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!”

Pieces Puzzle of MotoGP 2013 Almost Complete

Before Misano finally we know officially that's Ben Spies the rider from Yamaha Factory Team 2011 & 2012 will switch to Pramac Ducati Team which mean we can call it Satellite team. And the youngs rider will accompanying him for next year is the Italian Moto2 rider who very close with the nine times World Championship Valentino Rossi and he is Andrea Iannone.

For me I'm understand when Iannone move to satellite Ducati , it means for him he up class but I still wonder when Spies very brave to take offer from Ducati satellite, although that team said they both will get the same engine and specification with Nicky Hayden and Andrea Dovizioso on Ducati Factory Team. But with very difficult we can saw from Valentino Rossi for almost two seasons and also the hard to ride from other riders of that bike, is really very brave decision take by the American Ben Spies. Really looking forward to see him for next year. Maybe with what Valentino Rossi and the Ducati team did for the last two year and the join of Audi to this bike would be nice to see them improve and doing some battle with the other bike. Will be very very interesting to watch.

So with the rule one brand of bike only can bring 2 bikes for factory team and two bikes for satellite team, means we just need to wait Gresini Honda Team. This year they only have one rider from Spain is Alvaro Bautista, who on this year not so brilliant like before he did with Suzuki bike. But he still have a chance to get the seat but so many rumor said the Gresini Team seat will be offer to Scott Redding and Jonathan Rea rider who replace Stoner when he in recovery after his big crashed. But we still don't know yet until official announcement will come out. At least we need to watch first what Rea will bring from his first ride with Factory Honda bike on Misano race. And I hope he will goes well because he rides the best bike on this season. Let's wait and see.

When Gresini team announce his rider for next year it will make force some good riders to find another solution for next year. After notable seat for Factory and satellite the choice for them only CRT bike or move to Moto2 class. And it’s really not good at all. When we look good rider can't get a good bike to ride on this championship. The Organizer need to think fast for this problem and make this Championship safe and interesting to we watch.

And Just got confirmation from @birtymotogp timeline that's Karel Abraham will ride on MotoGP class with ApAprilia ART bike in CRT with Cardion AB Team. And for Hector Barbera, he still on some talks with various CRT bikes. Alvaro Bautista too already thinks to ride on CRT if he doesn’t get the satellite seat.

So for a while here the puzzle already done for MotoGP 2013 :

Factory Team:

- Honda: Dani Pedrosa and Marc Marquez

- Yamaha: Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo

- Ducati: Nicky Hayden and Andrea Divizioso

Satellite team:

- Yamaha: Cal Cruthlow and Bradley Smith 

- Ducati: Ben Spies and Andrea Iannone

- LCR: Stefan Bradl

And for CRT, honestly I really don't know who the riders will ride there, only the one I'm sure is Colin Edwards with NGM Forward and Karel Abraham

Hope the grid not too short for next year and hope the gap between bike to other bike not too far also. We need the old MotoGP back with the great Free Practice, Qualifying and also great Race. We love this sport a lot.

By the way I would like to say thanks to the great MotoGP writer I ever know, who very nicely to reply my question to their official account @birtymotogp and @motomatters , you help me to understand more about this sport and it's so brilliant. Thank you very much.