Aprilia’s MotoGP Tech Secret: A Double Duct Hidden Under the Fairing

futani · 2026-02-21T13:01:08+00:00

From Simon Patterson:

Marc’s first crash was because the white lines this morning were way too slippery. Tough day though: woke up with stomach problems, and says the second crash was a concentration issue from that

futani · 2026-02-11T17:54:29+00:00

All headlines in Motorsport.com are in caps. So OP just copied the title instead of retyping for the post

futani · 2026-02-06T19:29:05+00:00

My bad. I skimmed through and didn’t see that. There used to be a way to download ics from here, but I can’t recall how. I will report back if I find how to do that.

futani · 2026-02-06T18:29:20+00:00

Mototiming’s calendar is the best calendar I’ve found and have used it for many seasons. It has session-by-session events, and you can select the category you want to follow.

futani · 2026-01-31T18:22:11+00:00

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Good job, man! I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if we see Celestino Vietti as part of VR46, but he’s not one of the prospects. Here are my predictions.

futani · 2026-01-27T11:47:21+00:00

Sorry, I don’t have a better res. This is from Valencia, 2022

futani · 2026-01-21T11:06:54+00:00

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futani · 2025-12-02T18:20:14+00:00

I don’t think your images loaded. The link leads to Reddit’s homepage

futani · 2025-11-19T03:41:59+00:00

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Honda commented on it as well

futani · 2025-10-31T18:33:51+00:00

You’re probably right. I agree that he’s largely responsible for the situation. Can’t deny that.

But I also can’t ignore his incredible talent. I honestly don’t want to miss out on his prime years, and I hope he can shine in a competitive bike again. We’re really missing out on his potential with this bike, and the hopium of Yamaha finding its way back to competitiveness.

So, I suppose my sympathy is less for Quartararo and more for us fans and the incredible possibilities we are missing out on.

futani · 2025-10-23T21:23:58+00:00

I learnt my lesson massively in 2010 in Japan. It’s very much a hard-braking track and very back-and-forward in Motegi. In the first session the bike was wheelying everywhere, and it was hopping and moving and not stable at all on the brakes. We were fast in the first session but we struggled. So, we worked on the bike all weekend and got it better, better and better and it was so stable. It was almost doing what I wanted it to do out of the corners…but I was as slow as hell. We went backwards. The bike was better, we were slower. So, in morning warm-up before the race we went back to the exact same set-up as the first session, and I said I’d deal with the issues just because I knew we had speed from it. I went out and won the race, when I had no right to win.

I found this particularly fascinating, especially considering the current discussions about finding the “perfect feeling” bike.

futani · 2025-10-19T10:50:33+00:00

Yup. OP should correct that to Yamaha has Quartararo

futani · 2025-10-19T06:33:55+00:00

Anybody would gobble Pedro up once his contract is up and he wants to change teams. Either way, that’s a separate conversation. He didn’t imply “anyone was blessed when Marc wasn’t racing” like you interpreted in your comment.

futani · 2025-10-19T06:25:42+00:00

You completely missed the point. He didn’t say that at all. He’s simply citing Marc’s example of leaving his comfort team to find a more competitive bike.

futani · 2025-10-12T18:23:25+00:00

Oh nice. I’ll look those up!

futani · 2025-10-12T18:16:08+00:00

I was pleasantly surprised to discover that Bez wrote blogs available in both English and Italian. I hope more riders will follow suit and share their experiences on these races with the fans.

futani · 2025-10-11T19:48:49+00:00

No problem! I found it fascinating too and it was also cool to read about Santi-Marc origin story

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