He was consistently in the top 5 that year but not dominant, I wasn't expecting him to win any races even. And personally I don't think he is mentally strong enough. He's been struggling with confidence a lot this year.

Good ride by Marini. Diam2 he finished 4th and top Independent while others make mistakes. Some surprising fun and games in Moto2 as Chantra try to overtake Ogura despite "2nd OK" message.

FQ was on the hard front. Pecco and Miller on the soft.

I also think he will suffer,at least in the beginning. If I remember correctly, it took him some time to make the Suzuki work for him too.

On the other side of things, Oliviera rejected KTM/GasGas offer and went with Rnf Aprilia along with Raul Fernandez. So many rider/bike combo changes for next season.

If he is one of the top qualifiers should not be a problem for him to claw back positions.

BTW, 1 thing I have been wondering, why Zarco isn't even considered for the factory Ducati seat? Too old? Must be quite demotivating.

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Never win in MotoGP actually but double Moto2 champion. But as I was writing that, commentator talked about him. Seems like they prefer younger rider so can have a longer term project. Also helps that Italian and Spanish influence is stronger in the paddock. Seemed odd to me despite him currently being 3rd in the championship.

Another good ride by Marini although he faded a bit towards the end. He's getting to be one of my favourite riders.

Erm... far from it, more like Randy de Puniet level, or Colin Edwards maybe..

I'd like to go but I'm flying to Korea around that time so I need to get my timing right. Hopefully can arrive on Friday.

As seen in most of the races so far this year, there's still the flourescent yellow army around. I expect a lot more Yamaha fans kot. Also first time in a while no Malaysian rider representation. Hopefully there's a wildcard though.

Rea and Toprak crash again, TR clawed back some points,Rea 24th, Bautista 1st.

Funny the commentators didn't comment on AB's comment about JR lol.

Next year's grid almost full, only GasGas haven't confirmed 2nd rider.

Ducati lockout.

https://www.crash.net/motogp/news/1012477/1...-pit-lane-block

Wow, I'd say they learned tactics from their team boss but he immediately denied it.

What a dramatic race. Either FB or EB deserved to win the race, good clean race by both. Once again, in the background Marini took 7th from Zarco. Too bad he won't be on the latest spec bike next year.

Next year gonna be interesting in the Factory Ducati garage.

Agreed, last year already losing domination.

Hopefully Pecco's crash is the last this season, still want him to win the Championship. I prefer to have more champions racing on the grid. In WSBK AB surprisingly just won his Triple race of the season, I expected it to be earlier. So this year we will probably have at least 1 Red world champion. WSBK almost sure, MotoGP on the fence, F1 can forget about it lol.

Either Pecco or Aleix will do, Fabio can stand aside this year lol. In fact, I'd like at least 3 new champions in the next 3 years.