Congrats to Jorge Lorenzo.
That race was an amazing performance. That was a high risk pace, nobody other than the top three were capable or willing to push to that particular limit. If Pedrosa is the 'standard' of integrity, then why was he off the leaders 1-2+ secs most the race if we are to believe Marc was "sandbagging"? I think both RCV riders pushed to the limit because a man ahead of them was on the knife's edge in terms of pace, close to the ideal lap for a race distance, willing to risk a blistering pace from the moment go. Why do some believe Marc would have been able to pass at will if his 'honest' teammate, who has collected the most points and had the best pace for the last few rounds was third for most of this race, and finished in that position? We may 'chose' not to believe the RCVs have had overheating issues, to believe this notion of sandbagging; but then we must accept in that logic 'both' Pedrosa and Marquez are liars. Pedrosa said again today, he had to let the front cool and come back to him, exactly what Marc said at PI and other 'suspiciou' races. So what does that imply about Marquez then, to have not let Lorenzo get away while risking a crash? This means he risked much more than Pedrosa! After all he was ahead of Pedrosa. I think Marquez was in fact lining up a pass on Lorenzo but he decided to do it just when Pedrosa arrived. Or hurried to do it when Pedrosa arrived. Again racing for position is now seen suspect, the new post-Sepang press conference perspective, that Marquez needing to fend off Pedrosa to pass Lorenzo is mathematically irreconcilable. If Pedrosa gets by Marc that makes it infinitely more difficult for Marquez to win the race. We have seen this without exaggeration in racing thousands of times, where riders 2/3 battle to win resulting in an escape for the winner. We have now entered a new Era of Perspective, where racing itself is suspicious behavior! No credit for Lorenzo who by lap chart analysis was much faster than his teammate on the 'same' equipment (clear laps). No credit for his concentration to deploy a strategy of being fast every lap as the best defense from Marquez or Pedrosa.
The race ended when it did, had it gone on for 5 more laps, perhaps and only perhaps the RCVs pass, however this reasoning also applies in reverse had the race ended 5 laps prior, Lorenzo would have beat the two RCVs. That is to say, this 'race distance' ended at a point where the result match the pace for that exact given distance. We can all say Pedrosa had the pace to win, that is absolutely not true 5 laps prior as he was over a second off in 3rd; there is as much evidence there (that is none) to prove Lorenzo wouldn't have fought for the position ferociously had Pedrosa got past Marc, which he failed to do in what is called 'clean racing'. Marquez has become the villain, all based on supposition and the accusations levied against him by VR. Fact is he beat Pedrosa today, cleanly, if that is suspicious behavior, racing no longer has meaning. If Pedrosa had the pace to beat Marc, then why didn't he? He was able to beat Rossi in the exact closing stages of a race distance in Aragon, and with a rival who put up a much more severe fight than Marquez put up today! Racing has become suspect and by extension proof of dubious behavior. How and why did we get to this point? If this was not in anybody's radar after Phillip Island, where the most aggressive rider was Ianonne, who if we follow this perverse logic, was eerily absent today. Why no castigated doubt of his integrity? Did he roll over to help Lorenzo or Rossi? Isn't the pace, once achieved supposed to be there all the time and ever track for any condition? As is the standard for Marquez? A man who this year has crashed with regularity, and when pushing to the limit has perhaps recognized (as he has said as much) that finishing on the podium is in fact better than crashing out. So now we all expect him to win or bin, and push beyond the limit of his machine, tire limitation, own comfort zone, otherwise its proof he was dubiously unwilling to challenge Lorenzo, while again his honest teammate was in fact behind him the entire race (experiencing limitation issues that both have documented ). The confirmation bias that Marquez sandbagged is based on him beating his teammates on similar equipment! (Pause to thing about this). What then is to be said about his teammate then? I believe all three podium finishers pushed to the absolute limit of their machine, the man who won the race was in a zone where this was his most motivated performance of his life! Somehow him beating the two chasing, and fastest riders on the grid bar 'none', is suspicious! The pole lap was stunning, the start was blistering, the entire race pace was astonishing, and the level of concentration for its duration was extraordinary. Congratulations to Jorge Lorenzo, the 2015 World Champion.
