MotoGP | Mugello | Italy | 2018 | June 1 - 3

You're not wrong. Suzuki should leave MotoGP. A two rider team, no satellite input, is not going to win a championship. Rather see them put those resources elsewhere. Get Tony Elias a big fancy motorhome. One of those two level jobs.

As for Iannone what's to like about him? He's fast sometimes? They are all fast sometimes. He's also a bonehead.

 

Shit... they'd probably do better.

 

How many have podium'd and or won? On the right bike he is a contender. I'd take him over Rins all day any day. Suzuki ditched the wrong rider.

 

If he's so great why cant he keep a ride?

 

pirro at the very least looks like he has a broken arm and a broken leg as he's tumbling. that looks real real bad. geezus christ.

 

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1002574050802139136

 

Holy crap!

The balls on that guy.....

 

holy shit haha. how is he not broken? i mean he at least was unconscious? he's not worried about that at all? that is insane.

 

Air bag suits. They work.

 

At the of the broadcast they announced he had a dislocated shoulder which they had popped back in and a lot of bruising. He was being transported to Florence for scans for being unconscious for so long. I'm glad to see it wasn't any worse... was an odd crash for sure

 

Get it while it's hot, Dorna's gonna pull it soon :

Goddamn that was brutal.

 

Not necessarily. I think he was just knocked out, that's why his arms and legs were flailing like that...

 

Terrible crash for sure. Wonder why those don't happen a bit more with the high-speed, rear-wheel-in-the-air while slowing down from 200+mph shenanigans these guys perform. Interesting twitter is calling it a horror crash. I suppose mainly for the speed. I kinda remember Nakano's and Marquez' crashes there as being worse. Hard to say. 200mph crashes are pretty terrifying period.

 

A true testament to good safety gear... and a lil bit of luck.

 

I wonder if there's any truth to the old belief that going "limp" is better than trying to "fight" the crash........like how people who are drunk in an automobile accident are thought to experience less injuries than somebody who's sober.

I remember back when Gibernau was racing he would always try to tuck his arms in close when he fell/tumbled, and you see lots of riders consciously trying to stop themselves from tumbling.

Then you see Pirro go lights-out from the initial impact, tumble like a ragdoll for a few hundred feet, then come away relatively unharmed? Pretty amazing.

 

I thought of those incidents, too, so I went back and watched. Pirro's is way worse than either, IMHO.

 

And being in top physical shape. No doubt replacing Pirro with any average joe with a dadbod would not have resulted in such a positive outcome...

I'm not sure he was still doing 200 mph though, he seemed to be on the brakes for a second or two before flipping, so maybe he lost some speed. Telemetry would help us here, of course.

 

The current prevailing theory is that little headshake he got over the crest affected his brake pads slightly, which is why you see the nose of the bike just dive like mad as he scrambled to get them to bite again. Once they did it started to pitch him over, so he tried to release a bit but the bike was already well crossed-up.

Also interested to see what (if anything) Pirro/Ducati says.

Just so relieved he's OK.

 

should buff right out