Motor Sport
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@Tago-Mago yeah Russell is the one driver on the grid I actively dislike.
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@Tago-Mago I am fairly certain most drivers fit into that same category? haha.
On a brighter note; have a photo of when I went to the Monaco GP and we managed to have dinner with some of the RB pit team up the top of the hill.
ps. I've been team Lando for a number of years, and hoping that this is THE year!
pps. looks like the photo was taken with a potato.. to my defence it was a number of years ago.
@bailey_ironheart
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@Giles touche I don’t much care for Stroll either. Or Stroll, for that matter
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Packed and ready for Suzuka in a weeks time.
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@Bailey agreed, and if not this year, I worry there won’t be one. I’m still pissed at McLaren for that “two #1” nonsense last year that IMO cost him a WDC (yes, his mistakes didn’t help either). Lando stuck it out with them through garbage cars and deserved at least a couple of years as #1 while Piastri rounded into form. By the time they decreed that they would prioritize Lando the race was out of reach.
It was a tough call, but we opted for CDMX this year over Monaco for my 50th birthday. One day…
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@louisbosco well, and presumably no penalties or DQs after the fact
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@mclaincausey what happens at the track stays at the track.
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@louisbosco I like Charles, liked Sainz, like Vasseur, and love Lewis. I even liked Binotto but not as a principal. My past issues with Ferrari were the strategic blunders and then lack of accountability and acknowledgement. With the Vasseur regime and Lewis on board I’ve become a fan! Though still McLaren and Lando come first.
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Norris deserves to win this year. drove outstanding last season but his inexperience came through. but the heart says Ferrari..
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doesn't look like Marquez will be losing a race this season. that dominance on the Ducati is unreal..
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Sure looks like it @louisbosco but that won’t help grow the sport. It already is reduced to a Ducati championship, and having the same pilot dominate each time will hurt, I fear.
At least the first two laps of the Saturday sprint were exciting. Felt like good old competitive motogp races of years past.
Very surprising how a ‘small’ company like Ducati has come to dethrone and dominate established giants like Honda and Yamaha.The journey is the objective.
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@motojobobo Ducati has been owned by Volkswagen since 2012, not exactly a David versus Goliath story
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Very fair to point out that fact @Tago-Mago .
Do you have any data whether the investment levels in Ducati racing skyrocketed after 2012? -
@motojobobo @Aetas has pointed out to me that Ducati sells roughly 60k bikes a year vs 19.6m for Honda (not sure if this also includes scooters). Maybe VW isn't pouring their entire R&D budget into Moto GP
. Also, Ducati is technically controlled by Audi AFAIK, who, besides having major problems of their own right now, have bought what used to be Sauber and are preparing to enter F1. So you are probably right in saying that they are small fish compared to Honda and Yamaha -
I didn’t have the numbers to back it up but the situation you describe is + or - the way I understood it.
Makes it all the more intriguing of a story…since it cannot be financially explained away…has Ducati, quietly and meekly, produced an extraordinary engineering feat???
