MotoGP Mugello, Free Practice 2: Valentino Rossi mocked by Jorge Lorenzo

• Titian said:

  31 May 2013 at the 15: 18

  Marquez most likely risked the podium with this tumble!
  Even if with the weather being so variable we risk not understanding anything until Sunday.
  I'm happy for Rossi, I appreciate this burst of pride, he managed to lap under 1" on this track, I lapped above 50 minutes with the sun...
  But I'm not sure it's a good sign that both official Yamaha riders are pulling, are they checking how they're doing?

  Titian

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  1. Mike58 said:

     31 May 2013 at the 16: 08

     I leave you an interview from the pre press conference.

     to yet another question:

     “valentino is another level of competition or drivers compared to the old rivals and blah blah blah..”

     valid answer: (if I translated correctly)

     “but for me it's not correct to talk about a higher or lower level than the others, it's different.

     certainly the young people are very strong, including cal.

     they are the new model.. it's like when they make a new model out of an old car, it's always better.

     What has changed is the way of driving, which has changed a lot in recent years. Now we have to do some different tricks on the bike which are more difficult for an old rider like me"

     as always with elegance and irony and this time also an unexpected humility.

     then he explained the differences..

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     1. enea said:

        1 June 2013 at the 07: 53

        great mike, continue these goodies.. ;)

        When I hear someone say that before there were no strong opponents... well how can I put it... I feel like giving a headbutt "between cigghia and nasu" as they say in my area.... ;)

        Aeneas

• u67 said:

  31 May 2013 at the 15: 20

  so....let's do the math....if as usual tomorrow everyone improves by a second while Vale doesn't...he's still doing well!
  Come on !!!! this tour can be done!!!
  And let's hope that Marquez is in one piece!

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• Ronnie said:

  31 May 2013 at the 15: 21

  In the "cold" the Yamahas are fine, the problem is understanding whether the temperatures will rise and by how much for Saturday and Sunday.

  The times set in FP2 are already good if compared to last year's, which were 2-3 tenths faster than this year's; but in 2012 they had about 10° more ambient temperature and a track that was certainly slightly more rubberised.

  The Hondas work much better with temperatures around 25°, while the Yamahas perform less well in the heat, at least this has been seen in the past GPs; we will need to understand who will be able to best manage the tires brought to this circuit by Bridgestone.

  Today both Lorenzo and Rossi did free practice, very much based on race pace, with a constant pace and continuous improvements exit after exit.

  This means that both they and the track conditions improved lap after lap and despite the tires having more and more mileage out of each outing, they made constant improvements.

  The work done by Yamaha is certainly good, but Honda will probably be able to fill the gap at least a little.

  One thing I noticed was that Lorenzo's Yamaha, I think in T3 on corner exit, was much more stable than Rossi's. The driving style of the two seemed quite different to me, it seemed to me that Lorenzo was bending much more and using other trajectories, narrower at the exit on the internal curb before widening in some corners, however the performance of the two was quite similar, let's hope they continue so both of them, it would be nice to see them driving next to each other on Sunday, also to compare driving styles.

  Marquez was very lucky, he fell in a very bad place, and I think it's mostly the fault of a poorly modulated braking at the fastest point of the track where you can reach up to 340km/h, I hope that if he races he tries to go less hard at that point because at Mugello you always risk taking a bad beating.

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• u67 said:

  31 May 2013 at the 17: 30

  But….Smith?? do we know anything more?

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  1. Ronnie said:

     31 May 2013 at the 18: 53

     Nothing official, I think we'll have to wait until tomorrow, given that I haven't seen any news on motogp.com it's probably nothing serious.
     There's a lot of attention focused on Marque, Smith they forgot.

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  2. n75 said:

     31 May 2013 at the 22: 41

     Left scaphoid rupture

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