2013 MotoGP Round 2 - COTA <Spoilers? You Bet!>

[Speeddog]

Marquez bags pole by over 1/4 second, Lorenzo over a second behind.
His dive in FP3 doesn't seem to have slowed him down a bit.

Looking at all the FP times, it seems MM has got Pedrosa reliably handled by that 1/4 second.

Crutchlow's ahead of both satellite Hondas, and Rossi, so he's got to be chuffed.

Pos.    No.    Rider    Bike    Time    Diff. / Prev.
1    93    Marc MARQUEZ    Honda    2'03.021    
2    26    Dani PEDROSA    Honda    2'03.275    0.254 / 0.254
3    99    Jorge LORENZO    Yamaha    2'04.100    1.079 / 0.825
4    35    Cal CRUTCHLOW    Yamaha    2'04.267    1.246 / 0.167
5    6    Stefan BRADL    Honda    2'04.445    1.424 / 0.178
6    4    Andrea DOVIZIOSO    Ducati    2'04.873    1.852 / 0.428
7    19    Alvaro BAUTISTA    Honda    2'04.942    1.921 / 0.069
8    46    Valentino ROSSI    Yamaha    2'05.380    2.359 / 0.438
9    41    Aleix ESPARGARO    ART    2'05.389    2.368 / 0.009
10    69    Nicky HAYDEN    Ducati    2'05.568    2.547 / 0.179
11    38    Bradley SMITH    Yamaha    2'06.740    3.719 / 1.172
12    11    Ben SPIES    Ducati    2'07.044    4.023 / 0.304
13    29    Andrea IANNONE    Ducati    2'06.872    0.760 / 0.281
14    14    Randy DE PUNIET    ART    2'07.129    1.017 / 0.257
15    8    Hector BARBERA    FTR    2'07.717    1.605 / 0.588
16    68    Yonny HERNANDEZ    ART    2'07.738    1.626 / 0.021
17    70    Michael LAVERTY    PBM    2'08.259    2.147 / 0.521
18    5    Colin EDWARDS    FTR Kawasaki    2'08.475    2.363 / 0.216
19    71    Claudio CORTI    FTR Kawasaki    2'08.792    2.680 / 0.317
20    9    Danilo PETRUCCI    Ioda-Suter    2'08.825    2.713 / 0.033
21    7    Hiroshi AOYAMA    FTR    2'09.062    2.950 / 0.237
22    67    Bryan STARING    FTR Honda    2'10.098    3.986 / 1.036
23    52    Lukas PESEK    Ioda-Suter    2'10.507    4.395 / 0.409
24    79    Blake YOUNG    APR    2'10.606    4.494 / 0.099
25    17    Karel ABRAHAM    ART    2'23.317    17.205 / 12.711

[Buckethead]

 

[thought]

Smith is so make the beast with two backsing overrated. He's on arguably the best satellite bike. Crazy Joe is right there on the shitty Duc.

The thing is... I'm can't think of a time when I heard of him being marked as amazing at all.  And he's just sort of proving that's the case.  I'm sure that more than a couple of people are having a facepalm moment right now.

My bet... after this year Tech3 takes the hit and breaks the contract and signs on Pol or Barbera to ride the bike instead.  Or Redding if they really want another english rider. 2 more years of mediocrity on one of the best bikes in the field isnt going to do the team any favors, especially if the duc factory bikes somehow get better in the next two and start to displace the sattelite bikes on the grid positioning. Right now is their highest chance to shine and get the screen time to lock in those marketing dollars.

[Raux]

He art again doing better than the ducs 

[The Don]

How good is espargaro, he's on fire

[Buckethead]

Enjoying watching the Moto2 boys back it into the corners late in the race. 

Holy shit! The last laps of both Moto3 AND Moto2 were effing awesome!

[Grampa]

yawn

[lazylightnin717]

yawn

Definitely a bit of a snoozer.

Congrats to Marquez.

That kid is freakin' fast

[Raux]

Marquez
youngest ever GP race winner

tied for 1st in the championship with Lorenzo

wow. what a talent


1MARQUEZ M.Repsol Honda TeamLap 21
2PEDROSA D.Repsol Honda Team+1.534
3LORENZO J.Yamaha Factory Racing+3.381
4CRUTCHLOW C.Monster Yamaha Tech 3+6.616
5BRADL S.LCR Honda MotoGP+12.674
6ROSSI V.Yamaha Factory Racing+16.615
7DOVIZIOSO A.Ducati Team+22.374
8BAUTISTA A.GO&FUN Honda Gresini+22.854
9HAYDEN N.Ducati Team+33.773
10IANNONE A.Energy T.I. Pramac Racing+42.112

Spies in 13th... beat by the ART

[The Don]

MM wow
Yamaha needs to give crutchlow a factory bike

[kopfjäger]

That dude can ride. 

[Grampa]

moto 2 eees more better.


can't wait for tuesdays moto tres

[sejman]

I was there - first MotoGP I've ever been to and had a blast.  Got the Ducati package - awesome to be able to drive an hour, pull into a Duc parking only lot and walk in and on up to the Ducati grandstand (turn 15). I was a little worried that compared to the buzz around F1 that MotoGP wouldn't draw much of a crowd, but attendance was great. Here's a pic snapped at the break after Moto2:



View from seat looking sort of towards the right:



Small part of Ducati-only parking (Friday practice day - wayyyyy more on Sat/Sun)

[MadDuck]

Spies in 13th... beat by the ART

That's the shitz.  Ribs, elbows, whatever....... still the shitz.

[derby]

Smith is so make the beast with two backsing overrated. He's on arguably the best satellite bike. Crazy Joe is right there on the shitty Duc.

i had a conversation with guy coulon at salt lick on saturday night, and he seemed to be satisfied with bradley's performance.