Laguna race thread
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Pomona NY
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Will someone please pay attention to Povol?
All bark and no (intellectual) bite. Lie down with dogs and wake up with fleas. Etc etc etc.
We all did this dance in JR High. You're borin' me to death. We could trade snapshots forever.
If you ever have anything of consequence to say, let me know.
Joined May 2009
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Shovel's Club
Joined Feb 2007
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Tennessee
What did Schwantz think about Bostrom.
[size="-1"]Ben Bostrom really got thrown into the shark pool. I got word that they were thinking about Ben, and I threw in some names that I thought might be a little bit more the future of the sport, instead of the past of the sport. But no matter who it is and what it is, getting thrown into a MotoGP ride without ever having tested, without ever having ridden on a set of Bridgestones, is not in any way, shape or form going to be easy for anybody.[/size]
[size="-1"]The carbon brakes dilemma he seemed to have, I don't think those are as much of an adjustment as some people have said. That's kind of like Dunlops and Michelins to me, at least back when I raced. "I can't ride that bike, it's on Michelins." I don't know. I think carbon brakes, you squeeze the lever until the back end lifts in the air, and then you realize, "Well, that's as hard as I can do that." They are much more powerful, but it's just like going from a 600 to a Superbike. It takes you five laps to figure it out.[/size]
[size="-1"]I think Ben going faster than Toni Elias did in the race, and then pulling in, was a real disappointment. He never was going to win the race, and if he committed to do the race, he needed to commit to doing the race. He obviously knew what the obligations were, between his Superbike and MotoGP. To pull in nine laps into the race, had I been Lucio Cecchinello, I'd have been really disappointed. Even though he went faster than Elias. "I hired you for this weekend to race my bike. I didn't hire you to ride it in all the practice sessions, and then pull in in the race. I hired you to race it. You knew that the race was 30-some-odd laps long. You knew that you had, right after that, or not long after that, you had a Superbike race to go get ready for. Physically, that's pretty demanding. If you weren't going to be able to physically or mentally pull it off, why did you commit to doing it?" You get thrown in the shark tank because you asked to be thrown in the shark tank. When you get in there and you're swimming with the sharks, you stay in the tank for the whole time, until it's all done. He probably felt like he had an opportunity to win a Superbike race there, because he's always gone really well on Superbike, but he hadn't shown the speed in practice. He hadn't shown the speed in qualifying. I would've tried to at least done really well on one or the other - and "really well" in the MotoGP race would've been to have ridden the whole race, not made any mistakes, gone faster than your teammate, and finished in front of one or two MotoGP guys - whether it was just your teammate, or your teammate and a couple of other guys. I don't know. But to have gotten off it early to try to get ready for Superbike, they didn't change the schedule. They didn't move the Superbike race closer. You knew going in. [/size]
[size="-1"]Ben Bostrom really got thrown into the shark pool. I got word that they were thinking about Ben, and I threw in some names that I thought might be a little bit more the future of the sport, instead of the past of the sport. But no matter who it is and what it is, getting thrown into a MotoGP ride without ever having tested, without ever having ridden on a set of Bridgestones, is not in any way, shape or form going to be easy for anybody.[/size]
[size="-1"]The carbon brakes dilemma he seemed to have, I don't think those are as much of an adjustment as some people have said. That's kind of like Dunlops and Michelins to me, at least back when I raced. "I can't ride that bike, it's on Michelins." I don't know. I think carbon brakes, you squeeze the lever until the back end lifts in the air, and then you realize, "Well, that's as hard as I can do that." They are much more powerful, but it's just like going from a 600 to a Superbike. It takes you five laps to figure it out.[/size]
[size="-1"]I think Ben going faster than Toni Elias did in the race, and then pulling in, was a real disappointment. He never was going to win the race, and if he committed to do the race, he needed to commit to doing the race. He obviously knew what the obligations were, between his Superbike and MotoGP. To pull in nine laps into the race, had I been Lucio Cecchinello, I'd have been really disappointed. Even though he went faster than Elias. "I hired you for this weekend to race my bike. I didn't hire you to ride it in all the practice sessions, and then pull in in the race. I hired you to race it. You knew that the race was 30-some-odd laps long. You knew that you had, right after that, or not long after that, you had a Superbike race to go get ready for. Physically, that's pretty demanding. If you weren't going to be able to physically or mentally pull it off, why did you commit to doing it?" You get thrown in the shark tank because you asked to be thrown in the shark tank. When you get in there and you're swimming with the sharks, you stay in the tank for the whole time, until it's all done. He probably felt like he had an opportunity to win a Superbike race there, because he's always gone really well on Superbike, but he hadn't shown the speed in practice. He hadn't shown the speed in qualifying. I would've tried to at least done really well on one or the other - and "really well" in the MotoGP race would've been to have ridden the whole race, not made any mistakes, gone faster than your teammate, and finished in front of one or two MotoGP guys - whether it was just your teammate, or your teammate and a couple of other guys. I don't know. But to have gotten off it early to try to get ready for Superbike, they didn't change the schedule. They didn't move the Superbike race closer. You knew going in. [/size]
