MotoGP | Jerez | Spain |May 4-6 | 2018

Damn!! Like 8th time’s a charm??

I’ll give ya this, you’re goddamn consistent in your inaccuracies.

 

20/20 eyesight has its benefits.

 

“Paging Dr. Stevie Wonder. Dern is here and his normal Dr. Ray Charles is out.”

 

Well that race was 1000% better than the last one. It was enjoyable to watch until Dovi got stuck behind Lorenzo and MM got away. Then Dovi made a pass in a spot that was less than ideal and Lorenzo took everyone out trying to recover the position. After that I didn't even watch the last 6 laps.

 

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/collide

 

JL had the position. Dani thought he could go under coming from behind.
Dani ran into JL just as much as JL came down on Dani.
Can’t blame JL.

 

I blame myself.

 

I blame you too.

 

https://motomatters.com/analysis/2018/05/07/2018_jerez_motogp_sunday_round_up_of.html

 

As part of the Trackday Brigade, this is where I see the most blame. Dani's quote: "He can, more-or-less, see me and also I think when you go out and you lose the line you must check to recover the line. But finally we touch, and we crash, and there's nothing we can do now. It's not that we wanted to finish like this because I think the three of us were doing a very good race and we all deserved to finish in the strong positions today."

I would have expected Jorge to take a glance. That would have given him the info to straighten his line a bit to avoid contact.

Race direction made their call but look at the calls they made with Marques and Canet in Argentina.... so I don't necessarily trust them to be right.

 

From MotoMatters:
"Especially today, I said to Juanito, who does my pit board, to only tell me the rider behind...you don't know where the third rider is, whether he is very far or close. So the third rider is the only one who has vision of the situation" - The CEO

 

Once again, Kropotkin nails it. Thanks for the post.

Cheers,

Dave

 

My goodness, actual 1st person experience of those who were involved along with other actual participant's observations from the event. My gob is smacked.