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Ducati finally breaks the duck!

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took some while but finally the championship is back to Italy

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Mir is confirmed 6th, so everyone behind him loses one place compared to what was shown during the race.


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These little skits MotoGP has the champion do every year immediately after winning are my favourite weird MotoGP thing.

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Why is Suzuki running away? They won 2 of the last 3 races.

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Why is Suzuki running away? They won 2 of the last 3 races.

Financial reasons and reallocation of resources to actual production, was the the official line.


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Suzuki is the Nissan of motorcycles. They have some interesting products and a good racing background but instead focus away from performance

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2022 7:29 am 
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There are number of people who complain about certain drivers.
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mclaren2008 wrote:
Why is Suzuki running away? They won 2 of the last 3 races.


Suzuki also said they will focus on electric bikes and there is no value in producing sports style bikes that don't hit the street. You have to remember the Asian market is way bigger than Europe & North America and it feels like the Far East is crowded with those little scooters jamming the otherwise jammed streets. So Suzuki is kinda going pure economy, selling a thousand of VW Golfs does make a bigger profit than selling one Maybach ;)

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 1:25 am 
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Scooters are like economy cars though, high sales but low profit margins. Electric bikes are a choice between low profit margins (accounting for the cost of the batteries) and low sales if they raise the cost to increase profits.

Personally as a person who's very into electric vehicles and also a motorcycle rider, I'll be sad if they go all electric. Motorcycles are sort of the last refuge of manual, analog motoring. Yes they now have traction and stability control, but you still row the gears yourself and you can still for the most part service it yourself. My first bike was a Suzuki SV650 and it was a model of engineering simplicity to maximise handling. Will be a shame if some exec trying to make a name for themselves throws that part of Suzuki away.

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Yeah, I think going all electric won't be sustainable given the energy prices will almost certainly go up to the point it will have a political impact and then it will swing back the other way. Anyway, this was Suzuki's reasoning, if that was more or less BS or do they truly want to dominate the electric bike market in Asia (they can have such intentions but is that doable is another question) and the decision was arguably made right at the top (the 92 year old chairman retired last year and handed over to his son so I guess this is where the company line ultimately changed as well). Toshihiro Suzuki is the new chairman and there are several articles dating back five years where he was quoted about the petrol car restrictions in India for instance (which is probably the biggest market for scooters & street mini-bikes) which could hamper the company sales.

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MotoGP is back this weekend

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 21, 2023 7:33 pm 
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Sprint races on Saturday on every race weekend. I strongly doubt if I can find the time to watch them all.

Testing shows that Ducati will be strong again. Aprilia could be 2nd best, Yamaha and Honda struggle.


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Form book so far has Ducati well ahead of everyone else. Thankfully the form book is a lot more variable in MotoGP than in other top-class series, but I'm hoping for a bit of inter-team spice between Pecco and Enea. Looks like a painful season ahead for my boy Jack at KTM.

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 24, 2023 11:48 am 
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Given the presumed Ducati advantage, the sprint races could mean the championship battle will be settled among Ducati drivers much sooner already. But then again, what was the purpose of doing sprint races anyway? Declining TV audience so they came with a copycat idea from F1 and WSBK?

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 25, 2023 12:00 am 
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Pol Espagaro had a shocking crash in practice. He's been taken to Faro but is conscious.

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Bruised lungs is what I believe I read.


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PostPosted: Sat Mar 25, 2023 1:34 am 
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https://www.motogp.com/en/news/2023/03/ ... aro/450330

Fractured Spine, bruised lung and fractured jaw.

But going by the official website you would hardly know that one of their riders was in a serious potential career ending crash, bought partly about by safety issues the riders have continually complained about. I really hate the way DORNA controls their imaging like a mini dictatorship. All praise and no criticism. I cringe every time I hear the commentators go on about how wonderful they are.

For those that don't follow, they have complained about the type of gravel traps used. They are essentially rocks. Not gravel. You can even see the size of them in the video of his crash. They are not fine like all the other gravel traps, increasing the chance of injury.


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PostPosted: Sat Mar 25, 2023 2:06 am 
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Not to mention there was no air fence

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How can there be such oversights? You would think circuit safety has been standardized for at least a decade now.
Than again, if last weekend in F1 there had been a career-ending crash, we would all blame safety standards.


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