Well done Pedrosa. Did anyone know what happened at the end to let Rossi almost pass him when he was so far in front at the start of the lap? I missed the press conference.
Well done Hayden to on his best finnish for the year.
Funnily enough it didnt come up in the PC, but it seems he was just slowing up to ensure in the finish, but almost overdid it.
Brilliant effort by Jorge Lorenzo though to ride with the injuries he had. That was a huge fall in qualifying. To ride with a partially dislocated shoulder must be a big ask as your shoulders take a lot of the g forces let alone the constant shift of weight on a bike at that level..... He was filled with painkillers, and a fair bit of adrenalin was involved as well seeing as how quick after the race he got the pains again. He couldnt get the ice pack in quick enough after the race. A case of the things you can do to your body at twenty that you probably cant at thirty.
I was really happy for Hayden. Hopefully he can continue in that sort of form and that it was not just Laguna Factor. It may have given him the a bit of a confidence boost on a track he knows blindfold to take it to other treacks now.
I miss the build up of the 125's and the 250's though, and its a pity they dont race at this iconic track.
From autosport.com:
James Toseland made a jump start from 15th on the grid and was penalised with a ride-through on lap five. But the Briton failed to comply with the penalty and on lap 11 was shown the black flag, after which he inexplicably did the ride-through on lap 12 and retired his Tech 3 Yamaha on the next lap.
Terrible reporting....
From when he got given the penalty it was pretty clear he missed the firt signal from the pits re his penalty, the second time round the pit board made it more obvious. I would say that he wrongly assumed he still had the three laps you get to obey the penalty, having missed the first signal.... By the time you see the signal you are well past the the pit entrance and so have to continue on round. The fact is that the black flag was showed on the lap he did his ride through he would not have seen the black flag, as the stewards hung over the pit wall on the trackside, at the time when James was in pit lane doing his ride through and clearly would not have seen it. Seeing as he had missed the pit signal the team should have made it clear pitlane this lap to hifglight to him that he had missed the previous call and to come in next time round.
Why it takes the stewards until lap 5 (and a signal on lap 6) to judge a jump start I dont know...
With no radio comms on bikes he would not have seen the black flag until the next time round after he had done the penalty and so came in to the garage on the next lap. It shows that for signals like that the flag should probably be shown at the marshalls post before the pit entry.
A pity as he was going ok, and with the others retiring he could have picked up some good points there.
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