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The 2019 MotoGP season will be a year of growing
pains for Johann Zarco, who's moved to the Factory Red Bull KTM Team. (Image
source: motogp.com)
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As Have Y'all Seen 'em Ultimate Kneedraggers BeIN' Heroes
on thou Telie' lately?
ARSE-Sumedly lost in All of the Noise over
IndyCar kicking off its 2019 season at St Pete, now Just over six weeks ago.
Did anybody See the world's Baddest Tarmac Kneedraggers on the Planet commencing
Thar season in Qatar underneath thou Floodlights of the Losail International
Circuit...
Oh Wait Ah My-nute', Gee Wally; err Mark
Miles! That's right, I forgot that MotoGP Pioneered the move to Cable TV
Networks that NOBODY's got Access To! BeIN' Fans, BeIN' Sports, BeIN'
Invisible, Bake Me a Patty Cake BeIN" sports Baker-man...
Which is probably
why my vaunted MotoGP Preview stories get shorter 'N shorter each year, el
Correctomundo, Ci?
Uhm,
Ergo, BeIN' Sports and thou nebulous 404 Error code Access Denied NBC Sports Gold
Pass" Pay Wall - Which is absolutely 100% Hunky Dorey with Mwah! Since I
haven't needed to get up at Oh DARK 30' for Scooters' races for a few years
now. And now Don't bother trying to catch Indy Cars Practice and Qualie' either;
But I Digress...
And did we learn anything from MotoGP's
Winter Testing? Or did that Squirrely Spaniard Marc Marquez just win again in
Thee Lone Star state? While can Anybody stop his continuing Dominance? as I'm
absolutely hoping somebody, nee DOVI', aka Andrea Dovizioso can snap his
Championship Winning Streak!
And how will Honda's Ace Satellite Rider Stack Up
vs. Marquez? Or is that even a fair comparison? Since after all, Marquez's
team-mate this season is Two-times MotoGP World Champion Jorge Lorenzo, albeit both
Riders were recovering from Pre-season injuries...
As the Biggest early season news was the Competing
manufacturers filing a protest against Ducati and it's cleverly adapted to the
rules "Aero Fairing" rear Swing Arm, for which as far as I know, the
Italian Motor Scooter' concern prevailed in the multiple Court Hearings.
And instead of trying to chronicle every
single Stinkin' Rider 'N Team Change for 2019, especially since the only
Factory Team who's Rider lineup stayed intact was the newly re-christened
Monster Yamaha Squad with thee Doctor', nee Valentino Rossi and Maverick
"top gun" Vinales. Per Tipicali, I'll leave it to thou Professionals
to do the Heavy lifting.
Yet ultimately, it appears not too much has
changed at the Pointy End of the Grid. With Dovizioso narrowly defeating Marquez by a scant
0.023 seconds in Qatar. Followed by Crutchlow on the Podium's final step.
As the Brit' just edged out Suzuki's Alex Rins for fourth,
with Ducati Corse's other Rider Danilo Petrucci (P6) being la Salami in thoust middle of a
Monster Yamaha Submarine Sandwich; Momma
Mia!
With
Thee Doctor' (Rossi) carving his way atop Danilo to finish fifth. and Vale's younger
Works Yamahopper' team-Mate Vinales being on the bottom in P7.
With Suzuki's Spanish Rookie Joan Mir, Japanese
Rookie Takaaki
Nakagami riding for LCR Honda and Aleix Espargaro on the Factory Aprilia
rounding out the Top-10 respectively.
Then next at Argentina's Autodromo Termas de Rio Hondo circuit, naturally
Marquez put a Good 'Ol Fashioned Beat-down upon the entire MotoGP Grid! Leading
Wire-to-Wire and never being challenged. While Thee Doctor' on the premise of
his good qualifying result, finished a distant Runner-up to his Arch-rival,
with Valentino's fellow Countryman Dovizioso completing the podium.
But the Biggest Questione was could Anybody
Stop the Marquez Freightrain at COTA, nee Circuit Of The Americas this year? Where
the Spaniard was currently unbeaten in every single race in Austin, Texas,
having won All six races. (2013-2018) And HELL! Even more remarkable having never
lost a race in the States, be it at Laguna Seca, COTA or Indianapolis!
Yet having been on my own virtual
rollercoaster, Zigzagging Up 'N Down thou Oregonian Coast, I simply had to
await reading the Post Mortem upon my return to Soggy, sodden Florence,
currently Deluged by an unseasonly late Pineapple Express...