The big qualifying surprises are Rins and Diogo Moreira through to Q2. One rider who has never seen a resurgence after his tib fib break and being saddled on the Yamaha, and the other a GP class rookie. Kudos to Moreira for being pretty consistent and clearly more deserving of the seat than Somkiat Chantra.
Bez secured pole position with Raul Fernandez in second, Martin from third, a newly returned Marc Marquez in fourth, Aldeguer 5th, Bagnaia a relatively high 6th, and Digiantonnio down in 7th.
At the start of the sprint the #93 Marquez nailed the launch and briefly held first place into turn one. However, he gets beat up swinging through the next few turns and is pushed all the way back to 4th. Bez is swallowed up and now has to fight through the pack. Fernandez secured the front running position and immediately begins opening a gap. Jorge Martin sits in second and experiences no pressure from those back of him.
Digi also has a good start and briefly engages with Marquez before passing him and attempting to run down Martin.
Bez quickly works his way from 7th back to 4th but then lacks the pace to close on Digi.
In the latter stages it looks as if Martin may be able to get Fernandez but fading front grip leads him to settle for second.
Raul Fernandez takes the sprint victory, Martin second, Digi 3rd, Bez a disappointing 4th at his home sprint, and Marc a respectable 5th given that he was two weeks out from surgery on his right foot and right arm.
At the start of the race Bez isn't caught asleep and leads the way through lap one with Martin close behind. Raul Fernandez completely blew turn one and threw away any hope of a double podium weekend. Marquez and Bagnaia are in 3-4 and Digiantonnio is swallowed up by the pack after a poor start. Acosta gets away well and is 6th behind Fermin Aldeguer.
Acosta begins moving up through the field and quickly passes Aldeguer; Jorge makes a turn one mistake trying to take first position from Bez and runs wide, being pushed behind Bagnaia and ahead of Marquez. In the next lap Bagnaia's hot early pace and familiarity with Mugello let him overtake Bez successfully and begin leading the race.
Marquez, meanwhile, is under assault from Acosta, a man still desperate for his first MotoGP race win. The race up front settles as 37 and 93 go toe to toe. Acosta gets Marc after a few laps which lets Aldeguer slide past as well, but the wily old man on the paddock sets up for the double draft down the main straight. He hauls past the both of them and gets the bike slowed in time to keep P4 for a while longer. Aldeguer and Acosta tangling are a big help to Marc in front and Ai Ogura closing behind. Aldeguer overcooks a turn and Acosta passes for P5.
At the same time Bagnaia's pace up front is beginning to fade. Bez closes down on the race leader at lap 13 and attempts, but does not succeed, in passing the #63. The next lap, though, and he nails the T1 move from the draft into the braking zone.
Ai Ogura overtakes Fermin Aldeguer and showcases his race pace (if only he could qualify) to take 6th. Acosta and Marquez up ahead are still fighting for position and trading passes back and forth.
Jorge Martin eases by Bagnaia with 7 laps to go as the Ducati rider looks to be suffering.
Ai Ogura then takes Marquez and Acosta with Digi, of all riders, making his return from the back of the field. Digi overtakes Marquez, then Acosta with four to go to rub salt in the 37's wounds.
The gap to Bagnaia is closing quickly for Ai Ogura, but he is one lap short of a sure move to make an all Aprilia podium.
Simply the Bez in 1st, Jorge Martin a comfortable 2nd, and Bagnaia 3rd place with his best race result of the season.
Bez puts more points on Martin, but not a comfortable margin, Digi and Acosta battle for 3rd-4th in the standings.
If Marquez recovers quickly he may secure third in the championship, but with a third of the season over I can't see him repeating his title this year.
Good for the sport; less aero shenanigans and ride height device elimination should put more emphasis on rider ability.
More importantly is the rules change is significant enough it essentially resets the technology development field. The 1000cc era has gone for over a decade.
I was astonished at the ending of Euphoria. Not necessarily the actual plot, which I was largely able to predict, but that the almost-inevitable-in-2026 anti-Christianity shoe never dropped. Kept waiting for it(since the episode always seemed to have another 10 minutes) and it just never materialized. I don't know if I can read into that positively in a cultural sense, but at least it isn't negative.
I wish PRS got a cease and desist to...cease not making the nebula SS so I can buy one instead of having to choose between it and my son's first car.
In defense of Ferrari, the only defense possible is that this might be a compliance vehicle, not really intended for sale, but to satisfy European regulators, and in any event, Porsche made a better looking and likely better performing ev, just don’t ask about resale…
And why does Lewis Hamilton even HAVE a foundation? Why can't he just thank whatever higher power he believes in for his great good fortune at being paid millions to drive a race car and SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Good question because they haven’t been able to sell a single one without at least $15k + on the hood. Before the incentive went away you could lease them for well under $200/mo. I don’t expect that that has changed too much today.
Maybe they are trying to show the Stellantis bosses that there is no business case when they move all of 200 of them in 2027 and they are just trying to get it canceled?
0-“ It is important to remember that we increasingly occupy a world where display of the brand is more important than any particular virtue of said brand.”
I see you have been paying attention to Paul Graham.
1-“By any measure one could reasonably conjure, the new Luce is not a good product.”
I have a measure for you: If Ferrari can sell every single one they produce at full MSRP, an MSRP that will price the vehicle at ~10X a quotidian quasi-competitor, then the Luce will not be a merely good product. It will, demonstrably, be an extraordinarily, staggeringly good product.
And we all know that Ferrari will sell all of them with ease. Even if the peanut gallery whines about it.
2-BusinessF1 reported the Williams stuff years ago; Joe Saward also confirmed years ago the ultimate ownership of the team, which is certainly the case: I used to work with a guy who later worked at Dorilton, and he told me himself who actually owns the team.
Everyone knows it's the gateway vehicle to get a real Ferrari while satisfying whatever EU EV sales quota they have. It's a win win for Ferrari and the shareholders. Not so much for the rich schmuck who has to pay $640K to get on the list to buy what he really wants.
I do admire your commitment to the market schtick; I’m sure the Sacklers could have sold at msrp any amount of Oxy 80’s they produced, but I’ll go out on a limb with this one and saw that “fragile feelings” got the better of that argument
0: Yes, he has. Hopefully because he also recognizes it's the most interesting article PG's written in a few years. I didn't know you were a fellow techbro, Sherman!
OTCountingChickensBeforeTheyHatchTalk: I've (finally) got my foot in the door at two job opportunities.
0) Chauffeur for a small locally owned livery company, mostly shuttling people to airports in big black sedans who don't wanna Uber or whatever. Part-time, could become full-time but they offer zero benefits (non negotiable). Chill vibes from the company...seems like it would be a simple, low-ish stress gig but not a huge money maker. No health insurance is a real turn off.
1) Delivery driver for one of the big shipping companies, doing the whole drive-truck-drop-stuff-on-doorstep thing. Full-time, so definitely more money than the chauffuer gig, plus health benefits, but sounds like more of a meat grinder if the delivery volume is high. More money/bennies is a no-brainer for keeping family/kids off the street & healthy, but I'm over 50 (and pretty healthy) so I wonder what that gig would do to me. If they truly want to hire me anyway.
I recently started playing music again with other people in the same room to gig (covers) as some sort of small hedge for the continued unemployment, and that is actually going well. I admit that I would be a little disappointed to cut music loose if going back to work made it a bridge to far. This is all major league spitballin'....I go back to do a driving test for the livery company tomorrow, and I'm in the waiting-for-next-steps purgatory from the shipping company. Let me have it.
I don't see Fender winning in court. This whole affair was settled, in court, many decades ago. You can't turn back the clock.
I find it interesting that the new CEO, who best I can tell has spent his entire life just being given jobs without any real accomplishments, immediately decides that the first thing he's going to do is kill the brand by making everyone hate Fender.
Personally, I’d give that Ferrari a fair trial, followed by a first class hanging….because that’s the American way. Otherwise I’d take it out back behind the barn and shoot it.
I’m more of a “put your money where your mouth is” type of person. I’ll die on the hill that proportion is everything.
Don’t judge too harshly as I’m not dedicating more than 20 min or so to this, but I really do believe the Luce is a dropped ball that could’ve been a hit - exterior wise anyhow.
Since school let out for the summer, there has been a young teen aged black kid playing an electric guitar with a wireless amplifier on the corner a few blocks down. I saw him out there three days last week and while I couldnt make out what he was playing as I drove by, it sounded like rock and roll. So all is not lost.
MotoGP mugged Mugello.
The big qualifying surprises are Rins and Diogo Moreira through to Q2. One rider who has never seen a resurgence after his tib fib break and being saddled on the Yamaha, and the other a GP class rookie. Kudos to Moreira for being pretty consistent and clearly more deserving of the seat than Somkiat Chantra.
Bez secured pole position with Raul Fernandez in second, Martin from third, a newly returned Marc Marquez in fourth, Aldeguer 5th, Bagnaia a relatively high 6th, and Digiantonnio down in 7th.
At the start of the sprint the #93 Marquez nailed the launch and briefly held first place into turn one. However, he gets beat up swinging through the next few turns and is pushed all the way back to 4th. Bez is swallowed up and now has to fight through the pack. Fernandez secured the front running position and immediately begins opening a gap. Jorge Martin sits in second and experiences no pressure from those back of him.
Digi also has a good start and briefly engages with Marquez before passing him and attempting to run down Martin.
Bez quickly works his way from 7th back to 4th but then lacks the pace to close on Digi.
In the latter stages it looks as if Martin may be able to get Fernandez but fading front grip leads him to settle for second.
Raul Fernandez takes the sprint victory, Martin second, Digi 3rd, Bez a disappointing 4th at his home sprint, and Marc a respectable 5th given that he was two weeks out from surgery on his right foot and right arm.
At the start of the race Bez isn't caught asleep and leads the way through lap one with Martin close behind. Raul Fernandez completely blew turn one and threw away any hope of a double podium weekend. Marquez and Bagnaia are in 3-4 and Digiantonnio is swallowed up by the pack after a poor start. Acosta gets away well and is 6th behind Fermin Aldeguer.
Acosta begins moving up through the field and quickly passes Aldeguer; Jorge makes a turn one mistake trying to take first position from Bez and runs wide, being pushed behind Bagnaia and ahead of Marquez. In the next lap Bagnaia's hot early pace and familiarity with Mugello let him overtake Bez successfully and begin leading the race.
Marquez, meanwhile, is under assault from Acosta, a man still desperate for his first MotoGP race win. The race up front settles as 37 and 93 go toe to toe. Acosta gets Marc after a few laps which lets Aldeguer slide past as well, but the wily old man on the paddock sets up for the double draft down the main straight. He hauls past the both of them and gets the bike slowed in time to keep P4 for a while longer. Aldeguer and Acosta tangling are a big help to Marc in front and Ai Ogura closing behind. Aldeguer overcooks a turn and Acosta passes for P5.
At the same time Bagnaia's pace up front is beginning to fade. Bez closes down on the race leader at lap 13 and attempts, but does not succeed, in passing the #63. The next lap, though, and he nails the T1 move from the draft into the braking zone.
Ai Ogura overtakes Fermin Aldeguer and showcases his race pace (if only he could qualify) to take 6th. Acosta and Marquez up ahead are still fighting for position and trading passes back and forth.
Jorge Martin eases by Bagnaia with 7 laps to go as the Ducati rider looks to be suffering.
Ai Ogura then takes Marquez and Acosta with Digi, of all riders, making his return from the back of the field. Digi overtakes Marquez, then Acosta with four to go to rub salt in the 37's wounds.
The gap to Bagnaia is closing quickly for Ai Ogura, but he is one lap short of a sure move to make an all Aprilia podium.
Simply the Bez in 1st, Jorge Martin a comfortable 2nd, and Bagnaia 3rd place with his best race result of the season.
Bez puts more points on Martin, but not a comfortable margin, Digi and Acosta battle for 3rd-4th in the standings.
If Marquez recovers quickly he may secure third in the championship, but with a third of the season over I can't see him repeating his title this year.
MotoGP runs in Hungary this weekend.
What do you think of the 2027 reg changes
Good for the sport; less aero shenanigans and ride height device elimination should put more emphasis on rider ability.
More importantly is the rules change is significant enough it essentially resets the technology development field. The 1000cc era has gone for over a decade.
I was astonished at the ending of Euphoria. Not necessarily the actual plot, which I was largely able to predict, but that the almost-inevitable-in-2026 anti-Christianity shoe never dropped. Kept waiting for it(since the episode always seemed to have another 10 minutes) and it just never materialized. I don't know if I can read into that positively in a cultural sense, but at least it isn't negative.
I wish PRS got a cease and desist to...cease not making the nebula SS so I can buy one instead of having to choose between it and my son's first car.
In defense of Ferrari, the only defense possible is that this might be a compliance vehicle, not really intended for sale, but to satisfy European regulators, and in any event, Porsche made a better looking and likely better performing ev, just don’t ask about resale…
okay but if they had to make it why not make it look cool if its only purpose is compliance
Because they don’t want to sell it.
"everyone knows what a Cartier Tank looks like" - ah, nope, I have NO clue. nor do I care.
Glad it's not just me
Me either, and I plan to die that way.
it looks like a rectangle and its just as clean now as when it came out
Wait, Shaggy's still a thing?
And why does Lewis Hamilton even HAVE a foundation? Why can't he just thank whatever higher power he believes in for his great good fortune at being paid millions to drive a race car and SHUT THE FUCK UP.
I saw today where Dodge RAISED the price of the Charger Daytona EV by ~ $12k. Can one of you all in MI figure out what they are smoking?
Good question because they haven’t been able to sell a single one without at least $15k + on the hood. Before the incentive went away you could lease them for well under $200/mo. I don’t expect that that has changed too much today.
Maybe they are trying to show the Stellantis bosses that there is no business case when they move all of 200 of them in 2027 and they are just trying to get it canceled?
It really is confounding.
They weren’t selling anyway, what difference does the price make?
I've heard that cocaine makes people feel extra confident...
0-“ It is important to remember that we increasingly occupy a world where display of the brand is more important than any particular virtue of said brand.”
I see you have been paying attention to Paul Graham.
1-“By any measure one could reasonably conjure, the new Luce is not a good product.”
I have a measure for you: If Ferrari can sell every single one they produce at full MSRP, an MSRP that will price the vehicle at ~10X a quotidian quasi-competitor, then the Luce will not be a merely good product. It will, demonstrably, be an extraordinarily, staggeringly good product.
And we all know that Ferrari will sell all of them with ease. Even if the peanut gallery whines about it.
2-BusinessF1 reported the Williams stuff years ago; Joe Saward also confirmed years ago the ultimate ownership of the team, which is certainly the case: I used to work with a guy who later worked at Dorilton, and he told me himself who actually owns the team.
Your definition of a good product could use some work.
As I have relayed to Jack ad infinitum:
Markets determine, not fragile feelings.
Everyone knows it's the gateway vehicle to get a real Ferrari while satisfying whatever EU EV sales quota they have. It's a win win for Ferrari and the shareholders. Not so much for the rich schmuck who has to pay $640K to get on the list to buy what he really wants.
I do admire your commitment to the market schtick; I’m sure the Sacklers could have sold at msrp any amount of Oxy 80’s they produced, but I’ll go out on a limb with this one and saw that “fragile feelings” got the better of that argument
I'm not sure about the markets always determining the quality of the product. You do know that people manipulate and cheat, right?
0: Yes, he has. Hopefully because he also recognizes it's the most interesting article PG's written in a few years. I didn't know you were a fellow techbro, Sherman!
I am now. Easy transition.
OTCountingChickensBeforeTheyHatchTalk: I've (finally) got my foot in the door at two job opportunities.
0) Chauffeur for a small locally owned livery company, mostly shuttling people to airports in big black sedans who don't wanna Uber or whatever. Part-time, could become full-time but they offer zero benefits (non negotiable). Chill vibes from the company...seems like it would be a simple, low-ish stress gig but not a huge money maker. No health insurance is a real turn off.
1) Delivery driver for one of the big shipping companies, doing the whole drive-truck-drop-stuff-on-doorstep thing. Full-time, so definitely more money than the chauffuer gig, plus health benefits, but sounds like more of a meat grinder if the delivery volume is high. More money/bennies is a no-brainer for keeping family/kids off the street & healthy, but I'm over 50 (and pretty healthy) so I wonder what that gig would do to me. If they truly want to hire me anyway.
I recently started playing music again with other people in the same room to gig (covers) as some sort of small hedge for the continued unemployment, and that is actually going well. I admit that I would be a little disappointed to cut music loose if going back to work made it a bridge to far. This is all major league spitballin'....I go back to do a driving test for the livery company tomorrow, and I'm in the waiting-for-next-steps purgatory from the shipping company. Let me have it.
I hope that, whatever happens in the short term, you will soon get an opportunity to use your gifts in full as a professional.
Keep playing tunes
I don't see Fender winning in court. This whole affair was settled, in court, many decades ago. You can't turn back the clock.
I find it interesting that the new CEO, who best I can tell has spent his entire life just being given jobs without any real accomplishments, immediately decides that the first thing he's going to do is kill the brand by making everyone hate Fender.
STILL employed: https://www.sagemount.com/team/chirayu-rana/
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot
Personally, I’d give that Ferrari a fair trial, followed by a first class hanging….because that’s the American way. Otherwise I’d take it out back behind the barn and shoot it.
"Actually I think the Ferrari Luce looks awesome!"
*stuffs 46 cocktail shrimp in mouth*
I’m more of a “put your money where your mouth is” type of person. I’ll die on the hill that proportion is everything.
Don’t judge too harshly as I’m not dedicating more than 20 min or so to this, but I really do believe the Luce is a dropped ball that could’ve been a hit - exterior wise anyhow.
https://1drv.ms/i/c/2c3031bcede5d54b/IQAUaqpFUE0jSKWOJ-casp7WAes5lBKRhnNNhRfiXWe9VfM
“Hankafarina Design Studio”
I thought his name was John Puffy Heffalump.
Holy Mackerel - that was you on rec.guns? Now I'm depressed at how long ago that was.
The recent jump in prices for the gated 360/430/355? cars is another data point in support of the argument
Since school let out for the summer, there has been a young teen aged black kid playing an electric guitar with a wireless amplifier on the corner a few blocks down. I saw him out there three days last week and while I couldnt make out what he was playing as I drove by, it sounded like rock and roll. So all is not lost.
The teens in my town are mostly being arrested for teen takeovers so good on that kid