Moto Gp 2010

[Dan Norton]

We havent had a thread on Moto GP yet.

So im starting one.:Thumbsup!

Rossi to win the championship again.
However, Stoner to win at Qatar tonight.

[Dan Norton]

Hahaha....Stoner falls off very early on!

Rossi wins!

Hello 2010 title!

[RobMatthews]

just watched this tonight,much better than f1 at the moment and much more exciting!

What an end to the race to! the late pass by lorenzo to take 2nd place, the guy has very big balls and with the yamaha or honda? hitting 320kmh in just  1 km!

[Dan Norton]

Awesome 1st race wasnt it!

Spies in 5th just a second or two off rossi aswell.

[Nik da Greek]

Yeah, a good race, probably more interesting than the entire second half of last season in one race there! Nice to see Hayden back up there, he must feel sick being raped on the line by Haaaahnda power at the last second.

Edwards made to look a bit of a mug by finishing four places behind his "rookie" teammate :Giggle. Mind you, I think that Ben\'s Pies is one of the best riders in any class in the world, and I don\'t think it\'ll be long before he\'s challenging for wins......if his second-rate bike lets him .

Funny to see Stoner fall off for no good reason, guess his head\'s still broken from last year then. At least he can start sulking early now, he\'s never happy till ha can have a good grizzle :rollin

What\'s going on with the new Haaahnda fairings, they look like a late \'90s Kawasaki ZX9 with that big snout intake thing :3Confused.




.....of course, this won\'t be a proper MotoGP thread without Martiny going on about how much he hates Hondas, ahhh those were the days

[Kriss]

Stoner:"Who is behind me?"
Ducati team:"Dovizioso...Dovizioso...Dovizioso...Rossi!"
And Stoner fell...

[CharlieP]

Can we have a thread on BSB?!? I know the first round winner :Viking lol

[Dan Norton]

Can we have a thread on BSB?!? I know the first round winner :Viking lol

No im afraid not!

[Nik da Greek]

I\'ll chat to you about BSB, Charlie, these glory hunters don\'t understand that real racing happens away from the MotoGp chequebooks :rollin :p

Were you at Brands? I thought that was a great day\'s racing, to be fair, apart from Hodgson\'s no-show. Big up to Tommy Hill, hopefully he can stay injury free and he\'ll show the class he\'s always had but never been able to translate into form :yes.

Bet it was easier getting your Buell out of the quagmire of the parking fields than it was getting my ZX (if you were there, obviously). It was, in the words of the immortal Kevin Schwantz, "a bit squirrelly"

[Nik da Greek]

Stuart Easton, what a boy. He was giving an interview about his leg injury from Cadwell testing, just nonchalantly saying about how it wasn\'t really painful, just a bit inconvenient, and it restricted movement a bit. Like, faaaaaark, have you seen the injury ? It\'s horrific, it looks like a butchers\' shop window! And it turns out all the stitches were pulling through and it was seeping down his leg into his boot. Proper hard lad, despite what people say about him. Pics here on this MCN article, I suggest you don\'t look if you\'re squeamish......
http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/sport/sportresults/British-Superbikes/2010/March/mar3110-eastons-injury-from-cadwell-crash/?R=EPI-123098

[CharlieP]

I\'ll chat to you about BSB, Charlie, these glory hunters don\'t understand that real racing happens away from the MotoGp chequebooks :rollin :p
 
Were you at Brands? I thought that was a great day\'s racing, to be fair, apart from Hodgson\'s no-show. Big up to Tommy Hill, hopefully he can stay injury free and he\'ll show the class he\'s always had but never been able to translate into form :yes.
 
Bet it was easier getting your Buell out of the quagmire of the parking fields than it was getting my ZX (if you were there, obviously). It was, in the words of the immortal Kevin Schwantz, "a bit squirrelly"

 
No didnt go, neither Tommy or Jimmy got me free tickets! haha
They\'ve been next door neighbours for years, and Jim and his dad do quite a bit of work for us.
Hill domination at the weekend! haha

[JasonC]

I was a bit gutted for Hayden to lose out on that straight, the power of that honda is well impressive though! Couldn\'t believe Stoner coming off, i was really hoping for a stoner/rossi battle! At least he didnt come off in the warm-up lap again...

[clive]

I\'ll chat to you about BSB, Charlie, these glory hunters don\'t understand that real racing happens away from the MotoGp chequebooks :rollin :p

Ahh, that will be the series thats easier for the racers they put out to graze:Giggle:Giggle

Seriously, just playing and  I know you are refering to BSB ,

You know years ago I wouldn\'t have missed a World Super Bike race and it nearly wiped out GP as riders activly went WSB instead,  that is until Moto came along !

If Moto GP was just down to checkbooks then by form Toseland should have sorted em out along with a few other who step up and stepped back down to WSB over the last couple of years which feels like a shadow of it\'s former self.

Back to present blow F1, "WHAT A RACE" with or without Stoner  :burnout

That\'s it, hand grenade in, I\'ll get me coat:Giggle.

[Nik da Greek]

Oooh, you know how to press my buttons, Clive :Giggle.

MotoGP has always been about buying the championship, ever since they stopped using two-strokes and the rider stopped making more difference than the bike. The electronics packages are unregulated, and the biggest single expense on the bike now, which is exactly why people like Toseland have no chance whatsoever of being competitive. Give someone a bike with similar (ridiculously high) horsepower and half the traction control to someone else and it\'s no surprise if they finish second. I picked Toseland not because I\'m a massive fan or I think he\'s the best rider ever but because he\'s th example you used, btw, there are plenty of others.

In this current iteration of MOtoGP it takes an extremely rare talent (like once a generation.....Rossi?) to make a difference over the electronics package. Even he spent a while lost in the wilderness a couple of years back and even his supernatural talent couldn\'t overcome the electronics shortcomings.

I guess there\'s also the argument of what constitutes "fantastic racing". If it means a lot of people going very fast on technological tours de force but generally separated by several seconds on the track (as in F1) then MotoGP is undeniably top. If it means lots of people still going very fast but also barging into each other and overtaking once in a while, then Superbikes is yer animal. Which is why I like it. But then, I like all bike racing, even AMA where only four bikes stand a chance of winning and they can lap the other 70-odd riders every race :Hammer.

For me BSB, not WSB, offers the best "racing" but not necesarily the best overall package. It\'s a fascinating mix of, as you put it, old riders put out to pasture but still quick, and young guns desperate to make their name. Plus, the machinery is relevant to something we could all understand and aspire to. Even in WSB the traction control is what wins races now as much as talent, which is fine if that\'s what you\'re into but I and many others like to think there\'s still room for human achievement, skill and endeavour in the sport :p

[Archbish]

I\'m reckoning over the last few years, the most memorable races have come from Moto GP.  Rossi vs Stoner @ laguna seca, Rossi vs Gibernau @ Jerez, Rossi vs Lorenzo @ Catalunya.  Before that it was WSB with Foggy vs Corser @ phillip island \'99.  Infact Foggy vs Corser vs Biaggi at nearly every race for a while...

Before that BTCC - when Matt Neal won a race as the first privateer to do so, when John Cleland got shunted, and finally got his car back on track, only to take out the guy that shunted him at the first corner, when Charlie Cox shot off the track backwards between a tree and an ambulance, when the volvo\'s turned up, and were actually pretty bloody good...

Oh, all happy days... *grin*