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Marquez: Misano win impossible without the rain
Marc Marquez says his MotoGP victory in the San Marino Grand Prix would have been impossible without the mid-race rain shower.The eight-time world champion made it back-to-back wins at Misano following his victory in Aragon last weekend.Marquez held off a challenge from world champion Francesco Bagnaia, who was second, while championship leader Jorge Martin gambled on the rain increasing and ...Keep reading
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2024 Moto2 Championship Standings After Round 13, Misano, Italy
2024 Moto2 Championship Standings After Round 13, Misano, Italy
Moto2 Standings after the Misano Grand Prix
David Emmett Sun, 08/Sep/2024 - 11:25
Round Number
13
Year
2024
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2024 Misano Moto3 Race Result: Sometimes The Road To The Podium Goes Through The Long Lap Lane
2024 Misano Moto3 Race Result: Sometimes The Road To The Podium Goes Through The Long Lap Lane
Results and summary of the Moto3 race at Misano:
Zara Daniela Sun, 08/Sep/2024 - 10:11
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2024 Magny-Cours WorldSBK Warm Up Result: Bautista Quickest In Wet Session
2024 Magny-Cours WorldSBK Warm Up Result: Bautista Quickest In Wet Session
Results:
David Emmett Sun, 08/Sep/2024 - 07:47
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2024 Magny-Cours WorldSBK Superpole Race Result: Hard Fought Duel Goes Down To The Line
2024 Magny-Cours WorldSBK Superpole Race Result: Hard Fought Duel Goes Down To The Line
Results and summary of the World Superbike Superpole race at Magny-Cours
David Emmett Sun, 08/Sep/2024 - 09:17
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2024 Misano MotoGP Warm Up Result: Morbidelli Opens Sunday's Show
2024 Misano MotoGP Warm Up Result: Morbidelli Opens Sunday's Show
Results:
Zara Daniela Sun, 08/Sep/2024 - 07:59
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Misano MotoGP Saturday Subscriber Notes: How To Get A Good Start, Or The Importance Of A Plan B
Misano MotoGP Saturday Subscriber Notes: How To Get A Good Start, Or The Importance Of A Plan B
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Managing a race is about managing expectations. You have to have a plan for the race. But you also have to have a plan for when your original plan goes to pieces, usually on first contact with reality. You can start the race with the desire to execute your plan as perfectly and precisely as possible. But it is good to have an idea of how to handle things when the plan goes wrong.
That is easier at some racetracks than at others. If, like Pecco Bagnaia at Misano, your plan after taking pole is to get away at the start and lead for the entire race, then you need to pull it off. If you don't, then everything about your bike will work against you, making any alternatives you might have had in mind look pretty forlorn.
David Emmett Sun, 08/Sep/2024 - 01:02
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2024 Misano MotoE Race 2 Result: One Final Last Lap Show
2024 Misano MotoE Race 2 Result: One Final Last Lap Show
Results and summary of the MotoE race at Misano:
Zara Daniela Sat, 07/Sep/2024 - 14:41
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2024 MotoGP Championship Standings After Round 13 Sprint, Misano, Italy
2024 MotoGP Championship Standings After Round 13 Sprint, Misano, Italy
MotoGP standings after Misano sprint:
Zara Daniela Sat, 07/Sep/2024 - 13:54
Round Number
13
Year
2024
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2024 Misano Moto3 Qualifying Result: Another Faultless Performance
2024 Misano Moto3 Qualifying Result: Another Faultless Performance
Results and summary of qualifying for the Moto3 class at Misano:
Zara Daniela Sat, 07/Sep/2024 - 11:52
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2024 Aragon Moto2 Race Result: A Particularly Happy Podium
2024 Aragon Moto2 Race Result: A Particularly Happy Podium
Results and summary of the Moto2 race at Motorland Aragon:
Zara Daniela Sun, 01/Sep/2024 - 11:25
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2024 Aragon Moto3 Race Result: Making History With Maiden Win
2024 Aragon Moto3 Race Result: Making History With Maiden Win
Results and summary of the Moto3 race at Motorland Aragon:
Zara Daniela Sun, 01/Sep/2024 - 10:07
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Aragon MotoGP Saturday Subscriber Notes: How A Dirty Track And Grid Decided The Sprint Race
Aragon MotoGP Saturday Subscriber Notes: How A Dirty Track And Grid Decided The Sprint Race
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If the MotoGP riders thought Friday was a complicated day on the new surface at the Motorland Aragon circuit, they hadn't reckoned with Saturday. Heavy rain fell overnight at the track, starting as I was leaving the circuit around 8pm, and kept falling on and off throughout the night. It left the track damp in the morning, but above all, it left the track filthy.
The region around Alcañiz, Bajo Aragon, is arid and dusty. So when rain falls, it sucks the dust and dirt from the air and deposits it on the ground. In this case, on the surface of the Motorland Aragon track. The Friday night rain had a double effect. It washed the rubber laid down on Friday off the track. And it washed the dust out of the atmosphere and onto the asphalt.
The grip, which had been improving through Friday, was completely gone on Saturday. Times in FP2 were not much to write home about, as the track dried out. Riders picked up the pace in qualifying, but even Marc Márquez' breathtaking pole time - a 1'46.766 - was nearly a whole second slower than the time he set on Friday afternoon. And Márquez was over eight tenths faster than Pedro Acosta and Pecco Bagnaia, beside him on the grid.
David Emmett Sun, 01/Sep/2024 - 07:23
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MotoGP news - Autosport
Marquez coy on MotoGP resurgence after first win in three years
Eight-time world champion Marc Marquez claimed a first MotoGP sprint win at the Aragon Grand Prix on Saturday he insisted that his MotorLand feat is not quite the dawn of a second ‘Marquez era’.First in every session and with complete control from the first corner until the last of a hot 11-lap sprint at the MotorLand circuit as a prelude to round 12 of 20 in 2024 on Sunday, Marquez finally ...Keep reading
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2024 Aragon Moto2 Qualifying Result: A Glitch In The Matrix
2024 Aragon Moto2 Qualifying Result: A Glitch In The Matrix
Results and summary of qualifying for the Moto2 class at Aragon:
Zara Daniela Sat, 31/Aug/2024 - 12:43
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MotoGP San Marino GP: Marquez storms to victory, Martin makes bike swap blunder
Marc Marquez surged into the lead during a brief rain shower and held on to win the MotoGP San Marino Grand Prix from Francesco Bagnaia, as Jorge Martin made a premature bike swap that left him 15th.With spots of rain on the starting grid, humid and cloudy conditions briefly delivered substantial rain after seven laps of the Misano race, leading to half a dozen riders pitted to change motorcycles ...Keep reading
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2024 Misano Moto2 Race Result: Turn Of The Tide
2024 Misano Moto2 Race Result: Turn Of The Tide
Results and summary of the Moto2 race at Misano:
Zara Daniela Sun, 08/Sep/2024 - 11:18
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2024 Moto3 Championship Standings After Round 13, Misano, Italy
2024 Moto3 Championship Standings After Round 13, Misano, Italy
Moto3 standings after the race at Misano:
David Emmett Sun, 08/Sep/2024 - 10:10
Round Number
13
Year
2024
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2024 Magny-Cours WorldSSP Warm Up Result: Huertas Leads On A Wet Track
2024 Magny-Cours WorldSSP Warm Up Result: Huertas Leads On A Wet Track
Results:
David Emmett Sun, 08/Sep/2024 - 07:48
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2024 Magny-Cours WorldSSP Race 1 Result: A Gamble Pays Off
2024 Magny-Cours WorldSSP Race 1 Result: A Gamble Pays Off
Summary and results of World Supersport Race 1 at Magny-Cours
David Emmett Sun, 08/Sep/2024 - 08:58
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MotoGP news - Autosport
The other Ducati rider on a MotoGP resurgence
Franco Morbidelli continued his MotoGP resurgence with a first podium finish in three-and-a-half years with third place in the San Marino Grand Prix sprint race and explained how “the race is very different” at the sharp end.Morbidelli was given the golden ticket at the end of 2023. The Italian ended a turgid three-season spell in the factory Yamaha team where he felt the sharp decline of the ...Keep reading
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2024 MotoE Championship Standings After Round 8 Race 2, Misano, Italy
2024 MotoE Championship Standings After Round 8 Race 2, Misano, Italy
MotoE standings after Misano:
Zara Daniela Sat, 07/Sep/2024 - 14:43
Round Number
8
Year
2024
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2024 Misano Moto2 Qualifying Result: There’s A First Time For Everything
2024 Misano Moto2 Qualifying Result: There’s A First Time For Everything
Results and summary of qualifying for the Moto2 class at Misano:
Zara Daniela Sat, 07/Sep/2024 - 12:45
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2024 Magny-Cours WorldSBK Race 1 Result: Cool Heads Triumph In Difficult Conditions
2024 Magny-Cours WorldSBK Race 1 Result: Cool Heads Triumph In Difficult Conditions
Results and summary of WorldSBK race 1 at Magny-Cours
David Emmett Sat, 07/Sep/2024 - 12:38
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2024 Moto2 Championship Standings After Round 12, Aragon, Spain
2024 Moto2 Championship Standings After Round 12, Aragon, Spain
Moto2 standings after Aragon:
David Emmett Sun, 01/Sep/2024 - 11:40
Round Number
12
Year
2024
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2024 Moto3 Championship Standings After Round 12, Aragon, Spain
2024 Moto3 Championship Standings After Round 12, Aragon, Spain
Standings after the Aragon GP:
David Emmett Sun, 01/Sep/2024 - 10:25
Round Number
12
Year
2024
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2024 Aragon MotoGP Warm Up Result: Martin Leads, Marquez Not Tempted By Wet Track
2024 Aragon MotoGP Warm Up Result: Martin Leads, Marquez Not Tempted By Wet Track
Results:
Zara Daniela Sun, 01/Sep/2024 - 07:53
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MotoGP news - Autosport
Bagnaia tight-lipped on cause of sprint woe as Aragon issue labelled "unacceptable"
Francesco Bagnaia has provided a cryptic response to questions on his struggles in the sprint for MotoGP's Aragon Grand Prix.The reigning world champion finished in ninth place - his worst sprint finish of the year - after struggling for grip throughout.Bagnaia dropped from third to sixth after a poor start on the dirty side of the track, where he suffered from wheelspin - one of a number of ...Keep reading
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2024 MotoGP Championship Standings After Round 12 Sprint, Motorland Aragon, Spain
2024 MotoGP Championship Standings After Round 12 Sprint, Motorland Aragon, Spain
MotoGP standings after Aragon sprint:
Zara Daniela Sat, 31/Aug/2024 - 14:07
Round Number
12
Year
2024
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2024 Aragon MotoGP Sprint Result: Tasting Gold At Last
2024 Aragon MotoGP Sprint Result: Tasting Gold At Last
Results and summary of the MotoGP sprint at Aragon:
Zara Daniela Sat, 31/Aug/2024 - 14:00
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