MotoGP | 2022 | Race 2 | Mandalika | Indonesia | March 18-20

Olive oil redeemed himself from Qatar. It looks like most teams made progress with the exception of Honda. Don’t know what o think about them for the rest of the year. Only two races in but it doesn’t look promising.

 

I thought I was ready to watch live also .. that rain delay did me in . I fell back asleep and watched it later .

 

Video seemed normal for me.

 

Apparently Fast Binder’s ride height device was stuck in drag mode the entire race. At the start, the camera had focused on him looking at the rear of his bike like something was wrong. Pretty awesome work by him and he stuffed his brother pretty hard to nab a few more places lol.

Marc’s crash was just brutal. I’m waiting to see what happens at COTA but the combo of Michelin’s new tire and a bike he’s not familiar with was devastating this weekend.

Hopefully team America can move up a few spots in Moto2. Pretty anonymous race and weekend from the home team.

 

Shortened race due to pavement issues? Cmon man and we thought COTA was bad lol.

I bet Honda are pissed with not even being in the top 10. Hope Marquez is ok but I love seeing the evil empire locked out. So far this is a great season with the podiums being so mixed up.

 

That was Lorenzo-rookie-year quality!

The man was determined. I hope he has some left for Thailand at the end of the season.

 

Someone at MotoGP took a play out of the Moto America Live+ playbook with the race footage they uploaded to the website. Holy fuck that was like watching a race after chasing a 30 pack of PBR with a handle of Jack

 

I liked the track and field warmup on NBC lol... that last 2 laps with the Binder bros pack and Aleix What expensive paint for curbs? polygon and martin with crazy swaps there... and that bagnia front end save was amazing.

 

Dovi and Rossi score the same number of points for the 2nd race 2022 season.

Season so far- Vinales only 2 pts ahead of dovi who is only 2 pts ahead of Rossi
Rossi is only 1 point behind Bagnaia

 

MM93 should retire.

 

He is but his body and his brain are still arguing over it

 

Sort of like he hit his head one too many times. I don't think he was ever going to make that turn. Overly committed kamikaze turn attack.

 

watching the race now....and that high side was absolutely wrong on so many levels for the human body.

 

Its sad because after tossing 2 bikes in Q1 where does the race doc come in?!?!? If the team was looking at his inputs are they reasonable. I just can't wrap my head around the bike being something that's trying to kill you in every turn. Maybe it is...but he should be given a red card for own good.

 

Much like the Undefeated Dolphins pop champagne when their record holds, Rossi is probably like I still have more.

Given how mixed up the podiums have been though MM93 still has a chance....if he was to switch manufacturers

 

You know it's a bad one when it shows up on the ABC morning show as a sports highlight. Lucky the bike didn't land on him.

 

Yeah as a motocross rider

 

Pol said as much. New bike, old tire. Unfortunately for Marq, his balls to the wall no fear attitude wasn’t going to work at that venue on those Michelins.

 

Kenny Roberts Jr. once said he used to watch John Hopkins come back to the pits with lose teeth after crashing so much on the old Suzuki. MM seems to be missing that same part of his brain that balances trusting the machine VS life preserving safety.

 

you mean short term memory??