Obviously they won't say his times are terrible lol.

When I read it immediately I thought it would be useful to Vale in wet/dry races. Can avoid the mistake he did before.

Maybe will help him decide on strategy, I don't know.

Japan gp this weekend, Pedrosa out with broken collarbone, Aoyama to replace. Ianone replaced by hector barbera

Lorenzo crash

After Friday at the Motul Grand Prix of Japan saw Movistar Yamaha MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo top the combined timesheets by the end of play, title rival Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) hit back on Saturday morning to take over at the top – with Lorenzo suffering a monumental highside in the session, the day after Marquez’ teammate Dani Pedrosa broke his collarbone and withdrew from the event. Lorenzo limped into the Medical Center unaided, before being taken to hospital for a CT scan.

Cal Crutchlow (LCR Honda) had a good Saturday morning to get closest to Marquez’ time, with the Ducati Team riders of Andrea Dovizioso and Hector Barbera right behind the two leading Hondas. Lorenzo remained P5 despite missing out on a fast time attack at the end of the session.

The two Team Suzuki Ecstar machines of Aleix Espargaro and Maverick Viñales were sixth and seventh heading into Q2, with 9-time World Champion Valentino Rossi (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) ending up eighth on combined times.

Pol Espargaro (Monster Yamaha Tech 3) was ninth and into Q2, with Danilo Petrucci (Octo Pramac Yakhnich) completing the top ten for automatic entry into the fight for the top grid positions.

Eugene Laverty (Pull&Bear Aspar Team) didn’t ride in FP3 awaiting another check up ahead of FP4, after the Irishman had a big crash on Friday afternoon.

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Rossi on pole!

Good moto3 race at the end

Rossi out, game over!

I was gonna go the Sepang race this end month but now no more motivation to go

Still got moto2 and wsbk

Still battle for top Yamaha though

Never give up till it's over.

Old but experienced.

Hopefully new riders can step up to add to the challenges. I see the trend of British riders coming up from the junior classes and the Italians seem to be a lot in moto3 too. I wish there were more potential Asian riders around though.

Me too, lorenzo's performance has been quite inconsistent of late.

Moving on...

Karel Abraham back in MotoGP

2017 MotoGP rider line-up so far
Repsol Honda
Marc Marquez (End of 2018)
Dani Pedrosa (End of 2018)

Movistar Yamaha
Valentino Rossi (End of 2018)
Maverick Vinales (End of 2018)

Ducati Team
Jorge Lorenzo (End of 2018)
Andrea Dovizioso (End of 2018)

Suzuki
Andrea Iannone (End of 2018)
Alex Rins (End of 2018)

KTM
Bradley Smith (End of 2018)
Pol Espargaro (End of 2018)

Aprilia Gresini
Sam Lowes (End of 2018)
Aleix Espargaro (End of 2018)

LCR Honda
Cal Crutchlow (End of 2017)

Marc VDS Honda
Jack Miller (End of 2017)
Tito Rabat (End of 2017)

Monster Yamaha Tech 3
Jonas Folger (End of 2017, Option 2018)
Johann Zarco (End of 2017, Option 2018)

Avintia Ducati
Hector Barbera (End of 2017)
Loris Baz (End of 2017)
Barbera will ride a GP16 and Baz a GP15.

Pramac Ducati
Scott Redding
Danilo Petrucci
One rider will get a GP17 and then other a GP16.

Aspar Ducati
Alvaro Bautista (End of 2017)
Karel Abraham (End of 2017)

Sam lowes has potential but we'll see.

Yeah, hope not. Iinm he brakes with 3 fingers

They are using just for essential messages from race control. Rossi demoted because of confusion. Apparently 8 laps includes inlap and outlap. Yamaha thought it wasn't included.

The full onboard system is proposed for next year.

Too bad davide brivio left when Rossi left Yamaha for Ducati. I think he and Rossi are a good match.

So many crashes in moto3

Marquez should've crashed last week