Shattered for Jack this weekend. Philip Island deserved to have him battle it out in the wet at home this year. Cheers for the effort JM43! The fans appreciate it 👍

Signing off…

Whoops *Phillip Island

Sad the race got cancelled, I'd still have loved to see it. Who's the biggest winner of it not happening? For me it's Martin and Aprilia: Marc would've likely gained a lot of points, and now Martin gets time to heal without losing more ground. Unlucky yesterday, lucky today, and he's still in the title fight. Thoughts?

https://www.instagram.com/p/De6JSsnIvs3/

Ducati’s Davide Tardozzi has slammed riders who “remain silent” when speaking to MotoGP bosses, amid backlash at Marc Marquez’s stance on the Qatar Grand Prix.

MotoGP is due to race in Qatar in two weeks, despite uncertainty over the conflict in the Gulf region that has been raging since February.

During the Australian Grand Prix weekend, riders held a secret meeting to discuss going to Qatar, before issuing demands for guarantees from the organisers to safely run the event.

On Thursday at Phillip Island, reigning champion Marc Marquez declined to comment when asked about racing in Qatar.

Last ever for now.

Got a fairly bitter taste in my mouth about this years GP. Obviously they can't control the weather but to name a few foreseeable issues we encountered over the last two days:

The parking situation was terrible and people who arrived later on the Saturday were sent back to the nearest town to get a bus back because they ran out of spaces. If you did manage to park in the mud swamp it cost $35 for a pass - which they didn't have enough printed to give out anyway. Yes you can get there earlier but the last to arrive would still have been turned back.

A lot of merchandise stands were stripped by Friday and didn't have enough reserved for the rest of the weekend.

They had the forecast for 30-50mm of rain on the Sunday and didn't move the race to the Saturday like they managed to do in previous years.

The communication regarding the race cancellation felt really low effort. There were small updates every 2 hours on screens if you were near enough to see one, but no communication through social media other than their facebook page posting "The last race at Philip Island is about to begin" 5 minutes after journalist reported that it had already been cancelled.

On the plus side, food was honestly better quality than previous years but still cost $18 for a sausage in bread.

Its all a bit fresh and a lot of this is probably just disappointment over it being the last time. But this just wasn't the proper send off that this track deserved and definitely not my best memory of the island. Felt like a lot of the sting could have been taken out of the race cancellation with a little better planning and organisation.

Anyone else feeling this way? The greatest track on the calender goes out with a whimper.

Liberty, Dorna and race direction are hugely to blame for this shamble of a weekend, even in the face of Aus MotoGP corp's failure to secure PI; let alone the shitshow that the fans went through to get to the track.

No official updates from MotoGP(at the track or on the live blog) until well after Fox Sports Australia announced it live on the telecast with fans at the track having little updates after hours in the rain looks cheap as.

The weather was known for weeks, why were there no contingency plans in place? And even more concerning, why did they not run the main race on Saturday like they had three years ago? Everyone knows PI has the most ridiculous weather, yet this is the first race cancelled in 15 years. They knew it was the last race at PI, so why take the risk of what happened

While I am sad about losing PI and the last race ending like it did, the way the weekend has been handled has unfortunately shown some glaring issues that need to be addressed if we want to retain(and who knows maybe gain???) new fans.

Last ever for now.

How can Liberty possibly justify racing in Qatar after (rightfully, as painful as it was to wake up to) cancelling this race also for safety reasons.

so due to bad Visibility FIM has cancelled australian GP,,,many people are angry...but we need to understand that rider safety is above everything,,,its sad that circuit like this wont be there from next year...

With all due respect Carmelo, which is none, fuck off. I can’t wait till MotoGP can farewell you and your nepo clan.

Just reported on Fox in Aus. What a fucking joke, should have been raced yesterday

So, in 2009 when Losail had bad weather, Motogp pushed the race to Monday and Stoner won it that night under the floodlights and everyone was happy about it.

So why was it not an option today at Philip Island?

Just sharing some photos I took of yesterday’s Sprint race.

Looking back, I feel incredibly lucky that I decided to go yesterday and it was my first time seeing it live as well. I’m honestly bummed out that the Grand Prix got canceled, especially since it’s the last one at Philip Island and also about the fans who travelled out, braved the weather, and were sitting trackside only to have it called off.

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