MotoGP | 2024 | Race 14 | Italy | Misano | Sep 20 - 22

nascar fan aren't you.

 

Well, not every man is a manly man with six bitches on rotation.

 

I'd rather watch an aggressive NASCAR race than a processional MotoGP race because riders are too scared to make moves due to the threat of penalties after the fact.

 

Papa says but poor Harada!

yeah more of todays winning pass and less penalty fear…

 

So no mention of penalties for him flipping off the on board cameras over the finish line because everyone doesn’t speak flip offs in multiple languages?

speaking of the history of the middle finger sign and the “flipping the bird” in reference to archers hundreds of years ago was interesting

 

And MM calling for a Bastianni penalty like the little douche he is. He's the last guy who should be bitching about a pass.

Pecco says hold my bear

 

The lap times are not going to change that much if at all, going to 850.
Moto 2 is a three cylinder putting out about 140 HP.

The GP bikes are four cylinder, and will be putting out over 200 HP.

 

yup. 2025

 

On TNT, Hodgson said before the race that Canet is a rider who doesn't want to win, which elicited lots of laughter from Suzi Perry and Michael Laverty. After the race he followed it up saying he (Canet) proved his point. It was very amusing.

 

The quintessential British offensive gesture for most of the 20th century, formed by holding up a hand with the middle and index finger upright in a V shape, the thumb and other two fingers curled into the palm; the palm facing towards the gesturer. If asked, most people would gloss the meaning as ‘F—you’ or something similar, and it was certainly a very potent offensive gesture until recent years when it seems to be losing its ability to offend. Nevertheless, most British people would still be careful, if they needed to signify the number two in a gesture to someone else, to make the sign with palm facing the recipient. The history of the gesture is uncertain, and there is no evidence of its existence before the first decade of the 20th century. In recent years an explanation for the origin of the V-sign dating it from the Battle of Agincourt has appeared. This story maintains that British archers were so effective and so feared by their enemy that when the French captured an archer they chopped off the two fingers he needed to draw a bow-string. Bowmen who had not been thus disfigured took to holding up two fingers to taunt their cowardly foes. Needless to say, there is no shred of evidence to support this unlikely origin, but it is on its way to becoming entrenched in the popular mind and becoming folklore in itself. It is possible that the V-sign developed from the much older horns symbol, used to imply someone is a cuckold since at least the 16th century, although this gesture was traditionally made with little finger and index finger, and did not have the aggressive force of the V-sign. The American gesture, formed by holding up the middle finger alone, which was roughly equivalent to the V-sign, has been introduced to British culture by American films and other media, since about the 1960s, and is now well understood by most British people. It will be interesting to note whether it replaces the V-sign in the offensive gesture vocabulary.

The V-sign formed with the palm away from the gesturer has had a number of meanings. It was used effectively during the Second World War to signify ‘Victory’, especially by Winston Churchill, and in this sense it can still be seen in news reports from conflicts all round the world. In the 1960s, however, it was annexed by American, and later British, youth as the ‘Peace sign’, and a further change was signalled when in 1997 the pop group The Spice Girls used it to signify ‘Girl power’.

See also: FINGERS, GESTURES, COCKING A SNOOK, HORNS, THUMBS.

Morris, 1979: 226–40;Talking Folklore 1:2 (1986/7), 25–42.

From: V-sign in A Dictionary of English Folklore »

 

the one I read wasn’t the British V version but French/Celtic single middle finger one but yeah who knows…

In addition to the one JM used today being Italian supposedly the brushing under the chin towards the intended recipient is used by some western Latinos while yelling “chinge tu madre”

I don’t use any of them… I make damn sure I speak it while looking them in the eye so that there is no confusion or passive aggressive bullshit

 

When did he say this? I missed it.

 

The haters just making shit up.

MM did say in the cool down room when he saw the bump and pass that he almost won the race today!

 

You have to remember the Moto2 bikes are only running on 3 cylinders so they will always be slower.

 

That pass looked dirty as shit to me.

Had he made the corner, it'd be good hard pass..........but running someone into the Atlantic Ocean as you're unable to stop before the carpark yourself doesn't seem very sporting to me. It would've been REALLY interesting (from a possible penalty perspective) if Pecco wouldn't have crashed out and was there to pickup the pieces and took first place because of it.

 

Do you think JM89 was riding defensively because of tires or because of the track limits warning he had received?

It looked like Jorge was entering and exiting a few of the corners with room to spare to be safe and Enea was closing in on Jorge right at those spots.

 

I just figured he was riding different because of track limits then ramped up his TC around 7 to go but he had to be hearing someone behind him in a few spots in the last several laps. Beast almost ran him up the tail a time or two.

 

He was riding very defensively. Parked on a few apexes and almost got asspacked.

 

Enea made the corner, he didn't go off track at all except a smidge while he took a peek over his shoulder to check on Martin, so he made the corner. Simon Crafar said the same post-race, Enea was fully in control and only ran that wide due to checking on Martin so if he was the safety director already, there'd be no penalty.

I thought it was a hard pass but not worthy of a penalty and although it sucked that Pecco crashed I'm just glad he wasn't there to take advantage of Martin as the world would go nuts with conspiracy theories and I'm even more glad it wasn't Marc who made that block pass as the Uccio's worldwide would be stockpiling 3' screwdrivers and trebuchets for the pilgrimage to Cervera, Spain to tar and feather him.

Great race for Fabio - sucks he lost 2 spots at the line like that.

Moto2 race was a doozy too - sucked that Joe was so damn far back from the action but the top 3 laid it all out there today - wowza.