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    dimanche 8 mai 2016

    MotoGP : Lorenzo nouveau leader suite à son triomphe au Mans / Lorenzo produces perfection in crash filled French GP

    Le Majorquin s’est offert une très importante victoire en s’imposant sans trouver rival à sa hauteur au Monster Energy Grand Prix de France.
    En pole position pour la 63e fois de sa carrière, nouveau record pour le total de pole toutes catégories confondues, après avoir pulvérisé le record du circuit en qualifications, Jorge Lorenzo (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) s’est de nouveau retrouvé seul au monde en course au Monster Energy Grand Prix de France, qu’il remportait pour la deuxième fois de suite.
    Parti comme une fusée depuis la tête de la grille, le Majorquin a été suivi par Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team) et Andrea Iannone (Ducati Team) sur les premiers tours mais a progressivement creusé l’écart et a petit à petit disparu du champ de vision de ses poursuivants.
    Passé devant Dovizioso dans le sixième tour, Iannone est tombé peu après alors qu’il tentait de revenir sur Lorenzo. De retour en seconde position suite à la chute de son coéquipier, Dovizioso a été rattrapé par Marc Márquez (Repsol Honda Team) et Valentino Rossi (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP), qui avait perdu beaucoup de temps au départ en se faisant malmener par les frères Pol (Monster Yamaha Tech3) et Aleix Espargaró (Team Suzuki Ecstar).
    Rossi: “Unfortunately I made a lot of mistakes”
    Une fois débarrassé de ces derniers, l’Italien est rapidement revenu sur les talons de Márquez pour doubler son rival dans le treizième tour et enchaîner en doublant Dovizioso pour passer à la seconde position. Trois tours plus tard, Dovizioso et Márquez sont tombés au Musée (virage n°7) presque en même temps. 
    Les chutes synchronisées de Dovizioso, qui abandonnait pour la troisième fois de suite, et de Márquez ont fait les affaires de Maverick Viñales (Team Suzuki Ecstar), qui héritait de la troisième place et allait signer son premier podium en MotoGP™, le premier de Suzuki depuis la troisième place de Loris Capirossi à Brno en 2008. 
    MGP-5-Maverick Vinales-5
    Vainqueur pour la deuxième fois de l’année alors que Márquez finissait treizième et donc avec seulement trois points, Lorenzo s’emparait de la tête du classement général avec cinq points d’avance sur son compatriote et douze sur Rossi, qui comptait dix secondes de retard sur son coéquipier au moment de passer le drapeau à damier. 
    Quatrième à l’arrivée, avec quatre secondes et demie de retard sur Viñales, Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda Team) conserve la quatrième place du classement général mais n’a plus que quatre points d’avance sur le pilote Suzuki. 
    Espargaro: “We definitely deserve it this weekend”
    Pol Espargaró (Monster Yamaha Tech3) a de son côté pris la cinquième place, son meilleur résultat depuis le début de la saison, et demeure donc le premier pilote indépendant au classement général. 
    Complétaient le Top 10 à l’arribée Aleix Espargaró (Team Suzuki Ecstar), Danilo Petrucci (Octo Pramac Yakhnich), vainqueur de son duel avec Héctor Barberá (Avintia) pour la septième place, et Stefan Bradl (Aprilia Racing Team Gresini).
    Eugene Laverty (Aspar MotoGP Team) et Loris Baz (Avintia Racing) ont quant à eux profité des nombreux abandons, dont ceux de Scott Redding (Octo Pramac Yakhnich), Yonny Hernández (Aspar MotoGP Team), Tito Rabat (Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS), Jack Miller (Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS) et Bradley Smith (Monster Yamaha Tech3) pour marquer les points des onzième et douzième places, en finissant devant Márquez. 
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    Lorenzo produces perfection in crash filled French GP
    Jorge Lorenzo ran away with the French GP, taking a flag-to-flag victory as former championship leader Marc Marquez fell.
    Tension hung in the air ahead of the 28-lap Monster Energy Grand Prix de France as riders in the MotoGP™ World Championship sat patiently on the grid. Jorge Lorenzo (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) had pole ahead of championship leader Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) and potential podium challenger Andrea Iannone (Ducati Team). Gusts of wind blew across the track as they departed for the Warm Up lap.
    Iannone leads tight top five in Warm Up
    Lorenzo made a perfect start as Marquez wheelied off the line, the Yamaha rider leading through the first chicane with Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team) behind him. Marquez was soon up to fourth as he charged past Pol Espargaro (Monster Yamaha Tech 3), Valentino Rossi (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) attempted to follow him through but found himself swamped by the likes of Aleix Espargaro (Team Suzuki Ecstar) and Bradley Smith (Monster Yamaha Tech 3).
    As they crossed the finish line for the first time Lorenzo's lead stood at half a second with Dovizioso and Iannone behind. It was not the start Rossi had wanted, able to make up just a single place from seventh on the grid as the second lap began. Dovizioso, who had seemingly banished his recent bad luck, remained strong in second.
    Having started last on the grid, home rider Loris Baz (Avintia Racing) was up to 17th by the fourth lap of the race. Home fans cheered him on with each pass, urging the Frenchman forever forward.
    Lap four saw Rossi improve his pace, going half a second quicker than his rival Marc Marquez who was just ahead. The pair weren’t the only ones closing up, Iannone also making significant progress on his teammate. His charge would be halted on lap seven when Iannone fell at Turn 8. Iannone’s fall was followed soon after by Cal Crutchlow (LCR Honda), who suffered his fourth race crash of the year. One lap later, fellow satellite Honda rider Tito Rabat (Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS) came off at Turn 6. Iannone would re-join the race but eventually retired.
    Lap 13 saw Rossi slip past on Marc Marquez, making it a three-way battle for second as Lorenzo continued to run away at the head of the race. Just a few corners later Rossi was up into second place and matching Lorenzo’s times.
    A thrilling battle for second was brewing until on lap 16 at Turn 7 both Andrea Dovizioso and Marc Marquez crashed at the same time. There was no contact between them, the pair both losing the front in synchronisation. Now Maverick Viñales (Team Suzuki Ecstar) was on course for his first MotoGP™ podium and Lorenzo on the cusp of taking the championship lead.
    Marquez: “Today was demanding”
    The falls continued and soon Marc Marquez was up in 13th place, despite missing a large section of his side fairing. Lorenzo, 7.8 seconds clear with five laps to go, was having no such issues as he calmly ran his own race. With gaps of at least three seconds splitting the top three, each eased their pace to guarantee a finish in the clearly difficult conditions.
    For the second time in 2016, Jorge Lorenzo crossed the line in first place after dominating the French GP. Over ten seconds would separate him from Rossi as the race came to an end. It was a day of celebration for both Suzuki and Viñales, the Spaniard taking his first podium finish in the premier class. Viñales’ podium is the first for Suzuki since the 2008 Czech GP, making amends for his mistake in Argentina.
    Victory sees Lorenzo move to the top of the championship with 90 points, Marquez forced to concede his advantage after the crash. Rossi stays third and is 12 points behind Lorenzo. Marquez, Lorenzo and Rossi now have a mistake each to their name and with only 12 points between them in the championship; the season is only just getting started. The MotoGP™ World Championship now heads to Mugello, Rossi’s home round but one where Lorenzo has been the man to beat in recent years. Once again it looks set to be a thrilling weekend in the Tuscan hills.
    Scott Redding (Octo Pramac Yakhnich) retired from the race early on, followed by Yonny Hernandez (Aspar Team MotoGP) who crashed from the race on lap seven.
    While running inside the top ten, Jack Miller (Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS) suffered a fall, the French GP a war of attrition. Turn 7 claimed yet another victim as Bradley Smith crashed out of his team’s home race.
    Full race results can be seen here.
    The ever-tightening MotoGP™ World Championship can be viewed here.
    via motogp.com

    vendredi 16 octobre 2015

    Márquez réalise le meilleur temps du vendredi en Australie / Marquez sets pace on opening day at Phillip Island


    Le Champion du Monde en titre est passé devant Lorenzo lors de la seconde d’essais à Phillip Island.
              Marquez sets pace on opening day at Phillip Island
    Bien que la pluie se soit manifestée à la mi-journée, les pilotes de la catégorie reine auront échappé aux intempéries vendredi à Phillip Island pour l’ouverture du Grand Prix Pramac d’Australie. 
    Après avoir été distancé par Jorge Lorenzo (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) de plus de trois dixièmes de seconde le matin, Marc Márquez (Repsol Honda) a rattrapé son compatriote l’après-midi et s’est emparé de la première position sur le classement combiné, en ayant été 0.050s plus rapide que le Majorquin. Désormais sans aucune possibilité de jouer le titre, le Champion du Monde visera ce week-end sa première victoire en MotoGP™ à Phillip Island, qui est avec le Motegi l’un des deux seuls circuits où il n’ait pas encore gagné en catégorie reine.
                        Viñales: “I’m struggling to find good confidence”
    Maverick Viñales (Team Suzuki Ecstar) a fait très bonne impression sur la GSX-R pour rejoindre ses deux compatriotes dans le Top 3, à seulement 0.135s de Márquez. Andrea Iannone (Ducati) et Cal Crutchlow (LCR Honda) ont réalisé des chronos très proches de celui du rookie espagnol et ont terminé quatrième et cinquième, à 0.161s et 0.196s du leader.
    Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda), vainqueur dimanche dernier au Motegi, s’est classé sixième, à quasiment trois dixièmes de seconde de la cinquième position et devant Danilo Petrucci (Octo Pramac Racing), Bradley Smith (Monster Yamaha Tech3) et Valentino Rossi (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP). 
                    Rossi: “I was not strong enough”
    Neuvième à 0.658s de Márquez, Rossi dispose de dix-huit points d’avance avant l’épreuve australienne, la première des trois dernières de la saison, et devra gagner en rythme samedi matin pour espérer se qualifier bien plus près de Lorenzo, son rival pour le titre mondial. À noter toutefois que l'Italien n'a pas utilisé de pneu neuf en fin de séance, contrairement à bon nombre de ses concurrents.
                   
    La dixième position est revenue à Aleix Espargaró (Team Suzuki Ecstar) tandis que Jack Miller (LCR Honda), onzième, a été le pilote Open le plus rapide et a été confirmé chez Marc VDS Racing pour 2016 avant l’ouverture du week-end. 
    Mike Di Meglio (Avintia Racing), qui participe à son 200e Grand Prix ce week-end, et Loris Baz (Forward Racing) ont respectivement pris les 20e et 23e positions. 
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                      Lorenzo strikes first in FP1
    Marc Marquez ended Friday’s practice fastest ahead of Jorge Lorenzo and Maverick Viñales, with Valentino Rossi in ninth.
    Repsol Honda’s Marquez had played second fiddle to Lorenzo in the morning’s damp FP1 session at the Pramac Australian Grand Prix. Then, as the track dried and the sun came out (Track temp. 35˚C) in the afternoon it was the reigning MotoGP™ World Champion who ended the day on top. Marquez set a 1’29.383 to finish just five-hundredths of a second ahead of Lorenzo on the combined timesheet’s, although he was still some way off the Pole Record set in 2014 (J. Lorenzo – 1’27.899).
                  Marquez: “Jorge is very fast, but we are working well”
    Movistar Yamaha’s Lorenzo (+0.050s) began his bid at closing down the 18-point gap in the standings to his teammate Rossi by topping FP1, before having to settle for second overall. The Spaniard improved by over half a second in FP2, in a session that saw the top 13 riders separated by less than nine-tenths of a second.
                   Viñales : « Un grand pas en avant »
    Team Suzuki Ecstar’s Maverick Viñales recovered from crashing out of the race at Motegi to complete the provisional front row, just 0.135s off the pace of Marquez. Viñales took advantage of the sweet handling of his GSX-RR to finish ahead of Andrea Iannone (+0.161s) on the Ducati Team GP15. The Italian is looking to bounce back strongly at Phillip Island after his first DNF of the season at the Japanese GP due to technical issues.
                    Crutchlow: “We have a lot of spinning at the moment”
    LCR Honda’s Cal Crutchlow (+0.196s) was the leading Satellite rider in fifth as less than two tenths of second separated the top five riders. Brit Crutchlow clearly likes the Australian track as he recorded only his second MotoGP™ podium at Phillip Island in 2012 and crashed out of a comfortable second in last year’s race on the very last lap. 
    Race winner at Motegi Dani Pedrosa (+0.493s) was further 0.297s back in sixth, ahead of Pramac Racing’s Danilo Petrucci and the Monster Yamaha Tech 3 of Bradley Smith in eighth.
                      Iannone: “Phillip Island should be positive for us”
    Championship leader Rossi found himself down in ninth, 0.658s off the pace of Marquez, but the ‘Doctor’ did not switch to a fresh set of tyres at the end of FP2 like the majority of the riders. The Italian, who will equal the all-time record of 328 GP starts on Sunday, preferring instead to work on his pace on used tyres, instead of worrying about setting a flying lap.
                  
    Aleix Espargaro (Team Suzuki Ecstar) completed the top ten while Jack Miller (LCR Honda), who had earlier finished fifth during FP1, was the leading Open class rider in eleventh, just 0.057s ahead of Nicky Hayden (Aspar MotoGP Team) in 12th. Ducati Team’s Andrea Dovizioso struggled throughout the day, and found himself down in 14th, over a second off the pace of Pole man Marquez. Scott Redding (EG 0,0 Marc VDS) ended the day in 17th, ahead of Irishman Eugene Laverty (Aspar MotoGP Team) in 18th.
                   Smith: “It takes your breath away!”
    Karel Abraham’s replacement in the AB Motoracing Team, Anthony West, was 24th fastest. Damian Cudlin (E-Motion IodaRacing Team), who is substituting for the injured Alex De Angelis, was in 25th.
    Check out the combined times from FP1 & FP2; FP3 starts at 10:00 local time on Saturday in Phillip Island.