Yes. Had the same thought after this race, Rossi very definitely the better and faster rider this year
Michelin® Australian Motorcycle GP 2016 Nicky Hayden extravaganza with spoilers
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Yes. Had the same thought after this race, Rossi very definitely the better and faster rider this year
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Out of Nowhere
Congratulations Daniboy. Is this the first time you've actually googled something and parroted the information successfully?
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Norah Head
Yes but didnt some english writer ( probably mat oxley ) once write that some roman emperor ( probably biaggi ) was told by some guy who dreams up wacky stuff, a soothsayer ( probably rossi ) that he .... biaggi should beware the tides of march ( probably under the bridge to PI.?
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NJ
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A caravan on an island
Knew he was on a satellite team , had to confirm the team name and no it's about the millionth time!
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Norah Head
Lorenzo is being technically neutered since his announcement that he is leaving yamaha.
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I agree on Lorenzo, his confidence has taken a real beating this year and as the tyre development has progressed throughout the season it seems to not be favouring the Yamaha's all that much any more, let alone Lorenzo's riding style.
I think if Rossi had of qualified towards the pointy end of the grid it would have been an interesting race. I think he and Cal would have been quite evenly matched on their respective tyre choices when both having to slog it out at the limit, would have been fun to see. But neither of them would have been able to take on Marc if he hadn't of binned it and kept it in the race, don't really know why he was pushing it as hard as he was. He had a pretty commanding lead on Cal even after a handful of laps ... maybe all the excitement of HRC letting him off his leash was just too much for him.
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A caravan on an island
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Congratulations to Cal. Great to see him finally living up to his potential. And Rossi was the Rossi of old, including poor quali. Vinales (as has been said before) will be giving Rossi fits before long. Shame it took so long for Dovi to have a properly competitive bike; he's certainly kept his head high over the years when riding bikes that were below par. And a big Doh! to Marquez. But at least he was straight up about not blaming anyone else but himself. Hoping Michelin has gained enough data this year to make better front ends for 2017. They've added too much of a crap-shoot factor to this season. As for Nicky - jeez, a ....... 10th would have been pretty satisfying. Can't help but wonder if there is something in his make-up as a rider that factors into why he seems to have been knocked down more than any other factory rider I can think of. It's almost like he has the rider equivalent of Stockholm Syndrome.
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The North!
Awesome ride from Cal, Had a wee feeling he was on to win this weekend so put him in the fantasy team made him captain and reaped the rewards.
It's a strange one, cos as the old saying goes concerning riders, you have your first kid and you lose four tenths, Cal seems to be the opposite he's found four tenths or more, I can only put it down to he wants to be a winner for Willow.
All Brits reading this Cal for SPOTY. Make some noise and lets make this happen, at least into the final ten FFS!
It's a strange one, cos as the old saying goes concerning riders, you have your first kid and you lose four tenths, Cal seems to be the opposite he's found four tenths or more, I can only put it down to he wants to be a winner for Willow.
All Brits reading this Cal for SPOTY. Make some noise and lets make this happen, at least into the final ten FFS!
This years probably as good a year as any to get him in seeing as only the Olympians have done anything this year in British sports. Probably a bit too outrageous for the Beeb to include a biker though. Think Toseland was the last nominated in 2007 and he was beaten into 4th by Calzaghe, Hamilton and Hatton.
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Maybe it was Uccio's idea, after all he doesn't like Max. BTW its the Ides of March
Well in cal, keeping the English up there, blew Rossi away on a second hand Honda.Same amount of wins as Rossi this year ha.
Marquez don't give a .... now. Lorenzo been shafted by yam and has give up. He's was cruising.
Only Suzuki will provide fireworks now till the end. Vinales should have stuck with Suzuki, the yam is going backwards with Rossi developing it, ....... clueless he is, just like when he was in the duc.
Shame about Hayden was going really well. Showed Miller up really
Marquez don't give a .... now. Lorenzo been shafted by yam and has give up. He's was cruising.
Only Suzuki will provide fireworks now till the end. Vinales should have stuck with Suzuki, the yam is going backwards with Rossi developing it, ....... clueless he is, just like when he was in the duc.
Shame about Hayden was going really well. Showed Miller up really
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A caravan on an island
Cal's bike is factory spec which is why he was gaining on Marquez before he crashed, your anti Rossi agenda is getting old boyo.
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Not quite factory spec. Cal's breakthrough came when he inherited a chassis that was rejected by Marc and Dani, because they felt it didn't offer enough improvement over their existing ones.
Without googling it I can't be 100% sure whether it was just prior to, or just after Brno. He definitely had it at Silverstone as he mentioned it in an interview.
Just got to watch the race, Cal was brilliant, kudos to VR for his ride too. Brad Smith showed amazing bottle to ride to 8th with his injury as well.
It's a good day to be British, doesn't happen too often in MotoGP [emoji1]
Not SNS as they were as some time back I posted that if a tyre is available for one rider, it should be available for all and where the manufacturer cannot provide sufficient tyres of that particular construction, then that tyre is not allowed to be used by any rider.
In short, build for (as an example) Valentino but allow that tyre to be used by all others. Build for Jorge and allow all others access. Build for Marc and allow anyone who wants to use the tyre to have access to it. If not enough of Valentino's tyres are available then he cannot use it and nor can anyone else and so forth.
So Arrib, get to the point will you.
Pov, as per my post.
SNS is just the term I use to describe rider specific suitable tyres
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How could it be more factory? He gets to ride the same damn mid-season chassis that the other two ride. He got it at the same time. He liked it better than the older one. I know Marc did not. I am not sure about Dani because he made other changes at the same time. Crutchlow gets every damn thing that the Repsol guys do, otherwise he wouldn't have two wins. He is NOT a faster rider than MM. He needs MM to ....-up or for MM to be protecting a championship to win. CC wasn't even in the same ball game before MM decided to dump it for no good good reason.
To be brutally fair though Pony, Cal is very good at PI and has always gone well.
It seems a track that suits but I also suspect that he is more comfortable with the variable weather and lower track temperatures but at PI, Cal is far from a slouch.
Never been a Crutchlow fan but fair play to him for that ride and almost sounding humble in parc ferme,......at this rate i might start to like the guy,he must have heard about the Crashy Crutchlow game a while back......,i haven't watched the post race conference yet so don't know if it was covered but is he still contracted to LCR for next year?,reckon he fancies himself for Pedrosa's bike now.
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