MotoGP: 2015 Round 07 - Catalunya (SPOILERS)

Surely US buyers can just send their bikes to Europe to get 'the kit'? I'm sure it's one of those things where if you pay enough you can get it. But to me, it's an ornament to put in a room and say "Look how much money I have to waste $188,000 on the POS ornament"

I bet you Tom Cruise will get one...

WAIT WAIT, how did we gloss over this,quote? !




“I'm not stupid. I'm not one to take any risks, especially with other riders on track,” he said. “When I got up from the warm-up crash I was dizzy and my helmet was finished. But I felt ok. I never had any vision problems or headaches. I had my lunch and I felt fine, I went to the grid and I felt fine.

“Then in the warm-up lap I noticed that I couldn't see the other bikes too well. It felt like the same as the first lap of practice every weekend, where you feel sick like you are on a roller-coaster because you haven't ridden a bike at 200mph for two weeks. You feel sick or you feel an adrenaline rush.

“I felt like that for the first six laps of the race. If I had no-one in front of me I felt fine but when I had people around me I felt I couldn't ride with them because I couldn't really focus. But when I had no-one in front of me I was fine.”

However Crutchlow insists that didn't contribute to his fall in the race.

“I think that looking back it wasn't the wrong decision to have raced because it had nothing to do with my crash in the race. Was it safe enough for me to race? I've seen people race in a lot worse condition to me that shouldn't have been racing but as I've sad I wouldn't take the risk with other riders. I felt that I was OK, as long as someone wasn't too close in front of me, and at no point did I try to stay close to the rider in front. I was able to keep Bradley behind and there was a gap ahead. I honestly felt ok, but with hindsight after the race I didn't feel too good.”

Jumkie said:

Here is the $184,000 Honda RC213V-S Street Bike

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That to me says they are having trouble with emissions regulation. 8K rpm is way low to be making "peak" power. I reckons its spitting out too much c02 for the us laws so they have to strangle it.

On another note, Stoner posted a pic today of himself laughing it up with his pal Padrosa. Seems like Stoner has been spending some time around the paddock again. When he first retired he vanished. Now he's coming around a bit more. He's going to come back. I don't care what's been written, dude wants to race again.

I have my money on Crashlow Crashing out

levigarrett said:

On another note, Stoner posted a pic today of himself laughing it up with his pal Padrosa. Seems like Stoner has been spending some time around the paddock again. When he first retired he vanished. Now he's coming around a bit more. He's going to come back. I don't care what's been written, dude wants to race again.

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I said that I think he wants to come back recently and y'all were like naw he hates MotoGP.

levigarrett said:

On another note, Stoner posted a pic today of himself laughing it up with his pal Padrosa. Seems like Stoner has been spending some time around the paddock again. When he first retired he vanished. Now he's coming around a bit more. He's going to come back. I don't care what's been written, dude wants to race again.

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Not gonna happen - I'll put a bottle of Jack single barrel on it!!

I think he wants to race, but all the other ........ that comes with it turns him off. Look the article "inside the mind of Casey Stoner." Its very interesting as far as why he acts like he does.

Iowegian said:

I think he wants to race, but all the other ........ that comes with it turns him off. Look the article "inside the mind of Casey Stoner." Its very interesting as far as why he acts like he does.

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I read his book. It explains a number of things but I still think he's going to attempt a return.

Listen guise...guise....MurderMac mouthing off is like poking a sleeping bear with a stick.

That's like...a really, really bad idea.

It's almost like going to the White House and going to Obama, "I thought this was the White House?" then going home and wondering why there is a drone hovering over your house.

I like that he likes to hunt & fish. That makes Casey Stoner shine in my book.

levigarrett said:

On another note, Stoner posted a pic today of himself laughing it up with his pal Padrosa. Seems like Stoner has been spending some time around the paddock again. When he first retired he vanished. Now he's coming around a bit more. He's going to come back. I don't care what's been written, dude wants to race again.

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He's there because he is to ride the over priced Honda for a few demonstration laps so why not drop into the paddock (plus from a number of observation he and Pedrosa do genuinely gel along well)

Plus from what I have read elsewhere he is currently holidaying and having to put up with having Lamborghini give him a car to drive (and if rumours are right, one to race in an upcoming event)

Well very interesting FP3... took Rossi to the very last lap to squeeze outta Q2 and into 7th (combined)... Mavrick & Aleix must be grovin' on the fresh power... hovered around 3-5th then put the softs on and are 1&2 heading into quali... Jorge looks dominating for the race pace, again... Cal is a hurting unit... Pedder and Crazy Joe have to work through Q2... Hayden's fastest time was in FP1 - yep, he got slower!! Quail should be fun!

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I like that he likes to hunt & fish. That makes Casey Stoner shine in my book.

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So does that make him a hick or a redneck ???

FP4 - Rossi set a 1.42.4 on the hard compound, and rode to 4th? This is Rossi's wheelhouse.

Cuntslow with another crash out in Q2.

I can't wait for his post-qualifying presser excuse.

"Sunglare got into my eyes."

"I tried to follow MurderMac but I don't have the same equipment."

"I was afraid of doing something that might cause me to have to interact with Krops...and well...self-fulfilling prophecy mates."

Double for Suzuki ? They're on steroids.

Didn't see that coming!!!!

They suzuki's were on fire. I was sitting in G section and coming out of turn 12 everyone looked fast!!

I was right behind Maverick's fan club and they were beyond happy with his qualifying.

Amazing Suzukis. This is really good news for MotoGP! I'm so glad they're back. Never thought it would happen in this economy. Good on them. A rookie on a Suzuki breaks the track record! MM can't be happy. What'll
Crutchlow's excuse be this time?