MotoGP - Round17 - Malaysia

SHELL MALAYSIA MOTORCYCLE GRAND PRIXMotoGP Free Practice Nr. 1 Classification 2015


Sepang, Friday, October 23, 2015

Pos.	Num.	Rider	Nation	Team	Bike	Km/h	Time	Gap 1st/Prev.
1	26	Dani PEDROSA	SPA	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	330.3	2'00.412
2	99	Jorge LORENZO	SPA	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	326.0	2'00.622	0.210 / 0.210
3	93	Marc MARQUEZ	SPA	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	331.6	2'00.736	0.324 / 0.114
4	46	Valentino ROSSI	ITA	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	328.4	2'00.915	0.503 / 0.179
5	45	Scott REDDING	GBR	EG 0,0 Marc VDS	Honda	323.7	2'01.218	0.806 / 0.303
6	35	Cal CRUTCHLOW	GBR	LCR Honda	Honda	329.4	2'01.235	0.823 / 0.017
7	29	Andrea IANNONE	ITA	Ducati Team	Ducati	335.0	2'01.421	1.009 / 0.186
8	8	Hector BARBERA	SPA	Avintia Racing	Ducati	321.1	2'01.616	1.204 / 0.195
9	41	Aleix ESPARGARO	SPA	Team SUZUKI ECSTAR	Suzuki	323.7	2'01.741	1.329 / 0.125
10	4	Andrea DOVIZIOSO	ITA	Ducati Team	Ducati	334.5	2'01.917	1.505 / 0.176
11	9	Danilo PETRUCCI	ITA	Octo Pramac Racing	Ducati	326.4	2'01.957	1.545 / 0.040
12	25	Maverick VIÑALES	SPA	Team SUZUKI ECSTAR	Suzuki	326.2	2'02.258	1.846 / 0.301
13	44	Pol ESPARGARO	SPA	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	329.1	2'02.259	1.847 / 0.001
14	6	Stefan BRADL	GER	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	320.5	2'02.314	1.902 / 0.055
15	38	Bradley SMITH	GBR	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	Yamaha	330.0	2'02.323	1.911 / 0.009
16	69	Nicky HAYDEN	USA	Aspar MotoGP Team	Honda	320.1	2'02.590	2.178 / 0.267
17	68	Yonny HERNANDEZ	COL	Octo Pramac Racing	Ducati	328.0	2'03.072	2.660 / 0.482
18	43	Jack MILLER	AUS	LCR Honda	Honda	321.7	2'03.136	2.724 / 0.064
19	19	Alvaro BAUTISTA	SPA	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	319.6	2'03.228	2.816 / 0.092
20	63	Mike DI MEGLIO	FRA	Avintia Racing	Ducati	322.9	2'03.394	2.982 / 0.166
21	76	Loris BAZ	FRA	Forward Racing	Yamaha Forward	318.7	2'03.429	3.017 / 0.035
22	50	Eugene LAVERTY	IRL	Aspar MotoGP Team	Honda	320.7	2'03.938	3.526 / 0.509
23	24	Toni ELIAS	SPA	Forward Racing	Yamaha Forward	324.3	2'04.496	4.084 / 0.558
24	13	Anthony WEST	AUS	AB Motoracing	Honda	320.8	2'05.793	5.381 / 1.297
25	55	Damian CUDLIN	AUS	E-Motion IodaRacing Team	ART	308.3	2'07.552	7.140 / 1.759

Weather Conditions:

| Track Condition: Dry| Air: 30º| Humidity: 69%| Ground: 33ºRecords:

Fastest Lap:	Lap: 3	Dani PEDROSA	2'00.412	165.7 Km/h
Circuit Record Lap:	2014	Marc MARQUEZ	2'01.150	164.7 Km/h
Best Lap:	2014	Marc MARQUEZ	1'59.791	166.5 Km/h

So so result for me......88 points. Now in 354th place overall with 1792 points.

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Originally Posted by Big Gordy

So so result for me......88 points. Now in 354th place overall with 1792 points.

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I got 92 points, now in 1024th with 1726 points.
...so what you think about "..the clash" then big man?

Not seen it yet......I'll watch it tonight and give you my thoughts tomorrow :p
Not heard from Alan yet so don't know how he got on :yawn:

Well........that was all a bit silly from Vale :frown: I know he's a bit pee'd off with Marquez right now but he didn't have to make it soooooooooooo obvious did he. Think that's him blown his chance of winning the title now, starting from the back next race, and he only has himself to blame....sad that someone with so much tallent felt he needed to resort to that to prove a point. I feel a bit let down by him to be honest. Thought he was better than that.

I think it was a rash move that went wrong and that made it much worse. What I though happened was:

- Rossi thought he would push Marquez up to, or even off, the side of the track, to make a point. It was fascinating that Pedrosa said up to that point Rossi had done nothing wrong, since he was free to take whatever cornering line he wanted (ie, in reality, pushing another competitor over the track edge is only a crime if it looks intentional).
- As Rossi pushed Marquez, Marquez banged into him - impossible to tell if this was an instinctive balancing action by Marquez or maybe intentional (one for the conspiracy theorists).
- When banged into, Rossi instinctively put his knee out to push Marquez off him - this too is instinctive when riding as two bikes cannot stay in contact and remain balanced.
- Putting his knee out Rossi hit Marquez's brake lever and so knocked him off.

I don't suggest Rossi was blameless, but I saw nothing to suggest that knocking Marquez off was intentional, so the penalty seems fair - though applying the penalty to the next race looks like the stewards not being willing to decide the championship on the result of their actions.