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I think the realistic prediction is that MM will head into the race with the attitude that he just needs to finish as close to Dovi as possible, even behind. That will all fly out the window as soon as the lights go out.
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The MM save in FP4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY0zJrk5ZnQ
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Skreemer posted:The MM save in FP4: Yeah that wasn't abiding to newtonian physics.
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saying he defies physics is dusty af
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His knee slider got twisted around and somehow he still has a functioning leg, that's more physics defying than his save.
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Cmon Jorge, let me drink those Rossi Fanboi tears
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I love how a tight championship makes mediocre races feel super suspenseful. Rossi needs to retire and start a satellite team so Zarco can get a factory bike.
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Zarco's had a hell of a year, nice to see him on the podium again.
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I know no one follows Moto2, but KTM got the second double podium in a row. Olivera is riding like he's on fire, and Binder has to fight to keep up, but he's at the sharp end now that he's healthy. Thomas Luthi broke his ankle and couldn't race, "gifting" the championship to Franco Morbidelli. With the resurgence of KTM, Olivera pushed Alex Marquez out of third place for the championship. Oliver and Alex were separated by only one point. With Olivera winning, and Alex crashing twice in the race, that cements the top 4 places for the series. 10 riders in Moto2 went down and 4 of them didn't even finish the first lap.
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KTM's rapid ownage of moto2 is substantially more impressive than their charge into the top ten in GP. They are literally running a rookie outfit with an untested bike and two class rookies aboard, one of whom effectively lost half a season to recurring horrible injury, and they're somehow locking out the podium.
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Slavvy posted:KTM's rapid ownage of moto2 is substantially more impressive than their charge into the top ten in GP. They are literally running a rookie outfit with an untested bike and two class rookies aboard, one of whom effectively lost half a season to recurring horrible injury, and they're somehow locking out the podium. No it's not. Moto2 requires essentially no motor tech aside from some very minor tuning you're allowed to do. They are a full factory racing against what are essentially boutique moto2 specific chassis makers that are in it to make money instead of advertise their brand.
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So what? Those boutique chassis makers have had many years to carefully extract every tiny advantage they can and as a result the kalex bikes at least have reached sufficient refinement that the fastest M2 riders are nipping at the times the slowest gp bikes can set at tracks where horsepower isn't too important. The nature of single-engine series like that is that minute gains in aerodynamics, weight etc are very impactful. Just throwing money at the problem works eventually but leapfrogging years of carefully hoarded knowledge is really bloody hard regardless of how rich you are. They're doing exactly the same thing in GP but they've yet to consistently outperform the better satellite outfits despite having the huge advantages a factory effort confers. Still impressive, but not dry podiums in the first year impressive.
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Final round of WSBK, Rea does the double and beat the 2002 record held by Colin Edwards for most points in one season. Davies pulls second and with Sykes out of race 2, Davies takes second overall in the championship. Sykes 3rd, Melandri 4th, Loewes 5th, VanderMark 6th Huge save from Davies in race 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu-6bQTqNxI Skreemer fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Nov 4, 2017 |
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Last race of the year for MotoGP. Any bets on who'll win? (Go Dovi.)
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We'll all know by the end of first practice. If that Ducati is not hooked up for Valencia then congrats Marquez.
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It's Marquez' to lose but it has happened before in Valencia. RIP
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Are there any prop bets on Dovi winning because Marquez pushes too hard and crashes out?
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I'll optimistically bet my pride and say that if dovi finds himself in the lead and Marquez gets tangled up with Zarco or something it could happen.
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Odds are less now than with the briggstones (sorry this reference is now very very out of date). When you backed off with those tires you could lose the heat in the front tire and crash - it definitely happened. The only way Marquez does't bring this home is if someone hits him and takes him out - or another mechanical DNF.
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That still happens with michelin, it's just the rain tyres  Or he chokes with the title in the bag like how rossi, a far less prolific crasher, did that one time.
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Slavvy posted:Or he chokes with the title in the bag like how rossi, a far less prolific crasher, did that one time. Man that was an amazing / strange season. Dovi taking out Hayden the race before, and then Rossi crashing out on a low speed turn. Also, Troy 
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It's pedrosa that took hayden out. Also bayliss is the loving man and not moving to GP earlier in his career is a bloody tragedy.
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gently caress yeah, derp, you knew what I meant.
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Wirth1000 posted:We'll all know by the end of first practice. If that Ducati is not hooked up for Valencia then congrats Marquez. FP2 has it this way: 1 99 Jorge LORENZO 2 26 Dani PEDROSA 3 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO 4 5 Johann ZARCO 5 93 Marc MARQUEZ 6 43 Jack MILLER 7 35 Cal CRUTCHLOW 8 51 Michele PIRRO 9 46 Valentino ROSSI 10 44 Pol ESPARGARO 11 25 Maverick VIÑALES We'll see how things go in FP3 and Qualifying.
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Congratulations 2017 MotoGP World Champin Andrea Dovizioso.
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Champion of my heart if nothing else  Mancrush on maverick vinales is over, dovi is my crush now.
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In sad news, Julian Ryder is quitting his role as commentator for BTsport. When I first started watching MotoGP it was with Eurosport's coverage with Ryder, Moody, and Mamola, so Ryder's voice has been part of my summers since 2008. It finally seemed like Ryder and Huewen had really started to sync, too, though I haven't watched as attentively this year. I like the rest of BTsports coverage team so hopefully they can just move an existing person up to the box.
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Well, nothing like making it really tough on yourself, here's the starting grid: 1 93 Marc MARQUEZ 2 5 Johann ZARCO 3 29 Andrea IANNONE 4 99 Jorge LORENZO 5 26 Dani PEDROSA 6 51 Michele PIRRO 7 46 Valentino ROSSI 8 41 Aleix ESPARGARO 9 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO 10 42 Alex RINS 11 44 Pol ESPARGARO 12 43 Jack MILLER
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Congratulations to 2017 MotoGP World Champion Marc Marquez
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Two of his wins have come from the third row so it isn't the end of the world, the lack of race pace is what will really gently caress him though soWirth1000 posted:Congratulations to 2017 MotoGP World Champion Marc Marquez
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Gay Nudist Dad posted:In sad news, Julian Ryder is quitting his role as commentator for BTsport. When I first started watching MotoGP it was with Eurosport's coverage with Ryder, Moody, and Mamola, so Ryder's voice has been part of my summers since 2008. It finally seemed like Ryder and Huewen had really started to sync, too, though I haven't watched as attentively this year. I like the rest of BTsports coverage team so hopefully they can just move an existing person up to the box. This is the worst news since BT Sport dropped Moody, and there's been some pretty lovely things happen since then.
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Toby and Julien was basically the best commentary team that transcended all sport they were perfect
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how lucky?? how skilled?? edit: rip also lol Jorge lmao
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Holy gently caress. Everyone pushing like crazy, go Zarco and drat Jorge is going to get a bit of a talking to.
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If KTM can keep it together over the winter, they'll be a favorite for next year. Olivera wins, Binder in third. Moto2, look out.
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I was spoiled on the championship result which, yeah, no real surprise. But that race  holy gently caress how dramatic was that. And that’s before Marquez tested the laws of physics.
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In his own words, "Marquez style to the end". What a season.
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gently caress, what a race. Amazed when both Ducatis went down after another. Way to go Zarco!
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That was a bizarre race. The grip limit on the front tyre was so low it seemed that everyone who got to grips with the tyres ended up having identical lap times and everyone who tried to exceed that crashed (marquez' incident effectively being a crash he brought back). They also went substantially slower than last year. Maybe the track got really bleached during the off-season or something? Weird stuff anyway. Rins is gonna be a force next year I reckon.
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