re turning a corner?

Marquez’s crash cost him dearly. It’ll be an uphill battle the rest of this week.

Muted performance from Aprilia, but at least it’s better than the last time around?

Quartararo is easily the rider of the weekend so far. One of the best; if not the best rider pound-for-pound on the grid.

Another bad quali by Marc, confidence dented by the crashes? This is why he's not in real championship contention as he said before. The GP24s are so much better in terms of one-lap pace. Grats to Bagnaia for a monster lap and the pole, with help of Morbidelli, but this doesn't detract from his blistering speed. Let's see if Enea can fight for the win tomorrow.

Acosta does not look happy.

MichaelBolton said:

Another bad quali by Marc, confidence dented by the crashes? This is why he's not in real championship contention as he said before. The GP24s are so much better in terms of one-lap pace. Grats to Bagnaia for a monster lap and the pole, with help of Morbidelli, but this doesn't detract from his blistering speed. Let's see if Enea can fight for the win tomorrow.

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Outqualified by Bezzecchi on the same bike.

synn said:

Great call.
He absolutely steamrolled it, GP24 lockout as well.

Improved showing from the KTMs, maybe they’re turning a corner?

Marquez’s crash cost him dearly. It’ll be an uphill battle the rest of this week.

Muted performance from Aprilia, but at least it’s better than the last time around?

Quartararo is easily the rider of the weekend so far. One of the best; if not the best rider pound-for-pound on the grid.

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I feel like Martin's title chances are just bleeding out now. It feels like death by a thousand cuts for him. We will see what happens in the Sprint, and in the GP tomorrow, but I can easily see Pecco leaving Misano back in the points lead.

I wonder if the KTM's have made progress or if it is just a post-testing boost that won't carry forward to Indonesia next weekend.

Marquez I thought did himself in also by trying to follow The Beast. He gets on way better when he just goes out there and does his thing on his own. It feels like every single time he gets involved in following his qualy sessions go to ..... Maybe someone should tell him?

An Italian friend of mine and I were talking about Aprilia last night, he threw out the idea of what if Aleix finishes ahead of Mav heading into retirement? He's only down 20 points at the moment. Not an insurmountable task by any means. I think Mav would fry out if that happens. So I admit to being petty at times, I am hoping it happens. I did ask him if he could go visit Aprilia and ask technical questions about their bike. He declined sadly lol.

Fabio on that Aprilia would have been incredible. I wish that had happened. He deserves far better than this M1 project that no one knows if it will work out or not. But I guess nothing like millions of Euros to feel better about life decisions.

JPSLotus said:

Fabio on that Aprilia would have been incredible. I wish that had happened. He deserves far better than this M1 project that no one knows if it will work out or not. But I guess nothing like millions of Euros to feel better about life decisions.

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It’s a hard watch now for sure, but I’m confident that they’ll turn the ship around. I haven’t seen Yamaha iteratively improve this much since maybe 2004. In many ways, it feels like the early days of post Gigi Ducati.

As for the V4, companies sometimes have to break dogmas to move ahead. Ducati did it with the V4, trellis-> carbon-> aluminum frame, KTM did it with trellis-> twin spar-> carbon, and so on. Sometimes you just have to show up with different tools because the game has moved on.

Wow, what a race 1 finish for WCR.

surendhar said:

Wow, what a race 1 finish for WCR.

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Will catch up on it after the sprint, but every WCR race has been box office so far!

Calling a GP24 washout of the podium.
In which order, I’m not sure yet.

Will Bagnaia get a good start?

EDIT: No.

Exceptional start by Martin.
Rough first corners for Bagnaia, but he kept the right side up.
Bastianini looks dangerous.

Jorge is desperate to get away, doing his best Jorge Lorenzo impression at the moment.

Acosta doing well. Especially compared to Binder. Marquez only has GP24s ahead of him now.

JPSLotus said:

Jorge is desperate to get away, doing his best Jorge Lorenzo impression at the moment.

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Same bike, similar skills. It only takes a small gap to be able to manage it. Having said that, Pecco slightly faster.

Oof Enea with a track limits warning already.

AnnoyingTwit said:

Acosta doing well. Especially compared to Binder.

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Acosta has the batwings, Binder doesn’t. Interesting.

Quartararo in 7th. Good position. Ahead of Morbidelli and all of the Aprilias.