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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Tom @ Apr 14 2009, 12:36 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Well that race was pretty dull. The new tyre rule doesn't appear to have given us anything back yet racing wise, but eveyrone has the same so at least its an area of doubt crossed off and fans can believe that the results actually refelct the riders performance. I'm hoping that Dani and Lorenzo can get closer to the top two soon, although the title battle could win up pretty epic going back and forth between Rossi and Stoner, provided neither of them dominates too much. It's a shame Gresini wont have the power to give DeAngelis the equipment that Elias is on now, because i wouldn't be surprised if what we saw today wont be pretty much what we get from both of them all year. Colin did well not to fade today but its pretty uninspiring still, he'll probably wind up on a posium somewhere too, and looks good for top American. JT and Nicky both have a lot of work to do.
The first half of the season the new tirerule is probarbly going to favor those teams that already are in a good position with comfortable riders,that aren't chasing for speed so much as tirelife.(Stoner/Ducati, Yamaha exept Toseland and probarbly Repsolhonda)Even though this was an exceptional track for destroying tires it might be like this a few races on i would guess.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Haga @ Apr 14 2009, 12:37 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>I think Dani just ran wide from Vermeulen passing him earlier in the corner.
The Video show Dani slowing considerably as he headed toward the bumpers. However, he did a slight wheelie well before Alex hit him. Given Dovi's wheelie problem and the chatter Pedrosa admits to, it may have been the bike, not Alex.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (jazkat @ Apr 13 2009, 08:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>what i am very curious about is the ducati being so brutal but tyres can last the distance with stoner doing very fast consistant laps? amazing

Carbon fiber swingarm...

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (J4rn0 @ Apr 14 2009, 12:47 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Carbon fiber swingarm...
Hmmmm....Silver Bullet?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (J4rn0 @ Apr 14 2009, 01:47 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Carbon fiber swingarm...


nice i guess they thought ahead and a dam good job they have done also. maybe thats why they tried the alloy combination also when testing looking which material is kinder to the rubber and gave the best feedback?

crazy how small improvments can make such a big difference


i asked over a year ago about tyres on the duke.... i mean something that revs so high and vibrates alot that bike really does scream but still doesnt destroy tyres like the much smoother yamaha..... you would think it would be the other way round.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (mylexicon @ Apr 14 2009, 08:33 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Loser must write a homoerotic novella about a sexual encounter with Pinky..........and one of his Asian hookers. You can't stop until the peanut gallery begs for mercy.

Basically the more disgusting it is the quicker it will be over.

Fair enough?


Lex you sick ......., that is some ...... up funny schadenfreude .... there. Yep, we can all afford a 6 pack or a carton for that matter. But who wants to lose that bet...



What we have here is Ducati reacting more quickly than the others, just like at the intro to the 800's.

Now when that happened Ducati built a bike, not around a rider because they had the bike built while Casey was still riding around with LCR, but rather around an engineering ideal to the effect "what will go fastest in this class with these tyres.

Now the tyres have changed and the bike is definitely built around Stoner by now (but he won the original prize of "who can ride this thing?") and now they have perfected the setup (perhaps) to extend tyre life (The CF swingarm).

The next one is a new set of Dorna rules to handicap Ducati or make everyone use the Honda swingarm or something to slow them down again.

1. Stoner - perfect race! Congrats!

2. Rossi - surprisingly 7 s behind (at least better than last year)

3. Lorenzo - brilliant performance as well, consider he is new to Bridgestone

The rest...well, what can I say....

Cos, I'm eager to...

WHEN WE'RE GONNA SEE A DAMN CLOSE RACE???

Don't get me wrong, I'm not take anything away from Stoner...

Trust me, If Rossi won the race with 7s gap in front of Stoner, I will still comment the same statement below...

WSBK for the win!

It's 1 AM the race time in my place, and I did expect to watch another close racinge...

too bad rossi isnt good enough to be competitive.

the only way u are going to get competitive races is have a 5 lap dash. have 4 of those races and confuse the .... out of everyone as to who the winner is.

anyway, even with a 3 second gap nothing is for certain. the look at the garage team members faces during a race is testimate to that. coz in racing these guys are pushing 110% all the time and sometimes u can go over and crash (see pedrosa last year), a mechanical problem can occur. whatever, nothing is for certain untill that person crosses the line.

if all u want is close racing, then motogp isnt for u. motogp is about the best of the best, and about developing new technologies that will eventually flow down to us later on.


if you are a true racing fan u will appreciate that. otherwise go watch pocket bikes, theres heaps of close racing there.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pinky @ Apr 14 2009, 11:37 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>too bad rossi isnt good enough to be competitive.

the only way u are going to get competitive races is have a 5 lap dash. have 4 of those races and confuse the .... out of everyone as to who the winner is.

anyway, even with a 3 second gap nothing is for certain. the look at the garage team members faces during a race is testimate to that. coz in racing these guys are pushing 110% all the time and sometimes u can go over and crash (see pedrosa last year), a mechanical problem can occur. whatever, nothing is for certain untill that person crosses the line.

if all u want is close racing, then motogp isnt for u. motogp is about the best of the best, and about developing new technologies that will eventually flow down to us later on.

if you are a true racing fan u will appreciate that. otherwise go watch pocket bikes, theres heaps of close racing there.
Hmm..just like the old time ... chit chat with you...

Ok, I'll be nice...

How's that guys... I guess MotoGP is not for us....

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if you are a true racing fan u will appreciate that. otherwise go watch pocket bikes, theres heaps of close racing there.
how old are you dude... Where were you at Rainey-Schwantz-Doohan era?

Anyway,if Stoner doesn't winning again, will you still be here?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pinky @ Apr 14 2009, 05:37 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>too bad rossi isnt good enough to be competitive.
Try the crashnet forum.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (michaelm @ Apr 14 2009, 12:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Try the crashnet forum.
You hit the nail in the head mate...

What a race by Case. He didnt put a foot wrong and had it in hand throughout, very classy efforty indeed. And once again its amazing to see his ability on 'cold' rubber, he has got the guts to really put the hammer down when everyone else is just getting settled...of course starting up the front helps, but his first 2 laps are so much more impressive than any other rider. On that Note Loris did a good job to make a small break too...but we all know that did not work out.

Rossi was classy yet again, on a track he is not great at that was a good result.

However, is it just me or did anyone else notice Rossis's body language on the podium and in the post race interview? To me he seemed really dejected. Like last year even when he was in p3 or whatever he was always pretty chipper and so on, but i have not seen him have such body language before. He could have had other reason for being this way (fight with his woman or whatever) but it was very supprising as Vales bravado is part of what makes him so formidable...

On the outside it seems logical that Rossi was disapointed with how far away he was from Casey, as a Casey fan i would like to think that Rossi was 'concerned' about the pace of the duke etc... however a win for Casey was to be expected at Quatar.....a p2 for Rossi was a good result so it does not seem likley that was the reason for the body language. If this result happened at Jerez then i owuld understand as its somewhere Casey have previously 'suffered' at.

Anyhow its an interesting conundrum, and one that will be fun to watch. Either which was you spin it though it was uncharachteristic for Rossi to look so dejected and for the sake of the competition i hope he gets back to that cocky confident and imposing self soon.

In regards to Niky, he did pretty well, basically he was off the pace but had a massive off and would have been out of sorts for the race... his race pace was slower than caseys (2 secs i think) but traffic and poor preperation would not have helped that. Give Niky a trouble free weekend and id expect him to qualy and race around p6-8 which at this stage of his new ride is not too bad.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (is200 @ Apr 14 2009, 01:04 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>On the outside it seems logical that Rossi was disapointed with how far away he was from Casey, as a Casey fan i would like to think that Rossi was 'concerned' about the pace of the duke etc... however a win for Casey was to be expected at Quatar.....a p2 for Rossi was a good result so it does not seem likley that was the reason for the body language. If this result happened at Jerez then i owuld understand as its somewhere Casey have previously 'suffered' at.
The result may be fine enough, but being unable to offer competition to Casey at a track that the Yam took 3 of the top 4 spots is somewhat ominous (although last year certainly showed that success at Qatar doesn't mean early success elsewhere). Casey's won more easily at Qatar with each passing year.

Maybe he was just bored from racing alone.

i think rossi feels he really has the perfect machine. he has been talking about how good the his bike is.

and to be blown away like that is not good. hes thinking what can i do to catch him. i am riding at my limit and on a bike i like.

maybe he is thinking that stoner is really faster than him.

whereas last year, when he was beat he knew he didnt have the bike he wanted, so he knew he could improve.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pinky @ Apr 14 2009, 05:37 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>too bad rossi isnt good enough to be competitive.

the only way u are going to get competitive races is have a 5 lap dash. have 4 of those races and confuse the .... out of everyone as to who the winner is.

anyway, even with a 3 second gap nothing is for certain. the look at the garage team members faces during a race is testimate to that. coz in racing these guys are pushing 110% all the time and sometimes u can go over and crash (see pedrosa last year), a mechanical problem can occur. whatever, nothing is for certain untill that person crosses the line.

if all u want is close racing, then motogp isnt for u. motogp is about the best of the best, and about developing new technologies that will eventually flow down to us later on.


if you are a true racing fan u will appreciate that. otherwise go watch pocket bikes, theres heaps of close racing there.

Too bad Pinky is such a ..........

Please man think your post out in your head before you start typing or mabey make a draft

First you say a 5 lap dash is the only way to achive close racing, then you say motogp is not about close racing. Hmmm contradiction... terms...

Motogp is not about close racing Joke of the year man thanks I needed that

As for the part of your post I highlighted. Again thank you so much for your in depth insight I and I'm sure most others would have never known this Where would we be without you Pinky.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pinky @ Apr 14 2009, 07:55 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>i think

Keep 'em comin'

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (johnny @ Apr 14 2009, 08:29 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Too bad Pinky is such a ..........

Please man think your post out in your head before you start typing or mabey make a draft

First you say a 5 lap dash is the only way to achive close racing, then you say motogp is not about close racing. Hmmm contradiction... terms...

That isn't a contradiction.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Stevo @ Apr 13 2009, 03:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>"Pedrosa was enraged by the incident..

(Sorry, can't resist!)
"Watch out, he'll jump up and punch you in the kneecaps!"

DP: “He came straight into me, I was in front and he came into me to close me down. (He showed…) no respect, but life will return the favour to him..."

It's called 'Karma,' Dani. You just collected some of your outstanding balance. I suspect you have more 'withdrawals' on the way!

The bump sure knocked the fight out of him. He dropped like a stone afterward.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE <div class='quotemain'>..and although De Angelis was asked to give an explanation to officials after the race he was not sanctioned."

Good! It did look like Dani got a big dose of wheelspin, traction control, or something... he was very slow at the corner exit and DA had nowhere to go. I'm relieved we didn't get a .....-assed-F1 judgment against simple racing.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Tom @ Apr 14 2009, 08:52 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>That isn't a contradiction.


Jesus H Christ I'm sorry Prof Tom I made that post an hour ago just out of bed after two spliffs give me a god damn break you ......' nazi

To me it is a sort of contradiction, he is creating a formula for motogp so we can have close racing then he says motogp is not about close racing, ahh so why make a formula

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (michaelm @ Apr 14 2009, 12:24 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Still don't think dorna could organise a billy cart race for kids in their local neighbourhood and if they attempted to do so they would undoubtedly stuff up the technical regulations.

Post of the month Mike

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Tom @ Apr 14 2009, 06:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>That isn't a contradiction.


he thinks contradiction is something that is stuck to his head