MM's engine blew up, but Dovi was taken out by AE41 earlier in the season, so it balances out.
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The real aliens switched from bikes of different makers and won championships in their first seasons; ie Stoner from the satellite Honda to the Ducati and later from Ducati to Honda. And Marquez going from the glorified street bike to the full factory MotoGp bike. If there's such a thing as an "alien" winning at least one race over the course of the season would to most minds be a benchmark.
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MM still ended up with 3 dnf’s to Dovi’s 2 and up until the last race, it was 3 to 1 and Marc still had a 21 point lead. Like I said, Dovi was fortunate the title was as close as it was, it could have been a complete runaway. 2 of MM dnf’s cost him possible if not probable wins. He was 2 seconds up on the field when he tossed it at Argentina and was sitting exactly where he wanted just biding his time at Silverstone. Dovi really only had 1 dnf that affected his championship and it barely did. He was running out of the top 10 and his prospects for a good finish were not that good as he had struggled all weekend , not even transfering to Q2. If your going to have a dnf, have it in a race where you are only going to pick up 5-10 points instead of 25 x2 for Marc.
But the point of racing is not to crash.
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The dnf that kept the title from being a complete runaway was a mechanical. His 2 crashes were in the first 4 races of the season, no dnf the last 14 races of the season where he was st fault. His worst finish in that span was a couple of 4ths I believe, maybe a 4 and a fifth, would have to lol it up.
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Okay - so if that's what you got - lets agree not to debate. I have better ways to waste time.
Sure, but the championship doesn't take into account which rounds you crashed in. It only considers the fact that you crashed. The point is not to crash in any of the rounds.
The point is that MM had 3 DNFs that were his fault, and Dovi had 1. They each had a DNF caused by factors beyond their control.
It doesn't, Marquez was probably going to win that race and at worst be on the podium. Dovi was even close to the podium when he was taken out.
His engine blowing up was his fault?
Marquez's two crashes early in the year came on the front tyre that was clearly very inconsistent. Marquez and Vinales off the top of my head crashed on the tyre and said there was no change in the data from the previous lap.
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That is as succint a definition of 'alien' as one could profer.
i feel you reject, because vr failed to attain this achievement.
for me, stoner is an alien, marquez is intergalactic.
the rest compete.
i feel you reject, because vr failed to attain this achievement.
for me, stoner is an alien, marquez is intergalactic.
the rest compete.
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No,he had 2 that were his fault,and like I said had it not been for an engine failure the title run would have been anti climatic .
Sorry, I meant two.
Ultimately, Dovi knew that about the tyre and opted to be more cautious.
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Exactly. I didn't want to throw around the B-word so early in the season. And will be trying not to waste time arguing with blind, cult-followers who use the yellow goggles to filter out reality. To be fair VR did go from Honda to Yamaha - but as has been pointed out ad nauseum - the competition at the time was not comparable to what we're seeing in the last five or six years, with no more SNSs.
