Joined Oct 2011
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I would have liked Stoner to take the win, and not getting beaten both by Lorenzo and his own teammate. My first thought was about the lack of race simulations too. But on the other hand - if he says it was arm pump, then it probably was arm pump. Said something to Hoffmann about his favorite glove breaking up yesterday and him not getting comfortable in the new one. Haven't seen the glove mentioned so far, that's why I bring it up (as doesn't make his point seem more or less legit anyway). I mean, I consider him someone with a slight tendency to blame others in a rage for all kinds of things, but not someone who needs silly excuses. Anyways, I'm a bit gutted. But compliments to Lorenzo and Pedrosa. Good mental effort by Dani to put the whole yachting-prison-blabla (and all those who laughed their ..... up about him, including me) aside and just bringing home a good result. Can't say anything about Spies. Obviously, something was wrong, whether it was because of his crashes or anything else. Should be up there anywhere between Tech3 and the podium normally, and probably will be come Jerez.
Cal and Dovi were shockingly boring in terms of 'battled the whole race through'. First, Cal shadowed Dovi, then he made an unspectacular pass, the Dovi shadowed Cal to the flag. You know what I mean? Still enjoyed them being up front. We need more bikes up there in front, and if it's four Yams and two Hondas instead of two Yams and two Hondas I am fine with that.
Bradl impressed me a lot. Very ballsy in the first laps, really fast for the first half, and seriously clever over the whole distance. Also nice to see LCR being up there again after last year's misery. As for Bradl fading, I would like to know wheter it was relating to tire life or his personal stamina. He mentioned several times that the physical aspect of riding a MotoGP bike is challenging him big time, and he really looked finished back in his garage.
Bautista for me was so-so. Cannot say more about him. P7 is ok. Still liked him more when he was on the Suzuki, don't know why exactly.
The Ducs are about were they were last year, only that Rossi is making up their rear and not their front. A shame that Abraham had to retire, would have been interesting to see the fourth Duc's performance overrace distance. P6, fighting with a bunch of sat bikes - including those of their own make-, and being way off the Top5 (with P4&5 being sat bikes, too) is just poor. I begin to feel sorry for them. The worst thing is that these issues destroy the people's trust in their engineering capabilities. Their design seems flawed, and its factory-backed 'improved' version is seemingly on par with the scrapped one of half a year back which they dumped in their customer teams' garages. And they should tell Rossi to shut the .... up and not blame them for his own shortcomings. It's one thing when you're off the pace but top of your own gang. It's ok to perform ...... and be quiet. But to completly .... up and then to blame the team, your employer btw, in an embarrassing and harmful way is too much out of line to take. And I don't think Ducati should accept this kind of performance and behavior.
CRT were ok, in particular Hernandez did a great job, as has done CE, of course. I would have preferred some more info on them, though. Can anyone tell me what happened to Petrucci? (Maybe they could do a second cut of the race, with cams on the CRTs, and air it after the podium ceremony, haha). Nice to see so many bikes on the grid, really.
Cal and Dovi were shockingly boring in terms of 'battled the whole race through'. First, Cal shadowed Dovi, then he made an unspectacular pass, the Dovi shadowed Cal to the flag. You know what I mean? Still enjoyed them being up front. We need more bikes up there in front, and if it's four Yams and two Hondas instead of two Yams and two Hondas I am fine with that.
Bradl impressed me a lot. Very ballsy in the first laps, really fast for the first half, and seriously clever over the whole distance. Also nice to see LCR being up there again after last year's misery. As for Bradl fading, I would like to know wheter it was relating to tire life or his personal stamina. He mentioned several times that the physical aspect of riding a MotoGP bike is challenging him big time, and he really looked finished back in his garage.
Bautista for me was so-so. Cannot say more about him. P7 is ok. Still liked him more when he was on the Suzuki, don't know why exactly.
The Ducs are about were they were last year, only that Rossi is making up their rear and not their front. A shame that Abraham had to retire, would have been interesting to see the fourth Duc's performance overrace distance. P6, fighting with a bunch of sat bikes - including those of their own make-, and being way off the Top5 (with P4&5 being sat bikes, too) is just poor. I begin to feel sorry for them. The worst thing is that these issues destroy the people's trust in their engineering capabilities. Their design seems flawed, and its factory-backed 'improved' version is seemingly on par with the scrapped one of half a year back which they dumped in their customer teams' garages. And they should tell Rossi to shut the .... up and not blame them for his own shortcomings. It's one thing when you're off the pace but top of your own gang. It's ok to perform ...... and be quiet. But to completly .... up and then to blame the team, your employer btw, in an embarrassing and harmful way is too much out of line to take. And I don't think Ducati should accept this kind of performance and behavior.
CRT were ok, in particular Hernandez did a great job, as has done CE, of course. I would have preferred some more info on them, though. Can anyone tell me what happened to Petrucci? (Maybe they could do a second cut of the race, with cams on the CRTs, and air it after the podium ceremony, haha). Nice to see so many bikes on the grid, really.
