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Just the first day. But as predicted very close. I think the next two days will be more significant.
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quick glance at analysis shows Marquez, Dovi and Rins had better overall pace. Marquez had 25 laps under 1:32 , Crutchlow was about half that.
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Yeah! And while they're at it, they should get rid of the handle bars and that hot exhaust pipe.
Some pics - large size
Ermm, it aint just Ducati.
And for comparison
And Honda.
All pics courtesy of the article found at - #ThaiTest Day One Report | Results | Quotes | Images | MCNews.com.au
Ermm, it aint just Ducati.
And for comparison
And Honda.
All pics courtesy of the article found at - #ThaiTest Day One Report | Results | Quotes | Images | MCNews.com.au
MM might repeat his 2014 season.
Doesn't look like they were giving Jack Miller the best available equipment in his previous tenure in the premier class as a Honda rider though. Why would anyone want to be a Honda satellite rider?.
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Yeah! And while they're at it, they should get rid of the handle bars and that hot exhaust pipe.
Hahahaha, they are needed, wings are an extra. To be honest I think they should just ban all wings/aerodynamic devices from a motorbike we don't have them on road bikes and theres far more hazard on road than track.
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Its looking like KFC has a deal on wings again.
Not sure about the Ducatis mexican moustache look though.
Not sure about the Ducatis mexican moustache look though.
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Siestas are big on testing days
I had argued that Jack was riding better than can be expected if you compared him to others on the same machinery. Looks like now with the better satellite package he could be in for a great season, it might be my patriotic pride but I thought that Ducati may have been better off giving the current bike to Jack rather than Petrucci. I guess he might end up with it once/if Petrucci signs somewhere else.
I expect Luthi, Morbidelli and Nakagami to struggle this year in similar fashion to Rabat over the past two years.*
*unless Honda have seriously upped their satellite package this year.
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Pedrosa is on form. He will have a great year and hit his goal of 2nd or 3rd in the championship.
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We don't need them on road bikes because road bikes don't have comparable power characteristics. I would argue that riding on the street is exponentially more dangerous. When I took the California Superbike class (on a race-prepped bike) all those years ago prompting me to get my racing license, I was struck by how I felt liberated by the lack of guard rails, four-way street corners with idiots running red lights, drunken teenagers, unlicensed misfits in stolen cars, dogs and deer unexpectedly crossing roads, nearsighted grannies barely able to peer over the steering wheel of their shambling 30 year old Honda civic careening down the road, loose children, meth-addled truck drivers, potholes, black ice and so on.
There's long been an element here on PS (myself included) who long for the days of yore when guys raced 2-Stroke 500cc V Fours, when people smoked and drank in the paddock, and nobody worked out and men were manly etc etc.
Banning traction control, fly-by-wire, and all kinds of electronic aids have been debated ad nauseum here. But, at end of day, you can't turn the clock back on prototype racing. I've little doubt that if the racers thought the wings were dangerous - they'd say something. IMO - it's pointless to second guess the riders on safety issues which for them are a matter of life and death.
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I love Pedro's philosophy. Aim low and you will never be dissapointed.
The boppers and boners are going at it again. Too bad the boners had to retire early
https://www.theguardian.com/austral...hich-big-brawl-broke-out-to-dock-in-melbourne
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Im really looking forward to seeing Jack on the Duc this year. If, et tu Jorge doesn't progress and Jack does, he should get the factory ride next yr.
Isn't JLo's deal only for two years?
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Riders 2 thru 10 are relatively close. Will Marquez demonstrate his uncanny ability to be the first to master the track the way he did the first year at COTA?
What is perhaps more interesting is that it is again someone who decries ’bonerism’ who feels the need to bring it to this thread to which it would seem irrelevant, and also to something totally unrelated to bike racing.
It is much more likely the aggressors were Queenslanders who were offended because someone said XXXX was terrible beer.
Yep, this is the last season of the current deal for Jl but also for Dovi.
Ducati have already publically commented that JL needs to step up as Dovi may well need a pay rise for future contracts and they have made it clear that JL may need to look at a pay reduction (being fair, he mentioned it first) if he was to re-sign.
Still early days for Miller but as others have said, it does show the Honda Satellite as an anchor and makes one 'wonder' just how deliberate that may be given that their factory riders performance against those same satellites (compare to other factories)
