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Was that Bagnaia's best race? I think it has to be up there. He had to pass the KTMs that were fast, and he had to stay on the bike. For the **** he's taken since the last race, that was an impressive showing. The Quartararo, Morbidelli and Bagnaia penalties were all overly harsh...

Interesting tweet around announced but never-happened races. More than I remember. Not a great pattern, but not surprising.

I'll say this about Puig, he backs his people's interests all the time no matter how irrational it may sound.

2nd race of the season and we're down to 18 riders

i guess it just goes to show you can't trust pre-season testing, myself included. The sprint race should be interesting tomorrow.

An 'adult' sponsor has returned to Grand Prix racing. OnlyFans is sponsoring the American Racing Moto2 team. https://www.gpone.com/en/2023/03/15/moto2/onlyfans-makes-american-racing-team-sexy-in-motogp.html

This is something that low level bothers me about racing. In its purest form, racing every man for himself, but the idea of teammates in racing would be so bizarre if it weren't so normalized. Even worse, in the case of motogp, you have a case where it's not only teammates, but everyone on...

Ok... i don't feel like working yet, so here is my rider "power rankings" for 2023. If I were starting a team, here is who I would want on my team. Tier 1 - Proven Championship Level Bagnaia - Defending champ Quartararo - Fast rider on a slower bike Tier 2 - Potential Championship Level...

I think Dorna has kind of put itself in a rules trap. Ducati has excelled at the aero and squatting, which has given them the competitive advantage. When it was more about chassis and engine, it was Honda and Yamaha that excelled. Ducati will not want to give up their competitive advantage...

Look what Yamaha tested today:

Yeah, Yamaha have never really been supportive of customer/satellite teams. I am dubious of their verbal willingness to change that. I guess we'll see how powerful the VR46 brand is. Yup. The rumour floating was: Martin to Yamaha; Bezzechi to Pramac; Morbidelli to VR46 I have to believe...

IfV46 does go to Yamaha (though, given the current performance climate, I think he'd want to stay on the Ducati until Yamaha shows serious performance increases), I can see Ducati wanting to keep Bezzechi. I don't think they are as bullish on Marini. Despite Morbidelli's very poor performance...

Something like this happened to me 2 years ago - they took it out of my refund cheque the year after.

I know no one wins 'testing' but so far, looks like Ducati is essentially leaving things alone - a GP22 is tops, but all the GP23s are right there, which leads me to believe they did not too anything radically different. They are dominating the top of the charts. The gap between the factory...

what year did they split? As far as I can remember it was always 2 shows.

I am going to guess not.

Kawasaki, BMW also missing. Shame. I think GP Bikes used to represent Ducati at that show

Comments from Davide Brivio re: Honda and Yamaha. A bit hyperbolic but some interesting nuggets https://www.crash.net/motogp/news/1018803/1/valentino-rossi-s-old-boss-yamaha-don-t-understand-different-20-years-ago

Does that really apply to B2C in the internet age now? I am not sure - certainly not as much as it would have in the past anyway. Annecdotal, but I have to think this is a substantial portion of all motorcyclists: My first step of research is the internet, not shows for B2C. B2B makes a lot...

No doubt economics played a part, but I wonder if it's a permanent decision, or if they are still monitoring the crowd levels after covid, and will return. (Same re: the manufacturers show, as they used to do that one as well).