Valentino Rossi Lost Great Podium Chance on Austin MotoGP 2014

Unique photo podium by 26_DaniPedrosa

We already know who the one at the podium on the 2nd Round of MotoGP is for 2^nd time. Marc Marquez ^st podium, and his team mate Dani Pedrosa also strong enough to get the 2^nd place even he admit that he can’t do anything to Marc Marquez, he’s too fast and too strong (honesty is some good part that makes this sport is so interesting). To complete the podium we can see Andrea Dovizioso with Ducati Team on that place. He did very well in every corner and consistent enough, little bit surprising to saw him there as we know how the bike performance is but I think when the team decided to be Factory 2 make them can more have wide space to develop and improve the bike and the strong ride of Dovizioso made Stefan Bradl, Bradley Smith, Pol Espargaro and Iannone need to be happy at the 4^th, 5^th, 6^th and 7^th position.
the World Champion 2013 is totally strong starting from the first practice until Qualifying practice, so from the beginning we already knew who will get the 1

Some of us maybe feel very sad and wonder how come Valentino Rossi was so far and finished on the 8^th place behind the satellite team and open class team, as we knew  that during almost all practices since Friday worked very well for this 9^th times World Champion with his baby M1, and also when WUP happened in the morning before the race was going, we also can saw how comfortable he is with the bike, even he also talked about the tire condition yesterday, but in overall he’s so optimist about this 2^nd round of MotoGP 2014.

pic by motogp.com

When all riders already on the grid and the race was almost started, everybody shocked by the jumping start from Lorenzo, as we know sometimes this thing happened but for this time Jorge really too early to gas his bike, even Bradley Smith  said he had not even engaged 1^st gear (twitter @Birtymotogp), but Jorge Lorenzo received the penalty and made the race almost over for him, but then he’s trying to wake up from the mistake and didn’t do wrong things again, just like the one on Qatar where he didn’t get any point on that race, so he’s trying to improve his position and finally finished on the 10^th place and got his 1^st point for the first time on 2014 season. It’s really hard to understand about this but it could be happen for any Riders. It’s Human Error.

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The start of the race almost disturbed by Jorge Lorenzo’s incident and make riders concentration a bit bias, as Valentino Rossi had at the moment, so it make him a little bit on the wrong place to start but he’s trying to improve his position lap by lap and he almost reached the 3^rd place but too bad on laps 7, he lost the grip on the right side of front tire, and this tire problem made the bike 3 second slower and finally  destroyed all the ^nd podium of this season in Austin. This entire tire problem also happened to British rider Scott Redding, Iannone and some other riders. Valentino Rossi always talked detail if he found problems on the race, he’s thinking that he might need harder tire but as a matter of fact, Yamaha always have problems with hard tire so he’s always so humble to not only blame in one side, he realize that in the test he already know that there are some problem with the bike, so he and his engineering team will work and solve it out, so what’s the next move (with easy and smile he was saying) “Going to Argentina and have a nice weekend, I will use this week to analyze the data."
dream of this Italian rider to get the 2

Hohoho only Valentino Rossi can be such positive as that and he add “Now I’m the 3^rd on The World Champion Standing and we still have so many race in front to collect some  points, otherwise today was good because Romano got the 2^nd podium, the team is working hard.” Good father will able to born good children. No doubt, we love him as we never imagine!”

Six Yamaha Bikes in One Stage MOTOGP 2014

4^th January 2014 at 8pm, Yamaha did Press Conference with title "Yamaha Motorsports Press Conference 2014". This moment for me is more than only press conference, because in this event for the 1^st time we can meet up with all riders using Yamaha bike for 2014 season at one stage. And for sure as we know Yamaha bike is having a very good speed and now with total 6 Yamaha bikes on this championship will make this sport more lovable and entertaining to watch for.

First rider came to the stage is Jorge Lorenzo with hat and glasses, he was walking very confident to the stage and all media who are there gave a very big applause and he smiled and wove to all of us. The 2^nd name called by the MC with the words “the famous rider in the world ….. Valentino Rossi” with his wonderful smile, he’s walking slowly and turn his head around to the audience, just feel the big charisma of him hardly.

And the next are riders for Yamaha Tech 3,

Bradley Smith who’s already joins on this team from last year and now he has the new teammate Pol Espargaro, the Moto2 2013 World Champion. As we know, started from 2014, Yamaha have leasing agreement with their YZR-M1 with NGM Mobile Forward Racing team. Who make all MotoGP fans so excited with this team is because Collin “Texas Tornado” Edward will ride one of the 2 bikes on this team with team mate AleixEspargaro.

When we look to the rider composition of Yamaha for 2014, for sure all the names of the ridersisall the very good talent on this sport.

As we know Yamaha YZR-M1 is already a very good bike and now with some adjustment the bike must be even more perfect to ride. The baby “M1” (sometimes we called like that because Valentino Rossi really love this bike) have some improvement than 2013, the engineer make some changes for the ECU due to the New Rule from Dorna, make adjustment on the seamless gearbox and they called it more sophisticated Seamless Gearbox, and with it we’re really hope that they can make some improvementof speed in every corner of the track and make them to not losing more of time and make more gap with others.

After 3^rd day test, Valentino Rossi’s result seems more have his feeling with his M1 and he really had a good confident when we saw the way he ride the bike in every lap, and it means Yamaha’s engineersare doing great with some improvement they made. And with all the comments from the 6 riders after the 1^st test for sure the engineers will try again to have some solution to fix and make the bike more competitive.

Here are some of the quotes from Valentino Rossi with his baby M1 after finished the entire 3^rdday test :

“The test has been very good, I’m very happy, especially for the second position and more than that for the lap time which is the best of my career in Sepang. It’s the first time under 2’00 for me and just one tenth from Marc and the overall record of the track.”

“I found a good feeling with the bike, we found some good solutions and it’s been very positive,” he added. 

“We tried a simulation in the afternoon that was very good to understand any problems. We suffered a bit to keep a good pace but it wasn't so bad. For the first test the balance was good.”

And we also got surprise from AleixEspargaro constantly he got 7^th, 5^th and 4^th for the whole test and means that it’s really good progress for Yamaha bike.

Keep all the good work Yamaha; we all hope that we can see the 10^thon this year. It will be awesome if Valentino Rossi can make it this year. Because Valentino Rossi never stops trying and we’ll never stop believing in him.

Be one team is beginning, believing each other is process, find success together is result, become famous is bonus

Scott Redding with MotoGP 2014

It’s been a while I’m not writing here, and time goes by so fast, The New Season of MotoGP2014 have just started. Not the race yet only the winter test at SepangCircuit, but the sound of the bike is incredibly enough for all this sport  fans to  release the longing to this highly bike championship.

Things that make this 2014 been waiting for is because some of the blind prediction already comes and make us feel more excited about how this season will be going. Is Valentino Rossi will improve with the baby M1 and make 10th, or could be Marc Marquez more impressive with his bike and grab the thropy again, than not possible Jorge Lornezo will push hard his bike to take back the tittle that regardless, perhaps as well Dani Pedrosa, Aleix Espargaro or another new riders make a surprise. Interesting!!!

I have my luckiness again to come and watch live how the test was going, some of the best thing is where I can be one of guests who come the Yamaha Press Conference 2014 on 4 February 2014, the first time we can see the 6 bikes of Yamaha on one stage.

Beside that I have some very amazing1st experience on Sepang Circuit. 

For this time I would share my walking interview with the British young rider who just upgrade his class from Moto2 to MotoGP after a very great result on Moto2 class 2013. Not only because he’s so great on the race he also nice and very kind person with the fans. It was not my first time met and have some good conversation about bike, we met last year in Sepang and Motegi and all the time it been always a very lovable time to chat with him.

Scott Redding was born on January 4^th, last year on Moto2 he rode the bike very well but due to with his crashed and injured, he will not be able to be the World Champion, but however we need to give a 4 thumbs up for his fight spirit.

Under the hot weather of SepangCircuit around 15.14, I visited his paddock and we had some great time together talk about his new experience on MotoGP class, we’re walking around the paddock to continue the conversation.

Nicely he said that he was remember our meeting in Motegi and we chat a little bit about our condition and without wasting any more time, I directly asked about his new bike and what he feel with it also about the different between Moto2 and MotoGP bike.

He looks very enthusiastic and answered : “I’m pretty happy with the bike but I can’t push it hard at this moment because lots of thing I need to know better. Yes the bike is very different, on Moto2 we don’t need much to control only ride like we ride the bike but in MotoGP lots of needed to be understood as electronic and breaking. The hard thing is in the corner, very hard to follow to find a great balance because it’s very fast bike. But overall the bike is good but on this time maybe the “other bike” faster than us but I’m sure on the second test we will have some speed on our bike. I just love to be back for riding again and I feel so happy with this bike”; and than we need to end the walking interview with some photo of us. At that time no body around us, so Scott have an idea to took camera by our self, me hold the camera and Scott help push the button. Very fun between rider and ordinary fans.

Good attitude Scot Redding and we believe with your spirit and skill, by joining on this championship the race will be more entertaining. Young, Fast, Brave and Kind. Keep your smile for this sport and all the fans.