2023 FIM MotoGP World Championship.

[johnny comelately]

Bike looks well built, it's front wing looks made from carbon fiber. So I think this is their real bike.

https://i.ibb.co/G9QxPdn/1.jpg

The rear brake disc looks like a reluctor wheel...

[etusch]

I don't know, It may be for cooling, for reaching ducati level braking ability, rear brakes are more important now. That sensor should be close to center but I can not see it in the picture. Can they sensor wheel spin from front sprocket ?

[CMSMJ1]

That is a cooling duct beneath the disc isn't it?

Rear traction and braking so much more important these days.

[johnny comelately]

Marco Melandri interviews Andrea Dovizioso (going back a bit in time) about his retirement, comeback, testing for Aprilia. He explains the fine line of rider confidence and when Michelin changed the carcass design it affected his and many riders confidence.
Any language subtitles available by clicking CC then settings, auto and then select

[etusch]

Alex Espergaro Vlog

[johnny comelately]

The MotoGP fanbase is only around 30% the size of Formula One, with a higher average age but a stronger connection to the sport.

That’s according to an analysis by CryptoDATA, which has a presence in both championships as a majority shareholder of the RNF MotoGP team and technical sponsor for Alfa Romeo Sauber in F1.

“MotoGP is at 30% of Formula One at this moment, if we want to be realistic,” said Bogdan Mărunţiş, responsible for Global Strategy.

“In Formula One, the fan base has grown because of Netflix. Now they have two types of users: The young guys 17-24, maybe a little bit less, and then over 24, which is the same age as MotoGP.

https://www.crash.net/motogp/news/10206 ... -real-fans

[etusch]

As Ecclestone said, 17-24 age are generally people who has not money, if not coming from a rich dad. If they didn't get good eduction from family I also think that they ignorable.

[johnny comelately]

This time thirty years ago Mick Doohan was recovering from his career-changing accident, at Assen in June 1992.

Doohan came within hours of having his broken right leg amputated, because local surgeons had botched surgery on the tibia, so the leg was dying and “smelling like a bad butcher’s shop”. Then they thinned out his blood so much, in the hope of getting blood into the leg, that his internal organs were at risk of shutting down.

That’s why Italian Dr Claudio Costa flew in to kidnap Doohan in a Learjet ambulance and take him to his clinic in Italy.

“A week later I noticed a lot of very black skin,” Doohan remembers. “The doctors took a spoon-type instrument and started removing it until they got down to the tendons and bones and the metal plates and screws.”

Costa knew he had to get radical, so he sewed Doohan’s legs together – the good one would save the bad one. Ten days later the legs were separated and a few weeks after that Doohan was racing at the Brazilian GP.
On the night before the race, the terribly infected leg (he obviously shouldn’t have been allowed to race – would he be now?) tried to cry enough but Doohan still raced.

“I woke up and the leg had basically exploded with all the infection. All this pus oozed out over the bed, so Costa came in to flush it out with saline solution. He’d pour a litre through this hole, like a big boil-type thing, then flush it back out to get rid of all the crap. That was the night before the race – it wasn’t the best of nights.”

https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/arti ... c98ba2045f

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[etusch]

Morning of Test Day1 they already made 1.40.XXX. What was the condition of last season Q session ?

[AMG.Tzan]

I’m waiting for Yamaha’s rumored F1 style rear wing!

[Cuky]

And here is that rumored wing

[etusch]

And here is that rumored wing
https://scontent-vie1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/ ... e=6412C3C7
https://scontent-vie1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/ ... e=6413B0F3

looks like there is not drs.

[etusch]

'Until the next test we are going to have to go with what we have' - Alberto Puig

The pre-season MotoGP tests have not allowed Honda to find the ideal solutions for its RC213V, and the start of the championship is expected to be a little far from the desired results. Alberto Puig, Team Manager at Repsol Honda Team, does not deny that the situation is not the desired one, and it remains to do the best work possible with the existing material until the first test of the season.

With no further track preparation before the first four rounds of the year, Puig summarised his initial approach to 2023 thus: 'The championship starts now and until the next test, which is in Jerez [1 May], we are going to have to go with what we have, we are going to try with what we have to get the most out of each race in terms of the bike's setup, not with [new] parts. It's what we have, we would have liked to have found better solutions. '

That said, Puig stressed to Motorsport.com that there is neither the mentality nor the internal feeling that reaching the desired level is an impossibility: 'It doesn't mean that we think it's impossible, our goal is to get there and try to have our bike the way we want it. But to tell you today that we have it, it doesn't make sense because it's not true. We need to keep working and that's what we're going to do.'

[CMSMJ1]

'Until the next test we are going to have to go with what we have' - Alberto Puig

The pre-season MotoGP tests have not allowed Honda to find the ideal solutions for its RC213V, and the start of the championship is expected to be a little far from the desired results. Alberto Puig, Team Manager at Repsol Honda Team, does not deny that the situation is not the desired one, and it remains to do the best work possible with the existing material until the first test of the season.

With no further track preparation before the first four rounds of the year, Puig summarised his initial approach to 2023 thus: 'The championship starts now and until the next test, which is in Jerez [1 May], we are going to have to go with what we have, we are going to try with what we have to get the most out of each race in terms of the bike's setup, not with [new] parts. It's what we have, we would have liked to have found better solutions. '

That said, Puig stressed to Motorsport.com that there is neither the mentality nor the internal feeling that reaching the desired level is an impossibility: 'It doesn't mean that we think it's impossible, our goal is to get there and try to have our bike the way we want it. But to tell you today that we have it, it doesn't make sense because it's not true. We need to keep working and that's what we're going to do.'

I'm hearing rumour that Kalex are making a chassis for HRC - have you heard anything? Seems to be a massive deal if that is true (and if it works!)