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Post by Diego the toe clipper on Feb 1, 2022 11:28:11 GMT
Off to a good start for HRC then!
Bradl's bike got stuck in transit in Dubai and didn't get to Sepang on time to be on track yesterday... If it's not the riders, its the bikes which don't make it!
Raúl Fernandez fastest isn't much of a surprise, although with Garnder injured we'll see what happens in the futire! Should be the team battle to watch this year!
More surprising is that D Bin wasn't last in the table, that honour going to Guintoli on the Suzuki. Nothing against Guinters. seems like a great guy, but I question if he's really the best test rider Suzuki could get?
Dani not out on the KTM either, seems he is moving into more of a coach / management role in KTM from what I've read, although he is still a listed test rider.
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Post by nippon on Feb 1, 2022 11:53:34 GMT
remy was a second behind raul on day one which considering his injury, is impressive i think. there's been a bit of needle between those two i read, gardner being quoted responding to fernandez with 'say what you want, only one of us is champion.' new seat and pipework for honda, revisions since jerez. hard to know what they gave guintoli to test but suzuki always seemed happy with his input. not sure about dani yesterday. i saw a photo of him in his leathers and livio suppo asked him whether he was showing on the time sheets as one of the four KTM's listed as kallio. he didn't reply. he's been out today though.
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Post by mekon on Feb 1, 2022 13:58:25 GMT
I imagine Raul will win the Motogp battle. I think he has more actual natural speed and Gardner could have quite easily not won that title, it's not like he crushed his team mate.
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Post by Diego the toe clipper on Feb 1, 2022 14:01:58 GMT
Regrading the Remy / Raúl needle, it seems that Raúl effectively blamed KTM for backing Remy and giving him all the attention towards the end of the season. Came across as a bit of sour grapes I'm afraid, there might be some truth in the claims of course, but nobody likes a stoner, sorry, I mean moaner.
Good info about Dani, hadn't thought that he might be going out dressed as Kalio!
What is Suppo doing then? Is he journoing? I read he spent all winter sat by the phone incase Hamamatsu called (they didn't).
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Post by mekon on Feb 1, 2022 16:52:16 GMT
He is probably daydreaming about railing Stoner's wife and perfecting his spaghetti western voice.
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Post by Diego the toe clipper on Feb 2, 2022 8:18:29 GMT
Its only testing but:
Viñales is 2 seconds faster than Savadori, Spanish Facebook proclaims him 2022 champion already!
But Raúl was already nearly that much faster than both Mika Kalios anyway.... so...
Binder not actually looking that slow on a single lap? (How you gonna price this dude in the fantasy league Phil?)
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Post by philthewindsurfer on Feb 2, 2022 10:41:18 GMT
Binder not actually looking that slow on a single lap? (How you gonna price this dude in the fantasy league Phil?) Hmm, the minimum is £100,000 so I will have to round the number up to that Looking at the rookies. The better 250 riders (Gardner & Fernandez) are on KTMs, Bezzecchi on a Ducati. Is the Ducati a better bike and cancel out the past performance stats of the riders? Then there is Di Giannantonio on a Honda, so probably just behind those. Then to Binder, is this years 4th Yamaha going to be a shitter compared to the rest like last year? If not, that might help him out a lot. Last 2 season rookies' totals. 2020 Binder scored 87. A Marquez 74. 2021 Martin 111 Bastianini 102 Marini 41 Average of those is 85, which equates to £500,000*. Edit. There are 2 extra races for MotoGP this year, so probably adjust the prices for that.
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Post by Diego the toe clipper on Feb 2, 2022 12:14:22 GMT
Nice stats Phil!
So the average points for a rookie being 85, making both Marini and Alex M below average, no surprise there then!
But in 2020 there were only 14 races and in 21, 18. So really Big Binder scored an average of 6.21 points per race whereas Jorge scored "only" 6.16 points per race....
So if Big Binder was statistically the most succesful rookie of the last two years, where does that leave D. Binner Jr.? He only has to get an average of 2.29 points per race to beat Marini's achievements.... He was 300k in the 2021 comp.
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Post by philthewindsurfer on Feb 2, 2022 13:56:07 GMT
Marini was 2nd in 2020 just behind Bastianini, Martin was quite a few points behind, hence the 2021 prices. I think I will make all the rookies the same price this year. £750,000
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Post by mekon on Feb 3, 2022 11:45:21 GMT
What are Big Vinny's chances. I was reading MCN that he is targeting wins but I guess everyone but a rookie has such aspirations.
Maybe the aprilia could have pulled a win put under a couple of circumstances last year but I don't think it's a winning machine as such.
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Post by Diego the toe clipper on Feb 3, 2022 13:37:59 GMT
Viñales as a racer is capable of a win obviously, but what Aprilia have done with the bike over the winter seems to be more of a mystery.
You'd like to think that they've made progress, but what counts is the relative progress compared to the others, not the absolute progress. But given that absolute progress is easier to measure....
Much has been reported about his fantastic 1.58.9 lap in testing, but considering that Aleix qualified in 15th last time they raced there in 2019 with a 1.59.4, I'd hardly call that a huge leap in performance.
Interestingly, Maverick himself was faster around Sepang in 2019 on his Yamaha, having qualified in 2nd with a 1.58.4.
So that's a NO from the Clipper jury.
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Post by mekon on Feb 3, 2022 16:59:18 GMT
Did Vinales also say it was a mistake leaving Suzuki? If he'd been on a Suzuki he'd have just moaned about that as well. I'm kind of expecting Suzuki to do nothing much this year.
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Post by nippon on Feb 3, 2022 17:17:09 GMT
Viñales as a racer is capable of a win obviously, but what Aprilia have done with the bike over the winter seems to be more of a mystery. You'd like to think that they've made progress, but what counts is the relative progress compared to the others, not the absolute progress. But given that absolute progress is easier to measure.... Much has been reported about his fantastic 1.58.9 lap in testing, but considering that Aleix qualified in 15th last time they raced there in 2019 with a 1.59.4, I'd hardly call that a huge leap in performance. Interestingly, Maverick himself was faster around Sepang in 2019 on his Yamaha, having qualified in 2nd with a 1.58.4. So that's a NO from the Clipper jury. good post this. excluding variables in tyres, weather and track temperatures it's still interesting comparing those times. i look at the aprilia with aleix the same way i looked at the KTM with pol. that perhaps the bikes were capable, they just had average racers on them.
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Post by philthewindsurfer on Feb 5, 2022 15:40:54 GMT
MV wont be happy, he lost out on the MotoGP test win by 0.013s to AE.
Bezzecchi put in a quick last lap, 10th fastest, just over 1s down on AE. <cliche mode on> And its a long lap at Sepang <cliche mode off>
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Post by philthewindsurfer on Feb 5, 2022 18:10:30 GMT
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