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MotoGP 2019

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭The Nal




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Infoanon


    h3000 wrote: »
    I’ve just lost BT Sport so I need to sort something out to watch the MotoGP. Does anyone here have the MotoGP video pass how does it compare with BTs coverage?
    Videopass is very good,full library of races (going back many years ) and Simon Crafar is good alas no Keith Huewen or indeed Hodgie.

    Given the price Sky want for BT Videopass is definitely an option to be looked at.
    In the past they have offered half price deals if signing mid way into the season


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭h3000


    Infoanon wrote: »
    Videopass is very good,full library of races (going back many years ) and Simon Crafar is good alas no Keith Huewen or indeed Hodgie.

    Given the price Sky want for BT Videopass is definitely an option to be looked at.
    In the past they have offered half price deals if signing mid way into the season

    The Videopass is half price right now actually. I do like most of the BT team though but as you said Sky are looking for mad money.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    Championship is over already anyway


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Infoanon


    The Nal wrote: »
    Championship is over already anyway
    That's arguable - there's still Moto 2 & 3, and if you cant get excited by a championship with 5 different bikes in the top 5 including a wildcard in FP1 at one of the most iconic circuits I'm the world (TV does not do justice to 'Honda' hill and the banking going on to the main straight at Brno) ....best motorsport series in the world


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    Infoanon wrote: »
    That's arguable - there's still Moto 2 & 3, and if you cant get excited by a championship with 5 different bikes in the top 5 including a wildcard in FP1 at one of the most iconic circuits I'm the world (TV does not do justice to 'Honda' hill and the banking going on to the main straight at Brno) ....best motorsport series in the world

    Agree 100%. Ill be watching every corner of every race but Marquez has it one again halfway through.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,553 ✭✭✭Cork Trucker


    All i can say here is take a bow son

    https://twitter.com/MotoGP/status/1157594538476736514


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Infoanon


    So much for the 2020 Moto GP line up being settled....

    On Thursday Jack Miller confirmed a rumour that Lorenzo might take his seat at Pramac ! , at the same time Alex Marquez was rumoured to be on the verge of signing for Petronas Yamaha for 2021.....then the word is Yamaha top brass have blocked it followed by today's revelation that Jorge has offered his services to Petronas Yamaha for 2021......

    Chances of see Jorge on a Honda again ??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,118 ✭✭✭tommyboy26


    Infoanon wrote: »
    So much for the 2020 Moto GP line up being settled....

    On Thursday Jack Miller confirmed a rumour that Lorenzo might take his seat at Pramac ! , at the same time Alex Marquez was rumoured to be on the verge of signing for Petronas Yamaha for 2021.....then the word is Yamaha top brass have blocked it followed by today's revelation that Jorge has offered his services to Petronas Yamaha for 2021......

    Chances of see Jorge on a Honda again ??

    very interesting.

    why would yamaha block alex? fear of him sharing data with marc?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,495 ✭✭✭XsApollo


    Didn’t Jarvis say before that having Alex in the team wouldn’t be a good idea considering his brother is riding for the main rival.
    Or something along them lines anyway.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Infoanon


    XsApollo wrote: »
    Didn’t Jarvis say before that having Alex in the team wouldn’t be a good idea considering his brother is riding for the main rival.
    Or something along them lines anyway.
    Yes - the Yamaha bosses don't like the idea of having March brother in the team and Lin Jarvis went public on this last year.
    Possibly Marc interference in the Rossi/Lorenzo championship year is a reason as well


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,907 ✭✭✭✭CJhaughey


    No-one can ride that Honda except MM93, just imagine if Honda didn't have him as a rider, where they would be for the last 5 years?
    Crutchlow, Bradl, Lorenzo have all tried and failed at making the best of the RCV.
    Pedrosa was an able pilot but not quite good enough to make himself champion.

    Lorenzo apparently said he'd ride for free for Ducati in the Pramac team which wouldn't make much sense to me but the rider market is a strange one.
    Bumping Miller for Lorenzo would be a bad move I think it seems like Jack is starting to get to grips with the Ducati and making some progress.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Infoanon


    Lorenzo has now committed to Honda for 2020 apparently. .....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,118 ✭✭✭tommyboy26


    nice to see john mcphee wearing a mega-bikes Dublin cap on the grid


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    Great last few laps. Ballsy from Dovi.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,118 ✭✭✭tommyboy26


    The Nal wrote: »
    Great last few laps. Ballsy from Dovi.

    Great ride by dovi. Leaves a very small chance of him winning the championship


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,197 ✭✭✭christy c


    F1 fan mostly but was flicking through the channels and saw this on. Picked a good time to watch my first full one!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Infoanon


    Epic ! , in years to come I think we will look back at the Dovi / Marquez battles as some of the greatest of all time


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭h3000


    I think Dovizioso is one of the most underrated riders ever. I would have loved to see how he would get on if Honda kept him in 2012.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,118 ✭✭✭tommyboy26


    https://www.crash.net/motogp/news/927410/1/johann-zarco-leave-ktm


    no big shock there. zarco to leave ktm at end of the season. only problem is where does he go now?

    LCR maybe?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭h3000


    WSBK I’d say for Zarco.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,118 ✭✭✭tommyboy26


    h3000 wrote: »
    WSBK I’d say for Zarco.

    might be his only option. only seats not signed up are nakagami on lcr and miller on pramac.

    jack will be staying on with pramac and they are close to a deal.

    Cant see Nakagami been kept by LCR considering he was stalling contract negotations.

    unless someone leaves a team to replace zarco, you are probably right


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Infoanon


    Nakagami is Japanese and Honda want a Japanese rider in Moto gp so the LCR ride should be safe.

    Honda also want Zarco - indeed offered a contract to be MM team mate only for Zarco to find that his manager had tied him to KTM.

    KTM for their part have said that they will try (again) to coax Dani Pedrosa put of retirement.

    Bradley Smiths name is also doing the rounds as a replacement for Olivera at Tech 3 if ,as seems likely,he moves to the factory team.

    Honda have offered Zarco a WSBK deal for 2020 according to the wsbk rumour mill ,though a lot of riders have been mentioned for that ride.

    In will be interesting to see how this plays out and the bigger picture is 2021.

    It is believed that the currently unemployed Jack Miller had 3 offers on the table over the weekend for 2020 - Ducati / Honda and KTM.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,907 ✭✭✭✭CJhaughey


    Honda's WSBK effort is about as uninspiring as a KTM is in MotoGP.
    I don't think anyone apart from MM will be able to extract the maximum from the Honda RCV.
    Zarco is out in the cold, that was a silly move on his part moving to KTM, I could see it at the time that his style wouldn't work with that machine.
    The Yamaha's look awfully slow on the straights compared to the Ducati and the Honda but they managed to put four bikes in the top ten followed by Ducati with three and Honda, KTM and Suzuki with one each.
    Hardly a ringing endorsement of Yamaha but it shows that the bike is easy to ride and controllable for lots of people but lacks a bit of juice.
    I really enjoyed that dice with Dovi and Marquez that was great racing and we were privileged to see two riders at the top of their game racing like that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 681 ✭✭✭legrand


    sorry not Motogp - hearing (may be old news?) that Laverty hanging up his boots at the end of the season to concentrate on his Rider Academy. Good career, with right breaks (excuse the pun) could be been a great one.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭h3000


    He has had a few nasty accidents over recent times. Great rider and wish him the best of the future.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,118 ✭✭✭tommyboy26


    miller finally resigned with pramac


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭h3000


    tommyboy26 wrote: »
    miller finally resigned with pramac

    Proper order

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,907 ✭✭✭✭CJhaughey


    It would be a travesty if Lorenzo shuffled Jack away from Pramac.
    Its not good for the series to have Spanish domination of all the classes.
    People have to have a national hero to support, that's why Nakagami is in LCR.

    What this shows is that Ducati management is poisonous, Stoner left because he was ill and they didn't believe him. Rossi couldn't get them to change anything.
    Crutchlow couldn't get to grips with the bike, Lorenzo had a few bad runs and was just coming good when Domenicali publicly stated his dissatisfaction with his results.
    In short Ducati Corse are run by a bunch of snakes and you couldn't trust them as far as you could throw them.
    They are very lucky to have a rider as consistent as Dovi and Petrucci, it maybe helps that they are both Italians.
    You'd have to count your fingers shaking their hand after signing a contract.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,428 ✭✭✭ZX7R


    CJhaughey wrote: »
    It would be a travesty if Lorenzo shuffled Jack away from Pramac.
    Its not good for the series to have Spanish domination of all the classes.
    People have to have a national hero to support, that's why Nakagami is in LCR.

    What this shows is that Ducati management is poisonous, Stoner left because he was ill and they didn't believe him. Rossi couldn't get them to change anything.
    Crutchlow couldn't get to grips with the bike, Lorenzo had a few bad runs and was just coming good when Domenicali publicly stated his dissatisfaction with his results.
    In short Ducati Corse are run by a bunch of snakes and you couldn't trust them as far as you could throw them.
    They are very lucky to have a rider as consistent as Dovi and Petrucci, it maybe helps that they are both Italians.
    You'd have to count your fingers shaking their hand after signing a contract.

    Reality is that if Lorenzo had not signed for Honda and you we're team manager who would you have signed
    Lorenzo or Millar
    It would be Lorenzo all day,
    Why because Lorenzo is a former multiple world champion and would be more likely to be fighting for wins or even a world title. I see Millar winning a odd race in a season but can't see him been a gp champion


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,907 ✭✭✭✭CJhaughey


    As a Team principal I would also be thinking about the team as a whole not just immediate results.
    Lorenzo has a lot of talent for sure but he is also very hard to work with in a team, look at some recent history for examples, The wall between him and Rossi.
    A lot of disruption in Ducati when he went there sure the results eventually came but the reports were that the Ducati garage was not a happy place when he wasn't winning and that may just have pissed them off enough to get rid of him.
    Bringing him into Pramac may have produced some results but it may also caused a lot of hassle internally.
    Jack is doing a good job this year, he's not winning every race but has had some solid results and is currently 8th while Lorenzo is 19th.
    No team manager is going to allow a currently contracted rider to break his contract because thats like opening Pandora's box.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭h3000


    legrand wrote: »
    sorry not Motogp - hearing (may be old news?) that Laverty hanging up his boots at the end of the season to concentrate on his Rider Academy. Good career, with right breaks (excuse the pun) could be been a great one.

    I know this is more WSBK than MotoGP but Laverty has signed with BMW for WSBK 2020. No retirement thankfully.
    http://www.worldsbk.com/en/news/2019/Eugene%20Laverty%20signs%20with%20the%20BMW%20Motorrad%20WorldSBK%20Team?fbclid=IwAR3izYi7lRp6dQkeNapLfAbQjHbvTEe3V0jpdZQqQj5wvJkZrgIOl1L8n0U

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 681 ✭✭✭legrand


    Good to hear. With any luck will be at the sharp end next year.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    That was a nasty crash glad Dovi is OK. Looked bad there for a minute.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Infoanon


    Scary moment for Dovi but what a brilliant race again - the noise of the crowd added to the last lap showdown !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    Wow what a finish! Holy ****.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭pablo128


    I'm here. We were sitting in the Luffield stand. The place properly lit up when Rins won. It erupted. Great day and unreal weather. It's as hot as Spain here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    pablo128 wrote: »
    I'm here. We were sitting in the Luffield stand. The place properly lit up when Rins won. It erupted. Great day and unreal weather. It's as hot as Spain here.

    Wheres that in relation to the finish line? Do they have screens and stuff around?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭pablo128


    The Nal wrote: »
    Wheres that in relation to the finish line? Do they have screens and stuff around?

    Yes, there was a screen right in front of us. We were on the last corner. We couldn't quite see the finish line but we could see it on the screen when they went out of view.

    We had a ringside view of Alex Marquez falling out of the lead of moto2.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,118 ✭✭✭tommyboy26


    The Nal wrote: »
    That was a nasty crash glad Dovi is OK. Looked bad there for a minute.

    Heart was in my mouth. I honestly was scared he was seriously hurt.


    what a finish to the race beautiful finish. its good to see racing with more competitiveness. different riders challanging MM.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,101 ✭✭✭Max Headroom


    While the last few laps were good I feel we were robbed of possibly the best race in a long time with Quatro and Dovi out
    That Suzuki is clearly a great bike in the right hands...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,118 ✭✭✭tommyboy26


    https://www.motogp.com/en/news/2019/08/28/motogp2020-provisional-2020-calendar-released/306763


    next years calendar. finland added and a few places moved around the order.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,101 ✭✭✭Max Headroom


    tommyboy26 wrote: »
    https://www.motogp.com/en/news/2019/08/28/motogp2020-provisional-2020-calendar-released/306763


    next years calendar. finland added and a few places moved around the order.


    Fcuk me...doesnt it snow there all year round..........:D

    While i have ye...any news on that new track up north...???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Infoanon


    tommyboy26 wrote: »
    https://www.motogp.com/en/news/2019/08/28/motogp2020-provisional-2020-calendar-released/306763


    next years calendar. finland added and a few places moved around the order.
    Finland has to be a summer time race hence the changes around those dates. The change to the Thai race was a surprise, all this being provisional


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Infoanon


    Zarco replaced by Mike Kallio for the rest of the season (apparently Dani said no) .

    Will Zarco replace Lorenzo at Honda next year is a story that is not going away.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 702 ✭✭✭Magown3


    Infoanon wrote: »
    Zarco replaced by Mike Kallio for the rest of the season (apparently Dani said no) .

    Will Zarco replace Lorenzo at Honda next year is a story that is not going away.

    And then Lorenzo to...... ?????

    Interesting, I haven't heard that rumour before.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Infoanon


    Magown3 wrote: »
    Infoanon wrote: »
    Zarco replaced by Mike Kallio for the rest of the season (apparently Dani said no) .

    Will Zarco replace Lorenzo at Honda next year is a story that is not going away.

    And then Lorenzo to...... ?????

    Interesting, I haven't heard that rumour before.
    Retiring or a year out before going back to Yamaha (or Ducati since he already openly sought the Pramac ride).

    PUig has been making some rumblings as well about Lorenzo's performance

    However it must be remembered that only Marquez can ride the Honda at the moment so it's not just Lorenzo's performances that are under par.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,495 ✭✭✭XsApollo


    Lifelong Rossi fan , so no rose tinted glasses from me.
    The only person capable of challenging Márquez for a few seasons is Lorenzo he really needs to get up to speed on that Honda, which I have no doubt he eventually will.

    I don’t think Viñales has the consistency or is too fragile or something to do it, he is fast on his day.
    Rossi is fast on his day but they are getting few and far between.

    Quartararo definitely has the potential and speed, but right now he is riding a bike and that’s it pretty much, and the satellite Yamahas are usually well planted but not the fastest so be interesting to see how he handles the factory bike with all that brings when he gets it.

    Rins is fast too another contender with potential , I don’t know if the Suzuki will do it for him tho.

    If Lorenzo gets the bike the way he likes he is the only one with the speed to match Marc when Márc is having a good day.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 681 ✭✭✭legrand


    The Nal wrote: »
    zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........
    Something about Aragon - probably the least exciting track to watch racing - made worse by MM sleep waking to victory.
    XsApollo wrote: »
    Lifelong Rossi fan , so no rose tinted glasses from me.
    The only person capable of challenging Márquez for a few seasons is Lorenzo he really needs to get up to speed on that Honda, which I have no doubt he eventually will.

    I don’t think Viñales has the consistency or is too fragile or something to do it, he is fast on his day.
    Rossi is fast on his day but they are getting few and far between.

    Quartararo definitely  has the potential and speed, but right now he is riding a bike and that’s it pretty much, and the satellite Yamahas are usually well planted but not the fastest so be interesting to see how he handles the factory bike with all that brings when he gets it.

    Rins is fast too another contender with potential , I don’t know if the Suzuki will do it for him tho.

    If Lorenzo gets the bike the way he likes he is the only one with the speed to match Marc when Márc is having a good day.
    Dunno if this applies any more?  Lorenzo had a handful of 'days' in the Ducati last season and it's been a few years since he was leading the field otherwise (and sad to say - same for Rossi) . Reckon up to other young-fella's with right bike package to take the fight to MM. We may need to wait awhile yet however.


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