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MichaelBolton said:
Jorge said in Sepang that the '24 bike had improved in braking, so I think Pecco is playing mindgames and downplaying how dominant the bike has been in testing so far.

Times right now:

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Marc has already improved his time of yesterday, which wasn't too impressive. Pecco remained on the top spot until recently. Raul Fernandez has been consistently fast.
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Acosta looking good again. Man this kid could be the real deal. I hope he is
 
PRS717 said:
Okay, probably a dumb question but I'm gonna ask anyway. What's with the tires I've seen mounted on some of the bikes, as the Yamaha in one of the pics above? They are not slicks and not wets. They look like street tires. What's up with that?
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They are street tyres, because they only fit the race tyres when they are needed. They aren't needed to roll the bikes around the garage or transport them.
 
People are beginning to push now for hot laps. Bagnaia just did the first sub 1:51 around Qatar.

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Man, I know it's just testing, but the 2024 Ducatis have been on fire in every testing day, no matter the circuit. Doesn't bode well for the competition. I know the concessions system is revamped starting this season but that's at least half a year of lagging behind. Marc gives us fanboys some optimism at least. Aprilia has been solid these two days except for Oliveira.
 
MichaelBolton said:
Man, I know it's just testing, but the 2024 Ducatis have been on fire in every testing day, no matter the circuit. Doesn't bode well for the competition. I know the concessions system is revamped starting this season but that's at least half a year of lagging behind. Marc gives us fanboys some optimism at least. Aprilia has been solid these two days except for Oliveira.
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I agree. Hopefully Bastiannini keeps up his performance, and we look on to have an explosive threesome season.
 
mikesbytes said:
Agree that the GP24 is the bike to be on, though you can't read too much into testing, look where Raul is on the 23 Aprilia
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Testing is testing, race weekend is another thing. There the riders have too few time to setup the bike and get to the grips. Even that Ducati is a step ahead since they stay connected to the base server at Bologna transferring gigabytes of data for their software to analyse and feed them back with setup information on that track, temperature, air humidity, sectors, etc. Their adversaries keep moaning about the aero thing but truth is in this regard they are not so far ahead if even ahead to be honest (Aprilia and KTM seem more serious on this front). The point where Ducati is far far ahead the competition relies on their core. They have been investing on computer aided designs, simulations and now artificial intelligence to help sort the bike out as fast as possible. Their bike? It only offers a pletora of possible adjustments, so much so that it's impossible to find the best setup just trying out things in a weekend practice. The heavy work is all done by computers. That's a hell of a thing where their competitors are chasing them, actually none of them has even begun to develop something similar. I bet Yamaha will be the first one to rival Ducati from next year cause they now have Bartolini who knows every single corner of Ducati's CADs. It has few to do with the bike and more with computing if you know what I mean.

BTW: last year I predicted the title would be on Bagnaia's hands, depending solely on himself. This year even more so. He has all it takes to win the 3rd in a row for the first time in modern motogp era.
 
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PRS717 said:
Okay, probably a dumb question but I'm gonna ask anyway. What's with the tires I've seen mounted on some of the bikes, as the Yamaha in one of the pics above? They are not slicks and not wets. They look like street tires. What's up with that?
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Transport tyres.

Don't want to use racing slicks, but need tyres to move bikes around.
 

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