Pecco Bagnaia
It was a big moment for Peko to jump ahead in the championship standings. Qualified and on his home track in front of the home fans. What can go wrong?
There is nothing in the race as he approaches victory. But Bagnaya couldn’t keep up with the leaders and turned back to become Bradley Smith in the main race. The bearded champion once again pointed the finger at Michelin for providing him with a shit tire – something he said would never happen to George Martin.
But after 15 laps the tire magically fixed itself and Peco began his journey back to the leaders. Then he fell.
Sprint races
Okay, enough of that now. Obviously they are not working. This weekend’s sprint race was a boring race to the death the following day’s F1 rally.
Michelin
French tire manufacturers are a key reason why MotoGP is so ordinary these days. Using all their combined brain power from under their jaunty angled berets, the company that started out with an excellent rear MotoGP tire hit red wine and threw together a shambolic front tire. The front of ‘Merde de Chin’ is like a fat Mexican’s first sign of earnestness that holds nothing and overheats.
But fear not everyone – Michelin, who ruined it all, is now saving us all!
Earlier in the week, journalists were shown around Michael’s new ‘3D printing’ tire machine, which can create a wide variety of tires – possibly stopping the Lowes brothers from falling apart. This production method means MotoGP could have a good front tire by 2025…
or not. After tasting a new red wine presented by Ducati Corse Michelin, they changed their minds and decided to abandon the idea of ​​saving MotoGP to do nothing. Thanks guys.
George Martin
George leaves Italy happy with the championship, but not with the result.
In the first race, the Spaniard was leading when he received a team text message on the dash saying “focus on the track and don’t read messages”. This ill-advised message allowed Martin to lose focus and lead the hated Bagnaia to run wide… and eventually win.
Meanwhile, in race two, George, who was leading until the last lap, was denied the victory by Innea Bastianini, who did ‘Marquez’. After spending the rest of the lap shaking his head, a frustrated George put his hat on at the finish line in a gesture of politeness – or rather rudeness, as no one really knows what that means, we guess.
Rules
Who needs rules? Well George Martin obviously.
Enea Bastianini’s last lap pass on George Martin to win the race was technically illegal. La Bastard’s winning move should also have been penalized for running off the track. But it wasn’t. why? A number of reasons including:
- It was funny.
- It was fun.
- He kept the championship close.
- The fans stopped crying
- Marc Marquez said it’s illegal, so always do the opposite of what he says
So finally the stewards who wanted to get a flyer to beat the traffic said the pass is fine and the Martineter pipe should come down.
World superbikes
Also in the same region this weekend was the World Superbikes. The abandoned brigade raced around a parking lot lined with traffic cones on the Crematorium Circuit on the way from Misano.
The inaugural World Superbike race was marked in red by someone who avoided looking amateurish and the result was called when a rogue media operator cut all the camera feeds to the race on the main HDMI cable. After several agonizing minutes of pit-box footage and people eating sandwiches, the organizers were forced to red the race – and announce the result as it was more than two-thirds of the way away.
See lots of angry Italians waving their arms.
An idiot who puts fuel in a Yamaha
Fabio Quartararo was running fifth in the race until the final lap of the main race. It’s like leading the Tour de France on a tricycle made of turkey bones and pipe cleaners.
Unfortunately, his impressive performance was cut short when his super-slow Yamaha proved to be even slower due to running out of fuel. The Frenchman did not deserve this – even though he was French.
Furthermore, the fuel failure allowed Frankie Morbidelli to sail past and claim more space to make the disastrous outcome less stressful.
