[kropotkin thinks...] - Valencia MotoGP Sunday Subscriber Notes: The Dangers Of Racin

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In these subscriber notes:

• The dangers of motorcycle racing
• Marc Márquez' remarkable season
• Andrea Dovizioso's remarkable season
• Jack Miller rides again
• Why Danilo Petrucci is staying in factory Ducati
• What riders think of Johann Zarco
• Yamahas lacking grip, with one exception
• Joan Mir on why being a rookie at Suzuki is harder than on a Yamaha

The last race of 2019 was a demonstration of just how dangerous motorcycle racing can be (although footage from the crashes at the Macau Grand Prix puts that into some perspective). The cold, the wind, and to be frank, allowing a rider who should have been black flagged for spewing liquids all over the track on three separate occasions this week to start a race created a host of situations which could have turned out really badly. But we got lucky.

Let's start with Aron Canet. The Moto3 rider had white smoke leaking from his Sterilgarda KTM during FP1 on Friday. He had white smoke leaking from his bike on the sighting lap before the race, which caused him and then Ayumu Sasaki to crash at Turn 6, and the race to be delayed. Despite the problem with Canet's KTM, the Spaniard was allowed to start the race, and more white smoke emerged from the bike, the KTM containing a seemingly endless supply.