MotoGP | 2023 | Race 20 | Valencia | Spain | Nov 24-26

Care to throw a wager on this…?

 

He's made it clear that he has no desire to do that, healthy or not.

 

So we are gonna be a bunch of old guys talking about a mental case next year

Bring it on

 

I think I'm already in for a hundy with Linders on this... I dunno... we're both old and can't remember anything these days

 

93 wasn’t even pushing.

 

I could be wrong, but the Honda wasn't exactly giving him any warning signs either. There one minute and gone the next.

 

Could be wrong but hasn't that always been a Michelin tire thing

 

^^THIS^^

He was on a Tuesday afternoon ride. He's not showing his hand yet.

 

That’s what I noticed. He looked like he was on warm up laps on the bike.

 

Nope. I didn’t forget but I’m pretty sure they brought the wrong tires. Not that their tires couldn’t handle Phillip island. The fact that Lorenzo would still hold the record at Valencia on Bridgestones if they hadn’t repaved it says something about them being a better tire.

 

Disagree. That's not his style. He pushes to the point of crashing all the time. Also, you can't collect valuable data by cruising around. They need the data for off-season development.

 

Marc's brother said the exact opposite. He said he has great feedback and knows when the front is going away.

 

blah blah blah MM this MM that. Doesn't matter. Maverick showed the whole field once and again that there is only one true king of testing. Just wait for next year when the team stops calling the weekends 'races'.

 

You are certainly entitled to your belief, no matter how wrong you are and how much of your belief is just based on an irrational hatred of a particular rider.
However, note that I don't particularly care for MM as a rider nor do I particularly like Ducati as a brand, but there is no denying certain facts. The Ducati is the best bike out there. The Honda is the worst bike out there. Most of the incidents with MM were caused by him having to over ride the POS Honda to be anywhere near competetive. With a better bike he will not be compelled to ride as hard for as little reward. Look at his results compared to all of the other Honda riders back to Pedrosa. The Honda has been a POS for way longer than expected but their deficiencies have long been masked by MM's ability. The year old Ducati is a proven commodity, Gresini is a proven team and MM will be in the hunt for wins from the start of the season.

 

We have all seen what it looks like when he's pushing. This wasn't it. I'm not saying he wasn't trying to go fast. But this wasn't pushing.

And there is literally nothing to develop. The '23 bike is as it will finish next season. Only thing he will be working on is the setup.

 

I think he had to ride the Honda that way to push it to the front. On the Duc he won't have to push the bike to the limit in order to win. He just has to be him on the the bike...just my spectators opinion.

 

The video of Stoner and JLo watching Vinales on the monitor during his first test ride on the Yamaha is still funny to me…. CS was looking at JLo like “whoah man”….. Jlo was like “oh shit” obviously they had nothing to worry about…

 

lol Jorge Martin said in a post test interview about Marc that they’ll have to figure out how to beat him. Bahahahaha

 

Can we save this for posterity? He already looks different. Looser and more comfortable.

 

Don't worry, Papa will remember, he always drags this kind of stuff out in a year or two.