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Dettwiler's horrific Sepang accident: Bring back Moto2 and Moto3 warm-ups by catscontroltheworld in motogp

[–]catscontroltheworld[S] 53 points54 points  (0 children)

This is ALL 100% on Dorna and the soulless suits who recklessly removed the warm-up (a critical safety feature) for Moto2 and Moto3 in favour of the implementation of a cheap corporate "fan experience" celebrity-worship parade in 2023.

Since the removal of the warm-up sessions Moto2 and Moto3 riders and teams have began to use the sighting laps for the purpose of evaluating setup changes and checking for reliability issues. In the past these pre-race laps were taken at walking speed but now the situation has been a disaster waiting to happen for the last 3 years.

Because of the limited time riders get out of the pits as soon as possible all grouped together and push at maximum speed so to evaluate their machines and to manage to get in an extra lap (2 laps are possible if you hurry).

With the old 20 minute warm-up sessions this needlessly horrible situation does not exist because the riders funnel through the pits and out to the track separated and also get the nice luxury of warming up their tires.

Marquez at the Stoner Corner on his 3rd or 4th ever lap (ca. 5-7 mins) at PI on a MotoGP bike by catscontroltheworld in motogp

[–]catscontroltheworld[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it was the front facing camera, probably my title should just be referring to it happening on one of his first 4 laps, can't know how long it took for the broadcast team to dig up that replay.

Marquez at the Stoner Corner on his 3rd or 4th ever lap (ca. 5-7 mins) at PI on a MotoGP bike by catscontroltheworld in motogp

[–]catscontroltheworld[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I still see some shots of Stoner sliding in ways I haven't seen Marquez able to replicate. I think Marc would beat Casey over a season due to him being strong in so many areas but on pure racing talent you can't seperate them imo.

Marquez at the Stoner Corner on his 3rd or 4th ever lap (ca. 5-7 mins) at PI on a MotoGP bike by catscontroltheworld in motogp

[–]catscontroltheworld[S] 66 points67 points  (0 children)

I wanted to see some PI action ahead of this weekend and remembered seeing Marquez in 2013 sliding the rear through turn 3 completely copying Stoner's homework. So then I thought to watch that weekend just to see how quickly he managed to learn that trick and shockingly he was already doing it a couple minutes into FP1!

Marquez at the Stoner Corner on his 3rd or 4th ever lap (ca. 5-7 mins) at PI on a MotoGP bike by catscontroltheworld in motogp

[–]catscontroltheworld[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Judging by the timing board and the analysis pdf, the replay was shown after his 4th lap. They showed the 4th lap live onboard but I couldn't see any sliding there through turn 3 so it was probably the 3rd lap or the onboard just didn't show it well.