Misano, Gara1: Rinaldi davanti a Razgagtlioglu e Rea. Assaggiate un po’ ‘sto crescione Romagnolo!

Rinaldi Misano

Misano race 1 is boring. We don't make fun of ourselves.
Unless, as fans we enjoy the success of an Italian on an Italian bike on an "Italian" track, branded San Marino.
From this point of view it is a huge success and above all it interrupts an all-green bulimic period.
Yet Superbike still offers too many shadows. They are those of second guides that practically do not exist, BMW in black crisis, and Honda doing, at least one, but only one, what they can.
The positive notes? The Italian rookies-those are there.
But in the home race they don't count. Only we enjoy them all the same.

Micro chronicle.
At the start Rinaldi immediately insists on Rea and forces his hand.
He takes a risk but it suits him and he stays in the lead.
Behind him, precisely Rea, Redding and Razgatlioglu who does less than it seems.
The race flows smoothly. Rinaldi holds a couple of tenths of a second lead but very little happens behind him.
Rea, Razgatlioglu, Redding, Lowes, Davies, Bautista, Bassani and Locatelli rounding out the ten. The rest are really all very far away, especially the BMW, Honda and Yamaha second leaders.
With 12 to go Rea makes a mistake and loses the race while still standing. It doesn't go as well for Davies a couple of laps later, out while seventh behind Sykes.
With five to go Rinaldi is firmly in the lead ahead of the "usual" chasers while the exemplary race of Bassani and Locatelli, comfortably in the top ten, is noted.
After dominating in the qualifying sessions, superpole excluded, the Ducati Dolphin brings home the first victory in the race where most is expected of him.
Rinaldi, Razgatlioglu, Rea, Redding, Lowes, Bautista, Bassani, Sykes, Locatelli and Van Der Mark round out the ten!

 

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Rinaldi
Taste sto crescione-it's Romagnolo.
This must have been what Rinaldi said on the occasion of his much premature as well as guessed entry on Rea at Turn 1 of Lap 1.
Yet the race was decided there. Then it was almost like filling out a form. Rea gives him a gift he may not need.
Rated 9.5

Razgatlioglu
Went on pilgrimage to Tavullia but evidently did not drink the water. Never of the match, he takes, he does, a gift from Rea.
Otherwise he would "simply" be third.
Rated 8.5

Rea
He can't even fall when he "doesn't have any." World championships are won by predestined riders. And cutting your losses when you can't do any better is the best way to bring home titles.
Rated 8

Redding
He is not the first Ducati rider in Misano. That seems obvious.
But every time for a different reason, Redding finds a way not to win the championship.
Rated 6

Lowes
There is clearly a magnet keeping him behind Rea no matter what happens to him. Lowes, however, comes next.
Rated 6

Bautista
Honda is as good as Haslam. Bautista puts a lot of his own into it. And today he doesn't even lay down.
Rated 7.5

Bassani
Nice round grade to a driver/team package that amazes every time. OK, we're playing at home here, but it's race is truly one to remember.
Rated 8

Sykes
Every race is a session at the psychologist for Sykes. Despite running out of tires, no one does better than him on the German.
But wasn't it supposed to be the bike to beat?
Rated 6.5

Locatelli
Also good. Better than many others from whom one would expect more. Yet there is room for growth.
Rated 7

Van der Mark
The assumptions were other. And the statements, intentions, and friendly press also had other expectations. Dry Piadina
Rated 5

Superbike, Estoril: all for Rea. Ducati self-defeating, Yamaha asleep!

Rea Estoril Win

The second day of the Estoril race sees staged replica
of the Ducati humiliation that occurred in MotoGp, with the aggravating factor that it starts earlier, it's double and it affects a bit of everyone other than Rea.

Indeed, at a track favorable to the Reds, the gifts to the opponents began as early as the superpole race, won by Rea, ahead of Razgatlioglu, Redding, Gerloff, Rinaldi, Lowes, Sykes, Laverty and Davies. And when you're working hard to get your opponent on the podium step every time, it's hard to play something big then.

Ma tutto questo è niente rispetto a quanto capitato in gara2, iniziata con l’aggressività incerta di Rinaldi, che a momenti mette out Gerloff, e proseguita con l’incertezza dell’Italiano di non andarsene, terminata con un errore dello stesso americano che ha messo poi fuori il romagnolo su Ducati.
Il resto sono stati solo errori, sprechi e colpi a vuoto che hanno consentito al nord irlandese, negativo l’anno scorso su questa pista, di portare a casa un’altra doppietta

Rea, Davies, Razgatlioglu, Lowes, Locatelli, Van Der Mark, Bautista, Sykes, Laverty, and Rabat round out the ten.

The chronicle of the race is also useless here, because what speaks for itself is the top ten at the finish.
The Ducati begin to trash another world championship and bring home a positive result only with Davies, who, however, one must be honest, has the only virtue in always believing in it. It is not enough to make up for the leftovers of those who fall in front of him or the predestined who do not materialize.
Yamaha themselves are black belts of waste. Razgatlioglu never brings home what he should while Gerloff always appears too aggressive.
But for that matter, there is no laughing matter at BMW either, where Van Der Mark is not playing anything serious and where Sykes has to scramble for the very private Laverty.
And Honda? As in MotoGP it lives a drama, as Bautista struggles against the windmills of bad qualifying and gearbox problems, and 75% of the time he lays down to make those comebacks that, as a professional, he demands of himself. Haslam is there punching the clock. Have you seen him in the race, you?

It really is a bad Superbike, which only intellectual dishonesty or partisan interests can get away with calling spectacular.
The screw-ups are the stuff of Paperissima and clip shows, not something to enjoy.
Professionals, on the track and at the wall, there are few, and only one is a full package.

Report cards

Rea
Already he is strong, consistent, and always a step above.
Give him gifts, too, when he's not at the top, and it goes the way of the last six years.
Rated 10

Davies
He always believes, and always tries.
Who knows if he still believes he has a package that is in any way comparable to the official one, and that he can really play something apart from doing better than Redding, the only striking achievement apparently within his reach.
Rated 8.5

Razgatlioglu
Wasteful Turk. Spectacular, impetuous, aggressive, yet so frothy in the reckoning. He places, he contends, but today he should have won. Instead he throws it all away with a jump start.
Rated 7.5

Lowes
Every time his job is to make everyone understand that the Kawasaki doesn't ride itself and is worth as much as he is, not as much as his partner is worth.
Rated 6.5

Locatelli
I was ready to criticize that, okay, get the bike to the top ten finish line, but you need a progression.
Here I am being served. To Locatelli only applause.
Rated 8.5

Van Der Mark
The world proclamations attributed to BMW at the beginning of the season usually make people laugh after four to five races. This year they started making people laugh as early as Aragon.
Rated 6

Bautista
This thing of starting almost last and finishing well is exciting but it risks wearing the rider down.
When you see what he tries to squeeze out of the turnip that is Honda, you realize how much he could have squeezed out of a Ducati had he been given another chance. Much to the chagrin of the rosy desmo and the loudmouth Redding, who eleven wins in a row will never see it.
Rated 7.5

Sykes
He should be doing better than his teammate, but instead the BMW paucity is engulfing him as well.
Rating 5.5

Laverty
With the most private BMW of the lot, the Irishman is waking up and starting to show some talent.
Rated 6.5

Rabat
Pretty sad to see him like this. But it's not like the Ducati trend is that much better. Let's wait.
Rated 6

Aragon, Gara2: Redding di coraggio e di fortuna, davanti a Rea. Pirelli? Oro nero!

Redding

Ad Aragon per gara2, Redding vince di palle e di fondoschiena, grazie ad una scelta di gomme contraria alle direttive del team (i gesti al traguardo sono eloquenti) e ad una spallata di Gerloff che cambia la giornata di Jonathan Rea.
L’irlandese è tanto predestinato che non cade nemmeno così, e poi va a prendersi un secondo posto che vale una vittoria.
Lo stesso discorso si può fare per Gerloff, unico a mostrare talento e uno dei pochi da promuovere nonostante l’erroraccio che ha cambiato la faccia di gara2. Tolti lui, Rea e il fortunato e palluto Redding, si può salvare ben poco di questa gioranata.

Improved BMW, which insist but do not "consist," and vanished Yamaha (except Gerloff), there is not much else.

But the real havoc is at Ducati.
Redding gestures to the engineers for the second time in two races, and that means there is no trust between rider and team.
The bad part is that he is right. Because Rinaldi is taken out with rain and made to re-enter after one lap, and Davies before doing the same also manages to go on the ground.
If you say that in Bologna they can only win by luck, you are being mean but you are not going so far from reality. Impossible to deny the flashes of amateurism.

Perhaps on second thought there is a total winner: it's called Pirelli.
The tires are all good, even the ignored intermediates. And no one on the track can be said to be belittled except in cases of wicked choice.
Such a tire maker is black gold and should be carried in triumph.

Minicronaca della gara
Partono in gara2 e ci sono ancora una vota rider che montano gomme che segnalano già di voler cambiare. Follia.
Davies subito out con una rain… inspiegabile la scelta.
Con poco meno 16 giri da fare Gerloff fa un errore che lo manda in terra e punisce anche Rea che rimane in piedi ma perde la leadership.
A meno 13 VDMark è in testa seguito da Redding e Razgatlioglu, poi Lowes, Rea, Sykes e Bautista…
E a meno 10 le cose si mettono ancora meglio per Redding perché dopo aver preso la testa della corsa, inizia a mettere anche metri.
Nel marasma Rea con gomma intermedia  è meglio di tutti, per lo meno di quelli alla sua portata, e la sua gara ha spazio anche per del cinema di traiettorie e ragazzate.
Le BMW rimangono nella media con il solo Sykes a sognare un podio che però non vedranno. Honda conclude il week end lasciando Bautista, a mezzo giro dalla fine, senza benzina e senza top ten. Anche questo simboleggia la debacle della casa dell’ala.
Redding, Rea, Lowes, Sykes, VdMark, Razgatlioglu, Gerloff, Folger, Locatelli, Mahias.

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Redding
Courage, chutzpah, and luck. He puts it all in and is rightly proud of it. Right the outburst, but with the team two talks must do it.
Rated 10

Rea
The fact that he is the predestined is seen when he does not go to the ground even after Gerloff enters. He does all the rest.
Of the rest, he is always there, while the luck of others, almost never.
Rated 9.5

Lowes
The truth is that he would not get ahead of Rea even if Rea did not race. Yet he is strong. He almost seems to be in the world to make everyone understand Rea's value.
Rated 8.5

Sykes
BMW needs to light him a giant candle. Or a frankfurter, his choice. It's a shame to see him suffer on a bike not up to his standards.
Rated 8

VdMark
E’ un altro talento che però non ha la sensibilità che servirebbe per capire che certe cose, alla moto che ha, ancora non le può chiedere.
Voto 7,5

Razgatlioglu
To many, he is the anti Rea. Yet he looks like a shadow of the fury he was in last season's outings. He needs to shake it off.
Rated 6

Gerloff
For the race he deserves an 8.5, but the very costly vaccination combined at the start must be reversed. Rea, who is smart and recognizes his talent, forgives him. He understands, and apologizes.
Rated 6.5

Folger
Result remedied by final confusion. But not much more so far.
Rating 5

Locatelli
Another top ten. Applause for him. Soft applause, because he is still on probation....
Rated 7.5

Mahias
He is a tradesman and brings out the best in a situation that is new to him. There is a good chance he can show something good.
Rated 7

Supebike, Aragon race1: Stellar Rea against cosmic nothingness!

rea 100

Other than the laps removed by regulation. The Kawasaki should be taken out of gear.
With the aggravation that it's not even Rea alone anymore who's doing the heavy lifting but also Lowes, who when he's not messing around is strong for real. Although we all know that he is not consistent.

Behind them, cosmic nothingness with flashes of blue. That's what we're likely to see all season if the Ducati, inadequate today even with Davies, don't give themselves an absolute wake-up call. So many bikes on the track, and some even with the illusion of being official, are not needed.
It is not the greens that need to be downsized but it is the pack that needs to be shaken up.
Of the bad things in race1 we see a lot more.
There are the BMW that are only holding on (gasping) with Sykes, because the others are just starring in a horror movie. As soon as the Briton loses his patience, we will see some good things.
Japanese horror, on the other hand, for Honda. Qualifying is no use if you are inconsistent and inconclusive in the race.

Much applause at the triple-digit victory for the nord Irishman,who double Bayliss and Fogarty who, however, were battling on other scenarios, with other opponents and other packages.

Rea is yes a space pilot, but he is confronted with cosmic nothingness. Between satellites with very slow orbits and debris like the kind we now have littering space around the earth with, winning so much is a decidedly more possible feat.
Give them opponents, not accomplices to quota 100 from a pension perspective.
And thank you for castrating Superbike with the shears of regulatory and format choices that are as stupid as they come.

Microchronicle of the race
Those who had a good time mean that they help themselves to products, and it is time for them to explain which ones.
The race does not exist. Kawasakis fly and only Razgaglioglu offers the feeling that there is some war.
Never protagonists are the Ducati and everyone else, but at least the reds exist. The rest are unaccounted for.
You want the record, then: Rea leaves and on the last lap Lowes and Razgatlioglu battle a little bit. That's really all there is to it.
Rea makes 100 ahead of Lowes, Razgatlioglu, Redding, Davies, Sykes, Rinaldi, Haslam, Gerloff, Locatelli to close out the 10

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Rea
Ungovernable. Strong with the weak and ends up here with victory n100.
Rated 10

Lowes
Concrete one-off. With the best bike. Other story over, pe today.
Rated 9

Razgatlioglu
The Turk is there and he is strong. Yamaha is also the n2 power.
Rated 8.5

Redding
The bombshell of the lineup with what should be the title contender. And he doesn't appear to be.
Rated 7

Davies
All those predicted soffisfactions for him do not come even on the track where he should be strongest of all.
Hard to think, while hoping for it, that the rest of the season will be one of leading ones.His is a negatively unattractive result.
Rated 6

Sykes
One man on an inadequate bike run by a team that seems even more inadequate. Can only hope in sprint races.
Rated 6.5.

Rinaldi
He replaced Davies. Make that we are still on our first outing and cannot be judged negatively.
Rated 6

Haslam
I'm in the three, he had said. It didn't go. But at least he finished on his feet.
Rated 6

Locatelli
Here's the good thing. Top ten debut on a bike that is not the very latest. A note of blue dressed in blue.
Rated 8

The futility of agitating for tests!

What is the reason we get excited about pre-season testing, MotoGP or Superbike that is?
No well-founded reason, other than that craving for news and clicks post-fasting, in which one is mad to make situations out of news, if not, unfortunately, inventing them in the first place... and news.
Eventually the tests come and you have to get excited. It serves the wallet. And it obviously finds fertile ground in the phytos.
But believe me, though, with all the variables there is little to get excited about.
But let's see them, the variables.

Temperature
It is difficult to test at a track with the same temperature in which you will run when the time set by the calendar comes.
It does not change much, you will say. Wrong.
At tracks like Jerez, coincidentally a habitual testing destination, a few hours make a difference. In the sameend pilots with pole have then bitten the dust. And we're talking hours. Imagine when we're talking months. Jerez is a striking example, but things change little in the rest of the cases as well.

Presence
If someone is missing in a test session, how do you concretely measure the value of who is there?
But then imagine you were an official house (it's different for individuals). Which tests would you skip? The ones you need or the ones where you go fast?
So it is easy to assume that those who are not there are because MEDIALLY, net of economic hardship, they do not need them. And so those who are there have little to ruffle feathers.

Configurations and stuff to test
Everyone in the test has his own schedule. That means he is building. If someone is building, they are obviously not doing speed tests or time research. So time doesn't count.
At least not to those who are watching and don't know what's going on.

Time that isn't there
How many times have you read about phantasmagoric times, just in case, without stopwatches or transponders? There are a couple of sites that specialize in this kind of news.
A team that has the time, do you really think they are hiding it?
Do you really think the level of secrecy of information is military?
Those who run without transponders and without chrono are because they are not valuing it. No one in their right mind would give up taking and storing references when they are good.

Miscellaneous
Are the items listed above enough for you?
There are others. Pilots not yet in place, material not yet fully arrived, ergonomics, configurations still being studied, and a whole host of elements that makes it possible to classify test results mostly as useless.
But how useless? Are the useless tests being done?

The truth is that to know if someone has found something, you need to be informed about what they were looking for.
And so the tests are useful, but only to those who do them (pilots, insiders, etc.) They are not useful to those who stand there watching them trying to figure something out.

In fact, if we must say so, they serve the people who tell them, to make fans dream, sponsors lick their whiskers, and a whole series of fuffy activities that in reality have little content for the most part. But they do serve for clicks.

Ed è per questo che spesso questi test opachi, vuoti e poco comunicativi, hanno bisogno di un aiutino. Un record che non c’è stato, un tempo mai fatto, e in casi di professionalità inesistente, anche di piloti che hanno fatto il tempo senza essersi presentati, come nel caso di Bautista a Portimao con la Honda SUperbike un paio di anni fa.
Al suo posto girava Aegerther perché il buon Alvaro era giustamente con la moglie mentre gli nasceva la prima figlia.
Questo non ha però fermato qualcuno da dare la notizia di un record completamente inventato.

Not to mention a well-known German house that every year in the pre-season stage seems to be able to impress but then is more and more miserably far from the results that count.
There the problem is different. Editorial creativity is about earning a few banners or some form of goodwill.
In short, those who do the tests and those who tell the public what they want to hear gain with the tests. Those who read, on the other hand, continue to stay, confused and happy.

MIsterhelmet Gianluigi Ragno