Silverstone 2013 Predictions ?

J4rn0 said:

After Brno we do not really know what is a Yamaha track any more, so we leave that alone.

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There are as many Yamaha tracks as were Michelin tracks in 08.

MM will crash out this race due to the bad vibes being sent his way by a certain PS member.


 


okay I reckon


 


1 Pedrosa


2 Lorenzo


3 Crutchlow


4 Bautista


5 Rossi


6 Dovizioso


7 Bradl


 


There you go

Mm will take 1st or hunt till the last lap so the other riders will have to think alot more one mistake and mm will take it ( I wasn't a mm fan but watching him come in a do what his doing is just amazing ) I hope cal dose well I thnl if he cam keep up with the front maybe he can get a 2nd but that a massive maube

Bradders top 5.

Matters not what are the results, results are a function of parity.  On a related note, Ducati chastised Hayden for racing his teammate, but we are supposed to believe they didn't talk to a rookie at HRC?  That is unlikely at best, and if anything is "absurd" it was Ducati telling an actual world champ how to race.  .... Ducati.

Still not sure how you fire Hayden (who has shown over and over that he's at least as fast as Dovi), and hire Cal (who got smoked by Dovi last year). But I suppose decision making is not one of Ducati's strong points.

rezonator636

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Still not sure how you fire Hayden (who has shown over and over that he's at least as fast as Dovi), and hire Cal (who got smoked by Dovi last year). But I suppose decision making is not one of Ducati's strong points.

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Careful talking like that around here - you'll soon come to learn that Crutchlow is one of the greatest riders to ever score a podium finish.

Cal Crutchlow still hasn't even come close to winning a race. The closest he was was in Sachsenring where Marquez was just cruising around controlling the gap (1.559 seconds behind), and there was no Pedrosa or Lorenzo either. 


 


He's not going to do well at all on the Ducati. Probably exactly the same place as Hayden is finishing, right next to Dovi the teammate roadblocker, every race. Even if he went Factory Yamaha I doubt he'd be winning championships, probably a race here and there though. If he doesn't win a race this season, which I don't think he will, he'll never win in MotoGP

I actually had Crutchlow to win Shiverstone based on early form. Two poles, one of them earned straight up means he has the speed. No podium at Brno shows starting from the front doesn't matter much though. He gets swallowed up at the start by the Hondas.

Pov, poor guy, never one to understanding nuance if it hit him in the balls, but it will take a tire miss management, or perhaps a Yamaha ideal set up combined with a perfect race to overcome the Honda's advantage. This or rain. If we get mixed conditions or a bit of rain, Cal is the one to watch given he has nothing to lose. I think its win or bin time. Brno resulted in a bin. I think if hes in a position to win he'll go for broke at his home GP...if he is no where near the leader, he'll think better of it and bring it home for a podium finish (which will feel like a win to him and his fans, perhaps rightly so.) No telling what might happen at Silverstone. I just hope for .... sakes he doesn't crash in practice, gets injured, rides a gutsy race, then later chastises others for riding hurt. Haha

elitemafia said:

Dovi the teammate roadblocker, every race.

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Absolutely! And now Ducati have told Hayden, an actual MotoGP champ not to race his teammate hard. Absurd! I would have liked to have been in the room when the moron who had the brain fade cued up enuf to employ the same ..... - courage (as had the Marlboro man who questioned Stoner) to tell Nicky to ride more measured during the race. If i would have been able to refrain from ..... slapping this guy for uttering such disrespect (as im sure they never told Rossi to calm the .... down when he actually torpedoed the championship leader at the time...symptomatic of what non-Euros must endure) would have interrupted the .... face and said: first of all between the two Dovi is 2x more aggressive, evidence by his stupid collision on the straight at Laguna, 2nd, give us a ....... bike that will turn so we dont have to ride around in lock step battling for 9th position against a rookie who has no business beating two world class riders. 3rd go .... urself!

Krops, here is an assignment, ask Nicky who was the 'slimy ....... walrus-looking piece of ....' who had the arrogance to question his race craft. And while ur at it, ask Marc who the .... talked some sense into him at HRC, since after his torpedo of Jlo and attempted torpedo of Pedro hes ridden cleanly. Something obviously a rookie should hear and NOT a veteran World MotoGP champ relegated to battle the only person available to avoid 10th position.

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Absolutely! And now Ducati have told Hayden, an actual MotoGP champ not to race his teammate hard. Absurd! I would have lije5d to have been in the room when the moron who had the brain fade cued up enuf ..... - courage to tell Nicky to ride more measured during the race. I would have interrupted tge .... face and said, first of all between the two Dovi is 2x more aggressive, evidence by his stupid collision on the straight at Laguna, 2nd, give us a ....... bike that will turn so we dont have to ride around in lock step battling for 9th position against a rookie who has no business beating two world class riders. 3rd go .... urself!

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Seriously?  They chided Nicky for simply ...RACING?


 


  :wallbash:

Jumkie

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I actually had Crutchlow to win Shiverstone based on early form. Two poles, one of them earned straight up means he has the speed. No podium at Brno shows starting from the front doesn't matter much though. He gets swallowed up at the start by the Hondas.

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Swallowed up by the Hondas? Don't you mean swallowed up by just about everyone on the grid? Did you see how Lorenzo laid waste to the Hondas for the first few laps at Brno despite his "inferior" bike. Two poles just means he has the speed to throw down for a few one off laps.

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Seriously?  They chided Nicky for simply ...RACING?


 


  :wallbash:

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Wouldn't you be pissed if your factory riders went from a 8th/9th placed finish to a 9th/10th placed finish.


 


Wait what?

Sloth_27 said:

Swallowed up by the Hondas? Don't you mean swallowed up by just about everyone on the grid? Did you see how Lorenzo laid waste to the Hondas for the first few laps at Brno despite his "inferior" bike. Two poles just means he has the speed to throw down for a few one off laps.

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Yes, but Lorenzo was employing a risky strategy to get so far ahead thst he might manage the gap as he did at Indy. Then the tires went off and Jlo struggled to maintain the pace ( in addition to his lack of being fully recovered). At least thats how I see it. No doubt Cal is poor at the start, hes admitted as much. But this still doesn't mean he wont be swallowed up by the Hondas does it?

Btw side note: so u dont think the factory Hondas are superior to the factory Yamahas?

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Yes, but Lorenzo was employing a risky strategy to get so far ahead thst he might manage the gap as he did at Indy. Then the tires went off and Jlo struggled to maintain the pace ( in addition to his lack of being fully recovered). At least thats how I see it. No doubt Cal is poor at the start, hes admitted as much. But this still doesn't mean he wont be swallowed up by the Hondas does it? Btw side note: so u dont think the factory Hondas are superior to the factory Yamahas?

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I think the Hondas are better at the moment, but superior is stretching it a bit. I think the Yamaha looks worse than it is because Rossi can't keep up, and Lorenzo has a vested interest in complaining about his disadvantage (ie. he wants new parts from the factory).


 


If Lorenzo could get off to such a good start, Cal should have been able to do better than he did from pole. His starts are basically ruling him out of any chance of a win, certainly more than being on a Satellite bike is.

Fair enuf.
Anyway, I cant make any promises about Cal wining this weekends MotoGP, but u might as well hear it now, Scott Redding for the win! Thus cementing his claim to the Moto2 world title; then, like previous intermediate category champs such as Pedrosa, Lorenzo, Simoncelli, Bradl, and Marquez, he will go on to a factory spec Japanese machine....right?

I would have liked to see Redding take Smith's M1 so we could see him up against Espargaro on equal bikes. There is a good rivalry in the making there and if Ezy has as much manipulative sway as you say he does he should have made it happen.


 


But in all fairness, until this year Redding's career looked on more of a downward spiral than anything. He really changed his focus to his own riding and results this year and I think it has made a big difference. I rate him better than Cal (from my lounge room) and reckon he will find his way onto a Factory Jap bike soon enough.

Sloth_27 said:

I would have liked to see Redding take Smith's M1 so we could see him up against Espargaro on equal bikes. There is a good rivalry in the making there and if Ezy has as much manipulative sway as you say he does he should have made it happen.
 
But in all fairness, until this year Redding's career looked on more of a downward spiral than anything. He really changed his focus to his own riding and results this year and I think it has made a big difference. I rate him better than Cal (from my lounge room) and reckon he will find his way onto a Factory Jap bike soon enough.

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I completely agree with u (except for ever getting on a factory bike). I fear he will take the Andrea Iannone route to oblivion.

Btw Sloth, where are u from? We always seem to exchange right at this time. Its near midnight for me and a goid time to shoot the .....

I dunno, Iannone was more a flash of speed type of rider - one weekend on the podium, the next nowhere to be seen. I think if Redding keeps his head together and doesn't expect too much from his rookie season he might find his way into Tech3 and by then Rossi will be gone and probably Pedrosa too. Redding and Espagaro are the only two from the current Moto2 field that are much good, the next lot are still in Moto3.


 


I'm from Sydney so this is just after 4pm, winding down ready to leave work.

Redding is a big kid. He pushes a lot of wind and has a weight disadvantage until this year in moto2 with weight limits.


 


It's possible he might do fine on the big boy bikes