2018 MotoGP Season ****Possible Spoilers ****

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FP 1 & 2

1 26 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 328.3 1'40.303
2 35 Cal CRUTCHLOW GBR LCR Honda CASTROL Honda 332.4 1'40.345 0.042 / 0.042
3 29 Andrea IANNONE ITA Team SUZUKI ECSTAR Suzuki 324.4 1'40.386 0.083 / 0.041
4 5 Johann ZARCO FRA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 325.5 1'40.614 0.311 / 0.228
5 43 Jack MILLER AUS Alma Pramac Racing Ducati 326.2 1'40.715 0.412 / 0.101
6 93 Marc MARQUEZ SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 333.0 1'40.781 0.478 / 0.066
7 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha 328.0 1'40.825 0.522 / 0.044
8 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Ducati Team Ducati 329.1 1'40.938 0.635 / 0.113
9 99 Jorge LORENZO SPA Ducati Team Ducati 330.1 1'41.019 0.716 / 0.081
10 9 Danilo PETRUCCI ITA Alma Pramac Racing Ducati 331.5 1'41.066 0.763 / 0.047
11 55 Hafizh SYAHRIN MAL Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 323.7 1'41.094 0.791 / 0.028
12 41 Aleix ESPARGARO SPA Aprilia Racing Team Gresini Aprilia 325.6 1'41.163 0.860 / 0.069
13 25 Maverick VIÑALES SPA Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha 328.7 1'41.224 0.921 / 0.061
14 38 Bradley SMITH GBR Red Bull KTM Factory Racing KTM 325.6 1'41.286 0.983 / 0.062
15 45 Scott REDDING GBR Aprilia Racing Team Gresini Aprilia 322.5 1'41.346 1.043 / 0.060
16 44 Pol ESPARGARO SPA Red Bull KTM Factory Racing KTM 327.6 1'41.355 1.052 / 0.009
17 53 Tito RABAT SPA Reale Avintia Racing Ducati 329.2 1'41.421 1.118 / 0.066
18 30 Takaaki NAKAGAMI JPN LCR Honda IDEMITSU Honda 322.6 1'41.449 1.146 / 0.028
19 21 Franco MORBIDELLI ITA EG 0,0 Marc VDS Honda 320.8 1'41.538 1.235 / 0.089
20 19 Alvaro BAUTISTA SPA Angel Nieto Team Ducati 330.9 1'41.624 1.321 / 0.086
21 42 Alex RINS SPA Team SUZUKI ECSTAR Suzuki 326.1 1'41.802 1.499 / 0.178
22 10 Xavier SIMEON BEL Reale Avintia Racing Ducati 321.9 1'42.192 1.889 / 0.390
23 12 Thomas LUTHI SWI EG 0,0 Marc VDS Honda 319.3 1'42.698 2.395 / 0.506
24 17 Karel ABRAHAM CZE Angel Nieto Team Ducati 323.5 1'42.857 2.554 / 0.159


Pos. Num. Rider Nation Team Bike Km/h Time Gap 1st/Prev.
1 93 Marc MARQUEZ SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 325.0 1'39.395
2 35 Cal CRUTCHLOW GBR LCR Honda CASTROL Honda 325.7 1'39.799 0.404 / 0.404
3 53 Tito RABAT SPA Reale Avintia Racing Ducati 324.8 1'40.346 0.951 / 0.547
4 29 Andrea IANNONE ITA Team SUZUKI ECSTAR Suzuki 316.8 1'40.455 1.060 / 0.109
5 26 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 319.3 1'40.494 1.099 / 0.039
6 25 Maverick VIÑALES SPA Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha 320.6 1'40.510 1.115 / 0.016
7 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha 317.9 1'40.577 1.182 / 0.067
8 42 Alex RINS SPA Team SUZUKI ECSTAR Suzuki 318.0 1'40.592 1.197 / 0.015
9 19 Alvaro BAUTISTA SPA Angel Nieto Team Ducati 320.5 1'40.766 1.371 / 0.174
10 41 Aleix ESPARGARO SPA Aprilia Racing Team Gresini Aprilia 314.0 1'40.800 1.405 / 0.034
11 45 Scott REDDING GBR Aprilia Racing Team Gresini Aprilia 314.2 1'40.839 1.444 / 0.039
12 43 Jack MILLER AUS Alma Pramac Racing Ducati 316.9 1'40.842 1.447 / 0.003
13 9 Danilo PETRUCCI ITA Alma Pramac Racing Ducati 327.3 1'40.863 1.468 / 0.021
14 5 Johann ZARCO FRA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 319.4 1'40.974 1.579 / 0.111
15 38 Bradley SMITH GBR Red Bull KTM Factory Racing KTM 318.0 1'41.198 1.803 / 0.224
16 55 Hafizh SYAHRIN MAL Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 315.6 1'41.257 1.862 / 0.059
17 99 Jorge LORENZO SPA Ducati Team Ducati 323.5 1'41.334 1.939 / 0.077
18 30 Takaaki NAKAGAMI JPN LCR Honda IDEMITSU Honda 314.4 1'41.357 1.962 / 0.023
19 17 Karel ABRAHAM CZE Angel Nieto Team Ducati 322.6 1'41.784 2.389 / 0.427
20 21 Franco MORBIDELLI ITA EG 0,0 Marc VDS Honda 313.8 1'41.832 2.437 / 0.048
21 44 Pol ESPARGARO SPA Red Bull KTM Factory Racing KTM 320.5 1'41.867 2.472 / 0.035
22 12 Thomas LUTHI SWI EG 0,0 Marc VDS Honda 314.4 1'41.898 2.503 / 0.031
23 10 Xavier SIMEON BEL Reale Avintia Racing Ducati 320.3 1'42.242 2.847 / 0.344
24 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Ducati Team

 

What an incredible couple of laps

 

Big move marquez going to Rossi's pit to apologise and turned away. Marquez is a great rider, but too ruthless for his own good sometimes.

 

and now you can do something useful for once and translate!

 

lol...good one.

 

Image Unavailable, Please Login Mat Oxley‏ @matoxley
Poor Pedrosa - broke his right wrist in the lap-one crash. Surgery required. There's no one on the grid who has been injured as much. If Pedrosa was bigger, so he could climb around the bike more, and hadn't been so unlucky with injuries, he would've won a title. No doubt

 

Marquez became embroiled in controversy at Termas de Rio Hondo, earning a ride-through penalty for illegally starting on the grid after stalling his bike and then getting into further trouble with the stewards for collisions with Aleix Espargaro and Valentino Rossi.
Rossi accused Marquez afterwardsof deliberately riding into him and “destroying the sport”, although the Honda rider insisted his attempt to pass for sixth was “nothing crazy”.
Asked for his thoughts on the controversy, Dovizioso refused to comment directly, but did point out that Marquez’s pace in Argentina meant the reigning champion should have been able to win easily.
“Marc managed things particularly badly, because when you are on a track where you are a second faster than everyone in all conditions, it should be easy to get the maximum result,” he said.
“He did everything he didn’t have to do.”
Dovizioso finished a distant seventh on the road in Argentina - which became sixth after Marquez was handed a 30-second penalty - losing the lead of the championship to race winner Cal Crutchlow.
The Italian, who won last month's season opener Qatar, said the result confirmed that the Desmosedici still has weak tracks that could hinder Ducati’s quest to win its first title in 11 years.
“We confirmed our downsides on the flyaway tracks, and we can’t afford this if we want to fight for the championship, because there are too many competitive riders and you’ll lose too many points,” he said.
“The improvements we made this winter were not enough in this aspect.
“Austin is on paper not a favourable track, but I hope it is better than this. We have to see how the condition of the track is, because last year there were a lot of bumps, which were very annoying.”

 

In the blue corner: Valentino Rossi


Termas Clash: Rossi's point-of-view

“He is destroying our sport.” Harsh words from the ‘Doctor’ in the aftermath, with Rossi citing Marquez’ weekend as further evidence of the reigning Champion’s mistakes, beginning on Friday morning as the number 93 got too close to his teammate Maverick Viñales. “Why?” Was the simple response – saying it wasn’t necessary in a practice session. Likewise, Rossi says Marquez had such superior pace that there was no need to pounce immediately.

“He purposefully entered to hit me, on my leg…I laughed, because it’s too much. I’ve not had any relationship with Marquez since 2015 so it doesn’t change anything. If he doesn’t respect me, I don’t respect him. But respect is another story. This is dangerous. He hit Aleix…we are MotoGP and we are the top of motorcycling. If everyone starts to ride like this, it would be a destruction derby. Maybe it would just be Marquez at the end. For me they have a big responsibility to do something, because if not, the game doesn’t work. He raised the level, he doesn’t play aggressive, he plays dirty. In the next race if nothing is done, he will do it again. I’m upset because I suffered a lot, but I took points for the Championship.”


Termas Clash: Movistar Yamaha's Lin Jarvis's point-of-view 08/04/2018

The Movistar Yamaha Team Manager explains his thoughts on the clash between Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez

In the red corner: Marc Marquez


Termas Clash: Marquez's point-of-view

“I apologised to Aleix because that was my mistake. I was coming much faster and I didn’t expect him to brake where he did. Luckily, nothing too bad happened. I saw to give back a position, which I understood, so I did that…then I was just trying to come back through the pack and the track was difficult to overtake on.“

“I tried to pass Valentino, then I lost the front a bit and hit a patch of water – so I had to release the brake. Then what happened, happened…we touched. He fell. When the race was over I went to the box to apologise and they wouldn’t let me in. But I respect that.“

“I made a mistake, involuntarily. I hit a patch of water. I was pushing 100%, the track was difficult and that made overtaking hard. I didn’t do anything on purpose and certainly didn’t try to make contact with anyone.”

 

For the people who are dumb like me...

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Honda rider Marquez was placed under investigation at the end of qualifying for blocking Vinales at Turn 15 while the Yamaha rider was on a hot lap.
The reigning champion had provisionally scored his sixth successive pole at the Circuit of the Americas after beating Yamaha man Vinales - who regrouped to set the second-fastest time - by 0.406s.
While Marquez's 46th premier class pole will stand in the record books, the stewards have elected to demote him to fourth place on the grid.
It promotes Vinales to pole for the first time since last year's Aragon race, ahead of Andrea Iannone's Suzuki and Johann Zarco's Tech 3 Yamaha.
KTM rider Pol Espargaro was also handed a three-place penalty for blocking the Marc VDS Honda of Thomas Luthi in Q1, and drops from 12th to 15th on the grid as a result.