Joined Mar 2015
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Chertsey, Surrey, UK
Jarvis is a failure, he's a typical gutless englishman (small e) Yamaha management should sack him and the sooner the better.
Valencia Test
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Jarvis is a failure, he's a typical gutless englishman (small e) Yamaha management should sack him and the sooner the better.
Joined Jun 2008
1K Posts | 365+
USA
Rossi: "In the next test, Lorenzo will be in front with the Honda" https://es.motorsport.com/motogp/news/rossi-proximo-test-lorenzo-estara-delante-honda/4307608/
Joined Aug 2008
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Thailand
Rossi: "In the next test, Lorenzo will be in front with the Honda" https://es.motorsport.com/motogp/news/rossi-proximo-test-lorenzo-estara-delante-honda/4307608/
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Hahaha... is it April already
Joined Jun 2008
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USA
Just the messenger. The way I take it is, your boy rossi is getting all his 2019 excuses in order.
Joined Aug 2007
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Pomona NY
Watched the brief videos of testing and all bikes except the KTM still sport aero effects. Maybe I've just got attention deficit - but seems like this is the 2nd or 3rd time I recall hearing wings were being banned in the following season and then... wings as usual.
No, I read it more as him hoping Lorenzo can thwart MM’s inexorable march towards surpassing him for number of titles won until some of the VR 46 guys get going.
A forlorn hope methinks, even though I am a Lorenzo fan.
Joined Aug 2007
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Pomona NY
He's still riding injured and his purpose is to learn a whole new animal. Who would expect him to come out of the gate competitive with Marquez? I (and others) have said he would struggle the first half of the season. Honestly - I was surprised that he came to terms with the Ducati as well as he did, it requiring a diametrically opposed riding style.
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I agree with this as well. Jorge already won a title against MM, and was a Jerez last corner imo illegal pass away from winning another, to say nothing of a fractured clavicle the same year. I don’t think MM will crash his way out of a title as he did in 2015 again though, but If MM has a couple of mechanical dnfs or an injury concern and Jorge gets on a roll he can be fairly relentless. His form in wet/damp conditions in recent years is a handicap however, particularly since MM tends to excel in those conditions.
Jorge is not getting any younger though, so it will need a younger rider if MM is to be thwarted in the longer term.
Yes, my thinking mirrors yours. When he's in that zone and the confidence starts building, his momentum keeps growing and he extremely hard to beat (just ask VR in 2015!).
I'll be putting a cheeky bet on JL next year...
To be fair though Mike, the Jerez thing wouldn’t matter if Bridgestone hadn’t ...... up in PI that year, leading to last minute rule changes.
The wet/mixed conditions issue are what IMO make a championship challenge for Lorenzo and Vinales so hard against Márquez who has been so consisntamt in all conditions. It’s hard to beat him when you hemrage points against him in difficult conditions.
Sure, I agree, I was more in Jumkie’s Murder Marc camp at the time, but it would have been an absolute travesty for him to have lost the title due to the monumental SNAFU that was PI 2013, black flagged on the basis of a rule literally made up 5 minutes before the race and not necessarily explained to his Spanish crew who were not overly competent ab initio anyway imo and who seem to have been responsible for the error (which involved staying out a single extra lap) in Spanish.
Jorge still ran him very close despite all the points lost to the clavicle injury though.
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It was incredible to watch Jorge claw back points round after round rising to perfection or at least very close to it.
It would’ve been interesting to see a battle at Valencia between the two that year though.
Whether or not Marc or his team were responsible I don’t know but in the heat of battle it is forgivable to forget to pit when in you’re entire racing career you’ve never had to.
