MotoGP 2016: Italy - Mugello/Gran Premio d'Italia TIM - May 22

Smoking lap by AI. He wants it this weekend. Hope he wins.

Also Pirro 3rd. Going to be a good weekend.

 

Crazy Joe on top of FP2, the boy wants to make a statement this weekend. I think he might actually do it. He finished second in the race last year. Wouldn't be surprised if he didn't win this time.

 

FP#2

1 29 Andrea IANNONE ITA Ducati Team Ducati 345.4 1'47.696
2 99 Jorge LORENZO SPA Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha 335.2 1'48.157 0.461 / 0.461
3 51 Michele PIRRO ITA Ducati Team Ducati 343.4 1'48.245 0.549 / 0.088
4 41 Aleix ESPARGARO SPA Team SUZUKI ECSTAR Suzuki 337.3 1'48.270 0.574 / 0.025
5 93 Marc MARQUEZ SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 339.9 1'48.290 0.594 / 0.020
6 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha 335.6 1'48.340 0.644 / 0.050
7 25 Maverick VIÑALES SPA Team SUZUKI ECSTAR Suzuki 336.7 1'48.345 0.649 / 0.005
8 45 Scott REDDING GBR OCTO Pramac Yakhnich Ducati 338.6 1'48.406 0.710 / 0.061
9 35 Cal CRUTCHLOW GBR LCR Honda Honda 333.8 1'48.458 0.762 / 0.052
10 44 Pol ESPARGARO SPA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 333.3 1'48.470 0.774 / 0.012
11 26 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 335.0 1'48.713 1.017 / 0.243
12 9 Danilo PETRUCCI ITA OCTO Pramac Yakhnich Ducati 338.5 1'48.752 1.056 / 0.039
13 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Ducati Team Ducati 342.0 1'48.816 1.120 / 0.064
14 68 Yonny HERNANDEZ COL Aspar Team MotoGP Ducati 336.5 1'48.832 1.136 / 0.016
15 38 Bradley SMITH GBR Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 335.5 1'49.199 1.503 / 0.367
16 8 Hector BARBERA SPA Avintia Racing Ducati 338.7 1'49.234 1.538 / 0.035
17 53 Tito RABAT SPA Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS Honda 331.0 1'49.648 1.952 / 0.414
18 43 Jack MILLER AUS Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS Honda 333.2 1'49.698 2.002 / 0.050
19 50 Eugene LAVERTY IRL Aspar Team MotoGP Ducati 337.0 1'49.852 2.156 / 0.154
20 19 Alvaro BAUTISTA SPA Aprilia Racing Team Gresini Aprilia 328.4 1'49.913 2.217 / 0.061
21 6 Stefan BRADL GER Aprilia Racing Team Gresini Aprilia 325.6 1'50.368 2.672 / 0.455
22 76 Loris BAZ FRA Avintia Racing Ducati 327.2 1'51.055 3.359 / 0.687

 

He needs to start finishing races.

 

Agreed, but anger can be a very focus-inducing emotion at times. Should make for an interesting weekend for sure.

 

He needs to not get injured. Doesn't matter if he finishes or not. Contract already done.

He's fast here and wants to make a statement. AI for the win

 

I'd love to see AI win it too. Nothing like a big middle finger to the Factory.

 

He's already done that by crashing out of 5 of the last 7 races he's been in, including taking out his own teammate for a double podium finish. I think he's out of middle fingers to give to the factory.

 

True. Bringing one back in the same shape it left the grid would be a nice gesture to his mechanics so they would have less work the following race.

 

Yup. He's turned into a faster version of Crutchlow.

 

I know we're only talking about practice, but I can't imagine that it looks good to management that the rider that got booted from the team is 1.2 seconds faster and 12 places higher than the guy that got the contract. Yikes...

 

Well...that and Pirro is P3

 

Means squat if you can't cross the finish line on the day it counts.

 

It's a little more difficult to go fast when you can't turn your head to the left.

 

It would appear that he has a neck issue that's been going on for years.

 

So wait....then you WOULD be surprised if he DID win if I'm reading you correctly (double negatives). If so then I agree with you.

 

Know what else doesn't look good. Crashing out of 3 of the first 5 races.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Iannone#Races_by_year

 

Just seen Neil Morrison post that it came from a crash in '05. Had similar issues at Mugello in '13. That's got to be a PITA trying to wrestle the bike around. I know when I've had the Frankenstein neck it hurts to do normal things much less try to race a GP bike.

 

Interesting enough, Ducati seemed to want AI instead of Dovi beside Lorenzo. AI didn't like the contract details.

 

That could also be a hint that they didn't want him that bad.