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Showing posts with label MotoGP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MotoGP. Show all posts

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Admit Lorenzo Lucky Can Win at Phillip Island


Race at Phillip Island acknowledged Jorge Lorenzo going crazy and chaotic. The Yamaha rider was pleased and fortunate that he could be a winner when his rival, Marc Marquez, failed to reap points.

Lorenzo won the MotoGP Australia held followed by his teammate Dani Pedrosa and Valentino Rossi. While Marquez descend misfortune.

That's because Marquez was disqualified after he violated the rules of entering the pitlane on lap up the 10 - 20 year-old rider had entered on lap-11 and he got a black flag three laps later -.

Decision shall pit-lane racer is taken as Bridgestone as tire supplier could not guarantee power motorcycle tires more than 10 laps, due to the track at Phillip Island recently paved.


"This is a crazy and chaotic race, the first time for us to replace the motor in a dry race. Required the most attention from us all and the mechanics to be ready, because anything can happen," said Lorenzo in the MotoGP official website.

"We train a lot and it's the turn of the motor is one of the keys to victory. I was slow in the warm-up session and we need to change some things. We changed the strategy and make some development. At the end I was so fast in the race, but Marquez and Pedrosa is also very fast , "he continued.

Not just the rules of the race has changed, there are also a number of incidents in the 16th series of them when Lorenzo and Marquez, who was coming out of the pit lane, touched.

Monday, June 10, 2013

Spaniards chase the English into Barcelona


Moto2 Catalunya preview


Britain’s Scott Redding has won the last pair of Moto2™ races and carries a healthy championship lead into Round 6 at Barcelona. Behind him, a pack of charging Spaniards – as well as Finland’s Mika Kallio – are now hot on the heels of the Marc VDS Racing Team rider ahead of what is, for many of them, a true home race.

Curiously, although Redding may hold the smallest amount of points of any of the current leaders across the three categories of the World Championship (with 101 to Dani Pedrosa’s 103 in MotoGP™ or Maverick ViƱales 106 in Moto3™), he convincingly holds the greatest advantage thanks to a 43-point cushion. With ‘only’ 25 on offer for a race win, this demonstrates the pressure on the shoulders of rivals.

Redding’s strong lead has come about as a combination of his steadiness coupled with the inconsistency of his closest opponents. Whereas he has achieved two wins, two second places and one fifth, Mapfre Aspar Team Moto2’s Nico Terol and Redding’s teammate Mika Kallio have enjoyed only two rostrums apiece, whereas Tuenti HP 40 pairing Esteve Rabat and Pol Espargaro have both won races but also been outside the top ten on two occasions each. Technomag carXpert’s Dominique Aegerter, who is sixth in the standings and the final rider to have notched up half a century of points, is yet to finish inside the top three but has collected a trio of fourth place finishes.

A key part of the upcoming weekend has in fact already happened, as Moto2™ enjoyed a single day of post-race testing after the last Grand Prix at Mugello. This was especially key for the likes of pre-season title favourite Espargaro, who after the last race openly admitted that he and his squad were in need of bike improvements in order to get back on par with Redding. Qualifying will bring the first real answers.

Two wildcard entrants are set to join the action this weekend, as Petronas Raceline Malaysia’s Hafizh Syahrin and TSR Motorsport’s Dani Rivas take to the track. The sun is expected to shine, although Barcelona weather has been changeable of late…