MotoGP Le Mans: Lorenzo dominates, Rossi on the second step of the podium
The Majorcan from Yamaha dominates, Rossi beats Stoner and finishes 2nd
Jorge Lorenzo dominated the French Grand Prix, the fourth stage of the 2012 world championship. The Mallorcan Yamaha ready-to-go rider immediately ran away on the treacherous and wet asphalt of Le Mans, winning his second race of the year and taking the lead again at the world championship with eight points on Stoner. Valentino Rossi's race was beautiful, as he reached the podium with the Ducati, the second after the one obtained last year also at Le Mans. The nine-time world champion finished second after a beautiful duel with Stoner, giving himself great satisfaction.
Race report
Everything is ready for the "Monster Energy Grand Prix de France" MotoGP class, fourth stage of the 2012 world championship. On pole (the first of the year) we find Dani Pedrosa, riding the Repsol Team Honda. The Spaniard will be joined on the front row by teammate Casey Stoner and our Andrea Dovizioso's Team Tech 3 Yamaha. “Only” Jorge Lorenzo fourth, while Valentino Rossi will start from the third row with the seventh fastest time. Wet race, all 21 drivers lined up, 28 laps to go. The traffic lights go out, Dani Pedrosa gets off to a good start at the start, followed by Stoner, Lorenzo, Dovizioso, Rossi, Crutchlow, Bradl, Bautista and Abraham. Randy De Puniet fell on the starting line due to the loss of grip of the rear of his ART!
Lorenzo's attack, the Majorcan takes the lead while Rossi is fourth. The first lap ends, Lorenzo passes in front of Pedrosa, Stoner, Rossi, Dovizioso, Crutchlow, Bradl, Bautista, Abraham, Pirro, Hayden, Espargarò, Barberà, Pasini and Petrucci. Meanwhile, Silva is out with the BQR. Stoner moves into second position, while Spies is even 18th. Rossi passes Pedrosa moving into fourth position and Crutchlow also passes the poleman. Spies returns to the pits. Really difficult start to the season for the American from Yamaha. Attack by Crutchlow, the Brit passes Dovizioso going after Rossi and Stoner.
After a third of the race, Crutchlow is the fastest on the track. The Briton is close to Rossi while Stoner recovers a little on Lorenzo. Dovizioso is fifth ahead of Pedrosa, Bradl, Hayden, Bautista and Barberà. Both Abraham and Vermeulen are in the pits. Attack by Cruchlow and Dovizioso on Rossi, now the two Yamahas of Team Tech 3 are in third and fourth position and chasing Stoner. Lorenzo in front has a 2.715 advantage over the Australian who is lapping really fast. However, Rossi doesn't give up and remains attached to the satellite Yamahas.
Halfway through the race Dovizioso returns to third position while Lorenzo in front is not at all sure of first position. Meanwhile, Danilo Petrucci's race was excellent with the Ioda CRT, eleventh and ahead of Pasini with the ART of Team Speed Master, Ellison, Espargarò and Pirro.
Rossi attacks Crutchlow and regains fourth position, putting Andrea Dovizioso's third position in his sights. Let's remember that Rossi's only podium on the Ducati was achieved at Le Mans last year. Back and forth between Rossi and Dovizioso, with Crutchlow always threatening. Lorenzo's time! The Yamaha rider lapped in 1:44.947, extending his lead over Stoner to 3.953.
Fall for Cal Crutchlow, the Team Tech 3 rider was very close to Rossi when he lost the front end of his YZR-M1. Meanwhile, Rossi passes Dovizioso to take back the "virtual" podium. The Briton gets back on track and passes eighth. Valentino Rossi's Ducati seems to be able to pull ahead of Dovizioso, the podium is now truly within reach. Meanwhile, our team's race on the CRT was great. Petrucci is eleventh and Pasini twelfth.
Meanwhile, Rossi regains ground on Stoner, also taking Dovizioso with him. Second position could be the goal of the Ducati rider from Pesaro, a result "dreamed of" by all the fans of the Pesaro rider and the Borgo Panigale team. Fall for Dovizioso, shame for the Yamaha rider from Forlì who was in fourth position.
With three laps to go Rossi is getting closer and closer to Stoner, he attacks him and passes him, bringing his Desmosedici GP12 ahead of the Australian's Honda RC213V, which however takes second place again. The last lap begins, Rossi is in the slipstream and passes Stoner at the first chicane. Lorenzo goes on to win, Rossi is second ahead of Stoner, a wonderful race for the Ducati rider from Pesaro who returns to the second step of the podium. This hasn't happened to him since his Yamaha days. It's a shame for Dovizioso, who crashed a few laps from the end when he was fourth. However, the Forlì rider got back into the saddle and finished seventh.
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MotoGp Race Jerez - Spanish GP - Times
| Pos | Num | Rider | Motorcycle | Team | Time | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Francis Bagnaia | DucatiLenovoTeam | 40:58.053 | ||
| 2 | 93 | Marc Marquez | Gresini Racing MotoGP | +0.372 | ||
| 3 | 72 | Marco Bezzecchi | Pertamina Enduro Vr46 Racing Team | +3.903 | ||
| 4 | 73 | Alex Marquez | Gresini Racing MotoGP | +7.205 | ||
| 5 | 23 | Enea Bastianini | DucatiLenovoTeam | +7.253 | ||
| 6 | 33 | Brad Binder | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | +7.801 | ||
| 7 | 49 | Fabio DiGiannantonio | Pertamina Enduro Vr46 Racing Team | +10.063 | ||
| 8 | 88 | Miguel Oliveira | Trackhouse Racing | +10.979 | ||
| 9 | 12 | Maverick Vinales | aprilia-racing | +11.217 | ||
| 10 | 31 | Peter Acosta | Red Bull Gasgas Tech3 | +20.762 | ||
| 11 | 25 | Raul fernandez | Trackhouse Racing | +23.508 | ||
| 12 | 36 | Joan mir | Repsol Honda Team | +23.584 | ||
| 13 | 42 | alex rins | Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP | +28.452 | ||
| 14 | 30 | Takaaki Nakagami | Lcr Honda | +29.049 | ||
| 15 | 20 | fabio quartararo | Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP | +32.015 | ||
| 16 | 6 | Stefan bradl | HRC Test Team | +41.433 | ||
| 17 | 10 | Luca marini | Repsol Honda Team | +43.323 | ||
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Lorenzo super clean race of great superiority.
I want to see what you have to say about Rossi now come on, it seems like a great demonstration and not of the bike.
Why not the motorbike? What was Rossi resting his ass on?
Ha ha ha. If he had a Yamaha instead of a Ducati even Lorenzo would drink...
That's for sure.
ah ah, when it goes well (once a year) it's thanks to him, when it goes bad it's the bike's fault,
We are as usual
SILENCE!!!! SPEAK RED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aeneas
well Crutchlow and Dovizioso landed!
GO RED!
I would like to remind all those who think that next year Marques will ride Stoner's bike that the regulations are clear, Marques CANNOT GO TO AN OFFICIAL TEAM BECAUSE HE IS A DEBUTTOR but at most he will go to Lucio Cecchinello's team. It is therefore not at all imaginative to think that Valentino could return to Honda, but in any case we will see what the future holds for us!
Worth Honda I really hope not!!! Let's hope for a resurrected Ducati or a return to Yamaha...but not back to nakamoto pelase..
Valentino in Honda is a utopia, practically impossible, ditto in Yamaha, he can only choose to stay in Ducati or to stay in Ducati if he wants an official bike, otherwise he has to settle for a private team.
Let's stop with this fantasy motorbike market, don't listen to the ravings of that drunk from Pernat
Now for all those who usually comment against Rossi because they don't know what it means to go fast on a motorbike:
SILENCE, COMPARED TO THE OLD MAN 46!!!!!!
This is exactly where I wanted to arrive with the first message.
GO WELL!!!!
Stoner and Lorenzo don't know how to do reckless maneuvers like Rossi does!
Sorry, what reckless maneuvers have you seen?
did you go to the circus to see the acrobats?
boiled people are Lorenzo and stoner fans!
ah ah the return of the reds! but look, when it comes after the music no one reads, today here you are all commenting as if he had won the tenth world championship! ridiculous! let's be clear: nothing to say about his good race, but a lot to say about the fans who only comment if he goes well!
We don't write because those who miss the opportunity to stay silent every time they speak don't deserve consideration
I have always commented and defended Valentino... I have never missed a race... so today, faced with the indisputable evidence of Vale's talent, I can tell you... RELEASE YOUR FRUSTRATIONS IN OTHER WAY!!!..,
Poor things... I can already imagine you going back to your absurd theorems from the next dry race to try to demolish a legend that is already history!!!! History of motorcycling...and today a lesson in how head and talent are not lacking...as if there were any need
Not as far as I'm concerned, I've always supported Rossi even though since he started riding that red iron he hasn't achieved excellent results, but I'm sorry to read the anti-Rossi comments especially from people who, I repeat, don't know what it means to know how to go fast on a motorbike. they know. Of course it's not that much will change with this podium but at least we've seen that the talent is always there, he just needs to find a bike that works.
I said red iron because unfortunately for non-Rossians the Vale's problem is the bike which is not performing, however great respect also for Ducati who perhaps thanks to Rossi will be able to make a MotoGP that is more rideable for everyone.
Riccardo the problem is that if you make posts like these it's easy to understand, they can be commented calmly and moreover they can be fully or almost completely shared (it's not like one can watch MortoGP only if he rides a motorbike... who should watch F1, everyone who drives) a car... so leaving aside the meaningless part I agree with the other one and as I have always said Rossi is not boiled... the problem is that up until now he could only drive the Ducati stoner at least in dry conditions) but you will agree too that your post is very different from previous posts which are trollish and flamethrower
I don't agree with your thoughts, it's true that everyone watches everything but if someone isn't competent they should just limit themselves to applauding or not, commenting positively or vice versa without writing or expressing offensive comments, at least I don't do that and unfortunately I've read a lot of meaningless nonsense against Rossi on this site.
@ricardo
I don't agree with you either because translated into how I understood "those who don't know how to ride a motorbike keep quiet and make comments like a fifth grader, those who know how to ride can say what they want"
insulting should never be done by either a fan or a driver
I think it's free for everyone to comment and then don't tell me that you are seriously reading the posts "it's worth shit it's worth boiling"... and they only say those words, I don't even consider them as I don't support the Reds
X reader:
It's not that anyone who doesn't know how to ride a motorbike fast shouldn't
However, commenting should not offend anyone
whether you know how to ride a motorbike or not, much less someone who has no idea of what it takes to be able to do it.
Ridiculous you and your absurd sick theorems….swept away by a little water…and a lot of talent….
I want to see how many homo demens today have the courage to write that Rossi is boiled, never as much as their brains
Nobody ever said it's Bollito, but if the package isn't competitive you won't get anywhere, a couple of years ago, I remind you that some of you claimed that he would have won even if he got on the t-max!!!!
After 1 season and 4 races we can say that this is not the phenomenon they wanted us to believe (the super test driver). Today he took advantage of the Ducati which works reasonably well in the wet at 110% and gave an excellent performance, even if he isn't competing in the world championship like Stoner, so today he was able to take risks that other riders couldn't take. It went well , well done, if he had fallen we would all be saying he was a certified dick
do you want to fight?? give him a more or less competitive bike and he will show it to us every GP!!!!! not like those sissies who only think about the world championship!!!!
if it was Stonner or Lorenzo they would have been satisfied with 3rd place!!!! instead he pushes until the last meter!!! when it's worth it and not for seventh and eighth places!!!!
ok you don't win the race you only look at Rossi when you want to look at him... the others also pull to the last minute and make reckless maneuvers the same stoner today in a counter-overtaking but you probably don't even understand where the bikes are when you look... even Rossi knows when he can and when he can't do certain things today he felt that the bike and above all the tires allowed otherwise he would have thrown the oars recklessly doesn't mean idiot... and valentino is not
But how annoying is this story that Rossi is synonymous with brawls, as if he had never won by giving 10 seconds to the second.
Nice race, nice overtaking, above all nice duel with Stoner. Well done Rossi, well done Stoner.
n75
many have never seen an entire GP but have always connected to the last laps so they don't remember that even Rossi is not synonymous with brawls
synonymous with brawl is different bikes but both at a high level because if red were brawl it would always be brawl
Where are you now anti Rossi?
they are hiding with 100% humiliation
Rossi fans, have you left the den? Celebrate that for another year you have to stay silent and silent!!!
Anyway, Rossi had a good race today, when he performs like this, he can afford to talk about the Ducati not working etc. etc. not when 12th 10th comes which makes you laugh
well.. guys, ok, Vale had a terrible race..
..but try to contain yourself.. afterwards we can't complain if when Rossi arrives behind the others they start to offend..
It seems to me like a forum divided into 2, one part is the fans' part independent of the fans, the other is the Reds fans' part independent of the race
there's a third big one...
the one who insults Rossi to prescend
read the old link posts better, friend
there are convinced redists who, like me, stated in old links that the biggest insulters of reds were the disappointed redists
just 3 words….ROSSI IS THERE…!AND HAS ALWAYS BEEN THERE!
As soon as it's the handle that counts and not the bike, Vale planes Stoner and gets in front of him... easy to win when you have a missile under your ass and the others a tricycle... Vale on the Honda would finish the race while the others would still be warming up their tyres. .
congratulations not to Rossi but to his fans as soon as he is there in front immediately not to comment on the race but to insult the others nice comments congratulations
and now let's talk about the race, it was all caused by the rain and the tyres, I don't think Cal and Dovi fell by chance... just like the Stoner debacle, getting excited about brawls due to external conditions is inappropriate
Anyway, it's worth showing that there are still those who always thought he had become a pimp, it's probably his fans who returned today
as far as motorbikes are concerned, it seems to me that today Yamaha had more... I would officially give Ben the missing and I wouldn't blame the motorbike... Honda either solves the problem with the tires or has to hope for other people's problems
Today the tires don't hit the mark, in theory with the slicks the Hondas are better in the cold!
Today the difference was made, as always, by the bike/rider combination
Dovi and Crutchlow tried to keep up with Rossi's pace, which is why they crashed. Go and see Rossi's fastest lap and Dovizioso's in the slipstream and you understand that it was Rossi who set a furious pace, setting the fastest lap of the race!
starting from the assumption that there is not only the rider and the motorbike but a much more complex combination where motorbike means tire traction, aerodynamics, mechanics, etc...
I seem to have always underlined some things
1 red is not boiled
2 Only stoners drove the Ducati as it is
now from here to say that the tires have nothing to do with it, let's also invent that Honda has no problems with the tires and we're good to go
from saying that Rossi had a good race to saying that Rossi did the race while the others were almost miserable, it seems to me that there is a distorted vision...
VALE HAD A GREAT RACE BUT THERE WERE CONDITIONS THAT MADE EVERYTHING FACILITATE
if these conditions didn't exist the podium was the usual suspects with valentino behind the tech 3
damn!!! he said it, I'm not making it up
Great race, Il Bollito finished 2nd, not bad. Today we take back our space that we usually leave to the poor-frustrated-anti-red-pro-nobody trolls who infest these desolate lands.
today, however, the cleaner and less aggressive driving style won (that of Lorenzo and Rossi)
exact
lemmy I counted the number of people commenting on the race, there are two of us, you and me, the others are just insulting... but have they seen the race?
in a forum today there would have been 10 2-week bans for personal insults... anyway today we saw the limits of honda in how it treats the tires intelligent stoner in trying to save them but those fast laps only ruined it more anyway it had to do them for way of understanding whether or not the tires could handle the duel well but it was seen that he no longer had traction for the tires... the "boiled" was also intelligent and in any case he did not only compete in an attacking race but rather waited in the central part to understand the situation of Cal's Dovi... overall a good race, of course even in Moto GP we find ourselves talking about tires as in the link for F1 and saying that they want to make them even more "spectacular".
Rossi had a problem with the visor fogging up in the central part, only for this reason he stayed longer with Dovi and Crutchlow wasn't waiting for anything!
Finally a good race, stuff to wet the track at every GP, at least you can see the duels and overtaking!!
Today we saw the real brawl again, even if not for the victory, but at least for the podium. Lorenzo super, too bad for Dovi, he would have been in the battle but he was wrong. Well done Rossi, this is what a champion of his caliber should do, the Ducatona also went well with Hayden, but today Rossi wanted to go back to doing... the Rossidi once upon a time, perhaps also due to the rider market?!?
the number of commentators rises to three thanks!!!
to wet the track with false rain??? Bernie has already proposed it in F1... let's not do bullshit in Moto GP just because we were given some overtaking and he finished second... there would be a solution, in fact there are two, unfortunately the money route was taken and not these two techniques the first would be to return to less powerful bikes that do not require qualifying laps... the second would be to let technological progress take its course with thousands not limited by tires or petrol because the other absurdity lies in the quantity of petrol that it doesn't allow you to always keep the bike with the throttle open... in this way everyone could pull like crazy and some nice duels would come out but no, the duels come out due to the tires in wet conditions (the only two who always battle are those of the tech 3) with a neutered bike for the race, not to finish in front of Lorenzo
Obviously mine was a joke, given the boredom of dry races one can hope that it rains more often, even if those who pay for the ticket certainly won't agree!
However, we totally agree on the technical question, as in F1, here too we are running a championship conditioned by the tyres, and this seems absurd to me. It would then be a good thing if the fans and commentators went back to talking about sport, without insults or alleged revenge towards those who don't think like them. I, and I think those who read the posts have understood this, are certainly not a great lover of Valentino Rossi for personal reasons that do not concern his performances on the track, but not for this reason I don't recognize his merits when he races like today, in fact I believe that his return to the top would only be a good thing for MotoGP. Having said this, if everyone were objective and lived the sport for what it should be, the "commentators" would be many more, and many stadium fans!
…and many LESS stadium fans!! Excuse me.
well honestly speaking I wanted to propose a nice race in the snow...
There are two of us on sympathy for Rossi.
of course if it were always there and not by chance there would be more brawling also because otherwise there are only stoners and Lorenzo because Pedrosa is first if he never manages to have anyone close to him otherwise he is behind the two aforementioned tire problems aside... the value would be the welcome third unknown with him in ducati if ducati were strong in everyone's hands there would be a sort of parity with honda giving everything for stoner yamaha giving everything for lorenzo and ducati giving everything for reds... without walls and subterfuge ... anyway speaking like this seems to me more and more like a Motof1 where the car and not the driver matter and to stop someone we invent rules halfway through the championship or we decide to change the tyres... so we could insert a mandatory double pit for the motogp so the ctr would have a chance
Giving more power causes more wear on the tyres, giving more petrol doesn't change the values on the field, on the contrary it gets worse, more powerful engines make even more of a difference!
There is a limit to the number of engines and rotation speed which, even with more petrol, means that certain limits must not be exceeded!
The recipe for more spectacle is not so simple, plus more power plus speed increases the risk of serious injury!
@xyz
in fact the solution I would prefer would be to go back to less powerful motorbikes anyway for petrol I put it because to date the tank doesn't hold enough to allow the throttle to be open I always understand the speed but it is imposed by consumption it's a bit like saying I'll do a which can give you
What happened to Loris Reggiani?
Go VALENTINOOOOO!! With him competitive, MotoGP has come back to life and made us have fun.
why do I have the impression that I would like a monotonous championship where Rossi always finishes first?... it's not a revived Rossi... it's a mixed race with Rossi tires, it would always be competitive but he demonstrated that only one knew how to ride the Ducati
No one can dispute that Stoner is great, but there is no doubt that having Rossi up front wakes up the whole environment and especially those who watch the races on TV, like us, making us have infinitely more fun. Just think, we've seen some overtaking again!! ..but how many..!!
I just wanted to underline that Rossi was also there in the other races and it's not a question of when Rossi is there
today he was there due to the conditions unfortunately and not only due to his merits... we saw some overtaking but let's say the whole sentence we saw some overtaking for the podium because there were battles from 4 onwards especially for the two from tech 3
then the fact that there are no battles is not only due to the lack of reds but also due to the questionable technical choices that led to today's MotoGP
it's nice to see reds submitting to the new world champions! only he makes the show good for us, Lorenzo and Stoner are very boring pilots who run away easy easy action replay style of Commodore 64!
HERE AND FROM ALL AROUND IT SEEMS THAT ROSSI HAS WON... INSTEAD IF I'M NOT WRONG, LORENZO WON AND WITH A LEGENDARY RACE HAS GIVEN AN UNPRECEDENTED LESSON TO EVERYONE...THE MAJORCA PHENOMENON !!!!!!!!!!! !
Lorenzo had a great race, he started early, and no one caught him, but Rossi had a faster lap than even Jorge today!
Rossi's result is incredible considering the results he is relegated to in dry conditions!
Lorenzo, however, had a track lead and shouldn't have pushed...otherwise you'll see what lap he was doing...if Rossi was faster he wouldn't have taken 10 seconds...
Jorge had a great pace, without traffic and a visor problem I think Rossi and Jorge would have gone at the same speed, Jorge more constant and Rossi maybe a little faster on the flying lap and a little less constant in keeping the pace!
xyz
sorry but the boss is right i.e. 10 seconds are 10 seconds as long as you really believe the traffic and the fogged visor that caused the fogging up you will resolve it in less than a second as long as it is true
In the wet, once your visor fogs up and you have to stay in the slipstream of motorbikes that raise water, it takes you minutes to resolve the problem, not to mention the fact that you are racing in a grand prix :-)
I don't know if you realize but if you open the visor too much your eyes start to water and with the water sprayed into the air by the motorbikes in front of you even water gets into the helmet it's not obvious that the problem can be solved in the blink of an eye!
Rossi was the slowest of the first 3 constantly right from the tenth to the fifteenth lap, I doubt that at the end of the race even before having seen the time table Rossi had the clarity to invent a lie precisely for the moment of the race in which he was slower than Lorenzo Stoner Crutchlow and Dovizioso!
Lorenzo opened a big gap in the first 5 laps, taking 5.5 seconds from Rossi and 4.8 seconds from Stoner!
Lorenzo then gained 5 seconds on Rossi when Rossi had a problem with his visor and had to overtake the 2 of the Tech III team again, while at that moment Lorenzo lost something from Stoner who was the fastest on the track at that moment!
In the last 10 laps Rossi was the fastest, Lorenzo was managing and Stoner was the slowest
LORENZO CAN'T DO ROSSI'S MANEUVERS?? SO THE DOUBLE OVERTAKING ON THE OUTSIDE ON THE HRC WITH THE TRACK TOTALLY FLOODED ON THE FIRST LAP WHO DID IT??? MY GRANDMOTHER??…..TODAY JORGE 10 PLANETS (LIKE THE SECONDS HE GAVE TO ROSSI) ABOVE ALL…THE TRUE MARTIAN AND HIM
Today the real Martian was Lorenzo but I don't think I need to remind you of Silverstone 2011
sorry, you asked for it with your beautiful capital letters
Paradoxically today is the end of the Ducati-Rossi duo, I'm sorry for Ducati, I hope that next year they find a new Stoner and they can give everyone pay anyway. Go Ducati……….
Lorenzo... who saw it? I can't say if he rode well, but very effective, I presume also thanks to the excellent work of the team (and he certainly put his best foot forward, given what the other Yamahas did...)
Stoner demonstrated (for those who needed it) that he knows how to duel, even if in the end he had to give in due to technical inferiority and great determination from Rossi, who finds confidence in the wet.
Pedrosa is disappointing, but if his statements are true this time the fault lies more with his team than with him.
It's a shame for Dovi and Cal, who put their heart into it, perhaps too much, and fell down but got up again.
It's also a shame for De Puniet, who certainly demonstrated that he has the best potential of all the CRT drivers but, for one reason or another, always struggles to reap the fruits of his work in the race.
Excellent performance by Pasini, bruised and second among the crt, always in a brawl, even if we didn't see it, due to duels between the positions that count :) in the end he also fought with Ellison, the progress he is making is definitely tangible.
Finally I vote 0 to go crazy, 90% of the time with the reds talking...
Very nice race, but with these regulations certain races are only held in the wet, that is, where the rider counts for something more than the bike...
I only hope for a failure in the MotoGP category....
Valentino showed us his talent today and he did it on the skin of Stoner. Such a motivational result, and now Ducati roll up their sleeves, also because Yamaha and Honda are ahead.
Well done Rossi. This proves that you don't win 9 world titles by chance. He is certainly the strongest rider of all time. The others, including Stone and Lorenzo, are certainly champions, but they don't have the coldness of Valentino who, with a good bike, is a bulldozer.
It seems to me that Stoner has also shown that with a good bike he can give everyone a lead. And Lorenzo too (among many, see today's race).
…but they didn't win 9 World Cups….:-)
I was commenting on CURRENT EVENTS, not the past...
Good race by Rossi but perhaps we should also consider that Stoner is competing for a world championship...
Rossi, if it doesn't rain, we won't see him again in those parts this year...
Casey was right not to react, he would have gone to the ground
Consideration that I fully agree with
Gentlemen …. today we saw (again) the difference between a champion (Stoner) and a GREAT CHAMPION!!!! Valentino continues to teach how to ride a motorbike!!!
Hats off to Doctor Rossi!!!!
I'm sorry that in the interview Stoner always has to rant about Laguna Seca... ridiculous ….
Remember, dear my ragged fans, that Rossi doesn't race for the world championship, while Stoner YES, so he couldn't take too many risks, how could Rossi take himself, then say that Stoner isn't a champion because he was passed in a Wet race by Rossi!!!! Boh, I have no words!!!
but then what the hell could Rossi have done today!!!! he rode 110% on a bike that works quite well in the wet (certainly better than the Honda today), taking risks and it went very well.
He knew that this was one of the few opportunities (perhaps the only one) to be able to be up front and he took advantage of it.
Stoner got by but let's not forget that he is competing for the world championship, better a 3rd place than a zero.
Why should you get excited about a second place on a flooded track, when you also know that in the next race you will get 1 second and 2 per lap!!!!!
I don't support the Reds, but it must be said that he had a good race. listening to his words at full speed he simply said "that the d16 goes very well on water" and we all saw that it had excellent traction and above all it was well planted when braking, this does not take anything away from those who drove it and in some ways I was also happy to see the Red again in the parc fermé which had been missing for a long, long time. Then the bar chats with nik that we see once a year aren't good. Water races are sometimes a back to the lot and the proof is that last year in wet conditions we saw the opposite, that is, even gaps above one minute.
Yesterday's race simply demonstrated that if Vale has a bike that performs even slightly less than the others, he makes the difference.
obviously a 9-time world champion has more incentive to make the difference to get 2nd instead of 3rd, and not to get 9th instead of 10th... ;)
Look where the second official Honda motorcycle was, and where the second official Ducati motorcycle was...
Look where the unofficial Hondas were and where the unofficial Ducats were...
Overall, however, the Honda was superior to the Ducati... despite this Rossi adjusted Ppedrosa first, then the two Yamaha Tech3s and then Stoner... and sorry if that's not enough...
Yesterday the rider Valentino demonstrated that he is no less than a stoner... even if he had any doubts... the rest is just chatter.
Aeneas
Lorenzo is the strongest... he was able to manage an enormous difficulty, try to have a race like Lorenzo did who pushed from the first lap, and let's remember Rossi is strong in the wet and in the dry? Ah yes, that's enough for you only that he wins, Admire Rossi's rival and he will prove that he is stronger than everyone ;) see you next time and always puerferous force
For all the c*****s who have been talking badly about Rossi for 15 months, the doctor dedicates this podium to you.
Even fools know that the wet weakens the differences between the bikes and that in the wet the rider is the added value.
Now go back to your rodent holes.
Luckily for you, it can't rain forever
For Ducati:
Now you are aware that if your driver doesn't make the times, it's your engineers' fault.
So…..
I drink
last year there were 4 wet/humid races, do you want me to tell you how they arrived?
Marco
No need, I know the past results
Talking about this year, the bike has improved and therefore even in the wet you can ride faster.
After months of insults from football stadium fans, a small outburst now that it is clear to everyone that Vale are not boiling over.
Then from the next one I will reread the outbursts of the biased anti-Reds, who populate this site, more and more convinced that they speak without arguments, apart from antipathy and envy.
Have a good race everyone