Sachsenring Practice and Qualifying

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (IsraeliRacer @ Jul 13 2007, 11:06 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Let me just get this out of the way for everyone:

Stoner Fan: OMG STONER IS THE MOST AMAZING AND DOMINANT RIDER SINCE AGOSTINI!!!
Rossi Fan: ITS THE BIKE! HIS MICHELINS AREN'T AS GOOD AS THE BRIDGESTONES! HE'LL CRUSH STONER DURING THE RACE!!
Stoner Fan: ROSSI'S JUST TOO OLD AND PAST IT FOR MOTOGP!!! HE'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH ANYMORE!!
Right, now lets go back to discussing the practice times


Hey you forgot: West Fan

Look at West, he is the most amazing rider ever! He's going to sign for Yamaha AND Ducati next season so he can show Rossi and Stoner how crap they are. Ant West could win the London Marathon in the morning, a GP in the afternoon, then theLe mans 24 hr at night.

Without breakfast.

Pete

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (IsraeliRacer @ Jul 13 2007, 08:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Yeah..... only he's had two of his best results in the last two races unless I'm mistaken?

Who? DePuniet? If you mean crashing into Vermuelen was a great result, then yeah, its craptastic.

What I find really astonishing is that Casey is 1st, and the next nearest Ducati is in 12th with deLoris.

This does not help Ducati's team title chances...and I would hope that Kawasaki is thnking twice before picking up a non-performing Capirossi over West or DePuniet (both of which are ahead of all but 1 Ducati).

My mistake, I meant the two rounds before that, 6th and 5th. But then, you knew that so its ok.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (TP70 @ Jul 13 2007, 10:43 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Sorry to push the point but if it is to talk about practice you can only talk about 3 things.

1. How well someone went.
2. How bad someone went.
3. What influence the track, bike or tyres had in the results.

So what is the problem?
You know as well as I what the "problem" is. Sarcastic remarks like those below does nothing for the thread, other than serving as flame baits.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Son of Doohan @ Jul 13 2007, 09:47 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Go Casey!! Hmmm.guess its a horsepower thing!!!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Son of Doohan @ Jul 13 2007, 10:18 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Is the duke on steroids or something???? It's gotta be illegal.
Now let's move along, and hope we don't see more of that crap in this thread.

Well, theres been so much ........ about the hp of the ducati and why its so dominant i thought i'd put in my 2 cents worth.

I think your opinion of what is crap is different to mine.

As a new poster I think if you read just about every thread in this forum you will find that a bit of comic commentry and banter back and forth is par for the course.

Maybe a church based website would be more appropriate for you.

Unless you have something useful to add then a comment rubbishing others posts is what truely throws petrol on the fire. I think I have contributed to a few quality discussions on this website to throw the odd comic remark in.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Fred00 @ Jul 13 2007, 09:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>You know as well as I what the "problem" is. Sarcastic remarks like those below does nothing for the thread, other than serving as flame baits.
Now let's move along, and hope we don't see more of that crap in this thread.


Chill the .... out Fred

Lay off the ....... swearing?



Calm down guys ... since when did MotoGP turn its fans against eachother? This place is for a good discussion and debate... not to pick on people!... come on.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (K.J. @ Jul 13 2007, 10:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Lay off the ....... swearing?



Calm down guys ... since when did MotoGP turn its fans against eachother? This place is for a good discussion and debate... not to pick on people!... come on.

Here here!

We're all friends here peepz, despite our occasional disagreements! Altho, I think we can allll agree that Ant West is getting better and better with every session

Peace Y'all!

Whats the deal with this Stoner Rossi thing? it will sort its self out .........

Practice always is the same with Stoner on top by a long way then everyone just gets closer and closer by the last Practice. I thought stoner was going to kill Assen 2 weeks ago when he always seemed to be doing fast practice times every lap compared to everyone else. Race day is the only time to watch i think! i always get to over ambitious thinking i can pick the winner off practice times. It always bites me!

Nobody on pole has won so far, remember that. What's the result of FP2?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Ros @ Jul 13 2007, 01:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Nobody on pole has won so far, remember that. What's the result of FP2?

HAYDEN'S BIKE IS BELLOWING SMOKE OUT OF THE BACK! Has the engine blown or is something rubbing against a tyre? It looks like a big engine failure from here.It's an engine failure. There's a lot, and i mean a heck of a lot of oil falling out of the bottom of that bike.

There are stone-sized bits of metal on the pit-straight. Pretty monumental bits to come out of that Honda engine.

Eurosport live comments

OK here's the...QP#2....It's...50:00 to go Casey is still the fastest!!!....1”23:709...KR ahs just had a CRASHHHH>>>>...but the KING is cahallenging the “NEW KING”!!!...let’s see what happens????...wow wow wow...dpr has taken the lead????...not for long!!!....pitty he cant race like he qualifies..lol...1:23;667....the king has taken over...1:23:495...but wait for casey he will ghive the king a go for his money!!!....lets see...the king is _.95 fastest!!! Not for long...wait for casey he is in the pits...????...lets see>>>well what did I tell you...Casey is the fastest...1:23:218...goodonya Casey!!!!...(youse know who I’m barracking FOR!!!...lol)....ok ...lets continue...well the NEW RULER, THE KING has come into the pits....maybe he was on the wrong tyres...maybe he can do 1:15:00 with the new one’s???...lol. (U know the Brigies..the ones that didn’t work in 06..were ............etc, etc)...Let’s see ...Fabrizio is 18th hopeless...take him bake where he came from!!!...lol...Nakano is the same 17th...send him back to the land of the rising sun!!!....Jap’s are NO GOOD IN anything except in electronics because the yanks have helped them!!!...bum ...bum...and....I have to say that I have a very big grudge against the Jap’s...what after WW2!!!.....use are very lucky the land of what ever!!!....oh hang on...looser Checker has posted the 4th fastest...ur a LOOOSEREER Carlos!!! U wont be there for long and if u are then in the race u will CRASSSHHHHH!!! The LCR IS HOPELESS!!!...lol...oh oh THE NEW KING IS DOING A LAP!!!....oh well he was only practicing ....well that is wht this IS!!!....where is VR????...&...JB???...& FY’s SPEEEEDDDD???...ok let’s go on it’s 25 min to go....oh the KING VR is tackling our little HERO!!!...but...let’s see???...well ...our HERO is STILL THE BEST.,.1:24:655....oh oh oh CS is on RED’S...RE’S...RED”S...wow hes just posted another fatest LAP!!!...WHAT ELSE DO USE WANT FROM OUR LITTLE HERO???...JUST TELL ME & BI WILL TELL U IN COGNITO!!!..lol...well the new KING ahs just posted a time of...1:22:737...wow...wow..take that VR!!!...now we have CV...sorry but the Suzy’s are just not up to it!!!...10th about the best so far!!!....and JH is 6th...well he might be thinking about the KWAKA & then he will be 10th while CV is going to be 6th...lol...WHAT HAVE I DONE!!!...OK lets go on....well CC is just NOY IN IT...even though he is 3rd fastest!!!...oh here comes Melandri...2nd...wow whats happend?????...and now DP woos.....+1 sec on Stoner....(like JLorenzo in 08)...but JL will have at least 2 broken legs, arms and the rest is up to ur imagination ...so far its...1st (The NEW KING!!!) 4:00:00 to go....Introducing the one and ONLY...THE NEW WORLD CHAMP..and this is ho0w its done...NOT LIKE Mr. NHayden!!!....The ONE & ONLY Mr. Casey Stoner (If you didn’t know him!!!)...OK...OK...THE REST IS JUST FOR THE RECORDS....CMR. CASEY IS THE “FASTEST”...AND LETS BOW TO THE PRINCE!!!...I WON’T CALL HIM THE KING YET...BUTZZ????...ANYTHINK COULD HSAPPEN IN 2007Y!!! Cheers and I hope the QF was informative!!!...Cheers put another shrimp on the barbie!!!

Hi Morgo

how ya been mate?

I think the rossi/stoner thing is the same as the rossi/hayden thing last year. It turns all the fans against eachother for some reason, which is really kind of stupid. I guess some people are passionate about who they support?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Ros @ Jul 13 2007, 01:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Nobody on pole has won so far, remember that. What's the result of FP2?

1 C Stoner (AUS) Ducati 1:22.737
2 V Rossi (ITA) Yamaha 1:23.348
3 D Pedrosa (ESP) Honda 1:23.366
4 C Checa (ESP) Honda LCR 1:23.413
5 M Melandri (ITA) Honda 1:23.430
6 S Guintoli (FRA) Yamaha 1:23.464
7 A Barros (BRA) Ducati 1:23.548
8 C Edwards (USA) Yamaha 1:23.613
9 R De Puniet (FRA) Kawasaki 1:23.667
10 J Hopkins (USA) Suzuki 1:23.733
11 C Vermulen (AUS) Suzuki 1:23.738
12 A West (AUS) Kawasaki 1:24.108
13 L Capirossi (ITA) Ducati 1:24.228
14 N Hayden (USA) Honda 1:24.231
15 A Hofmann (DEU) Ducati 1:24.465
16 S Nakano (JPN) Honda 1:25.021
17 M Fabrizio (ITA) Honda 1:25.172
18 M Tamada (JPN) Yamaha 1:25.245
19 K Roberts (USA) KR 1:26.027

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (CSCVAW @ Jul 13 2007, 10:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>OK here's the...QP#2....It's...50:00 to go Casey is still the fastest!!!....1”23:709...KR ahs just had a CRASHHHH>>>>...but the KING is cahallenging the “NEW KING”!!!...let’s see what happens????...wow wow wow...dpr has taken the lead????...not for long!!!....pitty he cant race like ... rambling ........

Mate? What's the deal? Do you have any idea what 'grammar' means? You jump all over the Stoner bandwagon when he's doing well, right, but where were you when he was struggling? Can you keep your mindless posts to yourself? Your embarresing yourself, honestly, we get it, Stoner's good, just chillax... Whatcha been snortin?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (MigsAngel @ Jul 13 2007, 08:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>HAYDEN'S BIKE IS BELLOWING SMOKE OUT OF THE BACK! Has the engine blown or is something rubbing against a tyre? It looks like a big engine failure from here.It's an engine failure. There's a lot, and i mean a heck of a lot of oil falling out of the bottom of that bike.

There are stone-sized bits of metal on the pit-straight. Pretty monumental bits to come out of that Honda engine.

Eurosport live comments


What the hell is happening to HONDA??

Hoffmann has broken bones in his hand?!?!?!?! How did I not know about this?! He's my second fantasy team rider!


And yeah, Hayden's bike had a full blown explosion by the sound of it. They were finding all kinds of engine parts around the straight, valve-heads and all sorts.

MigsAngel, Guintoli finished fourth in the end, ahead of Checa and Melandri.

Apart from the top 3 its a weird grid? WTF is Guintoli doing, was he running a qualifier? Brilliant ride if he didn't.

Hopkins and Vermuelen looking quite ordinary. So Hayden's bike blew up? Sucks to be him.

It's pretty much what anyone would expect from this season, the best 2 guys are at the top of the sheets and Sunday looks as though it will be another good battle.