Misano, Gara2: finalmente Razgatlioglu, poi Rinaldi e Rea che mette una pezza!

Razgatlioglu Win

Se la superpole race è un’esecuzione, con Redding che fa il sorpasso del mese e sistema le cose in modo pericoloso ed efficace, andando a vincere la seconda, gara2, invece, è qualcosa di diverso.
Non vince Rinaldi, e ci può stare, ma ne porta finalmente a casa una Razgatlioglu, che come seconda forza del mondiale ha un disperato bisogno del gradino più alto.
Se lo guadagna di polso e di testa mentre Rinaldi soffre (nemmeno troppo) e Rea cerca di rattoppare un fine settimana che non è dei suoi. Eppure è qui che il sei volte campione fa capire come ha vinto tutti i suoi titoli. La costanza è tutto.
Per quanto riguarda il resto?
Benino la Honda (solo Bautista), meglio ancora Gerloff, che smette di sdraiarsi e sdraiare… e grandi prestazioni da parte dei nostri rookie maturi. Tutto nero, invece, in BMW e nell’altra metà del box Kawasaki.
Un discorso a parte lo merita Redding, che parla tanto ma alla fine subisce sempre. Cambia solo chi gliele dà.
Prendere nota: a Donington verrà proiettato un altro film.

Minicommentary of the race
At the start Rinaldi starts well but the mistake comes in two corners.
Rea is ahead even though on the straights the Ducati is overpowering.
What Rea gains in the mixed, the Italian gains on the long ones.
With 18 to go Rea yields to Razgatlioglu and the fight with the defending champion makes allows the escape of Rinaldi, in front, as well as the return of Redding who tries to join the trio.
With minus 14 to the float Razgatlioglu comes in and thinks about the win while Rinaldi looks to be joined by Davies.
Razgatlioglu, Rinaldi, Rea, Redding, Gerloff, Lowes, Bassani, Bautista, Locatelli, with Van Der Mark rounding out the ten!

Report cards
Razgatlioglu
Finally wins one. Doesn't waste and understands how and when to try. Perfect race.
Rated 9.5

Rinaldi
Sunday is not always Sunday either. He can still say he is satisfied.
The fact remains that by managing better he would have won this one as well.
But that's okay too.
Rated 9

Rea
He puts another patch on it and still it's a better third place than the other two of theend, because at least he fights a little bit.
The truth is that after realizing that this is not his weekend, he does what a world champion has to do.
Rated 8.5

Redding
It's not clear what there is to celebrate. He takes 9 seconds and at moments has to handle Gerloff as well. Plus he complains about meaningless things like weight. His problems are other, like that he too often takes slaps. It just changes who gives them to him.
Rated 6.5

Gerloff
It doesn't look like one of those fine races he has accustomed us to, instead his is a proba of maturity and intelligence, after the surely unnecessary zeros of previous rounds.
Rated 7

Lowes
Increasingly anonymous. Distant and anonymous.
Rated 6.5

Bassani
Best Rookie and Best Independent. OK he's home, however, there's cause for celebration. Without getting big-headed...but it's a top race.
Rated 8

Bautista
He gets a full sufficiency because with him Honda is already much better than BMW. As Haslam slumps, he grows. Slowly, but he grows.
Rated 7

Locatelli
Another good race by Locatelli. Quiet, few fumbles, well assisted.
Rated 7.5

Van der Mark
Needless to rage. A very good bike mismanaged and poorly developed.
Rated 5

Brembo also goes up on Kawasaki Superbike

A molti potrà non dire granché ma JJuan, per i più attenti, compare sulle tute e sulle moto delle Kawasaki di Rea e Lowes, nel mondiale Superbike.

(Teleborsa) – Brembo ha siglato un accordo per l’acquisizione del Gruppo J.Juan, azienda spagnola fondata nel 1965 ed attiva nello sviluppo e nella produzione di sistemi frenanti per motociclette. L’azienda ha sede a Gavà (Barcellona) e opera con tre stabilimenti in Spagna e uno in Cina che producono in particolare tubi freno, componente strategico per la sicurezza dell’impianto frenante e che integrerà l’attuale gamma di prodotti Brembo per le due ruote.

Il corrispettivo della transazione è attualmente stimato a 70 milioni di euro, che sarà pagato utilizzando la liquidità disponibile ed è soggetto agli usuali meccanismi di aggiustamento previsti per operazioni simili. Il valore della transazione (enterprise value) è pari a 73 milioni di Euro.

Con l’operazione, Brembo prosegue il proprio percorso per diventare un autorevole Solution provider. L’acquisizione di J.Juan permetterà infatti al Gruppo di completare l’offerta di soluzioni per l’impianto frenante della moto e di ampliare la propria famiglia di brand per un settore in espansione.

“Questa operazione è in linea con la nostra strategia globale e segue la recente acquisizione di SBS Friction in Danimarca. Continuiamo a
investire con l’obiettivo di consolidare il core business della moto. L’ingresso di J.Juan è per noi una grande opportunità, perché rafforza il nostro posizionamento di azienda sempre più orientata a proporre ai clienti soluzioni complete, integrate e di qualità”, spiega il Presidente Alberto Bombassei.

L’acquisizione è soggetta all’approvazione delle autorità antitrust, al seguito della quale avverrà il perfezionamento dell’operazione, atteso nella seconda metà del 2021.

La fonte qui

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