2022 banter & Silly season thread for MotoGP, Moto2 and Moto3

[Everso Biggyballies]

Bottom post of the previous page:

In Q1 as the chequered flag flew it was Pol Espargaro and Mir at the top...... for a few seconds..... with Zarco and Rins taking the top places with late laps. Bastianini almost made it through but ended up first of the non Q2 qualifiers.

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Its all a bit frantic in Q2 qualifying and I cant keep up with a minute to go.... the 2013 Bridgestone tyre set record was broken with three minutes to go and then the names on the leaderboard became yo-yos with just about everyone appearing on the front row.... For info the lap record at PI set by Lorenzo in 2013 was the longest unbroken lap record from old.

But we ended up with Jorge Martin on Pole with a 1:27.780

Behind him we had MM93, Bagnaira on the front row with Aleix Esp and Quartararo (both alo in the 27's) and Zarco, with Marini Miller and Bezzechi on the third row.

All set for a good arm wrestle tomorrow for the championship lead with all the main challengers on the front two rows.


I will post the full grid shortly.

[Everso Biggyballies]

2022 Australian GP Q2 results
Cla Rider Time Gap
1
Spain Jorge Martin 1'27.767
2
Spain Marc Marquez 1'27.780 0.013
3
Italy Francesco Bagnaia 1'27.953 0.186
4
Spain Aleix Espargaro 1'27.957 0.190
5
France Fabio Quartararo 1'27.973 0.206
6
France Johann Zarco 1'28.007 0.240
7
Italy Luca Marini 1'28.029 0.262
8
Australia Jack Miller 1'28.116 0.349
9
Italy Marco Bezzecchi 1'28.185 0.418
10
Spain Alex Rins 1'28.541 0.774
11
Spain Alex Marquez 1'28.733 0.966
12
Spain Maverick Viñales 1'28.765 0.998



The balance of the grid order from Q1 results (Zarco and Rins removed as they qualified for Q2 listed above)
13
Italy Enea Bastianini 1'28.385 0.253
14
Spain Pol Espargaro 1'28.392 0.260
15
Spain Joan Mir 1'28.492 0.360
16
South Africa Brad Binder 1'28.652 0.520
17
United Kingdom Cal Crutchlow 1'28.677 0.545
18
South Africa Darryn Binder 1'28.760 0.628
19
Australia Remy Gardner 1'28.820 0.688
20
Italy Fabio Di Giannantonio 1'28.830 0.698
21
Portugal Miguel Oliveira 1'28.859 0.727
22
Spain Raúl Fernández 1'28.966 0.834
23
Italy Franco Morbidelli 1'29.146 1.014
24
Japan Tetsuta Nagashima 1'29.624 1.492



Enea Bastianini (Gresini Ducati) and Miguel Oliveira (Red Bull KTM) were placed under investigation after an incident at Lukey Heights, where Oliveira was seen riding slower on the race line with the Italian on a fast run behind him.

[Vassago]

20 minutes until the Moto3 race. I got my coffee ready!

[Vassago]

Izan Guevara wins the Moto3 race and becomes world champion!

Deniz Oncu in 2nd place ahead of Garcia and Sasaki. It was a four bike race at the front. Foggia and Masia were nowhere.

[Everso Biggyballies]

Hehehe glad to see you are here and well
First four broke away a bit in Moto 3 but well done to Guevara on his WC

Amusing when he got his new gold WC helmet on to celebrate and nearly landed on his heaad mucking about before getting back to his lap of honour

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Irresponsible riding long lap penalty for Lopez in the Moto 2 but he leads by nearly 2 secs

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Nasty crash for Navarro got run over by a following rider. Lucky over his body not head, but still a stretcher job. Hope he is ok.

[MonteCristo]

It's all happening!

[Vassago]

Bad race from Ogura but Augusto Fernandez crashes out of 2nd place!

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Fernandez craashes out! Wont be leading the championship at the way they stand now even with Ogura down the field

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Lopez just cruising to this one. Bit of a battle for 5th -8th.
Such a silly / strange accident for Fernandez. Following Acosta and just lost the front

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Lopez wins by 3.5 seconds despite his long lap penalty . Acosto second with Dixon another 6 seconds down.
Ogura picked up 11th at the end to lead the title by 3.5 points from Fernandez.

[Everso Biggyballies]

The rain that was around for the MotoGP warmup earlier this morning has gone and the radar showing no more in the area so we should have a dry race.

The wet might have upset those looking to finalise tyre choices and pressures (especially Fabio who blamed his Thailand fail on incorrect pressures) for the race as it was never fully dry and after a few minutes was quite wet. Wet enough for MM to throw it down the road (without damaging himself.)

The rain did stop but it was only a short session so never dried out.

[Everso Biggyballies]

Crikey.... Jorge Lorenzo has made the trip downunder to watch. He came all this way to see his long standing lap record here get beaten yesterday.

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There seems to be a bit of confusion over tyres with riders taking anything from MM93 on soft to others on medium and some on hard tyres. 27 laps of the high speed long radius turns is a bit of an ask, and its warmer today than before this weekend. A headwing down the straight will have a bit of effect as well.

Warm up lap about to start.