MotoGP | 2025 | Race 7 | Silverstone | British Grandprix | May-23 to May-25

As a guest today, I think. Paolo Pavesio has his former job.

 

I'm thinking he dropped by to work the super secret sabotage like he did to The Ben.

 

I love when Bez wins, that little fucker has some personality unlike the rest of the VR46 dweebs.

Acosta was showing some skill, him going to Ducati next year will be crazy.

Also, good on Frankie for not backing down on Marc. He was in it till the end.

 

C’mom its ingrained they get extra bonus whenever they put the hurting to Marc.

 

Still something not right with having a dude who watched 2 laps of the race from the gravel trap grid back up on a new bike like nothing happened. He and Mark should have been down a lap or 2 for the restart.

 

We can name it the Wera bitches bitching about Marc rule...in addition to him even gridding up on the same lap as everyone else. Wouldn't want it to be a unfair GP race but more like a hobby LCQ in the amateurs.

 

I remember when Tom Sykes won a race then wadded his shit on the cool down lap. He was disqualified because he couldn't ride back to parc ferme under its own power or within x amount of minutes, cant remember that part.

Rules is the rules. Frankie got to restart too!

 

I’m going to say this is more coincidence than anything. This is historically Ducatis worst track, regardless of lap count. Don’t forget the last podium without a Duc on it was here a few years ago and they’ve only won 2 of the last 6 races there, which for them is quite lackluster. And Fabio, Bez, Zarco, and Miller all had that soft front that was apparently some wonder rubber in the beginning of the race. Marc also isn’t as fast on right handers and this is obviously a predominantly right handed track. Hence Alex actually being the faster brother on the whole this weekend. Gonna say these factors played more into today’s result than race distance.

 

Whether Fabio won or not...He is in everyone's head now.

Hope he can stay there.

3 lap rule is stupid but its the rule.

 

That Moto2 race was bonkers! The top 5 were a sight to behold.

MotoGP was... MotoGP! Seriously, you can't make this stuff up. I have friends who have stopped watching because they didn't like the "Ducati Cup." They have no idea the show that they're missing!

-T

 

One thing that I found interesting after the re-start was how the commentators kept mentioning how wary both Marquez brothers apparently were on the opening laps of the re-start probably due to their earlier crashes. I'm not going to discount that possibility. But what they failed to mention was that they were also both on their "B" bikes. Same but different...

 

The head shake on Fabio's Yamaha was insane today pre technical... I thought the frame was going to shear itself in half...

 

Agree, and you could also make the argument that they had additional data with respect to front tire grip on the first couple laps.

 

That was nuts... and the dude just kept it pinned.

 

2027 regs cannot come soon enough. The dirty air, ride height devices, and front tire pressure bullshit has become very, very tiresome.

I may start watching WSBK again as the riders seem to have to really wrestle those bikes around.

 

Marc was trying to save his bike. Are we sure he went out on the b bike? I’m sure Alex did.

 

I’m not certain about Marc, the broadcast did say he did and I caught a shot of his garage shortly after his bike was back and while not noticeably damaged the fairing was very wobbly with just a tech checking it out and they appeared to be working on bike 2 at that time.

 

Yep. Commentators confirmed it.

 

It’s hilarious to me how bad the MDS around here is. Everybody crying about the brothers taking the restart but not a fucking word about Morbidelli, who was part of the accident that CAUSED the red flag.

 

what unfolded in the motogp race was unreal.. drama to the 10th degree. Moto2 and mot03 races were AWESOME ! !