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This Ducati must be stopped!

Segfault

Segfault

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Really, reading all these remarks makes my stomach turn.
When Kawasaki dominates with two riders then it is OK.
If just one Ducati rider keeps winning then it has unfair advantage and restrictions should be imposed!
Basically, lets say it out loud. If anything else wins than Kawasaki and Rea then it is illegal, unfair and bad in every regard.
 
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It's not so much the Ducati winning or even Bautista winning which bothers me, it's the comments on various platforms going "this is why GP is superior" or "Rea is crap" which get's my back up.

Let me put it this way, if Cal Crutchlow can get wins and podiums in MotoGP then Rea is perfectly capable of it too.

Secondly if Grand Prix racing is so superior to any other form of racing why did it take Max Biaggi 4 years to win a title? Why has John Hopkins never won a title in BSB? Why did Troy Bayliss rock up at Valencia in 2006 and blow all the GP lads away.

I'm happy Rea has some competition for a change and I quite like Bautista but some of these people need to get some perspective when criticising other sports.
 
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About time someone apart from Rea won and the Duc isn't a cheat machine.
 
Theo said:
About time someone apart from Rea won and the Duc isn't a cheat machine.
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Yeah but not at the expense of somebody dominating even more lol

I can't believe how Kiyonari has ended up though, what a rider he was back in the day. Just seems a shadow of the rider who racing 10 years ago or so.
 
AntG said:
Yeah but not at the expense of somebody dominating even more lol

I can't believe how Kiyonari has ended up though, what a rider he was back in the day. Just seems a shadow of the rider who racing 10 years ago or so.
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Well the other teams better play catch up then, Rea was far to dominant for far too long and always teamed with a poorer quality team mate. Mind you Bautista's team mate isn't very good it seems.
 
Ducati played the system and somehow gained a 1700 rpm advantage over the next fastest bike on the grid. Considering the increments in raising or lowering the rpms is 300 in the performance indexing, 1700 is a ....... huge deficit. If you take out the Kwak which is 7-8 mph down , the rest are well over 10mph down. Ducati will get a 300 rpm decrease after the 3rd event and that will make little difference. Here is where the performance indexing can be manipulated by simply losing a few races and not get another decrease after the 6 th event. They can play this out for the rest of the season with the lead they will have. This is why performance indexing is basically fake racing and has backfired in dramatic fashion considering it was supposed to create close racing.
 
I reckon they've given Davies a rubbish bike so that Bautista doesn't get docked. In WSBK, the performance of both Dukes affects the indexing for each other...
 
According to Peter Hickman in an interview the other night the BMW's that are being used in World Superbikes are still running pretty much stock motors and the new racing engine should be ready soon :spin:
 
they can say or even do whatever they want to Bautista's bike, won't change his results. He is faster than Rea, period.

And please do not read any "MotoGP vs Superbike" in this comment. I am referring to the individual rider's skills and talent.
 
Holypuck said:
they can say or even do whatever they want to Bautista's bike, won't change his results. He is faster than Rea, period.

And please do not read any "MotoGP vs Superbike" in this comment. I am referring to the individual rider's skills and talent.
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I think he is faster than a number of riders who still have premier class motogp rides.
 
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It can be strange some riders elevation to championship contender status.

As Bautista once was the torpedo, Dovi was an also ran.

Shows what can happen when a rider has the correct equipment at their disposal. And this goes for majority of the current field.


I've always wished for a "one make" off season mini championship.
Much like the race of champions is for car drivers.
 
Yeah it's quite unpredictable sometimes, I mean like 2011 when Carlos Checa blasted his way to the title, that came out of nowhere, before that he was just a guy who won a couple of races a year.
 
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Another one was Spies, who saw that one coming?

At the time everyone said AMA was a weak series next thing it's champion rocks up in the world championship at tracks he's never even seen and ends up breaking records on his way to winning the title on a brand new bike.
 
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Barbedwirebikerr said:
It can be strange some riders elevation to championship contender status.

As Bautista once was the torpedo, Dovi was an also ran.

Shows what can happen when a rider has the correct equipment at their disposal. And this goes for majority of the current field.


I've always wished for a "one make" off season mini championship.
Much like the race of champions is for car drivers.
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Casey Stoner could conceivably have had a similar motogp career to Bautista's if he hadn't to some extent fluked the caretaker Ducati factory ride when he did.
 
Guess its all down to who Dorna favour at the time, after all they don't really care about anyone as long as the filthy lucre keeps coming.
 
Bautista did it again. Davies 27 seconds down. Will this ever change?
 
Desperate if not dangerous move by Rea in my eyes (but that means bugger all)in the last lap last corner in the 1st race at Jerez today where he took out Alex Lowes !!!

Probably been swatting up on Marc Marquez tactics

I await the backlash with relish
 

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