Race 1 is in the books!!!
Lorenzo has a great race ... Rossi just misses the podium and, WOW, are those factory Ducati bikes fast (in a straight line).
http://www.crash.net/motogp/news/228...-the-race.html
Very interesting article, particularly with respect to the new tyres...
The 28-year-old (Lorenzo), yet to sign a new MotoGP contract with Yamaha as he waits to evaluate an expected offer from Ducati, said: “The fact that I was not very fast in the warm-up, having a lot of problems to keep the pace, looking at Marc [Marquez] who was using the soft tyre and who was faster and faster, made me question myself – which tyre I had to choose.
“Finally, I decided to go with the soft one and usually a soft tyre will be worse at the end of the race, but it was the opposite, it was better and better – not with the sliding because at the beginning of the race I was sliding a lot – but it was impressive in the last few laps.
“Even with the pressure of Andrea [Dovizioso], we made the difference a little bit in the last three laps and finally when Marc [Marquez] passed Dovizioso, the difference was one second and I could breathe a little bit more easily. Winning is much better than one thousand words and today I spoke on the track.”
Read more at
http://www.crash.net/motogp/news/228...19srij3kYgH.99