We are nearing the end of the 2024 MotoGP championship series. The races in Australia this weekend have left just three rounds remaining on the MotoGP calendar.
Although Marc Marquez (Ducati) won the Sunday GP, the big winner this weekend was Jorge Martin (Ducati). Martin took pole position, won Saturday’s Sprint race and finished second on Sunday. Finishing ahead of title rival Pecco Bagnaia (Ducati) in both races, Martin extended his championship points lead to 20.
Martin dominated Saturday’s Sprint with Marquez finishing second and Enea Bastianini (Ducati) finishing third. On Sunday, Martin took the lead from the start and built a reasonable gap over second place, but Marquez, after a terrible start, slowly reeled him in and was able to pass for the win near the end of the race.
Sunday’s podium for the full GP included Marquez, Martin and Bagnaia, who finished third.
The final three races begin with Thailand next weekend. Martin and Bagnaia clearly feel the pressure and covet each point they can gain over the other before the final round next month at Valencia. For full results and points for Saturday’s Sprint race, visit the MotoGP site here. For full results and points for Sunday’s MotoGP race, visit the MotoGP site here.
Question. I stayed up to watch this on tru tv, but all that was on was stupid f@#$ing baseball (does anybody even watch that anymore?)
Was it really on tru tv? My dish network guide said it was, but noooo. I hope LM fixes the coverage of this racing when they take over.
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I watched it on Xfinity/Comcast, which surprised me. Just lucky I guess.
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The races were interupted on tru tv by baseball on Sat/Sun
But the races always run again on tru tv, this time on Monday night and I watched them then
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Seemed to me that MM was riding with very little leg dangle and looking very comfortable doing so.
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I always thought the advantages of dangle were negated by instability with the motion of retraction, of course these bikes are unstable a lot of the time anyway.
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I guess I always saw it as free braking. Can that goofy wing thing (DRS) in F1 be far behind?
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I agree. He does not use such technique at the corners so much and yet fast.
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What a racetrack!
Should be fun from here on out.
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I came here yesterday and there were no comments. I thought wow, the old guys are having a tough time getting it up. Here I am tonight. Four guys managed to make the page slow to open. But it’s not quite stuck together. I have a browser extension that cleans that stuff up. Now they’re all bummed about having the nasty taste of super dried out old cigarettes in their mouths.
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WTF?
New Rule. You can’t comment on roadracing/MotoGP if you don’t watch it or in some way despise it.
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No sense of humor eh? How about Fernandez gushing about the liberation he felt while running with no aero?
https://www.autosport.com/motogp/news/trackhouse-took-all-aero-off-fernandezs-motogp-bike-in-australian-gp/10665378/
Do I have to watch this dross to find it interesting? Or do I still not qualify? Just because a loved one has been murdered and covered with dirt. Do you not ever got to their gravesite?
Just finished riding fall colors for the first time in the Catskills, admittedly about a week or two late of optimum. Neat place really. Kind of a Euro vibe about the roads here. Fun riding. we rode the area centered around Margaretville, NY. I think folks with heavy bikes would really like the place. Lots of really constant radius sweepers and few nanny speed limits.
I actually recently stopped watching the occasional highlight video. I don’t really consider the bikes motorcycles anymore. It’s like auto-tune “music”. Spare me.
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You’re a smart guy Mick surely you see the irony, the laughable irony, of your position.
So where are your auto-tune “music” critiques?
Motoman
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The racers are still people. I track their results and read their opinions. I also track the manufacturers and some of the things that they do. Though I must admit that my interest in the manufacturers is waning as none of the manufacturers involved in the series currently make any products that I have any interest in.
I guess I’m interested to see what Liberty does to the series. Being an organization that I hate less than Dorna should be a really easy thing to do. But, well, never overestimate a corporate interest.
Right now I have been jumping around reading about the aero thing and the various opinions of of the riders regarding the aero bits.
I think you would be surprised Anony at how many former champions share many of my opinions about the equipment and the direction of the series.
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8th to second on Saturday
13th to 1st on Sunday
In his first year on a year old Ducati
What is #93 going to be able to do on a GP25 next year?
Scary to think about
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It’s interesting. As well as he did on a evil Honda that nobody else could ride, I thought he’d mop the floor with everyone on the worst Ducati they could’ve given him. Shows how good the new generation of riders are.
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Marquez has become very consistent after a short teething on the Ducati. I believe in the last stage of the race he was turning Martin slowly on the spit to see if he’d blow out for the extra 5. Season isn’t over yet, lots to play out yet unless Pecco or Martin has a fall.
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indeed.
MotoGP put up some 2023 stats (front row starts, Poles, sprint/race wins etc.) comparing last season’s 2023 Duc riders vs those riding the year old 2022 Ducs. the 2022 bikes put up a fair bit of points and such.
meaning…the 2023 Ducs were better than the 2022 Duc but not a whole lot better.
the same stats comparing the 2024 vs 2023 Ducs…if it weren’t for MM, it’s pretty much zilcho for the 2023 bikes vs the 2024 bikes. MM is doing something on a 2023 Duc that no other rider on a 2023 Duc is able to do vs the 2024 Ducs.
the 2024 is a much better bike than the 2023 and the last big improvements for the 2024 was at the time of the British MotoGP.
i’d bet there aren’t a lot of folks betting against MM for the 2025 title.
Marquez knows (stated as such) he’s racing for fun now in 2024 and that Pecco and Martin have to race for the title so a lot more to lose for them. I wouldn’t doubt MM takes another race win in 2024.
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It is a very stark comparison. Last year Luca Marini was the only Ducati rider to fail to secure a win.
I believe that Marquez is getting development resources for his bike that the other GP23 riders aren’t. Ducati knows how much a competitive Marquez is worth from a marketing/exposure standpoint as well as what it would cost if the generation’s greatest rider failed to be competitive on their brand.
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I guess that reports of MM’s professional demise may have been greatly exaggerated.
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MM is very fun to watch.
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If only the same could be said of his brother. Still languishing at the back of the grid despite being on an identical bike.
Time for Das Boot!
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