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Razlan Mahu Quartararo Dan Morbidelli Beraksi Di Sepang 8 Hours

Pelumba MotoGP, Fabio Quartararo dan Franco Morbidelli dikhabarkan akan beraksi di Sepang 8 Hours hujung tahun ini.

Menurut laporan Crash.net, Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif (CEO) Litar Antarabangsa Sepang (SIC), Dato’ Razlan Razali mahu menyaksikan kedua pelumba pasukan Petronas Yamaha itu beraksi dalam pertandingan sulung yang akan berlangsung pada 14 Disember ini.

“Kami di SIC mahu menyaksikan pelumba MotoGP beraksi di Sepang 8 Hours. Ketika ini kami sedang berbincang dengan pengurus mereka.

“Kedua-dua pelumba (Quartararo dan Morbidelli) mempunyai kelapangan pada bulan Disember. Pada masa sama saya berasakan perlumbaan ini baik untuk mengekalkan kecergasan mereka ketika musim cuti MotoGP.

“Saya juga telah memperjelaskan kepada mereka, ‘ini adalah acara Endurance World Championship (EWC) sulung kami jadi kami mahu kamu beraksi’. Ketika ini kami masih belum membuat keputusan tentang pelumba ketiga,”jelasnya.

Pada masa sama Razlan turut berpeluang menampilkan EWC sulung dengan barisan ‘all-star’ sekiranya setiap pelumba daripada pasukan Petronas Yamaha Sprinta dapat turun padang antaranya, Jonas Folger, Khairul Idham Pawi, Mattia Pasini dari Moto2 dan Ayumu Sasaki serta John McPhee dari Moto3.

Sementara itu, wakil tunggal negara dalam kelas premier MotoGP, Hafizh Syahrian turut mempunyai kelapangan pada bulan Disember apabila kontraknya bersama KTM tamat musim ini.

(SUMBER: Crash.net)

Yamaha Pesaing Utama Musim Ini, Bukan Ducati – Marquez

Pendahulu kejuaraan MotoGP, Marc Marquez menyifatkan pesaing utamanya memasuki separuh musim 2019 adalah pelumba Yamaha dan bukannya Ducati.

Pelumba Ducati, Andrea Dovizioso merupakan pesaing terdekat Marquez sejak 2017 dan dia kekal di kedudukan kedua musim ini, namun 58 mata ketinggalan di belakang pelumba Honda Repsol itu sementara rakan sepasukan, Danilo Petrucci, ketiga.

Rossi dan Viñales ketika Ujian Pra Musim Sepang 2019.

Bagaimanapun, prestasi Ducati merudum beberapa pusingan ini sementara Yamaha berjaya bangkit menerusi Maverick Vinales yang muncul juara di Assen dan kedua di Sachsenring sementara Quartararo berjaya memulakan perlumbaan di petak pertama dalam dua percubaan.

Sementara itu, Marquez berpendapat insiden di Barcelona – dengan Jorge Lorenzo, Dovizioso, Vinales dan Valentino Rossi mengalami kemalangan – mengubah senario perebutan kejuaraan musim ini.

“Saya dan Dovizioso dibezakan dengan dua kemenangan.

“Sudah tentu Ducati akan kembali lebih kuat tetapi ketika ini pesaing utama adalah kedua-dua pelumba Yamaha, Vinales dan Quartararo.

“Saya berasakan mereka (Yamaha) akan kembali lebih laju memasuki separuh kedua musim ini,”jelas Marquez.

Pada masa sama, Petrucci bersetuju Vinales kini menjadi halangan utama Ducati.

“Ketika ini saya gembira dengan keadaan semasa, menduduki tempat ketiga keseluruhan/

“Tetapi masalahnya sekarang Vinales berjaya mengutip beberapa mata penting jadi untuk bersaing kami perlukan jentera yang lebih baik,” katanya.

Berikut kedudukan 10 terbaik kejuaraan MotoGP setakat ini:

Catalunya MotoGP: Marc Marquez Wins as Jorge Lorenzo Brings Down Competition

Marc Marquez rode to his fourth victory of the season at the Catalunya MotoGP.
His Repsol Honda teammate Jorge Lorenzo brought down three other riders who were challenging Marquez for the lead.
Fabio Quartararo secured his and Petronas Sepang Racing Team’s maiden podium finish.

Marc Marquez rode to his fourth victory of the season at the Catalunya MotoGP, after dodging the carnage behind him. His Repsol Honda teammate Jorge Lorenzo brought down three other riders who were challenging Marquez for the lead.

Mission Winnow Ducati rider Andrea Dovizioso was leading the charge into the “bus stop” Turn 10, but Marquez outbraked him, causing him to take a wider line into the corner. Behind them, Lorenzo was slipstreamed the three riders in front of him and outbraked Maverick Vinalez who was behind Dovizioso. Going for the gap, Lorenzo suddenly found the Ducati man sweeping back towards the apex, so he hit his front brakes and went down, clipping Dovizioso’s rear wheel. Both the Ducati and Honda then slid into Vinalez’s Monster Energy Yamaha, sending clattering off the track.

Valentino Rossi who was following closely in fifth had nowhere to go and ran over Lorenzo’s Honda. He remounted his Yamaha and rode back to the pits and out of the race.

That bowling session allowed Marquez to escape the intentions of his closest pursuers and he held on to the lead all the way to the chequered flag. The win increased his championship lead over Dovizioso to 37 points, up from just 12.

Behind him, a fierce tussle developed among Danilo Petrucci (Mission Winnow Ducati), Alex Rins (Suzuki Ecstar) and pole-sitter Fabio Quartararo (Petronas Sepang Racing Team).

It was clearly apparent that the Petrucci’s Ducati was much slower in mid-corner compared to the Suzuki and Yamaha, as they closed right back in after Petrucci opened up a gap on the straights. At one point, a frustrated Rins lunged aggressively inside Petrucci, putting tyre marks on the latter’s suit’s right sleeve and shoulder.

Rins kept up the pressure but Petrucci would not yield, until the former ran into a turn too fast and almost outbraked himself into a highside. Rins fell back to 7^thand fought his way back up to 4^th, eventually.

With Petrucci’s tyres spent in defending from Rins, Quartararo pounced. Quartararo had secured his second pole of the season on Saturday but was again out-dragged into the first corner at the start. Aggressive riders then pushed him down to as far as 9^th. But he kept his patience and prevailed to score his and team’s maiden MotoGP podium, in their very first season.

Petrucci followed Quartararo in 3^rdfor his 3^rdpodium in three races. Jack Miller (Pramac Ducati) fought up the field to finish 5^th, escaping Cal Crutchlow’s (LCR Honda) aggressive push (the Englishman crashed immediately after overtaking Miller).

In 6^thwas Rins’s teammate Joan Mir. It was his best finish of the season. Pol Espargaro once again did well to finish in a high position for Red Bull KTM Factory Racing in 7^th. Takaaki Nakagami (LCR Honda) was the top independent Honda rider again in 8^th. A resurgent Tito Rabat (Reale Avintia Ducati) came home in 9^th. Johann Zarco finally finished in the Top 10 on the other Red Bull KTM Factory Racing bike.

There were only three other finishers, Andrea Iannone (Factory Aprilia Gresini), Miguel Oliveira (Red Bull KTM Tech 3) and Sylvain Guintoli (Suzuki Ecstar).

11 riders did not take the checkered flag.

Fabio Quartararo and Petronas Sepang Racing Team Secures Second Pole in Catalunya MotoGP

Rookie sensation Fabio Quartararo put himself and his Petronas Sepang Racing Team on pole for tomorrow’s Catalunya MotoGP.
It’s the fledgling team’s second pole position in their very first season in the premier class.
There are four Yamahas in the Top 5.

Rookie sensation Fabio Quartararo put himself and his Petronas Sepang Racing Team on pole for tomorrow’s Catalunya MotoGP.

It’s the fledgling team’s second pole position in their very first season in the premier class. What made the French youngster’s feat even more astounding was his arm pump surgery just 11 days ago. On top of that, bear in mind that he’s riding the 2018-spec Yamaha YZR-M1.

It’s also noteworthy that this round seems to show Yamaha’s resurgence. Quartararo, Maverick Vinalez (Monster Energy Yamaha), Franco Morbidelli and Valentino Rossi made it 1-3-4,5 for Yamaha. Only Marc Marquez was cheeky enough to slot into second among them.

Marquez is the crowd’s home hero but had posted times no faster than 2^ndthrough FP4 and the beginning of Q2. But on the last flying lap of the session, he hung on to Rossi’s coattail for a tow reminiscent of his act of slipstreaming Andrea Dovizioso in Mugello two weeks ago. However, he made a mistake and hit a turn too fast, causing the front tyre to wash out. He saved the bike with his knee, but it ruined his chances of stealing the pole position.

It was visible that Maverick Vinalez was riding hard since Friday and he did enough to put himself in 3^rd, thereby saving the factory Yamaha team from being embarrassed by the satellite team (again).

Franco Morbidelli was also a hero for the Petronas SRT outfit. A heavy crash in the morning saw him stretchered off the kitty litter. That meant that he had to fight his way through Q1. And fought he did by going fastest in the session to be promoted to Q2. He then set the second fastest time behind Quartararo on their first outing together, before being relegated to fourth.

Valentino Rossi had his best qualifying session in a long time and after the disaster in his home race in Mugello.

Apart from Marquez, all Honda and Ducati riders suffered at the track. Catalunya features tight, decreasing radius turns that benefit bikes with mid-corner speed and ability to hold tight lines. This played into the hands of Yamaha and Suzuki.

Dovizisio (Mission Winnow Ducati) could only manage sixth on the grid, with his teammate Danilo Petrucci behind him in 7^th. Dovizioso had remarked many times that the Ducati Desmosedici doesn’t like to keep turning in mid-corner.

Alex Rins (Suzuki Ecstar) actually posted 0.200s faster than Quartararo after the third sector but crashed at Turn 10. Yet, he still qualified 8^thon the grid – his best starting position ever. His teammate Joan Mir also performed well this time around, starting tomorrow’s race from 11^th.

Cal Crutchlow ended the session in 9^th, while Jorge Lorenzo qualified in the Top 10 for the first time since he joined Honda.

Quartararo has shown that he has the speed in qualifying shootouts but has yet to convert his strong qualifying into podium positions. It all came down to the 2018 YZR-M1’s appetite in chewing up the rear tyre over a race distance. The 2019 YZR-M1, on the other hand, lacks top speed but Catalunya may just prove to be the venue to break their duck.

Marquez Akui Terkejut Dengan Kepantasan Quartararo, Morbidelli

Marc Marquez mahu merampas kedudukan Fabio Quartararo dalam perlumbaan di Jerez yang akan berlangsung hari ini.

Fabio Quartararo – pelumba pasukan Petronas Yamaha – membuat kejutan di Litar Jerez dalam aksi kelayakan semalam apabila menjadi pelumba termuda untuk menduduki petak pertama, sekaligus memecah rekod yang sebelum ini dipegang Marquez.

Sementara itu, rakan sepasukan Quartararo, Franco Morbidelli akan memulakan perlumbaan di petak kedua di hadapan Marquez.

Minggu lalu, Marquez kecundang di GP Amerika – meskipun mendominasi litar tersebut selama enam tahun sebelum ini – namun pelumba berusia 26 tahun itu berharap dapat kembali ke podium di laman sendiri.

“Saya masih gembira kerana dapat menduduki kelompok depan kerana bukan mudah untuk melakukan pintasan di litar ini.

“Saya tidak menjangkakan kedua pelumba di depan mampu mencatat masa yang sangat pantas! Tetapi saya akan terus berikan yang terbaik di perlumbaan nanti,” katanya.

Ketika Marquez melakar rekod sebagai pelumba termuda yang berjaya menduduki petak pertama, dia kemudiannya meneruskan kecemerlangan di Austin pada tahun 2013.

Quartararo berharap dapat mengikut langkah Marquez di samping memperbaiki rekod terbaiknya kedudukan ketujuh di MotoGP.

“Saya langsung tidak menjangkakan keputusan ini.

“Saya berasa teruja untuk memulakan perlumbaan di petak pertama,” tambahnya.

(SUMBER: StadiumAstro)

Franco Morbidelli Gembira Dapat Hadiahkan Tempat Lima Teratas Pertama Buat Pasukan PETRONAS Yamaha Sepang Racing Team

Franco Morbidelli gembira berjaya memperolehi tempat yang ke-lima dalam pusingan MotoGP “Red Bull Grand Prix of the Americas”.
Teman sepasukannya dan penunggang rookie, Fabio Quartararo menamatkan perlumbaan tersebut di tempat yang ke-tujuh.
Ini adalah satu keputusan yang amat memberangsangkan buat pasukan PETRONAS Yamaha Sepang Racing Team.

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Franco Morbidelli Happy to Take PETRONAS Yamaha Sepang Racing Team to First Top 5

Franco Morbidelli was happy to finish fifth in the Red Bull Grand Prix of the Americas over the weekend.
His teammate and rookie Fabio Quartararo crossed the line in seventh.
It was a great for the PETRONAS Yamaha Sepang Racing Team.

While everyone was transfixed by Marc Marquez’s early departure and the subsequent battle between Valentino Rossi and Alex Rins, Franco Morbidelli rode to fifth in the Red Bull Grand Prix of the Americas over the weekend. It the first Top 5 finish for him and the new PETRONAS Yamaha Sepang Racing Team.

Morbidelli fought hard against a resurgent Andrea Dovizioso of Mission Winnow Ducati but had to give way at the end. Dovizioso had qualified 13^thon the grid and fought his way up the field to eventually finish fourth. However, Morbidelli managed to defend his fifth position from Dovizioso’s team Danilo Petrucci.

It was Morbidelli’s best MotoGP result to date since joining the premier class last year.

“I’m very, very happy about this fifth position. We were starting a bit too far, because yesterday we had not a great qualifying. But I was confident that I could be fast in the race today” said the Italian.

His team was also very happy when MotoGP rookie Fabio Quartararo finished in seventh place, one behind Petrucci.

It was excellent results for the Malaysia-based team which didn’t exist a mere six months before the start of the 2019 season.

However, Morbidelli kept his pragmatic approach, saying that the team has to keep improving. “We need to work, we need to improve to get those 8 seconds here. Couple of seconds in Argentina. So we are missing something to get on the podium.”

PETRONAS Sprinta Racing Team (SRT) Mulakan Ujian Pra Musim Mereka

Khairul Idham Pawi yang sedang menguji jentera Moto2 yang baharu – Sumber imej: PETRONAS Sprinta Racing Team

Pasukan PETRONAS Sprinta Racing Team bagi kelas Moto3 dan Moto2 telah menjalankan ujian pra musim persendirian mereka.
Ujian ini telah mengambil tempat di litar halaman pasukan berkenaan, iaitu Litar Antarabangsa Sepang.
Ujian ini telah diadakan sebelum bermulanya ujian pra musim Moto3 dan Moto2 rasmi di Jerez.

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PETRONAS Sprinta Racing Team (SRT) Takes Over Pre-Season Testing

The PETRONAS Sprinta Racing Team for Moto2 and Moto3 are currently conducting private pre-season testing.
The tests are taking place at the team’s home track, Sepang International Circuit.
The tests are ahead of the first official Moto2 and Moto3 pre-season tests at Jerez.

PETRONAS Sprinta Racing Teams for Moto2 and Moto3 took to the Sepang International Circuit (SIC) in private pre-season tests starting 11^thFebruary. SIC is the team’s home track.

Team riders are Khairul Idham Pawi for the Moto2 class, and Ayumu Sasaki and John McPhee for the Moto3 category.

Their tests sessions followed in the footsteps of the third official MotoGP test which took place from 6^thto 8^thFebruary. The PETRONAS Yamaha Sepang Racing Team riders Franco Morbidelli and Fabio Quartararo put their Yamaha YZR-M1s through their paces for the upcoming season. The Yamaha factory later announced on 7^thFebruary that Quartararo will also ride the 2019 Yamaha YZR-M1 like his teammate Morbidelli’s and those of the factory Yamaha team.

Franco Morbidelli at Sepang Winter Test 2019 – Photo credit MotoGP.com

Khairul Idham Pawi #89 – Moto2

Khairul Idham Pawi and his crew continues their work on the new Kalex machine which is powered by the new Triumph three-cylinder engine. The tests will allow Pawi to familiarize himself further to the machine. He improved his pace as the day progressed.

Pawi testing new Moto2 bike – Photo credit PETRONAS Sprinta Racing Team

The tests focused on the new engine initially, before moving to chassis, geometry and suspension set-ups.

Ayumu Sasaki #71 and John McPhee #17 – Moto3

The Sasaki/McPhee pairing concentrated on obtaining the optimum motorcycle base settings on the new 2019 Honda. Work focused on learning the new engine, chassis, and chassis geometry.

McPhee testing new Moto3 bike – Photo credit PETRONAS Sprinta Racing Team

Both riders put in many laps to obtain the sizeable data required. Sasaki logged 51 laps while McPhee logged another 38.

Next Tests

Testing continues today and tomorrow. The two Moto2 and Moto3 teams will head to their official tests at Jerez, Spain beginning 20^thFebruary and Losail, Qatar from 1^stMarch. As for the MotoGP team, the final official pre-season test will begin from 23^rdFebruary. The 2019 MotoGP season kicks off in Qatar from 10^thMarch.

PETRONAS Yamaha Sepang Racing Team – Pasukan MotoGP Pertama Malaysia Dilancarkan!

Pasukan PETRONAS Yamaha Sepang Racing Team telah dilancarkan hari ini.
Ianya merupakan pasukan MotoGP pertama dari Malaysia dan juga bagi rantau Asia Tenggara.
Penunggang pasukan ini terdiri daripada Franco Morbidelli dan Fabio Quartararo.

PETRONAS akan menampilkan sebuah pasukan dalam kejohanan Moto3, Moto2, dan MotoGP bagi musim 2019. Pasukan MotoGP berkenaan akan dikenali secara rasminya dengan nama PETRONAS Yamaha Sepang Racing Team (PETRONAS Yamaha SRT), manakala pasukan Moto3 dan Moto2 akan dikenali sebagai PETRONAS Sprinta Racing Team (PETRONAS SRT). (more…)

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