MotoGP | 2022 | Race 7 | Le Mans | France | May 13 - 15

take it a step further and VR rides a wild card on one of the Suzukis so that he wins on yet another brand getting that elusive 200th podium or is it 100th win? Or both… at Silverstone… (they go there now or is it Brands Hatch?) where it’s cold and rainy…

then in the ride an old Suzi category he throws the old reporter lady Suzi a bone in @motion ’s traveling tub tours launching an entire new business venture for him leaving him beaming with both pride and disappointment as he still isn’t invited to the ranch after all of that

 

How much did Valentino have to pay off the rest of the grid to not show up though?

 

Toe you’ve been through enough man… AI29 alone was enough to do anyone in and even Foreiner can’t sing load enough to drown out the “head games” of Vinales and then you get the Chipmworh the hot Mom’s kid only to have them take their ball and go home… and they’d just the recent issues… no man more brand loyal than you…

 

That’s not true. WADA appealed his 18 months handed down by the FIM and was looking for 4 years regardless. Iannone was fucked no matter what, rolling the dice to fight it was the best move.

Andrea was seemingly the victim of bad luck more than anything. He seemed to have a solid doping program going, and he was caught out by being dehydrated when they tested him. He pissed hot barely over the threshold for a positive result from what I understand.

Unless the testers knew he was juicing (like we all did), and deliberately chose the Malaysian GP to “randomly” test his ass. He should’ve taken a page from Lance’s book and pretended to pass out from heatstroke so he could legitimately get some IV fluid injection and dilute that shit.

 

Close, Pecco was running with illegal (too low) front tire pressure in Jerez, but supposedly the teams have a secret handshake agreement not to protest each other because of it, however now it looks that’s coming to an end.

 

https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/...bshell-some-teams-are-cheating-the-tyre-rules

 

Not sure why that's a bombshell, doesn't the same tire charade play out the same nearly every year?

I guess it usually involves tire failures though before someone acts.

 

looks like someone getting salty from losing and needs an advantage

 

Why bother having a rule if everyone is basically free to ignore it? Either ditch the rule or enforce it.

 

I remember this being enforced a couple years ago...

 

So how about these team bosses that “agreed” to the gentleman rule state that they jo longer wish to be a part of it and from here on out protests will be filed?

seems pretty stupid and silly to agree to something then cry when someone takes advantage.

protest them or STFU.

 

We don’t really know how the agreement was drawn up…. Maybe the intent beyond it was not to run the whole race below the limit, just how Pecco did in Jerez, of course that’s just my speculations.

 

The leak seems to be from the Michelin data guy at the track (or anyone higher than him who would have access), who is reading pressures off of everyone's tires wirelessly, and the competitive protests would have to come from the teams.

 

I think the leak was from a team member. The sheets are given to all the teams after the race. And it wasn't the team managers who agreed to the "Gentlemen's Agreement", they state it was the MSMA.

 

A leak would explain the lower pressure.

 

that makes way more sense. the person seemed to want an even playing field, at least in regards to tires.

 

That comment was golden.

 

It was as actually two teams who wanted the gentleman’s agreement replaced with following the actual rule.

 

It was provided by a senior engineer from a team, but it also had been brought to attention by a team manager from a different team.

 

That the least believable part of the article to me, that teams all are getting data for each of the other riders during the race weekend?

Lorenzo and Rossi couldn't even agree to share tire compound choice in the same garage, yet Oxley is saying they're all receiving each others pressure data?