Moto GP 2024

[Yazza54]

Could be a boring weekend looking at Pecco's form, can't see Martin or Maverick hanging on consistently. Looked effortless for Pecco whereas the rest were forcing it.

Stupid from Marc, think Aleix pissed him off at the start of the lap but still no excuse. Also the fact they were all riding so slowly, it can't be good for maintaining focus plus we've seen loads of crashes due to slow out laps and not keeping tyre temps up.

Bez having an absolute shocker!!

[egor110]

Anyone watching now on the motogp app ?

[rodericb]

Yep Marquez. Went out in FP3 without knee sliders. Maybe he's got a cold?

[egor110]

Ah balls my app wouldn't work wondered if everyones was broke.

[John D.]

Full send from Aleix on the last lap. Reckon he thought he could pull off another pass like last year.

Impeccable Pecco at his best.

[FourWheelDrift]

Martin has a 3 place grid penalty for obstructing Fernandez in qualifying.

Both Espargaro (broken metacarpel) Savadori (back fractures) won't be racing.

New grid
1 Bagnaia
2 Viñales
3 A Marquez
4 Di Giannantonio
5 Martin
6 M Marquez
7 Morbidelli
8 Binder
9 Acosta
10 Bastianini
11 R Fernandez
12 Quartararo
13 Miller
14 Bezzecchi
15 Rins
16 Oliveira
17 Zarco
18 Mir
19 Marini
20 A Fernandez
21 Nakagami

Edited by FourWheelDrift on Sunday 30th June 09:31

[Yazza54]

Wow, awesome moto3 race. Sad for Colin veijer (spelling?) but looked like he had no tyre left, also ballsed up the pit board really telling him he had double the gap he actually had!!

[hiccy18]

Yup, cracking race. Shame for Veijer but Ortola had awesome pace today. Great start to the day.

[FourWheelDrift]

Finally a proper singer singing a national anthem.

[Yazza54]

Boring race, these gp24s are too good

[John D.]

Pecco pissed that.

Acosta made a great improvement from the sprint. Pretty impressive, even though he crashed out.

[wc98]

Oh well, there goes my theory the lines he is running would suit Assen. He is still in the process of how far and how often he can cross that fine line. Great journey to watch all the same. Starting to look like Ducati have built a near perfect bike.

[hiccy18]

The GP24 looks like it's really hitting its stride, all credit to Pecco though, hell of a weekend. Thinking about Martin, if he can't do it on the Ducati, how is he going to fair on the Aprilia? Shame to see silly tyre rules coming in to predictable effect.

Good ride from Ogura, Aldeguer is looking st or bust. I'm not convinced any Moto2 rider is ready for the step up.

[Yazza54]

hiccy18 said:

The GP24 looks like it's really hitting its stride, all credit to Pecco though, hell of a weekend. Thinking about Martin, if he can't do it on the Ducati, how is he going to fair on the Aprilia? Shame to see silly tyre rules coming in to predictable effect.

Good ride from Ogura, Aldeguer is looking st or bust. I'm not convinced any Moto2 rider is ready for the step up.

I agree and believe that the factory Ducati squad felt the same hence choosing Marc instead. After all, if Martin gets a tyre he doesn't like we've seen him be nowhere near Pecco, never mind on a completely different bike. I doubt he will be anything like as much of a threat on another bike as Marc could've been.

[hiccy18]

I like Jorge, but Pecco is really impressing me this year, fantastic to see the pair pushing each other but a shame there's no battling. Sachsenring should be epic, hoping for a three way fight.

[John D.]

hiccy18 said:

I like Jorge, but Pecco is really impressing me this year, fantastic to see the pair pushing each other but a shame there's no battling. Sachsenring should be epic, hoping for a three way fight.

Three way fight for second behind MM, yeah?

He's going to smoke them.

[rodericb]

Interesting with the tyre pressure thing for Marquez. The GP24's obviously had a lot of clean air and time for their tyres to cool off and lose pressure and, as it turned out, so did the GP23 under DiGiantonio after Marquez let him through and he had clear air for quite a few laps.

[hiccy18]

John D. said:

Three way fight for second behind MM, yeah?

He's going to smoke them.

I hope you're right, but I think those 24's have enough pace in hand to event hings up, especially with Pecco and Jorge on them.

Sounds like Frankie Carchedi and Marc are pushing the boundaries on setup, guessing they hoped to have the pace to run with the top two but simply didn't. If it's true that the pass from Enea contributed to the pressure failure that's right on the edge. Which is kinda cool.

[Yazza54]

rodericb said:

Interesting with the tyre pressure thing for Marquez. The GP24's obviously had a lot of clean air and time for their tyres to cool off and lose pressure and, as it turned out, so did the GP23 under DiGiantonio after Marquez let him through and he had clear air for quite a few laps.

All it means is they set the starting pressure too low on Marc's bike, this is the sort of fumble that wouldn't happen in a factory team

[John D.]

Yazza54 said:

rodericb said:

Interesting with the tyre pressure thing for Marquez. The GP24's obviously had a lot of clean air and time for their tyres to cool off and lose pressure and, as it turned out, so did the GP23 under DiGiantonio after Marquez let him through and he had clear air for quite a few laps.

All it means is they set the starting pressure too low on Marc's bike, this is the sort of fumble that wouldn't happen in a factory team

Yes, and Digi did the exact same thing as Marc (slowing to let another rider by).

Quite amusing when Marc just backed off as well and looked across at Digi, and then Vinales rode past them both.

ETA - According to Oxley; Digi slowed as he the front tyre was too cold and he was losing the front rather than the pressure was too low.

Edited by John D. on Monday 1st July 08:16