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Have to e honest i would have laughed my arse off if that had gone slightly awry.

 

In fairness mate, imagine only getting one chance to say something, with about 3 screens to look at and a director talking in your ear. I get quite frustrated with Toseland because I feel he's deliberately contrary at times, but in fairness Jonny Rea is 'the world champion' once you won it you are always known as a world champion, he just missed the word 'former' or 'current' in his references, which is a reasonably small mistake.

I've lost even more respect for Jonny Rea, he's such a personality vacuum, and how can he possibly say he still made the apex, honestly he was off the track and lost two places!

BTW the Ducati thing is getting old also, everyone focusses on Bautista weight, and yes he's 20KG lighter than Redding, but the bigger deal is that the V4R revs to 16K as a road bike, so with WSBK rules it's allowed to rev to nearly 17k, the ZX10, something liek 14k so 15k perhaps in race trim. The answer is to impose a sensible rev limit on the bikes, now that they are all 1000cc and make them work to that, like in GP where they have a max bore size which effectively limits revs, because you can only go to a certain piston speed before things get too stretchy and we all play the metalic boom boom game.

talking of which, did anyone see the Suzuki blow up in BSB in Qually, wow, it's literally like the crank snapped and fired out the block, because the bike jumped as it went and it was just oil everywhere, he's lucky not to be hurt.

 

ANyone see Dan Linfoots accident at Snetterton yesterday, amazed he walked away from it.

(not my vid and i would turn the sound down so you dont hear the guy speak if i were you)

Scary crash for Dan Linfoot British superbikes superstock 1000s Snetterton 2022, BSB he walked away - YouTube

 

2011 was the last championship with checa.

then

before that it was Bayliss, toseland, hodgy and foggy

 

Founded in 1988 with thirteen Ducati winners from that period, not a bad hit rate for the Itailan manufacturer, but certainly poor results ever since Checa's day.

 

It's all about the interpretation of the rule book, always has been since day one.

 

If they had the time again knowing what they do now about engine and grip dynamics, they would never ever have allowed V twins to race again 4cyls. The way the bikes made power and could use less gears etc just massively played into their hands, look at what Honda did when they switched to the V Twin. The SP2 would have gone on to win more WSBK titles I'm totally convinced, it was a weapon.

I think incidentally the reason the WSBK Ducati has found so much form is the reason it's struggling so much in british championship. It seems to be built for big smooth GP style tracks of which are more and more in WSBK where the Yamaha in the UK is the bike to be on.

 

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Just got around to watching these races.

Some great racing - one of the best race weekends I have seen for a long time for action.

Axel Bassani - loved seeing a satellite rider hit the front - definitely put a rocket up Rinaldi!

But - Jonathan Rea blatantly punted Bautista off in such an obvious fashion I can’t believe he wasn’t penalised more severely.

I hate to see such behaviour in racing - I know we get it all of the time in F1 but it shouldn’t be accepted as easily as it is.

if you have to fight dirty to win then you aren’t a champion in my opinion.

 

Yeah, but don't forget.... Jonny Rea still made the apex... according to him..

 

I couldn’t watch him stand there lying to everyone watching - knowing how obvious it was - I don’t know how people do it - shows a very flawed character in my book.

Should go into politics after he retires from racing………