MotoGP Race 1 - Qatar - SPOILERS!

[Goop]

So begins 2013! Looks like we'll have some good battles if this continues like today!

I think Dovi has what the Ducati needs to be ridden!

FP1

Pos. Num. Rider Nation Team Bike Km/h Time Gap 1st/Prev.
1 99 Jorge LORENZO SPA Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha 341.7 1'56.685
2 35 Cal CRUTCHLOW GBR Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 338.5 1'56.743 0.058 / 0.058
3 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha 338.2 1'56.756 0.071 / 0.013
4 93 Marc MARQUEZ SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 344.7 1'57.276 0.591 / 0.520
5 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Ducati Team Ducati 343.0 1'57.538 0.853 / 0.262
6 19 Alvaro BAUTISTA SPA GO&FUN Honda Gresini Honda 340.4 1'57.601 0.916 / 0.063
7 6 Stefan BRADL GER LCR Honda MotoGP Honda 343.5 1'57.670 0.985 / 0.069
8 26 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 344.4 1'57.749 1.064 / 0.079
9 41 Aleix ESPARGARO SPA Power Electronics Aspar ART 325.3 1'57.843 1.158 / 0.094
10 69 Nicky HAYDEN USA Ducati Team Ducati 341.7 1'57.926 1.241 / 0.083
11 38 Bradley SMITH GBR Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 328.5 1'58.369 1.684 / 0.443
12 29 Andrea IANNONE ITA Energy T.I. Pramac Racing Ducati 340.5 1'58.559 1.874 / 0.190
13 11 Ben SPIES USA Ignite Pramac Racing Ducati 341.0 1'58.575 1.890 / 0.016
14 8 Hector BARBERA SPA Avintia Blusens FTR 319.1 1'59.608 2.923 / 1.033
15 14 Randy DE PUNIET FRA Power Electronics Aspar ART 323.2 1'59.633 2.948 / 0.025
16 17 Karel ABRAHAM CZE Cardion AB Motoracing ART 324.3 1'59.758 3.073 / 0.125
17 5 Colin EDWARDS USA NGM Mobile Forward Racing FTR Kawasaki 320.6 2'00.341 3.656 / 0.583
18 68 Yonny HERNANDEZ COL Paul Bird Motorsport ART 317.6 2'00.426 3.741 / 0.085
19 7 Hiroshi AOYAMA JPN Avintia Blusens FTR 311.4 2'00.563 3.878 / 0.137
20 71 Claudio CORTI ITA NGM Mobile Forward Racing FTR Kawasaki 321.0 2'01.227 4.542 / 0.664
21 9 Danilo PETRUCCI ITA Came IodaRacing Project Ioda-Suter 317.7 2'01.438 4.753 / 0.211
22 67 Bryan STARING AUS GO&FUN Honda Gresini FTR Honda 317.9 2'01.942 5.257 / 0.504
23 52 Lukas PESEK CZE Came IodaRacing Project Ioda-Suter 317.2 2'02.079 5.394 / 0.137
24 70 Michael LAVERTY GBR Paul Bird Motorsport PBM 318.3 2'02.135 5.450 / 0.056

 

[Yasko]

So begins 2013! Looks like we'll have some good battles if this continues like today!

I think Dovi has what the Ducati needs to be ridden!

FP1

Pos. Num. Rider Nation Team Bike Km/h Time Gap 1st/Prev.
1 99 Jorge LORENZO SPA Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha 341.7 1'56.685
2 35 Cal CRUTCHLOW GBR Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 338.5 1'56.743 0.058 / 0.058
3 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha 338.2 1'56.756 0.071 / 0.013
4 93 Marc MARQUEZ SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 344.7 1'57.276 0.591 / 0.520
5 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Ducati Team Ducati 343.0 1'57.538 0.853 / 0.262
6 19 Alvaro BAUTISTA SPA GO&FUN Honda Gresini Honda 340.4 1'57.601 0.916 / 0.063
7 6 Stefan BRADL GER LCR Honda MotoGP Honda 343.5 1'57.670 0.985 / 0.069
8 26 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 344.4 1'57.749 1.064 / 0.079
9 41 Aleix ESPARGARO SPA Power Electronics Aspar ART 325.3 1'57.843 1.158 / 0.094
10 69 Nicky HAYDEN USA Ducati Team Ducati 341.7 1'57.926 1.241 / 0.083
11 38 Bradley SMITH GBR Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 328.5 1'58.369 1.684 / 0.443
12 29 Andrea IANNONE ITA Energy T.I. Pramac Racing Ducati 340.5 1'58.559 1.874 / 0.190
13 11 Ben SPIES USA Ignite Pramac Racing Ducati 341.0 1'58.575 1.890 / 0.016
14 8 Hector BARBERA SPA Avintia Blusens FTR 319.1 1'59.608 2.923 / 1.033
15 14 Randy DE PUNIET FRA Power Electronics Aspar ART 323.2 1'59.633 2.948 / 0.025
16 17 Karel ABRAHAM CZE Cardion AB Motoracing ART 324.3 1'59.758 3.073 / 0.125
17 5 Colin EDWARDS USA NGM Mobile Forward Racing FTR Kawasaki 320.6 2'00.341 3.656 / 0.583
18 68 Yonny HERNANDEZ COL Paul Bird Motorsport ART 317.6 2'00.426 3.741 / 0.085
19 7 Hiroshi AOYAMA JPN Avintia Blusens FTR 311.4 2'00.563 3.878 / 0.137
20 71 Claudio CORTI ITA NGM Mobile Forward Racing FTR Kawasaki 321.0 2'01.227 4.542 / 0.664
21 9 Danilo PETRUCCI ITA Came IodaRacing Project Ioda-Suter 317.7 2'01.438 4.753 / 0.211
22 67 Bryan STARING AUS GO&FUN Honda Gresini FTR Honda 317.9 2'01.942 5.257 / 0.504
23 52 Lukas PESEK CZE Came IodaRacing Project Ioda-Suter 317.2 2'02.079 5.394 / 0.137
24 70 Michael LAVERTY GBR Paul Bird Motorsport PBM 318.3 2'02.135 5.450 / 0.056

CRUTCHLOW will be a beast on the Yamaha this year.:rockon:

Poor Ben. :BLAA: I hope they're nice to him at Ducati.

 

[Red Wazp]

Looks like Dani is sand bagging. Not a big fan of him but I do believe he can be very fast.
I'm ready for some racing. Can't wait for Sunday.

 

[FrozenBiker]

Looks like Dani is sand bagging. Not a big fan of him but I do believe he can be very fast.
I'm ready for some racing. Can't wait for Sunday.

Dani has a fan in my corner. I respect his skills, along with him being a clean contender.
His new teammate needs to clean up his act before he gets someone killed.

 

[Yasko]

Looks like Dani is sand bagging. Not a big fan of him but I do believe he can be very fast.
I'm ready for some racing. Can't wait for Sunday.

+1 I think he's sand bagging as well..:rockon: That Honda will be hard to beat with him on it.:thumbup:

It's going to be a great year for MotoGp.:cheer:

 

[Kazza]

Go Valentino!




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[Yasko]

Go Valentino!




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Go Yamaha!!!!!:cheer:

 

[Daniel_Aus]

Woohoo! Been looking forward to this for months!

Interesting to see a Ducati in the top 5.

Will also be interesting to see how Marquez goes come race day.

 

[Neal]

Looks like Dani is sand bagging. Not a big fan of him but I do believe he can be very fast.
I'm ready for some racing. Can't wait for Sunday.

That was only the first test on that track.

Dani said he was having trouble with the entry of corners on his bike.

I sure whatever the problem was will be fixed in the next couple of days before the race.

 

[Humperdinkel]

Just doesn't look the same without Stoner in P1

Ohh well , Go Stefan & Randy :rockon: :rockon:

 

[KingY]

Just doesn't look the same without STONER in P1

Ohh well , Go Stefan & Randy :rockon: :rockon:

I corrected your typo :BLAA:

 

[Cloggy]

Marquez is now leading the group, and Cal is still up with the top :thumbup:

motogp.com · Márquez tops practice for the first time

 

[Goop]

There's a new qualifying format this season for those who don't know.

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From Asphalt & Rubber

The biggest change to MotoGP this year comes in qualifying. The last big change to the rules came in 2005, when the original two one-hour qualifying sessions were dropped, and replaced with a free practice session and a single QP to set the grid.

From this season, qualifying for MotoGP becomes a three-stage affair, in effect. The original hour of qualifying is replaced with an extra half hour of free practice, and two fifteen minute qualifying session, split between the faster and slower halves of the grid. Here’s how it works:

Though all three free practice sessions are still just that, free practice, at the end of FP3, the riders will be ranked by their best time set in any of the three sessions. The ten riders with the fastest times will automatically qualify for QP2. The remainder will take part in QP1, where the top two will go through to QP2, while places thirteen and beyond are distributed among the remaining riders.

Other than the two fastest riders in QP1, the difference in times between QP1 and QP2 will not be taken into account. No matter how fast the time set by the third fastest rider in QP1, he will start from 13th spot, no matter how fast the rider in 12th was. In theory – and given the weather which MotoGP has had over the past couple of years, most likely in practice too – if it rains just before QP2 starts, then all of the riders in QP1 could end up being faster than all of the riders in QP2, yet still start behind the men who had qualified for QP2.

The two riders who qualify for QP2 via the second-chance mechanism of taking first and second in QP1 start QP2 with the slates wiped clean. If their QP1 times were faster than the fastest time set in QP2, then that is tough luck, only their QP2 time will be used to assess their grid position.

What at first seems complicated is really just formalizing the previous reality of qualifying under a set of rules. The first half of qualifying was always more about working on set up than anything else, and so spinning that off into a thirty-minute FP4 session makes sense.

Splitting the remaining half hour into two fifteen-minute qualifying sessions means that both groups of riders face a far less busy track when trying to set their flying laps, and there will be much less of the dangerous tail-hanging which has blighted some sessions in recent years. Having two sessions means that the slower riders and the faster riders will get more exposure, with each group getting the director’s undivided attention for fifteen minutes.

The new system will only apply to the MotoGP class. The Moto2 and Moto3 classes retain the existing system of a single QP session to determine the order of the grid.


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So the 10 riders who will immediately move to QP2 are:

Po. Name Team Gap First
1 MARQUEZ M. Repsol Honda Team 1:56.084
2 LORENZO J. Yamaha Factory Racing +0.001
3 CRUTCHLOW C .Monster Yamaha Tech 3 +0.242
4 ROSSI V. Yamaha Factory Racing +0.332
5 DOVIZIOSO A. Ducati Team +0.333
6 PEDROSA D. Repsol Honda Team +0.418
7 BAUTISTA A. GO&FUN Honda Gresini +0.488
8 HAYDEN N. Ducati Team +0.586
9 SMITH B. Monster Yamaha Tech 3 +0.817
10 BRADL S. LCR Honda MotoGP +0.900

1/1000 of a second gap between Marquez and Lorenzo. Likewise 1/1000 between Rossi and Dovi. This is good stuff!

 

[Yasko]

Speed TV should give us practice, and qualifying. I think we can miss a episode of Dumbest Stuff on Wheels in the time slot.:eyebrow:

 

[Goop]

Speed TV should give us practice, and qualifying. I think we can miss a episode of Dumbest Stuff on Wheels in the time slot.:eyebrow:

Yeah, I wish. That's why I shell out the $$ for a video pass on MotoGP.com

 

[FrozenBiker]

Yeah, I wish. That's why I shell out the $$ for a video pass on MotoGP.com

Is that $130 for a season? I assume that the 99.95 is Euro's...? Too rich for my budget.

 

[Goop]

Is that $130 for a season? I assume that the 99.95 is Euro's...? Too rich for my budget.

Me too, but I do it anyway because I like to follow the action so closely

 

[Red Wazp]

There's a new qualifying format this season for those who don't know.

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From Asphalt & Rubber

The biggest change to MotoGP this year comes in qualifying. The last big change to the rules came in 2005, when the original two one-hour qualifying sessions were dropped, and replaced with a free practice session and a single QP to set the grid.

From this season, qualifying for MotoGP becomes a three-stage affair, in effect. The original hour of qualifying is replaced with an extra half hour of free practice, and two fifteen minute qualifying session, split between the faster and slower halves of the grid. Here’s how it works:

Though all three free practice sessions are still just that, free practice, at the end of FP3, the riders will be ranked by their best time set in any of the three sessions. The ten riders with the fastest times will automatically qualify for QP2. The remainder will take part in QP1, where the top two will go through to QP2, while places thirteen and beyond are distributed among the remaining riders.

Other than the two fastest riders in QP1, the difference in times between QP1 and QP2 will not be taken into account. No matter how fast the time set by the third fastest rider in QP1, he will start from 13th spot, no matter how fast the rider in 12th was. In theory – and given the weather which MotoGP has had over the past couple of years, most likely in practice too – if it rains just before QP2 starts, then all of the riders in QP1 could end up being faster than all of the riders in QP2, yet still start behind the men who had qualified for QP2.

The two riders who qualify for QP2 via the second-chance mechanism of taking first and second in QP1 start QP2 with the slates wiped clean. If their QP1 times were faster than the fastest time set in QP2, then that is tough luck, only their QP2 time will be used to assess their grid position.

What at first seems complicated is really just formalizing the previous reality of qualifying under a set of rules. The first half of qualifying was always more about working on set up than anything else, and so spinning that off into a thirty-minute FP4 session makes sense.

Splitting the remaining half hour into two fifteen-minute qualifying sessions means that both groups of riders face a far less busy track when trying to set their flying laps, and there will be much less of the dangerous tail-hanging which has blighted some sessions in recent years. Having two sessions means that the slower riders and the faster riders will get more exposure, with each group getting the director’s undivided attention for fifteen minutes.

The new system will only apply to the MotoGP class. The Moto2 and Moto3 classes retain the existing system of a single QP session to determine the order of the grid.


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Thanks Bryan...clear as mud now. Guess I'll just have to have a few beverages watching the race.

 

[Humperdinkel]

I corrected your typo :BLAA:

Pfft

 

[Cloggy]

Lorenzo's got pole and Cal's second, go Yamaha :rockon: oh and pedrosa was third
motogp.com · Lorenzo clinches first pole position of 2013

Here are the qualifying results:


Pos. Num. Rider Nation Team Bike Km/h Time Gap 1st/Prev.

1 99 Jorge LORENZO SPA Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha 335.9 1'54.714
2 35 Cal CRUTCHLOW GBR Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 334.7 1'54.916 0.202 / 0.202
3 26 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 339.8 1'55.151 0.437 / 0.235
4 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Ducati Team Ducati 336.4 1'55.160 0.446 / 0.009
5 6 Stefan BRADL GER LCR Honda MotoGP Honda 340.0 1'55.477 0.763 / 0.317
6 93 Marc MARQUEZ SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 339.0 1'55.645 0.931 / 0.168
7 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha 337.7 1'55.711 0.997 / 0.066
8 19 Alvaro BAUTISTA SPA GO&FUN Honda Gresini Honda 338.5 1'55.870 1.156 / 0.159
9 38 Bradley SMITH GBR Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 333.9 1'56.315 1.601 / 0.445
10 29 Andrea IANNONE ITA Energy T.I. Pramac Racing Ducati 339.8 1'56.523 1.809 / 0.208
11 69 Nicky HAYDEN USA Ducati Team Ducati 337.9 1'56.667 1.953 / 0.144
12 41 Aleix ESPARGARO SPA Power Electronics Aspar ART 318.8 1'57.064 2.350 / 0.397