MotoGP Assen: Rossi beats Marquez and takes the Dutch Grand Prix as his
The Yamaha champion wins an epic battle and extends his lead in the championship
MotoGP 2015 TT Assen Race – A duel until the last chicane, one of those battles that are difficult to forget whose "actors" today were Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez. In the end it was the nine-time world champion from Yamaha who prevailed, who after leading the race for a long time, was first passed by Marquez and then responded a few kilometers from the end. Marquez, however, didn't give up, he tried everything at the last chicane, slipped in, touched Rossi on the shoulder, forcing the rider from Pesaro to widen and cut the chicane. A maneuver that Honda didn't like, which went into the race and "surrendered" to the evidence, given that Rossi was forced to widen after Marquez's entry.
For Valentino Rossi it is the 168th podium in the Top class, for an average of 64,6%. It is victory number 111 of his career, number 85 in the Top Class. This success allows him to extend his lead in the championship, where his advantage over team-mate Jorge Lorenzo, third today, is now ten points. A victory that will also be remembered because from next year Assen will lose another tradition, that of the race on Saturday.
Race report
The highlight of the day has come, the riders of the MotoGP class are about to leave for the "Motul TT Assen", the eighth stage of the 2015 world championship, which sees Valentino Rossi at the top of the world championship standings with a one-point advantage over team-mate Jorge Lorenzo. Qualifying is on the side of the champion from Pesaro, who yesterday achieved the 61st pole of his career, the 51st in the Top Class. He hit the last one last year in Valencia. His best lap was 1'32.627. On the front row with him will be Aleix Espargarò with Suzuki and the reigning champion Marc Marquez (Honda).
Second row for Dani Pedrosa's Honda, Pol Espargarò's Yamaha and the first Ducati, the GP15 of Andrea Iannone from Abruzzo. Uphill race for Jorge Lorenzo, who will be forced to start from the third row, eighth fastest. The Majorcan will have the Honda of British rider Cal Crutchlow on his left and the Suzuki of rookie Maverick Vinales on his right.
Fourth row for the Ducatis of Andrea Dovizioso (GP15) and Danilo Petrucci (GP14) and for the Yamaha of the British Bradley Smith. Seventh row for Alvaro Bautista's Aprilia, eighth for the ART of Iodaracing of San Marino Alex de Angelis and for Marco Melandri's Aprilia. All ready, 26 laps to go for 118.092 km. The traffic lights go out, the fastest at the start is Valentino Rossi, who started ahead of Aleix Espargarò, Marc Marquez, Pol Espargarò, Jorge Lorenzo and Andrea Iannone. Marquez and Lorenzo pass, moving into second and third position.
The first lap ends with Rossi ahead of Marquez, Lorenzo, Pol Espargarò and Andrea Iannone. Andrea Dovizioso is tenth, immediately ahead of Danilo Petrucci. Double fall at S, Miller and Barberà out, with the latter appearing to have some problems with his foot.
Meanwhile, Rossi still leads ahead of Marquez, who however is getting dangerously close to the Yamaha rider from Pesaro. Lorenzo, Pol Espargarò and Iannone follow. It was a dull race for Dani Pedrosa, who however is not in form after the crash in the warm up and is fighting for the Top Ten with Petrucci.
Lorenzo attempts the approach, his fastest lap with 1'33"910. The Majorcan champion is trying to make up ground, but on the following lap Rossi sets the best lap with 1'33"739.
The first three are already in the breakaway and on the third lap Marquez sets the fastest lap (1'33"617), while Lorenzo begins to lose ground from the first two positions. However, Lorenzo has a large margin over Iannone, fourth with the first Ducati. Stefan Bradl's race ends, crashing without consequences for the Forward Racing rider (Yamaha Open).
Marquez continues to study Rossi, while Andrea Dovizioso is fifth behind and chasing his team-mate Andrea Iannone. We have now reached the halfway point of the race, Rossi and Marquez are now unattainable, they will be the ones to fight for the victory. Lorenzo, third, is over four seconds further away, while Iannone started to lap fast, putting a bit of a gap between himself and Dovizioso.
Fall for Eugene Laverty. The Irish rider from Team Aspar was in eighteenth position. No physical problems for him. Embarrassing times for Rossi and Marquez, who are lapping very fast compared to all their opponents.
He doesn't attack Marquez, who doesn't seem to want to take the reins of the "game". In T4 Rossi seems faster than the Spaniard but Marquez after 19 laps behind the Pesaro attack and takes the lead, with 7 laps to go. With Marquez in the lead the pace picks up, the #93 of the Repsol Honda Team doesn't have the pace to escape. Last km of the race, we'll see if one of the two will be able to make a break.
Rossi attacks, who takes the lead again, Marquez tries to respond, but Rossi resists. The Yamaha champion seems to be able to pull ahead, Marquez seems unable to keep up with him. Rossi begins the last lap, attacks Marquez at the last S, the two touch, Rossi cuts the chicane, but returns and goes on to win race number 111 of his career, the 85th in the Top Class. Jorge Lorenzo was also on the podium, while Andrea Iannone finished fourth with the first Ducati.
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Fuck! We could have had a silent week…
Now with the last curve we have given it a voice again.
Hahahahaha guys what a master class!
The others go out, fall, complain.
Vale wheelies and wins!
We know it …. In order to win, Marquez tries to throw his strongest opponents off the track... he did it in the past with Lorenzo and today he tried it with Valentino. Rossi was smart to pick up the bike immediately otherwise it would fall into the sand. Maybe the time has come to penalize the baby Minkia for how he always drives at the limit and puts the safety of the drivers at risk.
SUPERB VALENTINO ROSSI!!!!
Everyone is shy today.
Since Guido forgot to say it due to the shock of the last corner I'll say it... ROSSI IS THERE!!!
Marquez is black even if he doesn't let it show.
Iannone at 19s and Dovizioso at 29s after Petrucci... It may be a young bike but I look at the Ducati badly if I think about the first races. Today the first two really did a different sport, they inflicted embarrassing gaps. Good duel for goodness sake but I was disappointed this weekend by the performance of the reds. Can someone explain to me what's happening to the redheads? I don't know much technically so I don't know
Don't worry, now the Ducatisti will arrive and explain to you how the bike is young and the "rubbers" given to Valentino to make him win didn't help them... let them recover from the shock.
Livio Suppo really looks worse than QLO, he even has the courage to go and complain in race direction.
Merquez would need two kicks in the gums...he has to stop trying to spread out the riders to pass. Testicoloner & co. come on have your say hahahahaahhaahhahahahahahaahaahhau have a bidet with ice!!!
ROSSI IS A LEGEND…!!!! It was already so before but now it is even more so... Less than for "I SOLITI IDI0TI" obviously.... I suppose he should go in the direction of the race but for his protégé, Simoncelli he was crucified for the same reasons, while Marquez instead everything is subscribed to, however with Rossi he has always been shamed.. Last year's delirium of omnipotence is over.. The Ducatis are going backwards rather than forwards, perhaps the loss of part of the advantages has had more of an impact than they want to admit.. If nothing else they were no longer left empty in the lap of honour…..
I'll explain the problem with Ducatis....they're simply shitty bikes hahahhhahhaahahahaha
So much for the technical comment...
scam worldwide today.
I was right here wondering: who will be the first IDI0TA to talk about scam..?? And here he is, SKARTO... I present to you the first IDI0TA of the day.. He certainly won't be the only one... eheh...
Get seen by a specialist.
Yes…..they stole your neurons!!!!
Luckily Vale, if they ask about it, it's neither Gibernau nor Dtoner ;-)))
Nice Vale, keep it up ;-)))
Stoner…
What a great Championship, it's a shame that Marc is many points behind in the standings (but frankly I expect everything from him, if with the help of fate he could get back into the game... But we'll see).
Nice race, except for the central part, but Dovi and Cal took care of that and livened things up, with a nice duel between them and the various riders around them.
Rossi and his team were very good this weekend. Started well straight away.
Marc makes an entry like the one he made on the last corner of the last lap, especially for someone like him who now has nothing to lose in terms of the world championship. In that situation 90% of the pilots tried.
However, I don't understand his complaining about the cut made by Rossi... He's the one who forced him by practically throwing him out to cut the curve... And if Rossi tried to throw the bike back in he would fall, no ifs or buts... And he himself (Marc ) cut, going off the track.
It's right to try in that position, but it's not right to complain if a rider is forced to do what Rossi did. This is how I think (it's not an attack on Marc for doing it, I love him for it and I'm not like many idiots who first praise him for his way of running and then spit on him when he tries and falls...) .
Lorenzo had a great first lap, only his comeback was worth the race... Then he realized he didn't have the pace of the first two and took very important points for the Championship.
Good Iannone. I remind you that the Gp15 is a bike born this year, which made its first laps in the second winter tests, so let's give it time to work and develop this well-born project.
For the record, Dovi had technical problems, this is what they declared at Ducati.
Cal and the two from Tech3 did quite well.
Pedrosa opened his finger in the warm up... Of course as soon as he falls he does some damage, and in his place I would be full of it, but I'm not Pedrosa (maybe!!!).
I'm listening to Suzuki, not so much for Maverick (what a great phenomenon), but for the joker used by Espargarò of the "qualifying" tire used in the race.
He's a wild card taken before them by others, but he never paid off in the race... Frankly, I don't understand this choice except in the hope of rain (which they didn't give at the start of the race, so even more idiotic* if the choice was made for this reason, but I don't think so), or a simple joker.
However, there are 3 riders who disappoint me more and more.
One is Redding...The other is Hayden (I would go to SBK, he would find a competitive bike to get on... Maybe on the new R1 paired with Melandri).
And the last (in every sense) is the good Melandri.
It's not him who disappoints me so much (a rider can't become so embarrassing in the space of a few months), but Aprilia. For everyone's sake it's time to break this relationship.
I hope to see him again in SBK next year (where he wants to be and where he wanted to stay) and for a few months there have been rumors of an R1 ready for him.
Pedrosa also took a big hit in the warm up, his whole suit was ruined and he had a lot of scratches, I think he'll be even worse in the next few days. It's a shame even if I don't think he could have stayed with Rossi and Marquez, perhaps with Lorenzo.
For Suzuki perhaps already in the Warm up they had tried the soft with one of the 2 riders, it was a choice, in the end it paid off at the start of the race, in the sense that it was seen that with the Soft they managed to start better, otherwise they would end up swallowed up like in Barcelona, maybe a little less since the straight is shorter, but we saw how the extra grip helped at the start, then it slowly lost positions, but with the average maybe it wouldn't have changed much, it started worse and then it perhaps remained more constant. It must be said that those behind were not exactly very fast.
Here, in my opinion, Ducati suffered from the circuit, which doesn't allow the engine to be fully exploited and perhaps not even the 22 liters of fuel.
Especially seeing what Rossi and Marquez managed to do with 20.
I don't think Hayden would be very competitive in any category, due to his wrist being in terrible condition. While for Melandri it seems that Aprlia tried to leave him at home, but then had to pay his salary until the end of the year, and put someone else in his place which cost you and in any case did not in itself guarantee huge changes in terms of performance.
Quoto Ronnie: Nicky is not well physically and it shows, in Ducati he was competing with Dovizioso, at least in terms of timing (then the Italian was often ahead of him).
I still think that Hayden is an excellent rider, but the wrist problem doesn't allow him to express himself at his best...
I therefore believe that talking about disappointment is excessive.
I didn't write that Pedrosa could win or fight for the victory, but he certainly could have done better than 8th position which is the result of two details: warm up and technical problems in the race.
In addition to the physical problems, there were technical problems (with the clutch at the start) and with the brakes during the race, just as Dovi had problems with the saddle.
In truth, Suzuki had already chosen to race with the "qualifying tyre" during qualifying, with Brivio telling Sky that he was seriously considering it for the race.
And this choice doesn't pay off in the race, there's little that can be done.
They wanted to play a wild card that didn't pay off, a holly that in my opinion shouldn't be played given the precedents on the other bikes.
For Ducati, it is obviously not at the level of Yamaha or Honda, but let's remember that the bike is in fact new and the improvements they have made are obvious (just look...). Dovi had saddle problems during the race.
They are not at the level of the two houses, but the improvements made are evident.
Regarding Hayden, I seem to remember (I'm going from memory) that during the winter tests (the first) he declared that obviously he didn't have the same strength, that his wrist had to necessarily improve and blah blah blah, but that he hadn't found particular problems.
Then obviously his wrist will never return to 100%, but I don't think he is in the situation of Toseland (retired due to his wrist) and my idol Schwantz.
He will certainly have offers to race in SBK (Ducati had proposed a move to SBK when they didn't renew his contract to make room for Cal, and I think I read that he was also offered this last year).
And frankly I expected much more from a rider like him. We will see.
For the Melandri Aprilia situation.
Melandri never wanted to return to MotoGP, but he was forced.
The latest news wrote that there had been a meeting between the parties but that nothing came of it.
Melandri also tried to finish the MotoGP season, but obviously the problem for the parties is always that... $$$.
Truly, from what I read both on this site and in some "specialized" magazines, Nicky's career was really in doubt precisely because of the condition of his wrist.
At the time (about a year ago) the comparison with Toseland did not seem out of place...unfortunately today we don't know how the American driver really is, but if certain words were used, it is possible that his condition is still poor and it is possible that Nicky continues to run more out of his stubbornness, rather than due to his newfound physical condition.
I am pleased to note that you have changed the way you behave. Well I'm glad. But I don't have the pleasure or desire to argue with you. But I'll bring you Hayden's statements in the first tests, but first I'll point out a little thing, you write:
“Truly, from what I read both on this site and in some “specialized” magazines, Nicky's career was really in doubt precisely because of the condition of his wrist”
And where did I write that his career was not at risk?
Hayden also declared it, basically either I improve the situation or I retire.
I wrote about his statements made in the first 2015 tests, which I searched for:
Nicky Hayden spent much of the off-season on dirt-track bikes. After surgery last year, how is your wrist? Have strength and movement improved?
“I lost a lot of strength. I went through major surgery, it took months to recover. I did a lot of physical therapy in the off-season just to expand my range of motion. We also changed something in my training.
“I did both tests in Malaysia: three days in a row on a difficult track, but luckily I didn't encounter any problems. Of course, the pulse still needs to improve. I spoke to other people who had the same experience who noticed improvements just a year after the surgery.”
There is no doubt that his wrist will never return to 100% (and I had already written this), but I expect much more from a rider like Hayden.
So, given that in MotoGP, he no longer has a chance of finding a "good" saddle, I hope to see him in SBK (and if I were in Yamaha for his debut in the SBK world championship I would opt for Melandri, who is almost certain to return to Yamaha SBK, and Hayden).
Toseland (another rider I liked a lot) had a more serious problem than the good Nicky... And in fact he retired. Ditto for the great Kevin.
Then I repeat.
I'm happy with your change, but frankly I don't want to argue with you given your hopefully (former) way of acting.
Ps: Notice for the umpteenth time who searched for whom.
Hello
Interesting race at the start and in the first laps, and then in the last 4 laps, otherwise boring.
In my opinion, for the trajectory that Marquez had and for the image given by the shot from the finish line, which showed very well the touch which was not light at all, I believe that Marquez without leaning in the 2nd time skidding with the front and rear and ending up on Rossi, he wouldn't have been on the line, he would have gone over the curb, maybe just a little, but he was cutting the track, without Rossi to support him.
The entry into Rossi was very violent if you look at that image taken from the finish line, I believe that for Rossi there was only that option left, and as much as they argued about who was more clever and less clever, I believe that Rossi's reaction it was instinctive, perhaps he had considered the possible race situations and how to react, but it all happened so quickly that the cut occurred as a consequence of the fact that he was ending up in the gravel with the bike bent and in no case did he remain standing without get up, or without getting hurt.
Marquez tried even though, here it went badly for him because his opponent remained standing, and in my opinion it was better this way, because given his position at the moment of contact, he would have taken all the blame and some disqualification if Rossi had fallen...
The situation was the result of Marquez's maneuver and on this we must agree with Rossi, it's not like he could have disappeared he was in front, and Marquez from behind cannot expect his opponent to brake to let him pass, or to lie down on the ground without trying to stay standing…
Marc didn't even try to get away from Rossi when he was let through, he didn't give the shot he gave on the last lap, in my opinion he should have played that card, before holding on for dear life at the last corner, because the lap what he did in the first 3 sectors and also in the fourth before the touch they were above Rossi's abilities, he should have taken those risks, instead he was passed by Rossi on the inside who closed the overtaking on the outside on Marquez in the next corner , in short, lapping in 1.34.1, he couldn't expect to keep Rossi behind him for long when both could go back down to 1.33.5 and without touching, perhaps Marquez would even go lower on the last lap, so he should have opted for that route before attempting the go for broke at the last corner…
Well done to Marquez who, with an inferior bike, took away the pleasure of a clear victory. Last half lap of the anthology Spaniard!
the anthology of bullshit!
With an inferior bike Pedrosa (later crashed) would not have had a podium pace in free practice and Marquez would not have given 14" to Lorenzo... the truth is that Rossi continues to be among the best riders in the world, even 18 years after his debut... get over it.
Shocking statement from Marc Marquez: “I wanted to throw Rossi out but I couldn't.”
What is now clear after this GP is how changing the tires causes the protagonists to change in turn.
With a harder race tire than usual, Loreno became a dud and Rossi and Marquez suddenly became competitive again.
In short, it's not that one is superior to the other basically, the tires play a very important role, if the compounds change, the protagonists change...
Thanks for reminding us once again.
What a race!!! Oh mama!!!
Just to end any controversy: Livio supposedly said it was Marc's fault. At least he was honest.
Great show of strength from Rossi...he wants this world championship and is not afraid of Lorenzo or Marc...if Rossi is happy with the bike and has a good setup, no one can beat him, and today he proved it.
#YearoftheGOAT
How rousing…:
At 25 he had no valid competitors, at 30 the tires, at 36 mafia and scam considering that Lorenzo and Marc are certainly tougher than Biaggi and Gibernau.
We must at least recognize the (poor) imagination of the 4 rosettes ;-)))
I think you can't help but admire and be proud of Valentino Rossi: sportingly and patriotically.