Sepang Race Thread

[MdubSTYLIE]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jumkie @ Oct 26 2009, 11:09 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>I'm hungover. I will post when I get rid of this headache. Had a big ... BBQ with 50+ friends to watch the races at my pad. Then we started taking shots...that's when it got crazy.
You take shots, naww.

Congrats goes out to the "old hen" for another world championship! Now BRING ON SPIES!!

Now I am off to watch the 250 race I have heard some much about.

 

[VHMP01]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pinky @ Oct 26 2009, 05:41 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>yes rossi got the fastest time but that was on a drying track and by the stoner had

Was it not drying for everyone?

 

[Austin]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jumkie @ Oct 26 2009, 10:09 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>I'm hungover. I will post when I get rid of this headache. Had a big ... BBQ with 50+ friends to watch the races at my pad. Then we started taking shots...that's when it got crazy.

My ...... hurts! Candy .... I thought you liked motorcycle racing, Jum.

 

[MdubSTYLIE]

The 250 race was outstanding definitely the best 250 race of the year!

 

[babelfish]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Austin @ Oct 26 2009, 05:21 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Are you two serious? The man rides an absolutely great race, does exactly what he needs to do to win the title by finishing in front of Lorenzo (leaving nothing to chance and allowing himself to ride his race rather than following and focusing on Lorenzo) and you take offense to people telling it like it is?

When people deny reality I don't get anoyed but IF I got the time and energy I point it out to you.
2 + 2 where never 3 Austin and I thought you could see that.
Nothing wrong in doing exactly what is needed. See race 2 at WSBK for the recipie.
Rossi on the other hand took 16 points more more than he needed and that's just much more.
Taking fastest lap on wet is an achivement by it's own in that company, not to mention that situation.
To pass Lorenzo was also another thing he definatly didn't have to do, plenty of space behind.
All three are undeniably much more than "exactly what he needs to do". And finally, you would be closer to the truth in the dry but doing anything more than what you have to do in the wet is a lot more.
I am more than a little surprised that you fail to see this, to the point that I wonder what drugs you are on. The only other explanation i could find would be that you mean that Rossi is so fast and cofident that he set the fastetst lap in the race while well within his comfort zone. ( if there is such a thing as a comfort zone in the wet? As I've never found it please point out where I can find it

)
In other words he should have blasted away from <u>every one</u> with ease if he just pushed slightly, not?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE <div class='quotemain'>He didn't fight for a race win. Yeah, he closed in on Pedrosa but his getting pushed wide and waiting for everything to settle in the opening laps created the gap that he had to close. If he wasn't in championship mode, he would have charged through the field immediately and certainly wouldn't have been stuffed by Melandri repeatedly. Don't tell me he did "more than enough." He did what he needed to do to win the title.
And then some.

As I said in the forst post I agree that he didn't push to the maximum he just did much more than just crusing in.

 

[Austin]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Babelfish @ Oct 26 2009, 01:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Nothing wrong in doing exactly what is needed. See race 2 at WSBK for the recipie.
There it is again. Always taking shots at the success of other riders. He won a title, why can't you appreciate it for what it was. Fifth place was cruising, absolutely, but he got the job done and took home the number one plate. Although Rossi wasn't cruising, he wasn't riding out of his head either. Like I said earlier, had he been doing "more than enough," why was he so hesitant in the early laps? He rode smart and he took home the title, I don't understand what more there is to argue about?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Babelfish @ Oct 26 2009, 01:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>To pass Lorenzo was also another thing he definatly didn't have to do, plenty of space behind.
True. Although with a visibly quicker pace than Lorenzo, I'd imagine he was more comfortable running in front of, and eventually away, from Lorenzo.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Babelfish @ Oct 26 2009, 01:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>In other words he should have blasted away from <u>every one</u> with ease if he just pushed slightly, not?
Not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is if he was doing so much more than he needed to, why was he 20 seconds behind Stoner?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Babelfish @ Oct 26 2009, 01:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>As I said in the forst post I agree that he didn't push to the maximum he just did much more than just crusing in.
I never said he did "just enough" or "cruised." I said he did what he needed to do. If you want to get into the semantics of taking X amount of points when Y are necessary to clinch, then that's your business. If so, Hayden did more than enough in 2006 as he had four points to spare. He could have finished Valencia in fourth rather than third. See how much fun nitpicking is?

 

[Arrabbiata1]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (mylexicon @ Oct 26 2009, 07:35 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Last time Kawasaki talked about a revolutionary new direction, Hopper spent 1/2 the season in the hospital.
..and one Saturday practice session in an Italian bar

 

[xx CURVE xx]

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[Jumkie]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Austin @ Oct 26 2009, 10:08 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>

My ...... hurts! Candy ....
You're confusing me with Stoner.

Speaking of which he totally blew away the field. (Ah, what might have been).

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE <div class='quotemain'>I thought you liked motorcycle racing, Jum.

I do. But I also like Tequila. And four hours of racing on a Sunday afternoon, where titles are decided is one hell of a good way to punish an already weak liver.

 

[Jumkie]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (xx CURVE xx @ Oct 26 2009, 01:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'><span style="font-size:36pt;line-height:100%thats #7

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Congrats Rossi. Yet another gifted and lucky title.

 

[Austin]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jumkie @ Oct 26 2009, 03:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>I do. But I also like Tequila. And four hours of racing on a Sunday afternoon, where titles are decided is one hell of a good way to punish an already weak liver.
I've never been one to argue with tequila.

 

[chopperman]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jumkie @ Oct 26 2009, 08:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'><span style="font-size:36pt;line-height:100%<span style="font-family:Arial Black<span style="color:#FF0000

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Congrats Rossi. Yet another gifted and lucky title.

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[Mick D]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jumkie @ Oct 27 2009, 03:54 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Congrats Rossi. Yet another gifted and lucky title.

I'm settling in for the verbal vomit to follow...

EDIT4JUM

 

[Jumkie]

..Oops
Edit: (do the same Mick & BigAl)

I want you know who....

 

[Mick D]

Dude you can be more dense than a redwood... I got the drift, but I'm waitin' for the ????? and crew...

EDIT4JUM

 

[BigAl]

"The Cruzin' Record Breaker?"

don't have the right ring to it does it?

edited for some reason that i dont want to explain....

 

[Jumkie]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BigAl @ Oct 26 2009, 02:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>"The Cruzin' Record Breaker?"

don't have the right ring to it does it?
I'm gunning for T_____a.

See above Edit.

 

[Mick D]

OK Jum. Have fun!

 

[chopperman]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jumkie @ Oct 26 2009, 09:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>I'm gunning for T_____a.

See above Edit.
WTF, i seem to have misplaced my enigma machine

 

[Keshav]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Talpa @ Oct 25 2009, 09:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>

Very funny stuff.......mainly patriarchal delusion with a little bit of common sense.......CS certainly isn't the fastest motorcycle racer in the world today, Sepang was great however, getting to the front early was his only masterstroke, with now spray to deal with he was able to clear off, VR postest the fastest time, and consistently quickest to make up more than 8 seconds on them even though his title was wrapped up with much less........

Oh yeah

and then taking off and leaving everyone miles behind,
unable to catch up in any meaningful way - that was a mere trifle. Any
pendejo could have pulled that off. Right?