Just skim read the thread (sorry) but need to be elswehere just now ... so quickly. I hope Rossi gets the Gressini ride and its not restricted ... Cal going to Ducati? I know they must have made him a very big fat offer but I've always thought Cal has the winning British Bulldog streak in him and he (maybe) knows his best chances are with Yamaha for maybe less money ... even on a works ride over what Ducati can afford? Hey even if Cal does sign for Ducati ... who could blame him, it has to be a very large sum of money already? ... but I still think he's playing his cards as close to his chest as he can. I hope Cal gets a works Yam for 2013. I'll leave it at that.
Yep, but all good mate. Hopefully I'll get a chance to watch the race tonight. It's Sat morning and I've been for a ride and now I'm at work because of technical problems delaying our go live and I should be at home cleaning/studying.. ahh, there's never enough hours in the day it seems lately!
That to but it is a fortunate side effect Besides I can get up early, I managed 1100 and tomorrow will be about 0900
Yes but you can't burn the candle at both ends or you'll burn out. You just get tired and demotivated. For a lot of the start of this year I was out the door at 5:30am, 40-70k cycle before work and at my desk by 7:30am or 8am, depending on the distance I rode. Then I'd be at work until anywhere from 6-10pm and doing Uni one night a week and on the weekends ... it eventually wears you down! I'm taking a much more balanced approach now, though still working long hours etc, I'm just making sure I have a rest day with a good sleep in! And making sure I go out and have a few beers once a week. Anyway ... enough of that ... Good to see Casey get a win, feel sorry for Jorge though. It's never nice being punted. Casey came back from it last year so we'll see if Jorge can this year. It seems Casey was able to make the soft tyre work but they've still got chatter problems and there's no real testing time over the next two weekends so he really needs to try and keep the points deficit to Jorge to 10. But, anything can happen, as we saw last night! Oh and Bautista gets put to the back of the grid?! It was a boneheaded move, for sure, but no different to many others and I don't think they should be effectively discouraging guys from having a go. I mean, look at Marquez!
Marquez was born with a silverspoon in his mouth mate. I also see bridgestone are worried as spies and rossis rear ryres had chunks /long strips of rubber missing down to the carcass so are taking them to the lab in japan Not good on a 200+ mph race bike. Tbh the whole series is now fucked up with stupid rules. No wonder caseys's pissed off with it all and going.
Does explain part of the reason why their pace slowed later in the race More damning for Bridgestone is that the CRT bikes were less than 1 second faster / lap than the Moto2 bikes ..... when a CBR600 engined bike is almost on the pace of an RSV4/Fireblade engined bike, then big questions need to be asked about why, before the CRT teams say "what's the point?" and go play elsewhere.
Thats what happens when there is no competition . Single tyre rule is shite and the sooner the rulers realise that they got it wrong the better.
Seems to work okay for WSB, moto2 and moto3. But Bridgestone have never really got to grips with motogp, and it doesn't improve the series in any way. Time to outlaw the ruling.
Didnt work that well at monza when it was too wet for the Pirelli wets so the race was stopped for safety reasons. One tyre rule is a rubbish rule in every series. Once you have no competition why would you spend money on making something better than what you already have. Needs to be open to all tyre manufacturers but with no special tyres for special teams. Whatever comes to the race is available to all teams using that brand.
And different tyres on different bikes would have made a difference would it. If a tyre isnt up to it, and it obviously isnt , Then it needs to be made different . Competition makes things better.
I seem to remember everyone being on michelins in the 500's, without exception some years. Hey, I'm on your side, but I do think that a change in some classes might be detrimental to the spectacle. Sure, racing improves the breed, but chasing technological advantages has led motogp to where it is now - too few riders, too little action, same old faces on the podium every time. Sometimes the spectacle is more important than progress.
I think that sometimes the rule makers get it wrong and then wont go back on that decision in case it makes them look bad. They would be far better off getting rid of launch control , anti wheelie , Traction control etc and let the bike manufactures loose to make the best bike without all the electronic help . Then we would see the best riders doing what they do best.
