Longueur: 4.448 m. / 2,764 miles
Largeur: 13m
Virages à gauche: 7
Virages à droite: 5
Ligne droite: 900 m. / 0,559 miles
Construction: 1956
Modifié: 1988
Avec 40 points de retard,
Lorenzo a lui-même annoncé de ne plus avoir de chances pour le titre. C'est bien sûr mathématiquement faux, même s'il faudrait pour cela une série noire pour
Stoner qui aura a coeur de bien faire sur ses terres.
La seule vraie incertitude concerne la troisième marche du podium. Avec la brusque tension entre
Dovizioso et Honda, le géant japonais aura à coeur d'y placer
Pedrosa...
Le team Ducati semblait avoir trouvé un très bon set-up pour la GP11.2 de
Rossi au Japon. Espérons que ce soit également le cas en Australie et que la blessure au petit doigt de l'Italien ne le gêne pas.
-
Damian Cudlin, pilote officiel australien de la Suter Moto1, remplace
Hector Barbera (clavicule cassée) après avoir remplacé Loris Capirossi au Japon.
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Capirossi fait sa rentrée chez Pramac.
- Silence bien sombre concernant l'avenir de
Suzuki. Aucune annonce officielle malgré une réunion au Japon, aucune participation aux essais pré-2012; un tel comportement n'est pas en ligne avec une participation programmée. Souhaitons seulement, sans y croire, à une surprise de dernière minute...
[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir cette image]Seulement un petit point sépare
Marquez de
Bradl mais l'Espagnol est dans une spirale ascendante, au contraire de l'Allemand, en situation technique plus difficile et ayant revu son objectif de passer en MotoGP à la baisse.
Derrière, seul
Iannone a réussi à s'échapper d'un groupe de furieux comprenant
De Angelis,
Corsi,
Luthi et
Smith.
A noter que les espoirs de passage en MotoGP ou Moto1, s'ils se restreignent, restent possible pour
Iannone,
Luthi... et un
De Angelis bien silencieux alors que sa moto semble destinée à
Johan Zarco...
- Wild Cards :
Blake Leigh Smith et
Kris McLaren participeront sur les machines jaunes fluo du BRP Racing, une FTR 2010 pour le premier, une Suter 2010 pour le second.
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Julian Simon, toujours convalescent, sera cette fois remplacé par
Iván Moreno , actuellement 4ème du CEV.
- L'état de
Gadea s'améliore mais le pilote espagnol a probablement fini sa saison.
[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir cette image]31 points entre
Terol et
Zarco laissent encore la place à l'espoir côté français; l'Espagnol semble assuré de remporter le titre sauf erreur grossière ou casse mécanique. Néanmoins, on peut être certain que le Français n'aura de cesse de lui mettre la pression, justement pour provoquer ce type d'erreur...
Cortese, mais surtout
Vinales, la révélation de l 'année, seront des aides précieuses pour Johann au moment où
Faubel monte en puissance pour aider son coéquipier.
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KTM a présenté son moteur Moto3 et son organisation 2012 (
Ajo team officiel, KTM-Kalex pour les autres). La marque autrichienne semble avoir fait des essais vendredi dernier à Cartagène.
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Manuel Tatasciore revient au Phonica Racing pour remplacer Syunya Mori, ce dernier ayant assuré partiellement l'intérim de Simone Grotzkyj (au Japon) absent depuis le GP de Brno.
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Colandrea Marco remplace Francesco Mauriello, Champion 125GP d'Italie 2010, au sein du WTR Ten10 Racing.
- Wild Cards :
Avalon Biddle, Josh Hook, Nicky Diles, Tom Hatton et Alex Phillips.
[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir cette image]Avalon Biddle
[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir cette image]Josh Hook
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[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir cette image]Tom Hatton
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- A noter qu'
Arthur Sissis, vice-champion Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup 2011 ayant refuser de participer au GP car on ne lui proposait qu'une Honda RS125 complètement dépassée, c'est Tom Hatton qui en hérite...
Bridgestone slick compounds available: Front: Soft, Medium. Rear (asymmetric): Medium, Hard
As the first of the final back-to-back pair of overseas races of the 2011 season, the MotoGP paddock heads to Australia’s Phillip Island circuit for round 16 on 16th October, where mathematically there is the first chance for the 2011 title to be sealed.
Phillip Island is an unusual circuit in that it manages to be the least demanding venue on the calendar for the front tyres and the right shoulders of the rears, whilst at the same time the hardest of the year for the left side of the rears.
The weather at the coastal track is often cold and windy in October, meaning that softer compounds are required to generate grip and good warm-up performance, and with only one area of heavy braking front tyre stability is not so critical. But the circuit is fast and flowing, with the highest average speed of any circuit on the calendar, and the last two long left-handers are responsible for the highest rear tyre temperatures of the season.
All of which requires Bridgestone to provide a special construction of rear slick tyre designed to maximise warm-up performance, particularly in the cold morning sessions, whilst also being able to cope with tyre temperatures that can exceed 120 degrees Celsius.
The rear tyres Bridgestone have selected for Phillip Island have been improved since last year, in the form of construction and ability to cope with temperature, so consequently the available compounds are one step softer than in previous years. Both options feature the extra soft compound rubber in their right shoulders for maximum warm-up and rider safety and confidence in the opening laps, and either the medium or hard rubber in the left side. These special construction tyres have already been proved in action this year, at the almost-as-demanding Sachsenring.
As far as front tyre compounds are concerned, they are the same as last year in soft and medium compound guise. Only two front tyre options are available in Phillip Island, as opposed the three that have been offered since the Czech Republic Grand Prix, because the soft compound front slick is already selected for Australia for its warm-up performance advantage so a third emergency spec for cold weather is not needed.
Hiroshi Yamada – Manager, Bridgestone Motorsport Department
“Casey enters the Australian Grand Prix with a 40 point lead over Jorge meaning that if he wins, which he has done here at his home track for the last four years in a row, he can clinch the World Championship if Jorge finishes fourth or lower so it is bound to be a tense but very exciting race weekend. Phillip Island is an unusual circuit for us because of the disparity of the demands placed on the left and right shoulders of the rear tyres, but I am confident in our tyre offering this year, especially as we have chosen softer rear slicks for increased rider safety in an ongoing drive to provide the best possible warm-up performance.”
Hirohide Hamashima – Assistant to Director, Motorsport Tyre Development Division
“Despite being the highest speed circuit on the calendar with an average speed of over 180kmh, Phillip Island is generally not tough on most sections of the front and rear tyres because of the low ambient temperature and flowing nature that presents only one point of heavy braking in the lap. However the challenge comes from the last two corners in particular, as by stark contrast they generate the highest rear tyre temperatures of the year in the left shoulders. The two corners are long and fast and generate high lateral loads and thus temperature and the stresses demand a special construction of asymmetric rear tyre in order to cope without blistering.
“We have seen in the past that the cold and rain can be important factors so we have selected softer compounds of rear slick tyre this year, the same as we made available in Germany earlier in the year. Using a special construction, the rear tyres we have selected are able to cope with such temperature whilst the softer options will maximise warm-up performance and rider safety in the early laps of each session which is important.”
Dunlop will bring the front tyre allocation of the 717 hard compound which has been used at all rounds so far this year allied to the 302 medium which offers similar grip but greater stability than the 753 medium used last time out at Motegi.
For the rear, it’s the choice of two ATR03 asymmetric tyres with the W919 and W943.
“Phillips Island is one of the most demanding circuits we visit,” explains Dunlop Motorsport’s Moto2 co-ordinator, Clinton Howe.
“It’s up there with Sachsenring and Indianapolis, due to the nature of the long left hand entering the start-finish straight, where we can see temperature reach anything up to around 150˚C on the rear tyre.
“This means we take an ATR03 construction which is asymmetric to reduce the heat build-up on the left hand side, and encourage heat creation on the right hand side so the compound is sticky on the rare occasions over the course of a lap when the right side is used.”
Australia may have the reputation of being a locale of fine weather, but Phillip Island can get parky.
“The track temperature very rarely gets above 25˚C,” says Howe. “It’s no surprise that Phillip Island is a favoured resort for penguins!
“The actual track surface is not very abrasive, however because it usually pretty cool it is often difficult to get the tyres up to a good working temperature and in many ways this is one of the biggest challenges.”
Dunlop Motorsport’s Senior Tyre Engineer (Motorcycle Race), Chris Valentine gives his take on the next destination on the Moto2 calendar.
“Philip Island is the second of our left handed circuits and I’m sure all avid MotoGP fans will remember the likes of Rossi smoking the rear tyre through the last turn, which causes both high heat generation and high abrasion for us to contend with.
“With the lack of electronic aids in Moto2 this is probably more of a problem for us than the bigger class so expect some exciting racing from the 600s as they go from smoking hot tyres on the left hand side through the last turn to an almost cold right hand side of the tyre as they enter the fast right hander of turn one at the end of the long start straight.”
VENDREDI:04:30 - Essais des 125cc (30mn)
LIVE05:00 - Essais Moto GP (1h)
LIVE06:00 - Essais Moto2 (1h)
LIVESAMEDI:05:00 - Qualifications 125cc (1h)
LIVE06:00 - Qualification GP (1h)
LIVE08:30 - Qualifications Moto2 (30 mn)
12:00 - Qualifications Moto2 (30mn)
12:30 - Qualification GP (45mn)
13:15 - Qualifications 125cc (45mn)
DIMANCHE:03:20 - Qualifications 125cc (40mn)
04:00 - Course 125cc (1h15mn)
LIVE05:15 - Course Moto2 (1h45mn)
LIVE07:00 - Course MotoGP (1h15mn)
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