Yeah, read about it. I don't get his decision though. No mention on who he is replacing.Hopefully it's Scott Redding, that guy has been all talk only.

Still watching. Nice race, both Marquez brothers crashed. Great ride by Marini racing injured to 4th.

In other news, Rossi won Le Mans support race!

I thought I'd be bored too but so far interesting fight even though between Ducatis as it's every man for himself and no team orders(yet) especially the sprint races. KTMs almost there every race weekend. A lot more overtaking this season compared to last.

Performance for satellite teams have been very good last few years, even on year old bikes. That being said, FQ is 15 secs slower than last year.

Yeah, quite true. Whenever a new rider comes in, they tend to suffer. These last few years seem to suffer more especially this year. I'm no expert but I think FQ is still "too young"(he is only 24yrs). He has little experience in developing a bike so probably his feedback is not accurate enough, same as Franco. Both also has never ridden any other bike too. Testing mostly done by Crutchlow. Franco also thinking about moving on. I hope VR6 Team don't move to Yamaha yet. They will be a sacrificial lamb for testing, which is a shame.

IN WSBK Baustista is on another level. I do hope he gets a wildcard in MotoGP. For the rest 2nd place is the target now. Reds having great time in MotoGP and WSBK. They should enjoy it while it lasts. Honda enjoyed theirs in MotoGP and so did Kawasaki in WSBK.

Honda also hitting a brick wall in WSBK.

Zarco is so so very lucky. If hit a little bit higher would probably be fatal.

So far Toprak is the only one keeping the fire burning at Yamaha, next year he is gone. My theory is Yamaha isn't giving him the future he wants at Yamaha that's why he merajuk and move to BMW . My other far fetched theory is BMW planning to join MotoGP soon and wants Toprak to be their guy lol.

Going back to the Marquez-Zarco crashed, I didn't know Marc blamed Zarco for the incident later on. It's ironic that he was in Zarco's position last weekend(without the crash) when Pecco was on the pit straight. Zarco was also right, when he was running I thought he was going to check on Zarco but instead running to the pits to get his spare bike.

https://www.crash.net/motogp/news/1028955/1...arquez-blame-me

I guess there's a new successor to "Cal Crashlow". It's Marc Marcrash"
lol.

We know his attitude is win it or bin it but unfortunately its been more bin it than win it.

Thankfully Nakagami as the only Honda rider left on the grid finished the race and in the points.

What impressed me is none of them crashed like previous races. So congrats on having a good machine and good riders on them. I kinda agree with what Miller says.

https://www.crash.net/motogp/news/1029353/1...ething-about-it

I wouldn't say he paved the way, Ducati started development of the 800cc engine earlier than everyone else and had the early top speed advantage. The other bikes caught up quickly and it went downhill after that. So for me, I think he was just lucky to be at the right place at the right time. Yamaha and Honda kept improving their bikes after that and again, he was at the right place at the right time when he joined Honda.

Speaking of which, this year we are seeing how the previous 3 champions handling their lowest point of their career. We see how it pans out.

It reminds me of Sete Gibernau lol.

Yeah exactly. The silly season continues with ridiculous rumours all over.

Over at WSBK, Petrucci scores his first ever WSBK podium.

Kawasaki increased 250rpm but Rea still can't catch Toprak even.

Toprak still optimistic for the title, maybe inspired by Bagnaia's comeback last year but Bautista mentally stronger now compared to 2019 so he's still the favourite.

3 different winners in each race. We should have races like this more often. Wish they have a race in Sepang again.

Morbidelli out, Rins in at Yamaha.

https://www.motogp.com/en/news/2023/08/02/y...p-season/474725