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Sam Sunderland se perderá el Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge por lesión en el tobillo

Otra baja sensible para el Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge en motos. El campeón mundial Sam Sunderland se ausentará del evento luego de golpear fuertemente en un salto en las pruebas previas al evento y lesionarse en la parte inferior de la tibia derecha. Si bien la lesión tal vez no es de la magnitud de la de Kevin Benavides, Sunderland espera retornar recién en la tercera ronda en el Sonora Rally en México y no competirá este fin de semana.

Con este incidente, el equipo GasGas completo estará ausente en Abu Dhabi ya que Daniel Sanders no tenía planificado participar, también en recuperación luego del Dakar y esperando retornar en México. 

“La noticia de la lesión de Sam ha supuesto un duro golpe para todo el equipo Red Bull GASGAS Factory Racing. Estaba realizando una prueba final antes del evento, pasó por encima de una duna y aterrizó en un agujero que provocó que se rompiera el tobillo. Es una pena para Sam, especialmente después de todo el arduo trabajo que ha realizado para estar en forma para esta carrera después de perderse la mayor parte del Dakar. Desafortunadamente, esto significa que GASGAS no estará representado en esta segunda ronda del campeonato mundial. Pero ya estamos mirando hacia la tercera ronda y tener a nuestros dos muchachos de vuelta en sus motos. Todo el equipo desea a Sam todo lo mejor y una pronta recuperación” declaró  Norbert Stadlbauer, team manager de Red Bull GasGas Factory Racing.

Imagen: Prensa GasGas

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Pedro Acosta

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Jack on the KTM just sucks. Give it to Pol and haver Augusto and Pedro in Tech3

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NEWS: DE CARLI RACING A LA CABEZA DEL RED BULL GAS GAS FACTORY RACING.

NEWS: DE CARLI RACING A LA CABEZA DEL RED BULL GAS GAS FACTORY RACING. EL CONTRATO DE PLURIO AÑO GARANTIZA LA CONSISTENCIA DEL EQUIPO DE FÁBRICA DE GASGAS.De Carli Racing, un equipo que ha obtenido innumerables victorias desde que se unió por primera vez al Pierer Mobility Group a principios de 2010, liderará al Red Bull GASGAS Factory Racing hacia el futuro, ya que se finalizó un contrato…

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So, since writing this blog, Carlo Pernat - Enea Bastianini's manager - has revealed that Enea while ride a factory spec KTM at Tech3 Racing next year. The article that broke the news yesterday also hinted that KTM is considering rebranding Tech3 from Red Bull GasGas Tech3 to another brand within the Pierer Mobility Group umbrella.

Now, at first I thought this was going to be like Husqvarna or back to just running the second team as KTMs as well, but then a thought occurred to me.

Earlier this year, Pierer Mobility Group (I'll refer to them as KTM from here on out) increased their stake in MV Agusta from 25% to a controlling 50.1% interest. MV Agusta has a ton of history in MotoGP, particularly in the 60s and 70s with the great Giacomo Agostini. I'm not an insider, I don't know anything other than what I read in the MotoGP news, but the stars line up for me on this.

It makes an awful lot more sense to market an Italian sports bike brand in MotoGP than a Spanish (or Swedish in the case of Husqvarna) dirt bike brand, and if the new lead rider for Tech3 is going to be the Italian Enea Bastianini, then it lines up even better.

Also, with Jorge Martin gone, Enea Bastianini gone, and Marc Marquez to the factory, a lot of people in the paddock seem to think that this kills Ducati's chance to keep Pramac.

I'm not quite convinced yet, since a Pramac rider is leading the championship on a Ducati while the two Yamahas are 13th and 20th in the standings, respectively. I know Yamaha is said to be offering generous terms, but is that worth going from the manufacturer with 241 constructors' points to the one with 36?

We'll see what happens, but Ducati doesn't have a top rider to offer Pramac anymore, and that certainly doesn't help.

Perhaps Marco Bezzecchi's struggles on the 2023 Ducati this year will make him more receptive to being on a 2025 Ducati at Pramac next year, but he's already rejected Pramac once, so that's hardly a guarantee.

So silly season continues, and now that the main rider dominos have fallen in place, the biggest question isn't about rider moves anymore, but rather does Pramac stay or go? Once we know that, then the rest of the rider market can fall into place.

MotoGP Silly Season Predictions - Plus Larson Waiver Talk.

As recently as this morning, I was planning on this week's blogpost being about the Kyle Larson waiver situation over in NASCAR, however, MotoGP then decided to do everything all at once and launched silly season into high gear.

So, with regards to Larson, I'll just say one thing: he raced in the Indianapolis 500 competitively and made NASCAR look good mere years after Jimmie Johnson, unfortunately, struggled in a Chip Ganassi Indycar on road and street circuits - and there were a lot of jokes at NASCAR's expense after their seven-time world champion spun out every race. So how does NASCAR repay him? Utter silence over whether or not he'll get a playoff waiver.

Kyle Larson is the 2021 champion, took his car to the owner's championship final four as a result of playoff shenanigans in 2022, and then made the final four in 2023 again. He is considered one of the top talents in NASCAR and he has the results to back it up. So why is there controversy over him getting a playoff waiver for this year?

Because Kyle Larson prioritized the Indianapolis 500 last weekend.

I talked about this in my Motorsports Christmas blogpost, but the Indy 500 was rain delayed and Kyle Larson stayed there to compete, and only then he flew out to Charlotte. Now, Kyle Larson landed, was ready to get into the car, but then it started raining in Charlotte too. Just before midnight, as the track was drying, NASCAR controversially decided to call the race, thus Kyle Larson was not able to relieve Justin Allgaier in the #5 and resume the rest of the Coke 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

NASCAR is mad because every other weekend of the year, they're the biggest show in racing, they can throw their weight around and try to chase NFL ratings while all other racing series are considered a niche. That's true every weekend except Memorial Day weekend, when the Indianapolis 500 reigns supreme. The whole existence of the Charlotte 600 is to compete with Indy.

Larson prioritized the bigger race and that made NASCAR made, because they're used to getting their egos stroked.

Larson is one of the best drivers in NASCAR and the double attempt brought good publicity to both sports. He had already won his way into the playoffs and made an effort to get to Charlotte for the end of the 600 - give him a waiver. If not, well, you face the possibility that Austin Cindric is in the playoffs after his shock win at Iowa, and one of the top drivers in the series isn't.

I like Austin, I'm glad he won, but he's nowhere near the same level as Kyle Larson. If he can compete for the championship and Kyle can't, then it makes the NASCAR playoffs look even less legitimate than they already are.

Anyway, that turned into a longer rant than I intended, so I'll leave it there. Now onto the main topic for today: MotoGP silly season.

Yesterday at Mugello, Enea Bastianini spent the final laps of the race charging from fourth to second, overtaking Marc Marquez for third and then pulling off an audacious last corner pass on Jorge Martin for second. This meant that Enea finished just eight tenths off leader Pecco Bagnaia for a factory Ducati 1-2.

So naturally, Ducati has decided to replace him.

Marc Marquez, who finished four and last out of these three, is going to the Ducati Lenovo Team, according to Autosport.

This was all but confirmed when, a few hours later, Aprilia confirmed the signing of Jorge Martin for Aprilia. Jorge Martin who finished third and got overtaken by Enea Bastianini in the final corner, mind you.

Now, of course, Ducati is not judging this off of one race alone and I acknowledge - as I did in two recent blogposts - that Enea has had a rotten time on the factory Ducati seat. That being said, seeing him lose Ducati to Marc Marquez, who finished last of the main three, and then lose out on the Aprilia seat to the guy he overtook in the final corner. It stings.

That being said, some news out of this weekend might offer a possibility for Enea to have a bit of a soft landing from the factory seat anyway. Let me explain:

Earlier in this weekend, Marc Marquez spelled out his demands in an interview. He said that he was not interested in going to Pramac, saying that he didn't want to switch from a satellite team (he's currently riding a 2023 Ducati at Gresini Racing) to another satellite team (Pramac runs 2024 Ducatis, same as the factory team, with factory contracted riders, they are still customers, however). Instead, Marquez said that the best option was a factory team, and if not that, then a factory bike at minimum.

Translation: Marc Marquez wanted the factory team for 2025, and if he couldn't get that, then he wanted a 2025 Ducati at Gresini, remaining at his current team.

In response, Gino Borsoi, who is the team manager at Pramac, insisted that his team had a contract for two factory-spec Ducati GP25s next year. This was somewhat of a surprise for a number of reasons, one: Ducati announced late last year that they signed Moto2 rider Fermin Aldeguer for 2025, and it seemed like the natural landing spot for him was going to be Pramac...until it emerged later on that Ducati wanted to start Fermin out on a 2024 bike. Two: regardless of which spec Ducati Fermin is going to be on, Pramac has been heavily linked to Yamaha lately.

The Japanese bikes are struggling in MotoGP right now and, ever since RNF switched to satellite Aprilias for 2023, Yamaha has not had a satellite team. Four bikes capturing data instead of two could really help Yamaha right now, so they've been linked to pretty much every Ducati satellite team the last few months. VR46 with the romanticism of a Valentino Rossi and Yamaha reunion, Gresini until they renewed their deal, and most recently, with Pramac.

Yamaha was desperate and the rumor has been that they offered very generous terms to Pramac.

So, the news that Pramac may stay with Ducati after all is a shock to the media, but it does not seem to have been much of a shock to Ducati. Ducati had been working on a way to keep both Martin and Marquez, and it seems that they wanted to offer Pramac the chance to run MotoGP's biggest star - Marc Marquez - as a reason to stay...and potentially a reason to accept taking on a rookie Aldeguer on a year-old bike as well.

Now that Marquez is going to the factory team instead and Jorge Martin has snatched the open Aprilia seat, I see an opening. Ducati can send Enea Bastianini to Pramac, keeping him on a factory spec bike while giving Pramac another frontrunning rider. Aldeguer joins as Bastianini's teammate, on a GP25 if that's what it takes to keep Pramac in the fold, because Marc Marquez will be in the factory team so freeing up a GP25 won't be as important.

What about VR46 and Gresini then? Well, I think Marco Bezzecchi's current season has been a bit of a disaster, so he won't really have much of a chance to get a factory ride next year, so staying at VR46 seems likely. Furthermore, his struggles mean that Bezzecchi probably isn't going to have much luck demanding Ducati gives him a GP25, so status quo is probably the most likely outcome there. It's unfortunate for Bezzecchi, but the sheer reality is that, with all these hot riders on the market, his options seem to be either stay at VR46, or make a more or less lateral move to Trackhouse Aprilia.

Then Franco Morbidelli, another Valentino Rossi academy product, can drop from Pramac into the other VR46 seat.

Where does Fabio DiGiannantonio go then? Well, with Marquez going to the factory, Fabio can now return to Gresini and be reunited with Frankie Carchedi. Thus, restoring the 2023 lineup of Fabio DiGiannantonio and Alex Marquez.

So, to sum things up, I think Ducati can keep all three of its satellite teams and all eight bikes like this:

Ducati Lenovo (GP25): Pecco Bagnaia and Marc Marquez.

Pramac (GP25): Enea Bastianini and Fermin Aldeguer.

VR46 (GP24): Marco Bezzecchi and Franco Morbidelli.

Gresini (GP24): Fabio DiGiannantonio and Alex Marquez.

Maybe Pramac will go to Yamaha after all, maybe my predictions will look radically wrong in a few weeks. I don't know how it'll turn out, but this is the scheme I've thought up in my mind.

I need to do something since with Marc Marquez at Ducati and Jorge Martin at Aprilia, my two favorite teams now have my two least favorite riders and I'm trying not to dwell on that part.

So yeah.

Oh, also this weekend Indycar raced at Detroit, but uhh...the less said about that, the better.

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Dakar 2023: Daniel Sanders gana apretada Etapa 1 frente a los pilotos de Honda, Quintanilla P2 y Sunderland abandona

El piloto australiano Daniel Sanders propinó el primer buen golpe de este Dakar 2023 al ganar la primera etapa de mayor longitud. Fue una jornada apretada, ya que la diferencia final fue apenas 7 segundos sobre Pablo Quintanilla. Además, hubo otras cinco motos dentro de un minuto. Más aun, Sanders no fue el gran dominador del día y solo lideró el último Waypoint. 

Quién había liderado toda la especial fue el estadounidense Mason Klein, representante del BAS Dakar y mejor debutante de 2021. Klein parecía encaminado a una gran primera victoria de etapa en el Dakar, pero cedió un par de minutos en los últimos 50 kilómetros terminando finalmente quinto.

Esto lo aprovecharon Sanders, Quintanilla, Ricky Brabec y Joan Barreda Bort para terminar en los primeros cuatro separados por apenas 20 segundos. En la general, Sanders comanda por apenas 1 minuto sobre Barreda, con seis pilotos en 2 minutos.

La gran historia del día fue el abandono de Sam Sunderland. Después de una fuerte caída en el kilómetro 52, el campeón defensor sufrió una fractura de omoplato y una conmoción cerebral, por lo que debió ser evacuado por los médicos. 

Nacho Cornejo finalizó en la décima posición en un muy buen día considerando que, por su posición de largada, debió abrir la ruta durante la mayor parte de la jornada. Cornejo es P15 en la general a 12:35 de Sanders.

Clasificación General - Etapa 1 de 14

Daniel Sanders (GasGas) 4:12:55

Joan Barreda (Honda) +1:00

Ricky Brabec (Honda) +1:15

Pablo Quintanilla (Honda) +1:22

Kevin Benavides (KTM) +1:34

Toby Price (KTM) +1:54

Mason Klein (KTM) +2:29

Adrien van Beveren (Honda) +5:32

Skyler Howes (Husqvarna) +6:27

Joaquim Rodrigues (Hero) +8:25

Imagen: Marcelo Maragni / Red Bull Content Pool

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Pedro Acosta

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MotoGP mechanics working in a Moto3 bike should be ilegal

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The third round of the FIM Motocross World Championship held all its promises with a fantastic Grand Prix spread across Saturday for the RAM Qualifying Races and Monday for the races due to Easter Sunday! The brand-new track of Frauenfeld gave us some exciting fights across both categories and the atmosphere was electric thanks to the great Swiss public coming in large number.

At the end of the day the victory went to Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MXGP Team’s Maxime Renaux, who won for the first time of the season as well as his first podium. Second on the podium was Red Bull GASGAS Factory Racing’s Jorge Prado and third Kawasaki Racing Team’s Romain Febvre.

In MX2, it was also a first with Monster Energy Yamaha Factory MX2 Team’s Thibault Benistant winning for the first time in 2023, in front of Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Andrea Adamo and Nestaan Husqvarna Factory Racing’s Kay de Wolf.

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The 2023 Dakar Rally heads back to Saudi Arabia for its fourth edition on December 31, with the world's best off-road racers facing 5,000 racing kilometres spread over 14 special timed stages before the chequered flag finally falls at Dammam on January 15. Audi, Toyota and MINI will get challenged during the Red Bull Race.    Known as the pinnacle of Rally Raid, the Dakar Rally is a form of long-distance off-road racing that takes place over several days. The rally was born in 1977 after the French motorcycle racer Thierry Sabine got lost while driving his motorbike in the Libyan desert during the Abidjan-Nice Rally.     Start of the Dakar Rally After finding his way back to the civilised world, Sabine determined to design a race based on his former experience, starting from Europe, then Algiers and crossing the Agadeze before the rally finishes in Dakar. Dakar Rally was born.   The race has grown from destinations in Africa to South America. Now to Saudi Arabia, which may be on- or offroad a total distance of more than several thousand kilometres and requires precise navigation via a road book.    Dakar Rally will be the longest since the start, and participants must tackle 5,000 kilometres of notable routes and 14 stages. The trails have more dunes and potential pitfalls than ever before. The prologue starts tomorrow in Yanbu by the Red Sea and ends in Dammam on the Arabian Gulf on 15 January 2023.     The 2023 Dakar Rally Athletes   The team of champions at the Dakar Rally must endure the racing challenges, and fresh-faced talents must prepare to push themselves to the limit in a decor of the gruelling heat and sands of South Arabia.  Drivers in the T1 Car Class, Nasser Al-Attiyah and co-driver Mathieu Baumel (FRA), make their way in a Toyota GR DKR Hilux T1+. The driver aims for a fourth Dakar title. Nasser said: "We're ready to defend our title. It would be incredible to win again."   Using the exact vehicle are the drivers (ZAF)/Dennis Murphy (ZAF), Giniel De Villiers and, Lucas Moraes (BRA)/Timo Gottschalk (DEU), who also will return to the rally. Sebastian Loeb (FRA) and co-driver Fabian Lurquin (BEL) push their BRX Prodrive Hunter after being runner-up to Al-Attiyah in 2022.     Of course, the Audi Team can't miss out during this critical Dakar Rally race. Three-time Dakar Winner Carlos Sainz and co-driver Lucas Cruz from Spain race in their Audi RS Q e-Tron E2. Monsieur Dakar, Stéphane Peterhansel (FRA) and co-driver Edouard Boulanger (FRA) will join in Audi's three-pronged assault with Mattias Ekström (SWE) and Emil Bergkvist (SWE). Quite the opposite is MINI driver Kuba Przygoński (POL) with co-driver Armand Monleon (ESP) on board.   On bikes during the competition are Dakar and FIM World Rally-Raid Championship bike champion Sam Sunderland (GBR), who will represent Red Bull GASGAS Factory Racing as he targets a third Dakar victory. "The 2023 race is looking to be one of the toughest ever. I'm under no illusion of what that means.", according to Sam.   Another rider is the Australian Daniel Saunders. He scored fourth in 2021 with two-time Dakar winner Toby Price. The Australian said: "The terrain in Saudi Arabia makes the rally very fast. Some stages are a sprint to the finish."   Other former Red Bull racers who return are Matthias Walkner (AUT) and Kevin Benavides (ARG), while Štefan Svitko (SVK), Mohammed Balooshi (ARE) and Camille Chapelière (FRA), who are all former champions of the Dakar Rally.     Complete Dakar Rally Red Bull Athlete Participants List: Bikes #1 - Sam Sunderland (GBR) - Red Bull GASGAS Factory Racing #18 - Daniel Sanders (AUS) - Red Bull GASGAS Factory Racing #8 - Toby Price (AUS) - Red Bull KTM Factory Racing #52 - Matthias Walkner (AUT) - Red Bull KTM Factory Racing #47 - Kevin Benavides (ARG) - Red B

ull KTM Factory Racing #25 - Mohammed Balooshi (ARE) - MX Ride Dubai #26 - Camille Chapelière (FRA) - Team Casteu #142 - Štefan Svitko (SVK) - Cross Team Cars #200 - Nasser Al-Attiyah (QAT) / Mathieu Baumel (FRA) - Toyota Gazoo Racing #205 - Giniel de Villiers (ZAF) / Dennis Murphy (ZAF) - Toyota Gazoo Racing #230 - Lucas Moraes (BRA) / Timo Gottschalk (DEU) - Toyota Gazoo Racing #201 - Sébastien Loeb (FRA) / Fabian Lurquin (BEL) - Bahrain Raid Xtreme #207 - Carlos Sainz (ESP) / Lucas Cruz (ESP) - Team Audi Sport #204 - Stéphane Peterhansel (FRA) / Edouard Boulanger (FRA) - Team Audi Sport #211 - Mattias Ekström (SWE) / Emil Bergkvist (SWE) - Team Audi Sport #222 - Laia Sanz (ESP) / Maurizio Gerini (ITA) - Astara Team #203 - Kuba Przygoński (POL) / Armand Monleon (ESP) - X-Raid MINI JCW Team Lightweight Prototype #300 - Francisco ‘Chaleco’ López (CHL) / Juan Pablo Latrach (CHL) - Red Bull Can-Am Factory Racing #302 - Cristina Gutiérrez (ESP) / Pablo Moreno (ESP) - Red Bull Can-Am Factory Racing #400 - Rokas Baciuška (LTU) / Oriol Vidal (ESP) - Red Bull Can-Am Factory Racing #301 - Seth Quintero (USA) / Dennis Zenz (GER) - Red Bull Off-Road Junior Team presented by BF Goodrich #303 - Austin ‘AJ’ Jones (USA) / Gustavo Gugelmin (BRA) - Red Bull Off-Road Junior Team presented by BF Goodrich #314 - Mitch Guthrie (USA) / Kellon Walch (USA) - Red Bull Off-Road Junior Team presented by BF Goodrich #304 - Guillaume De Mevius (BEL) / François Cazalet (FRA) - GRally Team #322 - Ignacio Casale (CHL) / Alvaro León (CHL) - X-raid Yamaha Racing Supported Team https://thailandeventguide.com/dakar-rally-countdown-2023/?feed_id=1388&_unique_id=63af16dc3c2b4