Moto GP - Testing and Off season
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Moto GP - Testing and Off season
Marquez has just gone 1.4 seconds faster than anyone else. After doing just 6 laps.
He's something else.
He's something else.
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Re: Moto GP - Testing and Off season
he is incredible, genuinely a class above everyone else at the moment, the young rookies coming up are good but the problem they have is he is years more experienced than the new batch coming up and has that edge. Type of rider we will all talk about for years and years to come when were old and grey
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speak for yourself, no grey hair yet and im only 31 today!Kwacky wrote:*older and greyer
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Happy Birthday for yesterday! I think MM is the next (but better) Rossi. We're watching history in the making and he's going to stop Rossi from his 10th World Title IMO.
That said, I think he could have a fight on his hands with Lorenzo in the second half of the season
That said, I think he could have a fight on his hands with Lorenzo in the second half of the season
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Re: Moto GP - Testing and Off season
Ducati testing new tech again.
Its an anti-lift bar apparently. Some bikes were also seen with a light shining on the tarmac near the rear tyre.

Its an anti-lift bar apparently. Some bikes were also seen with a light shining on the tarmac near the rear tyre.

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The light will be an encoder/sensor for active suspension but I didn't think that would be allowed. Unless it's more data acquisition for testing purposes only?!
The bar looks like it will limit stroke of the suspension so yeah it would work as anti-lift but I don't understand it myself.
I like how Ducati aren't afraid of trying plenty of random stuff
The bar looks like it will limit stroke of the suspension so yeah it would work as anti-lift but I don't understand it myself.
I like how Ducati aren't afraid of trying plenty of random stuff
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Re: Moto GP - Testing and Off season
How to ride fast - by Dovi.
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Interesting read by Mat Oxley on the tests.
Ducati also testing rear wings.

Interesting read by Mat Oxley on the tests.
Ducati also testing rear wings.

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Good read, love Oxley’s take on GP’s, I wonder if Lorenzo & Marquez will get on so well when the flag drops?
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