MotoGP #36 Seizoen 2017 is coming up!

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Tito Rabat (Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS) suffered a tough crash in the first test of 2017 at Sepang International Circuit, with the Spaniard falling at Turn 11 and suffering multiple injuries in the incident. motogp.com caught up with one of the men who successfully operated on Rabat upon his return to Barcelona, Dr Xavier Mir, at the Hospital Universitari Dexeus in Barcelona.

Dr Mir: “Tito crashed during the Malaysia test. After the being transferred to Kuala Lumpur for a check, it was deemed safe for him to return here for surgery if he chose to do so, which he did. After a check up, he was found to have five fractures. He has two broken wrists, has broken fifth metacarpals in both hands, and a fracture in his foot. As well as that, he has lost skin and soft tissue from his knee, which is the injury that concerns us more. An MRI scan revealed that the injury to his knee is only to the skin and tissue below the skin. Yesterday we repaired the fracture to his right hand, plated and put screws in the radius fracture and the fifth metacarpal, and cleaned the wound on his knee – which permitted us to close it; something we had been worried would prove difficult.”

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Dr Mir: “What worries us more, and the reason why he will be kept admitted, is that the injury to his knee was very dirty – with some remains of asphalt and leather in the wound – and it could become infected. So he will remain under observation for four days and we shall see. We will try to cut his recovery time short as much as possible, but first he has to get through the first four days and check he has no fever – so we can rule out infection. After that, we’ll start the recovery process proper to get him back to full health as soon as possible – when that will be, I don’t know.”

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Op zaterdag 4 februari 2017 20:31 schreef Funzel het volgende:

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Even een vraag van iemand die de sport al jaren niet meer zo volgt, maar waarom zit die Pedrosa er nog steeds? Gewoon als ideale tweede rijder zeker? Want voor de titel doet 'ie nooit mee toch. En ik heb het idee dat die gozer ook meerdere keren per seizoen veel te hard van z'n motor lazert.

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Op zaterdag 4 februari 2017 20:38 schreef Funzel het volgende:

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Alien reputatie?

Anyway, denk dat ik het dit jaar toch weer wat meer ga volgen. Heb me een beetje verdiept in het startveld en de resultaten van laatste jaren, moet goed komen.

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After three days of testing it is clear just how close the field is this season. The top ten riders are separated by just four tenths of a second. Sixteen riders are within a second, from Maverick Vińales in first to Hector Barbera in sixteenth. The top four riders are on four different manufacturers, less than two tenths apart, and there is a good mix of manufacturers throughout the top of the timesheets.

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That does not mean there are no real favorites, though. A quick scan of the full lap times offers some interesting insights. In terms of race pace, there are two riders who are head and shoulders above the rest. While there were a lot of riders with fast times, Maverick Vińales and Marc Mįrquez were consistently lapping faster than anyone else was capable of matching.

A few numbers. There were ten riders who lapped in the 1'59s. Valentino Rossi, Jorge Lorenzo, Andrea Dovizioso, and Johann Zarco did it for 1 lap. Casey Stoner did it for 2 laps. Dani Pedrosa, Alvaro Bautista, and Marc Mįrquez did it for 3 laps. Cal Crutchlow managed 4 laps in the 1'59s. But Maverick Vińales hammered out a total of 10 laps faster than two minutes.

Expand the times to include laps in the 2'00 mark and the dominance of Mįrquez and Vińales is clear. Vińales had 20 laps in the 2'00 to go with his 10 in 1'59. Mįrquez' pace was positively searing: he may have had only three 1'59s, but he cranked out a massive quantity of 39 laps in the 2'00 bracket, twice as many as most of his competitors. And they were fast laps too: 26 were sub 2'00.5, and 35 were sub 2'00.7. He did 14 laps of 2'00.4. That is a positively Lorenzo-like consistency.

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While Maverick Vińales and Marc Mįrquez emerged from the Sepang tests as clear favorites, with Valentino Rossi, Dani Pedrosa, and Andrea Dovizioso close behind, Andrea Iannone established himself as a genuine dark horse. The Italian was fastest on Tuesday, and left the test as second quickest behind Vińales.

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But Rins was not the most impressive rookie. That, in the opinion of almost everyone present, was Johann Zarco. Zarco had spent Tuesday morning riding on wet tires on a drying track, trying to get to deepen his understanding of where the limits lay on a MotoGP bike. He improved his time by nearly 1.5 seconds over the three days, and showed good consistency.

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Valentino Rossi had told the media he had been impressed by both Monster Tech 3 Yamaha riders. "Zarco made a very good job," he commented afterwards. "Also Folger was fast. I followed him, and he rode very well." Zarco – a sensitive soul, serious and intense – was deeply touched by Rossi's words. He had gone racing after watching Rossi on TV, so to be complimented by his idol was something that left him moved.

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Op zaterdag 4 februari 2017 21:16 schreef Funzel het volgende:

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Ah geinig verhaal.
Wel goed voor de sport om eens wat meer winnaars te zien.

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Op zaterdag 4 februari 2017 21:26 schreef Funzel het volgende:

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Ja vroeger wel. Als jochie in de tijd van Rossi, Biaggi, Gibernau, Hayden, Barros, Capirossi en de hele meute zeg maar. Ook nog wel toen Hayden kampioen werd. Ben beetje afgehaakt rond de opkomst van Marquez denk ik.

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Op zaterdag 4 februari 2017 21:30 schreef Funzel het volgende:

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Nja gewoon weet niet, verloor langzaam de interesse denk ik. Niet echt een reden voor. Kreeg ook een beetje de uitgaans leeftijd zeg maar dus ik lag vaak ook nog op m'n nest als ze reden.
Weet nog dat ik vroeger altijd voor Toni Elias was, geen idee waarom hehe.

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Op zaterdag 4 februari 2017 21:34 schreef Funzel het volgende:

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Het begint wel te komen ja. Formule 1 heb ik al die jaren wel nog gevolgd, maar wat extra is wel leuk. Zal vast niet elke race kijken, maar in elk geval wel een aantal.

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Op zaterdag 4 februari 2017 21:47 schreef ErkendFokker het volgende:

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Veel minder statisch racen idd. En gewoon leukere karakters. En er wordt nog daadwerkelijk gevochten om een plaats.
Beetje ruw zeg maar.