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Verstappen was born to race. Right now he prefers the team that gives him the best car and his successes are obvious. I don't think Max has anything to do with money, he's only, only focused on racing and unless Mercedes gives him a good car, he's not going to choose Mercedes. Before 2026, it is a fact that a car that can beat the Red Bull car will not be produced. That's why I think Max will continue his career at Red Bull until 2026, and if Aramco wants Max after buying Aston Martin, it could change the balance. 2026 will be very different for F1.

After a long time without Marquez experiencing a podium in the premier class, today he again experienced a second podium after starting the race on the first grid in Jerez. I quite enjoyed the extraordinary race today because there were many people cheering near me when they saw Marquez's action in overtaking Bagnaia even though Bagnaia himself was able to immediately take back the leading position. And the next race will be at Le Mans France which is also a very good circuit so you can expect a much fiercer battle.

He said in a declaration before yesterday sprint which he almost won as his first race for the season that the "knowing the bike and adapting to it phase is already over so I am all out in attack from now on" it really showed it on track,he just needed to be a bit more patient and to have chosen a better turn to try his overtakes once he saw that it was not working yet this was the race.

While I do praise Marquez as doing a great race let's not forget that Bagnaia a back to back World Champion showed us that under such heavy pressure he managed to show us that he broke his own lap record of the track with a wonderful 1.37.3 lap,the fastest of all race and he did it while in big pressure from Marquez.

When Martin was still leading and Marc was on 4th, I thought that it would not be hard for Marc to overtake Bezzecchi and there would be the most wanted battle.
Too bad Martin crashed before what I hoped come true, we might watch an epic battle between the best 3 riders.
By the way, with the result of today race make the competition become tougher because the gap between top riders in the standing is not that big.
Congrats to Marc for his first podium in the main race, hope to see more podium for him to make MotoGP more interesting to watch.

It was a brilliant race to watch and Marquez although in his only 4th race with Ducatti almost won it by overtaking Bagnaia twice (not successfully as he got wide) but it showed that even though he is in a client team and not the main one,he is racing with Gressini team and not the official Ducatti team he put a great pressure to Bagnaia who is a back to back Champion.

Martin got off with a crash which surprised everyone,he was normally breaking and I don't know what happened to him yet the thing that impressed me more is the come back of Marquez from fourth and far behind to almost winning the race in the last 5-6 laps,wonderful riding skills.

With all the stuff going on with Red Bull with the infighting, they could end up getting none of Horner, Newey and Verstappen.  :/  Newey is rumored to leave this year and that means Horner is free to leave.  So if the team can't get Verstappen a fast car then he could be tempted to leave for another team, most likely joining in with Wolff at Mercedes.

I think the team that ends up winning in all of the shennanigans will be Ferrari or whoever could get Horner and Newey.  Hopefully Ferrari...

That's how you I can be wrong, yesterday I was still talking about Bagnaia falling behind, and then Martin drops out and Bagnaia wins.

For me personally, Marquez has passed his peak and he won't win any more world championship, races yes, championship no.

The action shown by Marquez today was extraordinary even though he couldn't win because Bagnaia was too strong in the final laps of the race even though previously Marquez had often set the best time in his laps. But what was very unfortunate today was that Jorge Martin fell at the sixth corner with 15 laps left in the race and he fell while leading the race today so he had to go home with no points. And as a result of this, now the point gap between Jorge Martin and Bagnaia has become just 17 points in the provisional standings.

What you expected happened today, although the battle that was presented was between Jorge Martin, Marquez and Pecco Bagnaia before Jorge Martin fell at the sixth corner. However, after Jorge Martin fell at the sixth corner with fifteen laps left in the race, the battle was only seen between Marquez and Bagnaia until the finish flag was raised.

I don't need to correct what you said because it is based on the news you read, but I said something in the post above that was only based on what I watched on TV and didn't read the news because after the Sprint Race finished there was no news whatsoever. So I also agree with what is written in the news because viewers of live broadcasts on TV also don't know what caused the crash if they don't read the news. So I don't need to correct what you said anymore because I prefer watching live on TV before reading the news.

10 minutes before the race starts and the sun is shinning bright so no excuses for any rider for the race,we will see the performance of each one in brilliant conditions for the race so most likely it is going to be a very good one for the weekend,not as good as F1 races but still a race is still a race.I am very much curious to see how well will Marquez perform in his new bike,will this be the day of his first win of Ducatti as chances are really high to do so in such a good weather in one of the tracks of his home country,the motivation should be extra high for him and I am watching this race just to see how well he will perform,I miss the days where he used to dominate with his Honda.

There are new speculations around about Mercedes - Verstappen possibility and these are claimed to be strong ones this time.

According to the source named Sportskeeda Mercedes is preparing to offer a contract worth €150 million. The negotiations are likely to happen after the Miami Grand Prix.

Toto Wolff really wants to see Verstappen in his team. He thinks Verstappen is the best driver to fill Hamilton's seat. I agree with him but still have doubts about this signing.    It just feels like Verstappen wouldn't prefer Mercedes unless they give him the fastest car. At least for the 2025 season this signing doesn't look realistic to me. Maybe for the 2026 season it can make more sense.

I just saw that Quartarero managed to get penalized and lost the podium.

INCREDIBLE Pedrosa achieved the podium in this way.
This makes us understand how low the level of the other drivers is..

Many complained about the condition of the track which was spitting out water. 15 crashes in 12 laps I think is the all-time record or in any case one of the races with the most crashes in history.

I think we are early to judge who will be the strong favorite,even Marquez is showing that he is there,he just needs just a very little bit more time and he maybe winning his first race and once he does so it means that he will be fighting for the title too.I have not seen any race and tomorrow I am going to watch the race just to see how things have changed,there are people saying that he can win his first race tomorrow as today he was leading the sprint when he crashed out of nowhere,it means he does not feel that much comfortable with his new bike but once he gets ahead of it,he will be winning races and even Championships.

Another bad weekend so far for Bagnaia, so it will be difficult to defend the title, this year Martin is now the absolute favourite for the world champion title, a very big surprise this year is nevertheless Acosta and I assume he will ride in the KTM factory team next year.

I think the majority of the news that I read agree that the main culprit is the track condition[1]. Basically, the track is not completely dry so it is very easy to slip, not to mention if they use dry tires. Some riders went as far as complaining that the race should be stopped and restarted until the track condition improve, but it sounds like the track organizer feels that some cleaning is good enough to solve the issue. Turns out they need more than that. CMIIW.

[1] https://www.the-race.com/motogp/what-caused-motogps-shocking-15-crash-jerez-sprint/

oh I missed this part. Interesting.

Anyway, changing the subject, fun sprint race today for Moto GP.
About ten riders slipped on a damp track, it looked like an elimination race.
As always, Martin's talent prevailed in the end.
Marc Marquez's first victory on the Ducati isn't that long away, it could even come tomorrow, if he manages to finish the race.

Marquez did the same mistake as what he did in Amerika 2 weeks ago, crashed when he was leading but lucky him today that he could finish.
Hope he wont do it again tomorow in the main race as I want to watch great competition between Jorge Martin, Marquez, Pecco and Acosta.
So many crashes today in the sprint race which is something surprising, again I hope there wont be too many crashes tomorrow.
With the result today, Jorge Martin add 12 points in the standing and he is leading with 29 points now to the 2nd position Pedro Acosta.
Marquez remains in the 7th position with 39 points, 53 points behind Jorge Martin (92).

If I'm not wrong Kick Sauber F1 and Haas teams both are going to part ways with their both drivers at the end of this season. As Kick Sauber F1 has already announced one of their drivers I wonder who the other one will be. Hulkenberg is an experienced driver. Therefore maybe his teammate would be a young talent. Just like the Bottas - Zhou duo.

About Haas I have also heard about Bearman rumours. But Haas had better improve their car more to give him a more decent car. Otherwise having an unstable car and an unexperienced driver both might not be for their advantage.    Haas haven't started too badly though maybe they can get better in time.

Good to know we are going to watch a race of MotoGp,I thought this to be a boring weekend without F1 and for me without F1 any weekend is a boring one yet with a MotoGp race I can call this one a less boring weekend.In fact during this season I have not seen a single race of MotoGP and I would love to watch Marquez in that Ducatti and see how he is doing.If he crashed while leading the race,that can be called unexpected yet a crash in a motorbike race is never unexpected for me,even more when you are used to push like crazy like Marquez did when he was at Honda.Let's hope the race of tomorrow will be better than the Sprint and we will see more action.

Today's Jerez MotoGP Sprint Race was really quite dramatic with a group crash at Turn 5 for several riders in the front row at the same time. And it is not yet known what the cause is, so those on the podium today are really unexpected riders like Quartararo who started the Sprint from grid 23 but was able to finish in the top three. Likewise, Marquez, who started the Sprint on the first grid, had to swallow the bitterness of a crash while leading the race, this was completely unexpected. Because there are many riders who experience crashes on the last lap like what happened to Zarco at the last corner even though he had time to re-enter to finish the race to the finish line.