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Post by Bundy on May 17, 2012 22:03:50 GMT 10
Motogp moves on to Le Mans this weekend and when you think Lorenzo should be favourite to take it out, Stoner comes in and takes the win. I reckon it will be a beauty of a race...
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Post by HDT05 on May 17, 2012 23:14:54 GMT 10
Nah this is Stoners to lose, but Yamaha have a better package...keeping low key about this race.
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Post by Bundy on May 17, 2012 23:31:08 GMT 10
Probably a wise move ;D I think it will go the same as the two last GPs...lorenzo pole but stoner for the win.
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Post by HDT05 on May 17, 2012 23:36:32 GMT 10
Probably a wise move ;D I think it will go the same as the two last GPs...lorenzo pole but stoner for the win. If it has to be the Honda's then you know who I'm cheering for
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Post by Bundy on May 17, 2012 23:50:29 GMT 10
Pedrosa hasn't got it in him anymore...may as well make the bike race in two.
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Post by HDT05 on May 18, 2012 1:08:07 GMT 10
Pedrosa will stay at that team no matter what though because of Spanish oil giants Repsol.
If Stoner win the championship again, well I think that's a wake up call, and I seriously hope Marc Marquez (spelling) races at Moto GP level by next year, because he's by far my Favourite rider in moto2. I've supported him ever since he was in the 125 series. Great young rider, he's also got links to Repsol.
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Post by Bundy on May 18, 2012 1:14:03 GMT 10
Yeah he could get Pedrosa's spot but I agree it will be hard with Repsol's existing links with Pedrosa. Wouldn't mind Ant west getting it
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Post by HDT05 on May 18, 2012 19:43:41 GMT 10
This has been overshadowed by the Stoner retirement. But here's the results: MONSTER ENERGY GRAND PRIX DE FRANCE MotoGP Free Practice Nr. 1 Classification 2012 Le Mans, Friday, May 18, 2012 Pos. Num. Rider Nation Team Bike Km/h Time Gap 1st/Prev. 1 1 Casey STONER AUS Repsol Honda Team Honda 307.5 1'34.321 2 26 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 308.0 1'34.908 0.587 / 0.587 3 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 304.7 1'35.065 0.744 / 0.157 4 11 Ben SPIES USA Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha 299.3 1'35.202 0.881 / 0.137 5 8 Hector BARBERA SPA Pramac Racing Team Ducati 308.3 1'35.213 0.892 / 0.011 6 99 Jorge LORENZO SPA Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha 303.8 1'35.239 0.918 / 0.026 7 35 Cal CRUTCHLOW GBR Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 302.8 1'35.318 0.997 / 0.079 8 19 Alvaro BAUTISTA SPA San Carlo Honda Gresini Honda 304.3 1'35.336 1.015 / 0.018 9 69 Nicky HAYDEN USA Ducati Team Ducati 303.5 1'35.403 1.082 / 0.067 10 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA Ducati Team Ducati 302.4 1'35.829 1.508 / 0.426 11 17 Karel ABRAHAM CZE Cardion AB Motoracing Ducati 304.3 1'36.291 1.970 / 0.462 12 6 Stefan BRADL GER LCR Honda MotoGP Honda 305.3 1'36.500 2.179 / 0.209 13 14 Randy DE PUNIET FRA Power Electronics Aspar ART 283.8 1'36.935 2.614 / 0.435 14 41 Aleix ESPARGARO SPA Power Electronics Aspar ART 284.1 1'37.916 3.595 / 0.981 15 54 Mattia PASINI ITA Speed Master ART 282.1 1'38.140 3.819 / 0.224 16 68 Yonny HERNANDEZ COL Avintia Blusens BQR 287.0 1'38.209 3.888 / 0.069 17 51 Michele PIRRO ITA San Carlo Honda Gresini FTR 289.9 1'38.255 3.934 / 0.046 18 77 James ELLISON GBR Paul Bird Motorsport ART 284.2 1'38.943 4.622 / 0.688 19 9 Danilo PETRUCCI ITA Came IodaRacing Project Ioda 273.1 1'39.110 4.789 / 0.167 20 22 Ivan SILVA SPA Avintia Blusens BQR 284.9 1'39.729 5.408 / 0.619 7 Chris VERMEULEN AUS NGM Mobile Forward Racing Suter 283.8 1'41.398 7.077 / 1.669 www.motogp.com/en/Results+Statistics/2012/FRA/MotoGP/FP1
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Post by HDT05 on May 18, 2012 19:46:11 GMT 10
Look at Stoner, on FIRE!
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Post by Bundy on May 18, 2012 19:47:00 GMT 10
Stoner is still blindingly quick and the class of the field...he will continue to out-perform the field...it's just a shame he feels so badly about the running of the actual championship to continue next year Hope Vermeulen does alright...
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Post by HDT05 on May 18, 2012 19:49:59 GMT 10
Stoner is still blindingly quick and the class of the field...he will continue to out-perform the field...it's just a shame he feels so badly about the running of the actual championship to continue next year Hope Vermeulen does alright... Ok, this is why I kept a low key approach! Stoner, looks good. It's spurred him on to win more, it's going to hard to topple the great man.
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Post by Bundy on May 18, 2012 19:56:51 GMT 10
Stoner is still blindingly quick and the class of the field...he will continue to out-perform the field...it's just a shame he feels so badly about the running of the actual championship to continue next year Hope Vermeulen does alright... Ok, this is why I kept a low key approach! Stoner, looks good. It's spurred him on to win more, it's going to hard to topple the great man. But still this decision is good for Lorenzo and Yamaha Pedrosa I don't feel will step up for Honda enough and if they do replace Stoner with Bradl or another young moto2 rider, I don't feel they will be good enough first year with the factory team to beat Lorenzo...he is definately odds on to win next year.
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Post by HDT05 on May 18, 2012 20:03:44 GMT 10
Bradl isn't as good as Marc Marquez, he's a freak!
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Post by djrford on May 18, 2012 22:02:05 GMT 10
Something that annoys me about MotoGP is that it's too Spanish. I don't have anything against Spain or their people, in fact I like Fernando Alonso and Jorge Lorenzo, but for a world championship I believe it focuses too much around Spain. When Stoner leaves it'll be rare that a non-Spanish rider wins.
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Post by HDT05 on May 19, 2012 23:57:24 GMT 10
MONSTER ENERGY GRAND PRIX DE FRANCE MotoGP Qualifying Practice Classification 2012 Le Mans, Saturday, May 19, 2012 Pos. Num. Rider Nation Team Bike Km/h Time Gap 1st/Prev. 1 26 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 303.7 1'33.638 2 1 Casey STONER AUS Repsol Honda Team Honda 306.0 1'33.941 0.303 / 0.303 3 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 304.0 1'33.976 0.338 / 0.035 4 99 Jorge LORENZO SPA Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha 300.8 1'34.104 0.466 / 0.128 5 35 Cal CRUTCHLOW GBR Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 302.4 1'34.178 0.540 / 0.074 6 11 Ben SPIES USA Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha 299.0 1'34.669 1.031 / 0.491 7 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA Ducati Team Ducati 298.5 1'34.907 1.269 / 0.238 8 19 Alvaro BAUTISTA SPA San Carlo Honda Gresini Honda 300.4 1'34.922 1.284 / 0.015 9 8 Hector BARBERA SPA Pramac Racing Team Ducati 305.1 1'34.950 1.312 / 0.028 10 17 Karel ABRAHAM CZE Cardion AB Motoracing Ducati 301.8 1'35.250 1.612 / 0.300 11 69 Nicky HAYDEN USA Ducati Team Ducati 298.5 1'35.291 1.653 / 0.041 12 14 Randy DE PUNIET FRA Power Electronics Aspar ART 286.5 1'35.694 2.056 / 0.403 13 6 Stefan BRADL GER LCR Honda MotoGP Honda 300.7 1'35.862 2.224 / 0.168 14 51 Michele PIRRO ITA San Carlo Honda Gresini FTR 283.7 1'36.646 3.008 / 0.784 15 68 Yonny HERNANDEZ COL Avintia Blusens BQR 283.6 1'37.202 3.564 / 0.556 16 77 James ELLISON GBR Paul Bird Motorsport ART 279.2 1'37.666 4.028 / 0.464 17 41 Aleix ESPARGARO SPA Power Electronics Aspar ART 281.3 1'37.760 4.122 / 0.094 18 9 Danilo PETRUCCI ITA Came IodaRacing Project Ioda 269.5 1'37.767 4.129 / 0.007 19 22 Ivan SILVA SPA Avintia Blusens BQR 282.0 1'38.198 4.560 / 0.431 20 54 Mattia PASINI ITA Speed Master ART 279.3 1'38.511 4.873 / 0.313 21 7 Chris VERMEULEN AUS NGM Mobile Forward Racing Suter 281.8 1'38.658 5.020 / 0.147 www.motogp.com/en/Results+Statistics/2012/FRA/MotoGP/QP
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Post by Bundy on May 20, 2012 0:07:14 GMT 10
Good speed from Pedrosa just needs to hold it in the race...Honda looking strong and I cant see much changing for the race...dovi has usually been strong here as well.
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Post by HDT05 on May 20, 2012 0:09:46 GMT 10
Great job by Dovi, Cal got beat, wow.
It's between Stoner and Pedrosa, with maybe Lorenzo nipping at their heels...Go Stoner!
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Post by HDT05 on May 21, 2012 1:29:13 GMT 10
Lorenzo was just too good for the lot! Well done Lorenzo, brilliant effort in terrible conditions. Great battle between stoner and Rossi great to see Rossi back on the podium again...Stoner doesn't seem interested anymore, unless he was just spewin about the bike. Spewin about those Tech3 Yamaha's they we're looking good there. Great effort again to Lorenzo. MONSTER ENERGY GRAND PRIX DE FRANCE MotoGP Race Classification 2012 Le Mans, Sunday, May 20, 2012 Pos. Points Num. Rider Nation Team Bike Km/h Time/Gap 1 25 99 Jorge LORENZO SPA Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha 141.6 49'39.743 2 20 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA Ducati Team Ducati 141.1 +9.905 3 16 1 Casey STONER AUS Repsol Honda Team Honda 141.0 +11.298 4 13 26 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 140.2 +29.361 5 11 6 Stefan BRADL GER LCR Honda MotoGP Honda 140.0 +32.477 6 10 69 Nicky HAYDEN USA Ducati Team Ducati 140.0 +32.842 7 9 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 138.8 +59.759 8 8 35 Cal CRUTCHLOW GBR Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 138.5 +1'05.152 9 7 8 Hector BARBERA SPA Pramac Racing Team Ducati 138.4 +1'07.846 10 6 19 Alvaro BAUTISTA SPA San Carlo Honda Gresini Honda 138.2 +1'13.193 11 5 77 James ELLISON GBR Paul Bird Motorsport ART 137.6 +1'26.663 12 4 54 Mattia PASINI ITA Speed Master ART 137.5 +1'27.633 13 3 41 Aleix ESPARGARO SPA Power Electronics Aspar ART 135.8 1 Lap 14 2 51 Michele PIRRO ITA San Carlo Honda Gresini FTR 135.4 1 Lap 15 1 68 Yonny HERNANDEZ COL Avintia Blusens BQR 135.0 1 Lap 16 11 Ben SPIES USA Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha 133.1 1 Lap 17 7 Chris VERMEULEN AUS NGM Mobile Forward Racing Suter 131.3 2 Laps 18 22 Ivan SILVA SPA Avintia Blusens BQR 126.8 2 Laps Not Classified 9 Danilo PETRUCCI ITA Came IodaRacing Project Ioda 137.3 4 Laps 14 Randy DE PUNIET FRA Power Electronics Aspar ART 130.5 6 Laps 17 Karel ABRAHAM CZE Cardion AB Motoracing Ducati 133.1 17 Laps www.motogp.com/en/Results+Statistics/2012/FRA/MotoGP/RAC
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Post by Bundy on May 21, 2012 14:32:16 GMT 10
Well done to Lorenzo. I am a bit surprised though as I was really enticed by the fact that it was a wet race and the chances of Stoner winning. I knew Pedrosa would drop off but I didn't think Stoner would fail to match Lorenzo...I guess one could only put that down to a lack of motivation given his decision to quit early last week.
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Post by donk on May 21, 2012 18:47:06 GMT 10
Let's hope Stoner can stay motivated for the rest of the season!
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