Pedrosa will not be in Motogp next year. What a shame.

Just ignore 1st place, good racing from 2nd and below.

Similar story to MotoGP, Johnny Rea running away.

Very smart this Valentino Rossi

How Cristiano Ronaldo’s move to Juventus will make Valentino Rossi richer


It seems odd that Valentino Rossi will stand to profit from Cristiano Ronaldo’s recent move to Italian football club, Juventus. But that is exactly what is set to happen.According to reports, the VR46 Racing Apparel company which belongs to Rossi, and one that specializes in the production of merchandise for popular athletes and companies, is in fact producing all merchandise for Juventus as well.The VR46 Racing Apparel company produces all merchandise for some top MotoGP riders including Marc Marquez, but that ended in 2016. The company still produces merchandise for Daniel Pedrosa, Cal Crutchlow, Kevin Schwantz and others.

As for companies, the company produces merchandise for the Juventus football club, Yamaha, Monster Energy, KTM, Dainese, AGV, Oakley, GoPro and even Lamborghini.Cristiano Ronaldo’s 100 million Euro transfer to Juventus is expected to lead to a spike in demand for Juventus apparel, which would inadvertently result in more business for the VR46 Racing Apparel company.

The VR46 Racing Apparel is rumored to have closed the 2017 fiscal year with a profit of 30 million Euros.

And that is how Valentino Rossi will make money from Ronaldo’s transfer.

Source

Yamaha wins again. Johnny Rea is human after all.

When I saw the FP2 results I thought maybe track was wet or something, pleasantly surprised to see #HS55 quite high up. Just FP but still...

1 26 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 311.4 1'55.976
2 9 Danilo PETRUCCI ITA Alma Pramac Racing Ducati 310.4 1'56.099 0.123 / 0.123
3 19 Alvaro BAUTISTA SPA Angel Nieto Team Ducati 308.8 1'56.144 0.168 / 0.045
4 55 Hafizh SYAHRIN MAL Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 308.2 1'56.200 0.224 / 0.056
5 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Ducati Team Ducati 311.6 1'56.218 0.242 / 0.018
6 25 Maverick VIÑALES SPA Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha 309.3 1'56.392 0.416 / 0.174
7 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha 306.8 1'56.480 0.504 / 0.088
8 53 Tito RABAT SPA Reale Avintia Racing Ducati 313.0 1'56.521 0.545 / 0.041
9 5 Johann ZARCO FRA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 307.4 1'56.535 0.559 / 0.014
10 93 Marc MARQUEZ SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 309.6 1'56.635 0.659 / 0.100
11 29 Andrea IANNONE ITA Team SUZUKI ECSTAR Suzuki 306.0 1'56.644 0.668 / 0.009
12 42 Alex RINS SPA Team SUZUKI ECSTAR Suzuki 309.3 1'56.661 0.685 / 0.017
13 43 Jack MILLER AUS Alma Pramac Racing Ducati 309.9 1'56.915 0.939 / 0.254
14 35 Cal CRUTCHLOW GBR LCR Honda CASTROL Honda 311.6 1'57.014 1.038 / 0.099
15 99 Jorge LORENZO SPA Ducati Team Ducati 310.8 1'57.205 1.229 / 0.191
16 41 Aleix ESPARGARO SPA Aprilia Racing Team Gresini Aprilia 307.7 1'57.417 1.441 / 0.212
17 44 Pol ESPARGARO SPA Red Bull KTM Factory Racing KTM 310.1 1'57.473 1.497 / 0.056
18 6 Stefan BRADL GER HRC Honda Team Honda 310.2 1'57.479 1.503 / 0.006
19 21 Franco MORBIDELLI ITA EG 0,0 Marc VDS Honda 306.1 1'57.498 1.522 / 0.019
20 38 Bradley SMITH GBR Red Bull KTM Factory Racing KTM 308.9 1'57.506 1.530 / 0.008
21 30 Takaaki NAKAGAMI JPN LCR Honda IDEMITSU Honda 306.9 1'57.647 1.671 / 0.141
22 12 Thomas LUTHI SWI EG 0,0 Marc VDS Honda 304.8 1'57.729 1.753 / 0.082
23 45 Scott REDDING GBR Aprilia Racing Team Gresini Aprilia 303.7 1'57.941 1.965 / 0.212
24 17 Karel ABRAHAM CZE Angel Nieto Team Ducati 309.4 1'58.127 2.151 / 0.186
25 10 Xavier SIMEON BEL Reale Avintia Racing Ducati 308.0 1'58.453 2.477 / 0.326
26 50 Sylvain GUINTOLI FRA Team SUZUKI ECSTAR Suzuki 307.5 1'58.617 2.641 / 0.164

Top 3 quali

1 Dovi
2 Rossi
3 Marquez

Amazing last few mins

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We all know vr46 is a Sunday man. He could probably be playing mind games with the others.

Congrats to his brother too Luca Marini for getting his first pole.

Interesting thing I found out. Seems like Dovi and Lorenzo aren't really on good terms. Since Lorenzo never had any good relationships with his teammate, I wonder how things will go at Honda next year.

I saw after the race JL just tap Dovi at the back and put up hand say "congrats", same JL and MM. Then Crutchlow come, hug JL,hug Dovi lol.

Alvaro Bautista going to SBK replacing Marco Melandri. See how he does. If he can beat JR it will be good for the sport. Sad to see Marco Melandri dumped though.

Only FP1, not as fast in FP2 but still up there somewhere.

Pescao not doing great in the rain

I still don't understand why they keep holding British GP at this time of year. And sepang at year end too. They should knw weather plays a big part in some circuits.

Yes, they can race in the wet, most tracks have good drainage and better surface but I think riders would prefer to race in the dry. And spectators prefer not to watch in the rain too. Sepang should be held on the first few races instead IMO.

Both UK and Malaysia rains basically the whole year but year end both places rains a lot.

I prefer mixed conditions, drying track or suddenly rain in the middle of races. Shows how teams and riders manage the situation. Usually will get unexpected results. Same goes for F1.

They are not allowed to jump anymore iinm. Not only Rossi, those with leg injuries also struggle to switch. But the main advantage is who comes in at the right moment. Rossi had this problem in a few races for coming in too late. Since the onboard messaging introduced, we haven't had any mixed condition race, I wan't to see how he fares with it. He really needed that then imo.

Dangerously stupid move by Romano Fenati

Yamaha so pathetic. At least gap to MM oh so slightly smaller.