MotoGP

Mat Oxley Aug 2 Big news - Aprilia is developing a carbon-fibre MotoGP chassis for its RS-GP! Test rider Lorenzo Savadori gave the chassis a first tryout at Misano. The last manufacturer to use a carbon-fibre chassis was Ducati, more than a decade ago

A bit surprised Yamaha didn't go after anyone in Moto2, however seems like the last few riders to come through after winning the championship haven't set the world on fire so I guess it makes sense.

The Grand Prix Commission has approved MotoGP’s Friday format tweak and has done so with immediate effect from the British Grand Prix in August

I don't know about ya'll, but I can't wait for Silverstone any longer - especially with the change in format to the weekend and recent drama with Honda.

Something neat: if you follow a #Lemmy community on #Mastodon via something like @motogp comments show up as boosts from that account in your timeline and you can reply to them in kind!

What do you think about the idea of both Japanese manufacturers receiving concessions from MotoGP? Personally, I hope that it ends up happening if only to bring more competition to the field. I fear that a continued lack of success from HRC and Yamaha will inspire their corporations to go the way of Suzuki and leave the sport.

Apologies if this is a repost. I'm new to Lemmy so I'm still trying to figure out the whole system here.

Can't see anything for it so I thought I'll make a start.

After seeing that replay... The punishment doesn't fit the crime. Wow. Gutted for him. Still, what a great start to the weekend. Looking forward to tomorrow.

Bez leads on friday!

So, the weekend has just started, what are your predictions/expectations for this week?

Gigi said this was just for fun, a reward and not to read too much into it but they changed the fuel tank for him on the second day and he was doing practice starts. Every factory can have up to 3 wildcards a year, imagine 9 Ducatis on the grid ;D

Miguel Oliveira believes that the problems that men like Marc Márquez or Fabio Quartararo are going through are due to the fact that "no rider can overcome the capacity of current motorcycles".

He has given a total of 49 laps -which are added to yesterday's 50- and, despite the fact that he has not done any 'time attack', he has stopped the clock in a time of 1:32.590 -with which he would have been 9th in the 2022 grid six tenths off pole- with soft rubber and asphalt at 49º

Good, he shouldn't injure himself trying to ride that shitbox.

Dang that was close

Interested in others thoughts, seems like it's a no brainer that Acosta takes Pol's seat at GAS GAS but Simon Crafar seems to think they'd look at punting Augusto Fernandez which seems like a bad move IMHO. Simon either doesn't want to kick a man when he's down or maybe he just expects them to do that since they kicked Remy out and Raul bounced at the first chance.

If you haven't heard of David Emmett or read motomatters.com you should, good stuff!