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10 Mar 2011, 17:45 (Ref:2843480)
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Round 1 - 2011 Moto GP World Championship, Qatar
We are a week away from the start of the 2011 season. I'm putting this up a bit early, since we'll have some testing at Qatar to discuss prior to the race itself. It should serve as a nice form preview for the race weekend. We also have an unusual weekend format for this event, with the event being spread out over four days. So far the riders are not thrilled with the idea.
Story Lines So, who can stop Stoner and Pedrosa? Not sure he can stop them, but I think Lorenzo can be on the podium with them. Or could Dovi make it a Repsol Honda podium sweep? Ben Spies possible spoiler, and maybe Super Sic... Outside of that, how bad will the Ducati men embarass themselves? We'll get to see if Suzuki have finally found a way to make the bike work in cooler temps. We also get the Moto 2 crap shoot and the last year of the two stroke. Oh, and at least one racing series can start its year off in the middle east.  Game on! 
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11 Mar 2011, 05:12 (Ref:2843745)
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Casey, Jorge, Pedrosa, Dovi, Spies, Simoncelli, Rossi, Hayden, Elias, RdeP is my top ten prediction championship wise, with possibly Capirossi or Barbera displacing Randy for 10th. Probably be a similar story at the race too.
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11 Mar 2011, 07:52 (Ref:2843783)
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We are simply going to see the Honda lane reappear since Itoh stopped using fuel injection in 1993.
Lorenzo will win on all the handling tracks and Honda will win on the power tracks It's Rainey, Schwantz and Lawson against Doohan and Gardner, but without the talent and personality!! And Cagiva (Ducati are not quite that bad) If it wasnt for Moto2 and the Brits in 125 I would struggle to get interested about GP this year. Cal is going to be a mirror image of Toseland and the only real interest for me is whether Spies and Simoncelli can be as quick as the boreliens |
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11 Mar 2011, 10:04 (Ref:2843856)
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Probably a good summary chunder - though, will watch each race as usual & just hope for good racing between atleast 5 riders...
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11 Mar 2011, 10:42 (Ref:2843866)
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and hope for less injured riders this year!
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14 Mar 2011, 21:03 (Ref:2845785)
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Shall be interesting to watch the team-mates battle this year.
Who will get the edge at Repsol Honda? Will Spies take it right up to Lorenzo? Can Hayden be quicker than Rossi? Will Crutchlow make Edwards look fast? |
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14 Mar 2011, 21:29 (Ref:2845803)
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It's been all Stoner and Pedrosa in testing at Qatar. So nothing new there. Although Lorenzo has been quicker than the outright times have shown. It will take something unusual for the race winner to not be one of those three.
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14 Mar 2011, 22:06 (Ref:2845824)
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One thing is for sure Cal is going to struggle
I dont believe sadly for him that he is going t6o do any better than Toseland did. When you are in the press saying how good a job Spies did in WSBK and last year its clear he knows exactly what Ben was doing and what kind of spec that Yam was last year. Dont believe the hype from certain people on here that Tech3 Yam last year was nothing special! |
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14 Mar 2011, 23:40 (Ref:2845882)
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Poor Elias, 1.8 seconds down on the next fastest Honda...
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14 Mar 2011, 23:42 (Ref:2845884)
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15 Mar 2011, 13:48 (Ref:2846175)
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When was the last time we had a bike 1 in Motogp?
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15 Mar 2011, 15:19 (Ref:2846215)
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17 Mar 2011, 17:48 (Ref:2847623)
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Nice to hear the Twitter updates interspersed with some commentary on Eurosport.
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18 Mar 2011, 01:14 (Ref:2847872)
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Stoner looks dominate and totally at ease.
Moto 2 is as unpredictable as ever. And I'm loving my motogp.com subscription. |
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18 Mar 2011, 08:42 (Ref:2847986)
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You must have won the lottery or something J, I know how much that is!!
I had the off season one and it was OK actually, mainly to be able to catchup with old seasons. Vale is closer than I expected, but this is Stoner's track, always has been. |
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18 Mar 2011, 20:43 (Ref:2848485)
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Repsol domination in FP3.
Bautista fell hard in Turn 15 and broke his femur. 
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18 Mar 2011, 21:53 (Ref:2848511)
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So...No Tommy Koyama in the one twenty fives? And what happened to Barthols ktm based project? Or is that the ktm?
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18 Mar 2011, 22:23 (Ref:2848521)
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1. Casey Stoner AUS Repsol Honda Team 1m 55.035s
2. Dani Pedrosa ESP Repsol Honda Team 1m 55.193s 3. Andrea Dovizioso ITA Repsol Honda Team 1m 55.740s 4. Jorge Lorenzo ESP Yamaha Factory Racing 1m 55.814s 5. Ben Spies USA Yamaha Factory Racing 1m 56.003s 6. Hector Barbera ESP Mapfre Aspar Team 1m 56.266s 7. Colin Edwards USA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 1m 56.302s 8. Valentino Rossi ITA Ducati Marlboro Team 1m 56.306s 9. Randy de Puniet FRA Pramac Racing Team 1m 56.362s 10. Loris Capirossi ITA Pramac Racing Team 1m 56.434s 11. Cal Crutchlow GBR Monster Yamaha Tech 3 1m 56.437s 12. Hiroshi Aoyama JPN San Carlo Honda Gresini 1m 56.517s 13. Marco Simoncelli ITA San Carlo Honda Gresini 1m 56.540s 14. Nicky Hayden USA Ducati Marlboro Team 1m 56.586s 15. Karel Abraham CZE Cardion AB Motoracing 1m 57.275s 16. Alvaro Bautista ESP Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 1m 57.601s 17. Toni Elias ESP LCR Honda MotoGP 1m 58.123s Whats Toni's bike like then? Moto2!! |
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19 Mar 2011, 00:06 (Ref:2848567)
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Good to see Crutchlow up that far!
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no stand by rider at Qatar for Bautista therefore only 16 riders to start the year.
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19 Mar 2011, 09:41 (Ref:2848700)
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Suzuki, 1 bike, pfft...
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19 Mar 2011, 10:07 (Ref:2848714)
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Expect to see Hopkins never race in BSB as a result of this! I bet Jack Valentine is happy!
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19 Mar 2011, 13:10 (Ref:2848798)
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