He was starting to gain a little respect for his riding lately but back to being a bellend again after today’s comments
Luckily I missed his comments but a quick look at MotoGP website would suggest all is not happy with the Marquez family. Oh well leopards and spots.
I watched the race on Video Pass after I got home from my ride today and really do not like the whole sand-bag until the end tactic. I like flag to flag racing. And Lorenzo blaming Marquez for his wreck...kind of hard to see it that way. Looks as if both went wide and, in the immortal words of Casey Stoner, "obviously your ambition outweighed your talent" Mr. Lorenzo.
Seems you and @Spygoat share the same opinion. I differ though, because I contend that it was racing from flag to flag. I think we must give riders and teams credit for using their head rather than their wrist at times. Those who watched the race will have heard of the tyre concerns (soft) for Marquez and that meant that he couldn't go flat out from the start. A later very wise comment from Toseland effectively slammed Dovi for not exploiting that by causing Marquez to push harder and thereby destroy his tyre. Back to the point though, it has often been said you win by getting to the flag first - there's no extra prize for winning by 10 seconds. My view is that Marquez played his race with intelligence, reminiscent of the way Creville used to tail Doohan until the final laps and then go for it, although Creville was rarely up to the task. Look from another perspective though and through both Iannone and Rins' eyes. If they could have got to the front, they would have, especially during those early 'slower' laps. Granted, they gave it their best shot, but they still didn't have the pace to do so. That tends to prove that both Dovi and Marquez were in the 98% zone which was all that was required in the circumstances.
Lorenzo starting to bond with Marquez already - they are going to be such good team mates at Honda next year. The not racing to the last 8 laps - not ideal but still better than having one team disappear into the lead by 20 seconds and watching 20 laps of that. Maybe someone will make a break, and get hunted down - like happens in cycling.
Let's have out and out racing for eight laps BUT make it two or even three races, just like WSB ( same day mind. None of this over two days bullshit). At least we'd get to see Lorenzo race, just because he fell off in the first race, may not rule him out of the second race. Whilst I'm on. I'm not really into this sealed engines for a season either. One mistake by a rider may cost him a race. One mistake by the team, by having the engine sealed makes it a waste of a season as we are seeing at Yamaha. That's needs addressing too.
I'm thinking @F1CT1C10U5 is one of those gifted kids that remembers everything in their life and can quote Shakespeare and Martin Luther King at random, and solve a friggin' Rubik's cube in under 10 seconds.
Bit of a shame really. He has the talent, but his repeated 'offs' must be costing the team a fortune, both financially and in points, that there comes the risk of being let go no matter how watertight his contract is. I think we can respectfully put Sam Lowes in the same category.
You obviously wasn't banging em hard enough then Nige.....because most of us had them confiscated by the olds after the third visit to the docs to check for broken wrists
