Austin, Texas USA | MotoGP | 2017 (Spoilers)

According to Rossi himself he didn't know about the penalty until after the finish of the race.

 

Good thing he decided to check out rather than play it safe.

Sprayed one of the girls in the crotch, very deliberately

 

Link to video? ;-)

 

Definitely got both. One in the front, one from the back.

 

No talk of JL99's solid 9th? Behind his teammate and Petrucci.

I thought he came to play in the opening laps - then nope.

 

And Iannone.

 

Just speculation but the team may have determined that they did not need to show it to him. Pedrosa dropped back precipitously when Rossi passed him.

They know how to handle it when it needs to be communicated. One of Rossi's best races ever involved a 10-second penalty Capirossi at Phillip Island, if I remember those details correctly. The team told him how much of a gap he needed, and he dialed it into into the bike and took off.

Incidentally, that was one of the events that convinced me that he ran unopposed until 2007.

 

AI29's Suzuki was changing directions and gaining on the Ducati a ton in the tighter stuff- it looked like the race leader was catching up to back markers.
Either Jlo was cruising around at that point or the bike still only likes to go straight. I'm sure Iannone got a kick out if it too.

 

Did I hear that JL was on soft/soft? I'm guessing his tires were done by then.

It kind of sounds like he did the wild card rider thing and ran tires that would get him camera time at the front for as long as the held up. It's crazy that a 3x champ would resort to that but desperate times=desperate measures.

 

The commentators did say soft/soft, but later in the race they showed the tire chart for all the rider and showed him med/soft.

 

Per the interviews, that was the case. They told Rossi after the race that they had decided not to show him once he had opened up a 1-sec gap rather quickly after passing Pedrosa. Rossi was thankful, as both he and Pedrosa stated that trying to convey that type of message via pitboard is very difficult and may have only caused more confusion.

 

i agree... we all know what happens to rossi on "flag to flag" wet races when he needs to come in to change tires and they tell him to on the pit board lol ignore lol lose 4 places.

 

The disappointment in the face of management at the end---priceless.

 

I really have to say you 'Muricans give out the most ugly trophies of all the championship. Those things looked completely ridiculous and seemed they were welded in a hurry in one of the nearby garages...

 

Come on now! It's not like we just hand out a bunch of used bricks or something!

Oh, wait.....

 

Maybe so, but American podium celebrations are second to none. Year after year, consistently, bitches ladies don't shy away from a champagne shower. Most times, they're dancing in it.

 

Exactly. They reminded me of the trophies we had when racing in Vintage back in the day. Cool at our level, totally inapropriate for a world class event. Didn't they have ugly trophies one year at Indy too ?