Piss off!!!
We call them neighbours here
Tis wet though they are pumping water out of the gravel traps
And washing/ sweeping gravel and mud off the track at turn 12. Would hate to be camping there......
AUSTRALIAN GP: Phillip Island 2010
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And washing/ sweeping gravel and mud off the track at turn 12. Would hate to be camping there......
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Tennessee
why don't they just delay the race and do it on monday? didn't they do the same thing with qatar?...or was it another race?
yes Qatar 2009....but you don't have the king of Saudi Arabia strongly suggesting you to race the next day and holding the planes over...
the crazy thing is the Qatar attendence was like 8,000.....
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Norah Head
Mind you it could well be 45degC on Monday if they delay it till then
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cant see anything on a pedro pies incident twitter from the track has nothing
Pedro is ...... hes spent more time in clinaca mobile than on the track pies bottled it
Rossi, Lorenzo and Stoner all saying Phillip Island race needs to be run earlier on calendar. Air and track temperature 10 degrees today!
today's quote tech .... guys
"That's got to be some of the worst conditions you'll ever have to ride in. The track was still wet, it was freezing cold and the wind was blowing at 900mph!" - Colin Edwards MotoGP rookie Ben Spies has explained why he did the least laps of any rider during Friday's wet and windy free practice session at Phillip Island in Australia.
The session was delayed by several hours due to the weather, but all riders except Spies took to the track when the go-ahead was finally given.
The Monster Yamaha Tech 3 rider waited in the pits for almost 20-minutes of the hour, before registering three laps and calling it a day. Even Dani Pedrosa, making his return from injury, rode for seven laps.
"There wasn't a lot to be gained out there today," explained Spies, who was unsurprisingly 17th and last. "I did a couple of laps and it is not the rain and the cold, but the wind was so unpredictable it was making it quite dangerous.
"I couldn't really brake on the right line and to gain anything out there this afternoon I'd have to ride so on the limit that it wasn't worth taking any risks. If it was Saturday morning and it was going to be like this all day I'd have stuck in a full session, but I wasn't going to learn much when the conditions are that bad.
"I didn't want to risk getting hurt or tearing up any equipment and making the guys have to build up a new bike for tomorrow just because I made a mistake in less than ideal conditions.
"Hopefully the weather will be better tomorrow and we can get some serious work done because I love this track and am confident of another strong performance in the race," concluded Spies, who won one race at the 2009 Phillip Island World Superbike round.
Team-mate Colin Edwards rode for 19 laps on his way to eighth place, in a session led by new world champion Jorge Lorenzo, but said the conditions were among the worst he has experienced.
Pedro is ...... hes spent more time in clinaca mobile than on the track pies bottled it
Rossi, Lorenzo and Stoner all saying Phillip Island race needs to be run earlier on calendar. Air and track temperature 10 degrees today!
today's quote tech .... guys
"That's got to be some of the worst conditions you'll ever have to ride in. The track was still wet, it was freezing cold and the wind was blowing at 900mph!" - Colin Edwards MotoGP rookie Ben Spies has explained why he did the least laps of any rider during Friday's wet and windy free practice session at Phillip Island in Australia.
The session was delayed by several hours due to the weather, but all riders except Spies took to the track when the go-ahead was finally given.
The Monster Yamaha Tech 3 rider waited in the pits for almost 20-minutes of the hour, before registering three laps and calling it a day. Even Dani Pedrosa, making his return from injury, rode for seven laps.
"There wasn't a lot to be gained out there today," explained Spies, who was unsurprisingly 17th and last. "I did a couple of laps and it is not the rain and the cold, but the wind was so unpredictable it was making it quite dangerous.
"I couldn't really brake on the right line and to gain anything out there this afternoon I'd have to ride so on the limit that it wasn't worth taking any risks. If it was Saturday morning and it was going to be like this all day I'd have stuck in a full session, but I wasn't going to learn much when the conditions are that bad.
"I didn't want to risk getting hurt or tearing up any equipment and making the guys have to build up a new bike for tomorrow just because I made a mistake in less than ideal conditions.
"Hopefully the weather will be better tomorrow and we can get some serious work done because I love this track and am confident of another strong performance in the race," concluded Spies, who won one race at the 2009 Phillip Island World Superbike round.
Team-mate Colin Edwards rode for 19 laps on his way to eighth place, in a session led by new world champion Jorge Lorenzo, but said the conditions were among the worst he has experienced.
Some days you can even seem to smell the antarctic ice in the air down that way.
Mind you it could well be 45degC on Monday if they delay it till thenBest to put up with the lottery you get today with Penguin island.
I remember PI for World Superbikes this year- the Friday was close to 35 degrees and everybody was sweltering (lots of people in leathers with heatstroke!!!), come Saturday and Sunday it was freezing, cloudy, windy and miserable again (got clearer as the weekend went on from memory though). You gotta love Phillip Island for dishing up everything you don't want
Hope the rain does hold off though, and the wind too. Although I'm hoping for that all across Australia this weekend anyway! (going to an engagement party tomorrow at a park and no wet weather plans....)
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Norah Head
Is that in Newy? cos I just got back from there tonight ( pies n Hotdogs at Harry's CdW's with the kids ) the weather upthere was pretty good compared to back on the C Coast. Wind was howling down here and yet hardly a breese up there.
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Norah Head
Just checked the weather radar, its blowing straight up from the south ..... nothing between there and Antarctica .... Brrrr "watch out for flying penguins" weather. Hard to see what it will be like by Sunday too
Will Lorenzo break Stoners PI dominance?
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Shovel's Club
why can't Rizla Suzuki have their normal sponsors out? They said something about local laws??
Aussie has something against rolling papers I guess. Damn tobacco for giving papers a bad name.
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