Motorcycle Racing FIM World Championship 2018

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Motorcycle Racing FIM World Championship 2018

 

Multi-Stage Event - 16 March 2018 - 18 November 2018

 

 

Totallympics Results Thread

 

[heywoodu 15,164]

The new MotoGP season started today in Qatar, so I thought I'd open a thread for it and it's support classes. Some interesting stuff this year, with five rookies moving up to MotoGP and all of them actually coming out of the support classes: 'old' Thomas Lüthi after a million years in Moto2, Moto2 world champion Franco Morbidelli, promising Japanese rider Takaaki Nakagami, Belgian Xavier Simeon and the first Malaysian MotoGP rider in history and well-known rain specialist Hafizh Syahrin.

 

Nineteen weekends of racing in the next eight months, with Thailand as the new addition in the MotoGP world, after already hosting the World Superbikes in recent times.

 

 

 

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Pole for Zarco 

 

Marquez and Petrucci with him on the front row, Crutchlow, Dovizioso and Rins on the second row and Pedrosa, Rossi, Lorenzo on the third. 

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Time for Moto3 in a few minutes, finally! 

 

Full grid:

http://resources.motogp.com/files/results/2018/QAT/Moto3/WUP/Grid.pdf?v3_c4ffb779

 

No Suzuki and Arenas. Suzuki broke his wrist yesterday, Arenas crashed in today's warm-up and broke his collarbone. 

Edited March 18, 2018 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 15,164]

Nice race, with Jorge Martin taking the win ahead of Aron Canet and Lorenzo Dalla Porta taking a surprise first ever podium

 

Now on to Moto2, with Bo Bendsneyder making his debut 

 

The grid:

http://resources.motogp.com/files/results/2018/QAT/Moto2/WUP/Grid.pdf?v3_c4ffb779

 

The main question of the day: will Sam Lowes crash before or after 50% of the race?

[heywoodu 15,164]

25 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

The main question of the day: will Sam Lowes crash before or after 50% of the race?

One lap after the halfway point, surprise! 

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Alex Marquez was on his way to catch Bagnaia, but his brake disc got stuck..

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And on to MotoGP! 

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Anyone catch the MotoGP today? Dear freaking Lord, Marquez is such an insane idiot 

[LDOG 2,418]

I watched a bit. I don't care much about this sport but I get this Marquez isn't a fan favorite? the crowd was insulting him.