WSBK | ROUND 03 | Estoril Round | 20 - 22 MAY

POLE POSITION: Left
LENGTH: 4.182 Km
CORNERS: 13
RIGHT CORNERS: 9
LEFT CORNERS: 4

All times are eastern

 

on a scale of 1-31 (1 being the lowest) how disappointed in GG will we be following this race weekend?

 

Isn't Estoril one of his better tracks?

 

4

 

The kid deserves a break. I hope he gets a good result.

 

2021: DNF and 4th
2020: 3rd and DNF

 

Hope to see Scott in the top 8 all weekend since he did well last year (granted he was on the Duc).

 

+ 1

Go GG!

 

I think GG31 will show up this weekend. He was on a podcast recently talking about the shitty luck he's had and we all know his 11th position in the points isn't showing his true ability. His teammate hasn't scored a point this year so we know GG isn't at the bottom of Yamaha's list of riders to replace.

 

I think he needs to score a lot more points than his teammate to have an equal shot at keeping his place.

 

From what I understand, Kohta is bringing a lot of Japanese cash to the table.

 

Indeed.

 

Bring back Les Pearson for GG31 and send it!

 

Garret doing well so far in fp1

 

GG top of fp1

 

Over a second up on JR!
Not so good for VdM. He didn't even make the cutoff time, but he only got one lap in before he crashed and was taken to the medical center. That leg didn't look so good, so I hope he is going to be OK.

 

I'm hoping that GG has one of those weekends that will be the start of a trend, but he had one lap under 1:37, Sofuoglu had four laps that were sub 1:37, but he was not able to string them together

 

Damn - he fractured his femur near the hip - he's out for the weekend

 

I would say for the summer, based on what you're saying.

 

Michael van der Mark (BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) has now been ruled out of the Estoril Round after sustaining a fracture of the right femur neck.
https://www.worldsbk.com/en/news/20...emainder+of+the+Estoril+Round+after+FP1+crash

I didn't want to get ahead of myself, but with 3 weeks to the next round in June and another three to four weeks after that to the UK round in July, he might have a shot.

edit - I just looked over the FP2 pdf - even though Rea was third fastest, he had nearly twice as many laps under 1:37 compared to Bautista in 2nd and Razgatlioglu in 1st