Was Rossi or Bautista at fault or "Racing Incident?"

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Serious question, Arrabb:


What is there to master in the new qualifying format - aside from the likelihood of more riders on the track at the same time providing more opportunities to be baulked?


The top qualifiers (discounting freak occurrences like CS setting a time at the opening that the rest would spend the rest of the session attempting to match) always seem to hold it all back for the last few minutes.

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Serious question, Arrabb:


What is there to master in the new qualifying format - aside from the likelihood of more riders on the track at the same time providing more opportunities to be baulked?


The top qualifiers (discounting freak occurances like CS setting a time at the opening that the rest would spend the rest of the session attempting to match) always seem to hold it all back for the last few minutes.

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Indeed I agree. I am far from being Valentino's apologist, it is very much something that he alluded to.


 


There is another concurrent thread discussing riders ritual and routine. We do know that Rossi is a creature of habit and very systematic in his approach but conversely, perhaps the segmentation has messed with his head. It all seems to go so quickly and the trammelling of riders into sub-sessions upsets the flow and continuity of the whole. Vale's qualifying historically (prior to Ducati) was very much like Pedrosa in approach, who favoured a measured and progressive approach gauging and appraising the opposition over a session and responding within those wider parameters with a mind set very much focussed on race sim; throughout the weekend the emphasis on the bigger picture being race day contingences and duration. Although JB is often credited as plucking the proverbial rabibit out of the hat come Sunday morning, I believe this owed less to the magical and more to the methodical. Yeah, they still had to address the not insiginificant issue of grid position but very much within their own rhythym as opposed to the new regimented sessions. I don't think this derivative of superpole necessarily suits Dani either but irrespective of race pace and in respect of wringing out one hot lap, the Honda is the best machine in the paddock to mask any major set up woes. - Not that it seems to be plagued by many of late!


 


How much would Loris Capirossi revelled in this new qualifying format!!??

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Indeed I agree. I am far from being Valentino's apologist, it is very much something that he alluded to.

 

There is another concurrent thread discussing riders ritual and routine. We do know that Rossi is a creature of habit and very systematic in his approach but conversely, perhaps the segmentation has messed with his head. It all seems to go so quickly and the trammelling of riders into sub-sessions upsets the flow and continuity of the whole. Vale's qualifying historically (prior to Ducati) was very much like Pedrosa in approach, who favoured a measured and progressive approach gauging and appraising the opposition over a session and responding within those wider parameters with a mind set very much focussed on race sim; throughout the weekend the emphasis on the bigger picture being race day contingences and duration. Although JB is often credited as plucking the proverbial rabibit out of the hat come Sunday morning, I believe this owed less to the magical and more to the methodical. Yeah, they still had to address the not insiginificant issue of grid position but very much within their own rhythym as opposed to the new regimented sessions. I don't think this derivative of superpole necessarily suits Dani either but irrespective of race pace and in respect of wringing out one hot lap, the Honda is the best machine in the paddock to mask any major set up woes. - Not that it seems to be plagued by many of late!

 

How much would Loris Capirossi revelled in this new qualifying format!!??

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