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2024 Phillip Island Moto2 Practice 2 Result: Agius Shines On Wet Home Soil
2024 Phillip Island Moto2 Practice 2 Result: Agius Shines On Wet Home Soil
Another wet start on the island gave the marshals a lot of work in the early stages of Saturday practice in the intermediate class, even the world championship leader amongst those testing the gravel traps early on. Although conditions had improved somewhat since their lightweight colleagues’ outing, there were no improvements on the combined standings this time around, Fermin Aldeguer keeping top spot courtesy of his Friday benchmark.
Zara Daniela Fri, 18/Oct/2024 - 22:59
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Phillip Island MotoGP Friday Round Up: Lost Track Time, Testing Tires, And Perilous Wildlife
Phillip Island MotoGP Friday Round Up: Lost Track Time, Testing Tires, And Perilous Wildlife
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Friday was almost the most quintessential Phillip Island MotoGP day. It started off cold and wet, then the rain eased off during free practice for Moto2, then it started hammering down again. The rain got so heavy during the the last 10 minutes of Moto2 FP that MotoGP FP1, which was supposed to start directly after Moto2, was delayed. Then delayed again. And again. And eventually, after two hours, canceled.
By the time MotoGP took to the track for timed practice, however, the track had dried out. "Already this morning when I went out from the hotel, I understood that it was difficult to ride in the morning," Pecco Bagnaia told reporters on Friday afternoon. "But then this afternoon it was maybe the best conditions I ever tried in Phillip Island. It was sunny, no wind, the grip was very high."
The fact there was no wind was the only thing missing from the stereotypical Phillip Island day. Never fear, that is scheduled for Saturday, when it will at least be dry. And FP2 on Saturday morning will be 10 minutes longer than normal, to compensate for the loss of Friday morning.
David Emmett Fri, 18/Oct/2024 - 21:33
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2024 Jerez World Superbike FP2 Result: Rinaldi Spends A Qualifying Supercorsa
2024 Jerez World Superbike FP2 Result: Rinaldi Spends A Qualifying Supercorsa
Michael Ruben Rinaldi used a Q tyre to get the top time ahead of Nicolo Bulega and Danilo Petrucci in an all-Italian, all-Ducati top three. Toprak Razgatlioglu and Jonathan Rea were within three tenths of the quickest time. Razgatlioglu didn't improve on his morning's time.
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Jared Earle Fri, 18/Oct/2024 - 13:44
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Iannone set to end MotoGP hiatus after doping ban with VR46 cameo in Malaysia
Andrea Iannone will make a surprise MotoGP comeback replacing the injured Fabio di Giannantonio at the VR46 Ducati team for the penultimate grand prix of the 2024 season in Malaysia early next month.As reported by GPOne, the one-time grand prix winner has received the nod from Valentino Rossi for Sepang, with the agreement of Ducati’s Gigi Dall’Igna. The Italian, who last raced in MotoGP in ...Keep reading
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Iannone set to replace di Giannantonio for MotoGP's Malaysian GP
Andrea Iannone will make a surprise MotoGP comeback replacing the injured Fabio di Giannantonio at the VR46 Ducati team for the penultimate grand prix of the 2024 season in Malaysia early next month.As reported by GPOne, the one-time grand prix winner has received the nod from Valentino Rossi for Sepang, with the agreement of Ducati’s Gigi Dall’Igna. The Italian, who last raced in MotoGP in ...Keep reading
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Marquez says “these were my conditions” after topping Australia MotoGP practice
Marc Marquez has admitted that circumstances at Phillip Island played into his hands perfectly as he went fastest on a curtailed first day of the MotoGP Australian Grand Prix.Marquez led his brother and Gresini Ducati team-mate Alex in a 1-2 in second practice after the morning FP1 session was abandoned due to heavy rain.With the skies darkening above the oceanside track at the start of the ...Keep reading
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2024 Phillip Island MotoGP PR Results: Gresini Ducati 1-2 As Track Dries At Last
2024 Phillip Island MotoGP PR Results: Gresini Ducati 1-2 As Track Dries At Last
Marc Marquez has topped the only session of practice for the MotoGP class at Phillip Island on Friday, after this morning's FP1 session was canceled due to rain. MotoGP managed to get a full hour of practice despite the impending threat of rain and stray wildlife bringing out the red flags.
David Emmett Fri, 18/Oct/2024 - 05:42
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2024 Phillip Island Moto3 P1 Results: Piqueras Beats Alonso In Tough Conditions
2024 Phillip Island Moto3 P1 Results: Piqueras Beats Alonso In Tough Conditions
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David Emmett Fri, 18/Oct/2024 - 05:35
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2024 Phillip Island Moto2 FP Results: Canet Quickest As Deluge Continues
2024 Phillip Island Moto2 FP Results: Canet Quickest As Deluge Continues
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David Emmett Fri, 18/Oct/2024 - 05:26
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MotoGP Australian GP: FP1 cancelled at sodden Phillip Island
Free Practice 1 at the Australian Grand Prix was cancelled on Friday as the expected heavy rain hit the Phillip Island circuit.Race direction gave the 45-minute session every chance to go ahead, delaying the opening of pit lane multiple times in the hope that the rain would ease enough for the resurfaced track to dry.Things briefly looked positive when, an hour and 40 minutes past the planned ...Keep reading
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Acosta: “It would hurt Ducati if Martin took the title to another factory”
Pedro Acosta has voiced the commonly held paddock belief that Ducati would prefer factory rider Francesco Bagnaia to win this year’s world championship over Aprilia-bound Pramac man Jorge Martin.Acosta made the remark as he reflected on a stunt engineered by MotoGP promoters, in which KTM’s 20-year-old rookie asked a question at the pre-weekend press conference featuring the two title ...Keep reading
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Rins: Leg injury not the reason for poor results
Alex Rins has stressed that his lack of competitiveness at struggling Yamaha has nothing to do with the limp with which he has been walking since his freak accident at Mugello over a year ago.Both Rins and Fabio Quartararo have voiced their disappointment with the lack of grip on the M1 increasingly loudly of late. They have cited multiple problems with the bike, which is the most sensitive on the ...Keep reading
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Motegi MotoGP Race Subscriber Notes, Part 1: Monotonous Motegi - Why Was That?
Motegi MotoGP Race Subscriber Notes, Part 1: Monotonous Motegi - Why Was That?
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At the height of his domination of the 500 grand prix era, when the only question in everyone's minds was who would finish second behind him, Mick Doohan was asked by a journalist if he was worried his stranglehold on the sport was making motorcycle racing boring. "What do you want me to do, slow down?" Doohan retorted.
Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi would have been immeasurably improved if Pecco Bagnaia and Jorge Martin had slowed down. Apart from the first seven or eight minutes, as the grid assumed its natural order, the race was utterly processional. Watching Bagnaia, Martin, Marc Márquez behind them, was like watching Doohan at his peak.
These are riders controlling a MotoGP machine at the highest level imaginable, putting a 300+ horsepower motorcycle in almost exactly the same place for lap after lap. Of the 24 laps of Motegi which Pecco Bagnaia completed, 10 were within one tenth of a second of the lap before, and another 7 were between one and two tenths difference to the previous lap. That is astonishing, metronomic consistency, and a sign of a truly great rider operating almost as close to perfection as is humanly possible.
David Emmett Mon, 07/Oct/2024 - 23:43
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Ducati MotoGP star to pilot Group B WRC rally car
Factory Ducati MotoGP rider Enea Bastianini is set to swap two wheels for four at the Rallylegend festival this weekend. The seven-time motorcycle premier-class race winner is set to pilot a Group B Audi Quattro S1 at the 22nd edition of the four-day celebration of rallying past and present held in San Marino.Bastianini, who finished fourth in last weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix, will share ...Keep reading
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Motomutterers Standings post Motegi
Motomutterers Standings post Motegi
1. Tony G - 1892 J.Mar - 392 F.Bag - 382 E.Bas - 313 M.Mar - 311 B.Bin - 183 M.Mar - 311 2. Elisabeth Rightwrist - 1892 J.Mar - 392 F.Bag - 382 M.Mar - 311 E.Bas - 313 B.Bin - 183 M.Mar - 311 3. Riesjart - 1892 E.Bas - 313 F.Bag - 382 J.Mar - 392 M.Mar - 311 B.Bin - 183 M.Mar - 311
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2024 Phillip Island Moto3 Practice 2 Result: Piqueras Reigns Supreme Once More
2024 Phillip Island Moto3 Practice 2 Result: Piqueras Reigns Supreme Once More
Saturday morning in Australia brought another wet start for the lightweight class but the big gaps on the timesheets on Friday still allowed room for improvements on the combined timesheets. If Angel Piqueras was one step ahead on Friday, it looked like David Alonso nearly caught up with him until the final five minutes of practice, when the newly crowned world champion took a painful-looking tumble at turn 6 and allowed the rookie to respond.
Zara Daniela Fri, 18/Oct/2024 - 22:13
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2024 Jerez World Supersport Superpole Result: Clouds Gathered
2024 Jerez World Supersport Superpole Result: Clouds Gathered
With weather threatening the beginning of the World Supersport Superpole, riders set out to set a quick time before the weather turned, but it stayed decent enough for the last five minutes to be an exciting prospect.
Jared Earle Fri, 18/Oct/2024 - 17:06
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2024 Jerez World Supersport FP1 Result: Can Oncu Do It?
2024 Jerez World Supersport FP1 Result: Can Oncu Do It?
Can Oncu set the fastest time of the morning a fortieth of a second quicker than Federico Caricasulo to open the last championship weekend of the year. Yari Montella is out of the running for the title while Stefano Manzi is forty five points off Adrian Huertas with fifty points available across this weekend's two races. Manzi was third quickest while Huertas and Montella were thirteenth and twelfth respectively.
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Jared Earle Fri, 18/Oct/2024 - 13:34
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2024 Jerez World Superbike FP1 Result: Bulega Leads Razgatlioglu, Iannone
2024 Jerez World Superbike FP1 Result: Bulega Leads Razgatlioglu, Iannone
In the last Friday morning of the year, Nicolo bulega kept his slim chances of the title alive with a quickest time two tenths better than Toprak Razgatlioglu and Andrea Iannone with Jonathan Rea fourth quickest in a tight session where the top fourteen riders were covered by just over eight tenths of a second.
Fresh from their British Superbike title battle last weekend, Kyle Ryde and Tommy Bridewell qualified in twenty second and twenty third place.
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Jared Earle Fri, 18/Oct/2024 - 13:25
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Bagnaia: Australia Q2 spot was never in doubt despite close call
Factory Ducati rider Francesco Bagnaia said he felt “calm” throughout second practice for MotoGP's Australian Grand Prix, despite spending most of the incident-filled hour in apparent danger of missing out on a Q2 place.After an early technical problem forced him to switch bikes as dark clouds threatened to drench the Phillip Island track at any moment, Bagnaia's progress was then interrupted ...Keep reading
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MotoGP Australian GP: Marquez streaks ahead in sole Friday practice session
Marc Marquez dominated a tense Friday Practice session for the Australian Grand Prix, leading his brother and Gresini Ducati team-mate Alex on the final timesheets.MotoGP championship rivals Jorge Martin and Francesco Bagnaia both booked their passages into Saturday’s Q2, though Bagnaia only posted his lap at the last-possible moment in a session that had its complications for both.Among the big ...Keep reading
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2024 Phillip Island Moto2 P1 Results: Aldeguer Leads Canet As Track Dries
2024 Phillip Island Moto2 P1 Results: Aldeguer Leads Canet As Track Dries
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David Emmett Fri, 18/Oct/2024 - 05:37
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2024 Phillip Island MotoGP FP1 Canceled Due To Heavy Rain
2024 Phillip Island MotoGP FP1 Canceled Due To Heavy Rain
After the rain which had been falling during Moto2 free practice became much heavier, the FP1 practice session for the MotoGP class at Phillip Island was first delayed, and eventually canceled altogether due to track conditions. Originally, the afternoon practice session was due to have 20 minutes added on, but in the end it was decided to add an extra 10 minutes to Saturday morning's FP2 session.
David Emmett Fri, 18/Oct/2024 - 05:27
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2024 Phillip Island Moto3 FP Results: Alonso Fastest On A Soaking Track
2024 Phillip Island Moto3 FP Results: Alonso Fastest On A Soaking Track
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David Emmett Fri, 18/Oct/2024 - 05:24
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Phillip Island MotoGP Thursday Round Up: Weather Perils, The Mental Battle, And The Trouble With Shoulders
Phillip Island MotoGP Thursday Round Up: Weather Perils, The Mental Battle, And The Trouble With Shoulders
Phillip Island can be counted on to deliver two things: great racing, and big surprises. This weekend is no different, with the wildcards being the complex interplay between the weather, the new asphalt, and the tires. The new surface is going to be both fast and very hard on rear tires. Michelin have three rear tires to choose from: a soft rear with the normal construction, and a medium and a hard using the heat-resistant construction used at Mandalika.
At any other circuit, the soft would only be used for qualifying with the riders choosing between the medium and hard for the race. But this is Phillip Island, and the forecast is for low temperatures - highs of 15°C on Saturday and Sunday - allied with strong winds. "The harder one I don’t think we will even test," Aleix Espargaro said on Thursday.
So the task for the riders is to decide whether they think they can make the soft last race distance, or are better off using the medium. Normally, they would spend Friday working on this, especially the Friday afternoon practice session. The trouble is, it is raining in Phillip Island, and it looks set to be wet all day. Testing tires is going to be nigh on impossible.
Damp squib
David Emmett Thu, 17/Oct/2024 - 21:37
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Martin and Bagnaia declare caution, giving hope to MotoGP rivals in Australia
As MotoGP title protagonists Jorge Martin and Francesco Bagnaia both admitted a risk-averse approach to this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix, the likes of Pedro Acosta, Marc Marquez and others are eyeing an opportunity to grab victory.Martin (Pramac Ducati) leads factory Ducati rider Bagnaia by 10 points heading into the final quartet of races. And in Thursday’s press conference at Phillip ...Keep reading
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How MotoGP’s new star is snatching the show from lengthy title duel
It’s hard to measure exactly what aspect of any given motor race excites punters the most. But if we use the tone of voice adopted by MotoGP’s various television pundits as a yardstick, the answer in Japan was clear: Pedro Acosta.And one suspects that the mixture of volume and reverence among the broadcasters when Acosta was doing absolutely anything on screen was indicative of what was going ...Keep reading
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Bagnaia: Familiar faces will dominate until Valencia
Japanese Grand Prix winner Francesco Bagnaia has warned MotoGP fans not to expect much of a break in the status quo between now and the last race of the season at Valencia.The reigning champion believes the main contenders will be the same ones that dominated the 24-lap race at Motegi on Sunday and currently occupy the first four spots in the championship standings - Pramac Ducati’s Jorge ...Keep reading
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What Honda must do next now it has its ideal MotoGP tech boss
The appointment of Romano Albesiano as Honda's technical director for 2025 has a powerful symbolic charge for a company so faithful to Japanese philosophy. However, the key to the success of the Italian's signing is no longer so much what he can contribute, but what he is allowed to do.Last year, a number of major changes were seen at the top of HRC. However, looking at the effect they have had on ...Keep reading
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Paddock Pass Podcast Episode 443: Perfection, Prangs, And Points
Paddock Pass Podcast Episode 443: Perfection, Prangs, And Points
The Motegi MotoGP round did not live up to its promise, with some perfect riding making for a lack of spectacle. But Neil, Adam, and David still have plenty to talk about after the weekend, including Marc Marquez' stolen pole, Pedro Acosta's many crashes, Pecco Bagnaia's near perfect weekend, and how Jorge Martin salvaged what could have been a disaster. Plus we touch on David Alonso's first Moto3 title, an otherwise thrilling Moto2 race, and Neil's adventures of visiting Japan for the first time. And of course our winners and losers.
David Emmett Sun, 06/Oct/2024 - 14:22
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