MotoGP | GP Mugello Qualifying: Amazing pole for Valentino Rossi, Iannone is fourth
The Yamaha champion from Pesaro also set a new record on the Tuscan track
MotoGP Italian GP Qualifying – Amazing pole position for Valentino Rossi at Mugello, scene of the sixth stage of the 2018 MotoGP.
The Yamaha champion achieved it with a time of 1'46.208, a new record on the Tuscan track. Rossi, on the track with the new helmet (Click here to find out more) achieved pole #55 in Top Class, just three points behind Mick Doohan. The #46 hasn't started at the pole since Motegi 2016 and to do so he chose his favorite track, Mugello.
His "masterpiece" lap beat that of a revived Jorge Lorenzo, riding the Ducati, by just 35 thousandths. Also on the front row is the other official Yamaha, that of Maverick Vinales.
Andrea Iannone also put in an excellent performance, fourth and ahead of a great Danilo Petrucci, the latter astride the Ducati GP18 of Team Pramac. Marc Marquez is also part of the second row, who tried until the end to achieve pole, but in the end had to give up.
Difficult qualifying for Andrea Dovizioso, who finished seventh ahead of Cal Crutchlow's Team LCR Honda, Johann Zarco's Team Tech 3 Yamaha SAT and Alex Rins' Suzuki.
Rookie Franco Morbidelli set the twelfth fastest time and will therefore start from the fourth row.
Photos: Alex Farinelli
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But look at what the boiled meat is still capable of doing...
Well, after Zarco's pole in France, Rossi's pole in Italy is somewhat dubious. Zarco gained 6 tenths today, 2 weeks ago he tore everyone up...
Today Rossi beat his rivals, albeit just by a little, whereas until today when he gained 7 tenths in qualifying he was doing well.
Marquez then gave half a second or almost to everyone and then sensationally missed 2 laps, oh strange.
Rossi had an extremely planted bike on the front, which bounced very little, he certainly didn't do anything wrong during the lap, and it wasn't an impossible lap, given Marquez's times, but Rossi only did T3 better than everyone else, he's not in the top 3 in no other sector, a sign that he didn't overdo it but simply brought home the best he could, the fact remains that he usually goes 6-7 tenths worse than the others in qualifying. We'll see on the other tracks, this performance from him is strange to say the least, even though in FP3 he had set some good times he was 3 tenths behind Marquez and the values remained the same given Marc's mistakes.
The boiled meat boiled everyone...ahahahahaah
Let's enjoy the moment because the race will be
Different ….
or maybe not …. :)
Good luck to all !
I wanted to say that the rubber is back but I was beat to it. The strange thing is that suspicions always emerge when a certain driver is involved. Hahaha
You say? I already talked about it at Le Mans and Zarco was there, who isn't Rossi's best friend, right? Already last year at the Sachenring with Folger... Tedesco who almost beat Marquez...
We'll see at Montmeló, maybe suddenly we'll see a lot of Spaniards in the top positions, which wouldn't be so strange given how many there are, but will we still see other unusual things?
GOMBLODDO…..
I don't see any conspiracy in it. They don't do it to make Rossi win, or to make Zarco or other riders win. Also because tomorrow the values will probably be those seen so far this year and in the tests this weekend.
As seen in France, Zarco then knocked himself out because he didn't have any in the race.
Rossi is better on pace than Zarco in France, but he's not the best, even if the bike seemed really fine to me on the pole lap based on the images we saw.
MotoGP is a circus in Italian, let's say a circus.
There are buffoons, clowns, wild animals, trapeze artists, in short there is the show. Why is there the show? To attract paying audiences to see the show.
Our society today is founded on making money, on having a following, and it seems to me that since Michelin has been in existence and for a few years in an even more extreme way, MotoGP is oriented more towards marketing and selling than towards a genuine sporting product, and not it is only MotoGP that suffers from the logic of a market that wants to make more and more money and have more media coverage.
Now without being a fan of one rider or another, without having preferences or being against, without being angry with the Rossis, the Marquezes, the Lorenos, the Doviziosos, the Vinales, the Stoners, the Zarcos, etc.
It seems obvious to me that there is something not right.
And I would like to point out that you sell tickets before the race, not after, and it seems that at Mugello there are 10 or 15 thousand still to be sold and perhaps it was like that at Le Mans too. Favoring an Italian in Italy and a Frenchman in France can make several millions. Tell me how much the tickets cost?
To think that money doesn't control anything is naive, just look at doping in cycling and the various irregularities in F1 or other sports. Everything is done not only to win, but also to attract attention.
If something dirty is done it is not to benefit the individual driver, but to make the event organizer make more money.
In any case, something strange was seen, in the television images it was possible to see that Rossi was riding a medium tire on the front and a soft tire on the rear. But he was the only driver whose tires were not known during Q2, or the device in the rim did not work, or in the tyre, or the control unit did not communicate the type of tire fitted and this is a strange coincidence.
if you have to feel so bad about it, don't self-inflict whippings... stop looking at her.... simple no!!
It's not because there are "strange" dynamics that everything disgusts me, but I put things into perspective. I don't like everything about today's Moto GP like other sports and there are things that I wish would work differently. That it was truly sport or truly embodied a sporting spirit and not a commercial product to be sold and profited from as much as possible.