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Apparently an "altercation with a member of staff". Pretty drastic move considering his boss is Rossi.
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KTM launch their 2017 bike:
Unsurprisingly, the livery is pretty much identical to the design used by Ajo Motorsport in Moto3.
Unsurprisingly, the livery is pretty much identical to the design used by Ajo Motorsport in Moto3.
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Moto 3 never fails to deliver an amazing race. A shame that Oettl couldn't end up on the podium in the end.
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Still a good race but not the race I expected tbh shame navarro came off, championship really is over now
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Does anyone know what fenati did yesterday? There's only rumours but I haven't heard them and by the sound of it, it was pretty bad.
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Does anyone know what fenati did yesterday? There's only rumours but I haven't heard them and by the sound of it, it was pretty bad.
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Not sure, but given he's been given the sack, it must be Clarkson-esque.
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Jeez, the Germans really aren't allowed a podium today 
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Yeah that was my initial thought too. I heard something about him going back to Ajo but I can't see him getting a seat at the front of the grid this season.
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Can't see Ajo taking him, even if he didn't have Binder now and Bo for next year. Fenati's rep is pretty shot to pieces and Aki seems pretty traditional in his approach to a team.
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Nikita Mazepin did something like that in a Formula 3 race and the FIA stepped in and banned him on the spot, though it was in the middle of the paddock and in full view of everyone. If Fenati took a swing at someone, I am surprised that FIM didn't intervene.
Honestly, it sounds more like a footballer who broke a team policy and got himself drunk the night before a match than anything else. Fenati probably said or did something that he couldn't take back, and I am guessing that if it has come to a suspension, then it isn't the first time this has happened - it's just the first we're hearing of it.
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That's annoyed me :/ gutted for dovi
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It apparently was according a Dutch site. (So not 100% sure)
He got in a fight with his crew chief after qualifying on Saturday and used his fists.
They report he's gone from the team for good.
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superb end to qualy, marquez truly is unbelievable.
Although I have a feeling rossi is going to moan :/
Although I have a feeling rossi is going to moan :/
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It's raining pretty heavily in Brno.
I can't be sure, but I think "raining in Brno" is Czech for "Lorenzo's screwed".
I can't be sure, but I think "raining in Brno" is Czech for "Lorenzo's screwed".
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Come on guys, can you at least give Brad Binder a moment to pick himself up and dust himself off before you start singing the praises of John McPhee? I swear, they started a sentence talking about how McPhee had no answer to Binder and finished it talking about how McPhee had mastered the conditions and perfectly executed his strategy.
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Yeah - I thought the unbridled glee in their voices when they saw Binder in the traps was pretty classless. 👎
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I think that was more excitement that the race had been flipped on its head, which was understandable, but it was a bit tasteless. I know I sound like a broken record on this subject, but I have to wonder how they would have reacted if Martín or Pawi had been in second at the time.
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Simone Corsi is proving to be the Pastor Maldonado of MotoGP - he's just taken Taka Nakagami out (again), making it the fourth time he's taken a rider out this year.
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I agree with you guys about McPhee. Although I find their biased attitudes week in/out pretty poor.
But I've got my fingers crossed for redding. A 1-2 redding/dovi would make my day.
EDIT - Poor Dovi
But I've got my fingers crossed for redding. A 1-2 redding/dovi would make my day.
EDIT - Poor Dovi
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He hasn't been great in recent years and he seems to crash more often than not but I think the win is long overdue for Cal.
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I find that they're generally pretty good, but they throw objectivity out the window as soon as a British rider shows some success. And it's well documented that I think the British commentators are the worst at this. Sure, our commentators talk up Jack Miller or Anthony West or Remy Gardener, but they never make them out to be significantly better than they actually are.
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Are you talking about the world feed or bt sport? Please don't get me started on Keith and Julian again, Jules even said yesterday that McPhee was the first British winner in the small class since Bradley Smith. How the hell did they forget Danny Kent after last year?
I'm really pleased for Cal anyway, the first winner to come from superbikes since Ben Spies and I think he fully deserved it. I enjoy those races when one of the tyre options completely destroys itself by the end so it becomes a proper gamble. Maybe not to that extent because it was almost dangerous yesterday but it's far more interesting when it all changes at the end whereas the moto 2 was a merry go round by the end.
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Exciting race at Brno and a solid win for Cal(culator) Crutchlow. Well deserved.
It's not often you see a rider/team screw up so badly like Lorenzo did on Sunday. What happened there.
Great season so far in MotoGP. Two first-time winners and six different winners overall.
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Or was that three first-time winners. : )
It's not often you see a rider/team screw up so badly like Lorenzo did on Sunday. What happened there.
Great season so far in MotoGP. Two first-time winners and six different winners overall.
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Or was that three first-time winners. : )
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Eugene Laverty has confirmed that he will be going back to WSBK in 2017.
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Not a bad decision considering if he stayed put he would still be on a 2 year old bike with Bautista coming into the team on a newer bike. The aprillia in superbikes is a decent bike so he should be fighting for second place with Chaz, Sykes, Hayden and Bradl maybe.
Melandri has been testing the ducati this week with Giugliano but they only released the latter's times oddly enough. I'm guessing Marco wasn't as quick (understandable) and they didn't want to look like they've made the wrong decision, but maybe I'm reading too much into it. Giugliano is currently rumoured to be heading to the VR46 moto 2 team, hopefully he finds something quick to ride. 👍
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Was it right or wrong of Lorenzo to mix it with the three riders fighting
for the last podium spot?
Six laps to go, he was in 17th position and one lap down on the others after his
failed double pit stop strategy and yet he chose to interfere with
an ongoing battle for the podium.
He was on fresher tyres but does that justify it?
One of the commentators said that it wasn't pretty and that
'it's beneath a five-time champion, he should know better'.
I remember Senna was very angry when Irvine pulled a similar stunt in the early
nineties and I would imagine Lorenzo would be very aggravated if it had happened to him.
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I think it was fine to be honest. He was obviously going to be quicker, and he moved out of the way as they got near. He probably should have backed off more to get clear track to do private testing, but he's experienced enough to not fall over them. Could have done things different but he had every right with newer quicker tyres and the commentators, as per usual, gave him a hard time.
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