SPOILER ALERT: MotoGP - Round 2 Austin!

I'm happy that this year is more entertaining! Lots of good racing and... wait for it... Ducati got on the podium in a dry race! Say what?!?

Bad news is that Cal Crutchlow crashed hard and got tangled up with his bike. He broke his hand, but he is OK otherwise. His teammate Dovi got his Ducati on the podium. Congrats to him!

For a while "Crazy Joe" Andrea Iononne was holding third place, but given how physical the track is he seemed to get tired and got passed up. He also seemed to have some bad rear chatter.

Bad luck for the factory yamaha guys. Lorenzo jumped the start...badly. Lorenzo said he had big mosquitoes on his visor before the start, took his tear-off off on grid, got confused with lights and jumped. Rossi had a front wheel problem that caused him drop places rapidly.

Great race overall! Marquez dominated of course, and his close call at the end was amusing!

I watched the BT Sport 2 video stream and they had Ben Spies commentating during the race. I wish he would do this all of the time. He's able to provide great technical insight and can pick out the problems the riders have with their bikes.

Selfie: The podium guys!




Pos. Points Num. Rider Nation Team Bike Km/h Time/Gap

1 25 93 Marc MARQUEZ SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 159.4 43'33.430
2 20 26 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 159.2 +4.124
3 16 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Ducati Team Ducati 158.2 +20.976
4 13 6 Stefan BRADL GER LCR Honda MotoGP Honda 158.0 +22.790
5 11 38 Bradley SMITH GBR Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 158.0 +22.963
6 10 44 Pol ESPARGARO SPA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 157.8 +26.567
7 9 29 Andrea IANNONE ITA Pramac Racing Ducati 157.7 +28.257
8 8 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha 156.7 +45.519
9 7 41 Aleix ESPARGARO SPA NGM Forward Racing Forward Yamaha 156.6 +47.605
10 6 99 Jorge LORENZO SPA Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha 156.5 +49.111
11 5 69 Nicky HAYDEN USA Drive M7 Aspar Honda 155.8 +1'00.735
12 4 7 Hiroshi AOYAMA JPN Drive M7 Aspar Honda 155.6 +1'03.954
13 3 68 Yonny HERNANDEZ COL Energy T.I. Pramac Racing Ducati 155.4 +1'07.333
14 2 17 Karel ABRAHAM CZE Cardion AB Motoracing Honda 154.2 +1'27.972
15 1 8 Hector BARBERA SPA Avintia Racing Avintia 154.0 +1'32.376
16 70 Michael LAVERTY GBR Paul Bird Motorsport PBM 154.0 +1'32.543
17 9 Danilo PETRUCCI ITA IodaRacing Project ART 153.6 +1'39.176
18 63 Mike DI MEGLIO FRA Avintia Racing Avintia 152.9 +1'51.962

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45 Scott REDDING GBR GO&FUN Honda Gresini Honda 155.2 2 Laps
5 Colin EDWARDS USA NGM Forward Racing Forward Yamaha 154.9 4 Laps
35 Cal CRUTCHLOW GBR Ducati Team Ducati 152.4 9 Laps
19 Alvaro BAUTISTA SPA GO&FUN Honda Gresini Honda 158.3 12 Laps
23 Broc PARKES AUS Paul Bird Motorsport PBM 151.3 13 Laps

I was just about to go ride today and saw that racing was on....priorities:thumbup:
The moto3 class...I really like that one. To me it's like sports, pro level is good but college has more action.
I did go ride afterward as it was such a nice day here.

Yeah, that last of the Moto3 race was awesome!!

And did you hear what Marc said when interviewed right after the race about that last bobble before crossing the finish line? Something about wanting to make it exciting for his crew since according to him it hadn't been exciting enough up to that point. lol

Verharen said:

Yeah, that last of the Moto3 race was awesome!!

And did you hear what Marc said when interviewed right after the race about that last bobble before crossing the finish line? Something about wanting to make it exciting for his crew since according to him it hadn't been exciting enough up to that point. lol

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Probably gave them heart problems!

Very disappointed for Rossi. He had a bad start (spun the rear and fishtailed a bit), but made up a bunch of positions really quickly. He looked really good .. and then something happened to the front and he dropped way back

Very impressive for Jorge to climb back up to 10th.

Goop said:

Bad news is that Cal Crutchlow crashed hard and got tangled up with his bike. He broke his hand, but he is OK otherwise. His teammate Dovi got his Ducati on the podium. Congrats to him!

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Crazy race right from the start. Great that Ducati is really improving. Fortunately Cal has no fractures.

Crash.net: 'A fracture was initially feared but medical centre checks diagnosed a dislocated little finger, together with some bruising.'

Did Lorenzo jump the start? It was close...Blah

I spent close to 10 hours watching bike racing yesterday, what a great Sunday! The first Aragon SBK race started at 10am and the MotoGP race finished around 10pm, just paused the Supersport race long enough to go out for a steak lunch then paused the 1000 Superstock race for an hour so to go to the pub late afternoon :spank:

All 7 races I watched were really worth watching for a change :thumbup:

says it all.

Neal said:

says it all.

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Yup! I was looking for that exact pic to post here (saw it at work.. but navigating via small phone sucks).

Unbelievable that with the tire in that condition, Rossi said he had to drop his pace by about 3 seconds! Just 3 seconds?? That's why they call these guys aliens!

Pretty boring MotoGP race but Moto3 was great AND Jack Miller won

I think a few people had tyre problems, including Nicky Hayden and Scott Redding.

Do you think it's time they were allowed their own tyre choices rather than a single manufacturer? We all remember Phillip Island last year - what a bloody joke!