(MV Agusta), -6 laps, DNF, crash; 28. Fa-
bio Di Giannantonio, Italy (Speed Up), -9
laps, DNF, crash; 29. Lorenzo Baldassar-
ri, Italy (Kalex), -16 laps, DNF, crash; 30.
Iker Lecuona, Spain (KTM), -20 laps, DNF,
crash; 31. Remy Gardner, Australia (Tech
3), -22 laps, DNF, retired. Race Distance,
22 laps, 63.252 miles; Race Time, 38
minutes, 25.678 seconds; Race Average
Speed, 98.736 mph; Victory Margin, 1.989
seconds; Fastest Lap, Marquez, 1:43.871,
99.606 mph, Lap 3, New Record.
MOTO2 QUALIFYING (June 15): 1. Fer-
nandez, 1:44.170, 99.357 mph; 2. Luthi,
1:44.191; 3. Lowes, 1:44.199; 4. Navarro,
1:44.211; 5. Di Giannantonio, 1:44.259;
- Marquez, 1:44.270; 7. Baldassarri,
1:44.437; 8. Bulega, 1:44.489; 9. Locatel-
li, 1:44.505; 10. Bastianini, 1:44.558; - Gardner, 1:44.569; 12. Schrotter,
1:44.600; 13. Marini, 1:44.640; 14.
Bendsneyder, 1:44.808; 15. Lecuona,
1:44.874; 16. Nagashima, 1:45.131; 17.
Martin, 1:45.244; 18. Corsi, 1:46.962; 19.
Binder, 1:44.913; 20. Vierge, 1:44.917; 21.
Aegerter, 1:45.048; 22. Manzi, 1:45.133; - Folger, 1:45.265; 24. Ekky Pramata,
1:45.302; 25. Chantra, 1:45.341; 26. Dix-
on, 1:45.505; 27. Odendaal, 1:45.545; 28.
Tulovic, 1:45.605; 29. Roberts, 1:45.665; - Cardelus, 1:46.972; 31. Bezzecchi,
1:48.061; 32. Philipp Oettl, Germany
(KTM), 1:47.340.
MOTO2 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
POINT STANDINGS (After 7 of 19
rounds): 1. Marquez, 111 points; 2. Lu-
thi, 104 points; 3. Navarro, 89 points; 4.
Baldassarri, 88 points; 5. Schrotter, 73
points; 6. Marini, 68 points; 7. Fernan-
dez, 67 points; 8. Bastianini, 56 points; - Binder, 44 points; 10. Gardner, 41
points; 26.Roberts, 2 points.
MOTO3 (All on Dunlop Tires) (June 16):
Marcos Ramirez, Spain (Hon), 21 laps,
38:36.156, 93.827 mph; 2. Aron Canet,
Spain (KTM), -0.119-second; 3. Celestino
Vietti, Italy (KTM), -0.146; 4. Alonso Lopez,
Spain (Hon), -0.235; 5. Dennis Foggia,
Italy (KTM), -0.947; 6. Ai Ogura, Japan
(Hon), -1.008 seconds; 7. Romano Fenati,
Italy (Hon), -1.068; 8. Ayumu Sasaki, Ja-
pan (Hon), -1.358; 9. Ryusei Yamanaka,
Japan (Hon), -1.984; 10. Jakub Kornfeil,
Czech Republic (KTM), -2.472; 11. Nicco-
lo Antonelli, Italy (Hon), -2.729; 13. John
McPhee, Great Britain (Hon), -3.264; 19.
Tatsuki Suzuki, Japan (Hon), -60.726; - Kaito Toba, Japan (Hon), -1 lap, DNF,
crash; 21. Gabriel Rodrigo, Argentina
(Hon), -2 laps, DNF, crash; 23. Jaume Ma-
sia, Spain (KTM), -8 laps, DNF, crash; 24.
Tony Arbolino, Italy (Hon), -9 laps, DNF,
retired; 26. Andrea Migno, Italy (KTM), -16
laps, DNF, crash; 30. Albert Arenas, Spain
(KTM), -17 laps, DNF, crash; 31.Lorenzo
Dalla Porta, Italy (Hon), -18 laps, DNF,
retired.Race Distance, 21 laps, 60.377
miles; Race Time, 38 minutes, 36.156
seconds; Race Average Speed, 93.827
mph; Victory Margin, 0.119-second; Fast-
est Lap, Toba, 1:48.803, 95.070 mph, Lap
4, New Record.
MOTO3 QUALIFYING (June 15): 1. Ro-
drigo, 1:48.450, 95.380 mph; 2. Ogura,
1:48.471; 3. Arbolino, 1:48.764; 4. Su-
zuki, 1:48.782; 5. Canet, 1:48.796; 6.
Arenas, 1:48.809; 7. Lopez, 1:49.072; 8.
Masia, 1:49.079; 9. Dalla Porta, 1:49.300; - McPhee, 1:49.454.
MOTO3 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
POINT STANDINGS (After 7 of 19
rounds): 1. Canet, 103 points; 2. Dalla
Porta, 80 points; 3. Antonelli, 75 points; - Vietti, 68 points; 5. Masia, 65 points;
6. TIE, Arbolino/Toba, 51 points; 8.
Ramirez, 49 points; 9. McPhee, 47 points;
10. Migno, 40 points.
MOTOGP
NOTES
A Ray Of Light For Lorenzo?
Repsol Honda Team Boss
Alberto Puig stated at the start of
the weekend, “(The fact) that Jorge
is not adapting to the bike doesn't
mean that it's bad. What we can't
do is change the bike just because
one rider can't adapt to it, espe-
cially if Marc is winning."
But there was a ray of light.
This was Lorenzo’s most competi-
tive, albeit brief, showing for Hon-
da. A trip to Japan after Mugello
saw him work extensively with
HRC engineers on riding position.
A new fuel tank helped him in his
adaption to the unique braking
characteristics of Honda’s RC213V.
Until his brilliant fi rst lap at
Catalunya was undone by his lap
two crash, followed by a fast fall
during testing the next day.
Maverick Viñales did have a
point when he pondered the tim-
ing of Lorenzo’s attack, telling re-
porters, “You can overtake me on
the straight where we are slow.
You only need to wait four cor-
ners.” Considering that braking
and corner entry has been Loren-
zo’s weakness on the RC213V, you
do have to wonder why the move
had to come there. It was a dire
end to Lorenzo’s “most consistent
weekend of the year.”A Track Surface Nightmare
Michelin’s Piero Taramasso
explained away the rapid deterio-
ration in tire grip at the Circuit of
Barcelona. “The track is very dif-
ferent compared to last year,” he
said. “This year they complained
about some bumps, especially in
the last two corners. But the main
concern was the weather. We had
a lot of rain here on Wednesday
and on Thursday there was a big
storm here during the night. Some
sand was laid down. When it is dry
after the rain from the night be-
fore there is some humidity from
the sea and this generates very
low grip. With this sand you can’t
create grip and it’s very diffi cult
to see the difference between the
soft, medium, and hard.”Smith Takes Out His Teammate
Jorge Lorenzo wasn’t alone in
walking away from Turn 10 with
his head in hands. Aprilia test
rider Bradley Smith, wild-carding
for the weekend, suffered a sim-
ilar fate on the fi rst lap, tucking
the front and rear-ending Gresini
Aprilia teammate Aleix Espargaró,
whose left tibia was fractured.
Smith called it “The worst
of the worst-case scenarios. Ob-
viously you can imagine my sheer
panic when I realized I was going
to wipe out my teammate," Smith
added, "but there was just nowhere
to go. Heart broken for the end re-
sult and the fact Aleix is injured.”Crutchlow Rails
Against MichelinAfter photos taken during
the race at Mugello showed Cal
Crutchlow nursing a rear tire with
a chunk of tread rubber missing at
mid-race distance. Michelin used
the following week to assess the
tire, as well as tires run by Takaa-
ki Nakagami and Danilo Petrucci,
with serial numbers close to the
tire used by the Brit.
“It was not a safety issue,”
said Michelin’s Piero Taramasso.
“The structure stayed very strong.
We checked the tire and didn’t fi nd
anything strange. We analyzed the
tire from Nakagami because the se-
rial number was the one after Cal.
We didn’t fi nd anything strange so
technically we couldn’t say it was
coming from anything in particular.
It could be something that fell off
[another bike].”
But Crutchlow rejected that
claim. “I’d like to see anyone else
ride down the front straight 11 laps
in a row at 220 mph with a hole the
size of a mobile phone in my rear
tire. I didn’t hit anything on the
track, I can tell you that. This is
typical of them to deny everything.”Pedrosa Taming The Bull
Sunday was the fi rst time two
KTM MotoGP riders fi nished in the
top 10. The Red Bull KTM team
also hosted Dani Pedrosa, who
tested KTMs for two days in the
Czech Republic prior to this round
of the series.
Pedrosa was present through-
out the weekend in Montmeló to
prepare for Monday’s test, but it’s
believed his contract with KTM has
a clause stating that he does not
have to talk to the press at races.
But Pol Espargaró, who has
nicknamed the RC16 “The Bull,"
relayed Pedrosa’s assessments.
“He wasn’t happy with the fi rst
touch of throttle and because of
his weight and position on the
bike, he needs a very gentle bike—I
am a bit more aggressive—so they
were playing with it to get the bike
out of the corner a bit easier and
also turning, going into the corner
a bit easier. Like Turn 12 at Mugel-
lo is where everyone was overtak-
ing me because we were missing
this turning. That it where we are
(pin-)pointing the problems.”
Catalunya Briefs... Valenti-
no Rossi wanted changes to Turn
10 after the MotoGP pile-up...
The only riders younger than Fa-
bio Quartararo to earn a premier
class podium are Randy Mamola,
Eduardo Salatino, Norick Abe and
Marc Marquez... Maverick Viñales
topped Monday’s post-race test,
with Franco Morbidelli second...
Marcos Ramirez winning in Moto3
made it seven winners from the
fi rst seven races of the season,
which has only happened twice in
any GP class, in 1977 in the 250cc
class, and in 1988 in the 250cc
class... The record for 13 different
riders winning the last 13 Moto3
races goes back to October, 2018,
the longest stretch of variety in
GP history... KTM’s Moto2 project
suffered another torrid weekend,
and the factory plans to have a
completely new chassis for Brno...MotoGP celebrated the 70th anniversary of the Grand Prix World
Championships with a variety of special events, including riders pos-
ing in tuxedos on the grid in Spain. Photo by Milagro/DPPI Media.RWRoadracing World, August 2019—45