Great superpole! Rea and Toprak exactly same time, with Redding sticking that old dog bmw on 3rd! Funny how Rea seems happy to lead Redding our recently, last couple of rounds they have gone out together and it’s really helped Redding. Should be another good, tight and probably hard race!
Ducati banging it in with Bautista stretching the championship lead! Excellent ride from Scott for 2nd, uncharacteristic mistakes by toprack and Rea, but you take what you can…. And all the other riders moaning about how fast the Ducati is 8
Makes me laugh that they moan about it’s straight line speed when it never wins championships racers never change do they
It’s the same shit every year yet the Ducati never seems to win the championship despite apparently having the same thrust capacity as the starship enterprise
I used to moan about it. Why is that 582 with 54hp quicker on the straight and I have more corner speed on my 64hp 620?! Fucking cheating bastards! Or maybe it’s gearing and I was 18st and they were 12….
To me, the replays clearly show what went on, Rea was behind, came up the inside, lifted the bike up and elbow out and punted Bautista off. A shame because it was lining up to be another epic with the three championship leader’s. A single long lap penalty was no penalty at all - IMHO. Rea’s post race interview ‘Bautista took my line’, worthy of the comedy channel.....
Reminds me why I dislike him. Without knowing him, obvs. Disgraceful and a cop out to not give him at least double long lap if not exclude him with black flag. He simply ram into him, never seen anything more obvious.
Just listening to Rea. What a load of bollox. He made his apex? Other people ‘not giving way’ when he was up the inside? Think he lost his head and thought fuck it, he’s having this!!’ And saying Rinaldo had bad intention…. Chas called it right for me…
I see jr has had to turn the comments off on his Insta posts, very sad. The wsb account is just getting spammed with his gammon supporters calling Malaysian bot accounts snowflakes and blerting “it’s racing” at them lol Gang of absolute beauts. It was a shitty move and he should have been given at least two long laps but it hasn’t ruined the season and we go again.
I am gobsmacked by the anti-Ducati commentating. Toseland even said at one point “The world champion” when referring to Rea…he ain’t. And the way Toseland cries “ Oh, the Ducati horsepower advantage…!!” - makes me feel a bit queasy.
Ridiculous isn’t it. Funny how it wasn’t last year, and it’s only Bautista, and how the others have different strengths and is rarely mentioned.
