WSBK Rd4 - ASSEN !

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Bootsakah @ Apr 21 2010, 04:10 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Ok so no MotoGP this weekend, but the Cathedral of Speed is having a WSBK race. Assen is on, falling ash will not stop WSBK. Last year Spies won race 1, wowing the crowds with a last lap pass on both Haslam and Haga, but then fell in race 2. Haga took 2nd in race 1 and won race 2. Haslam had a double podium last year with a 3rd and a 2nd. Smrz had a rare podium at Assen last year. Biaggi managed 5th in race 1 and retired in race 2. This year Haslam has to be the favorite, he has been on the podium in every race but 1 this year. Biaggi has also podiumed in the last four races. Checa and Haga had strong finishes in the last round and should be running near the front at Assen.

My predictions:

Race 1
1. Haslam
2. Haga
3. Biaggi
4. Checa
5. Corser

Race 2
1. Haga
2. Haslam
3. Checa
4. Biaggi
5. Rea

As a side note, the WSS races at Assen over the past few years have been excellent. Let's hope this year doesn't disappoint.


Might have been the best race of the year. The side by side with Haslam for 4 straight corners to take 2nd was ....... awesome. It all didnt happen on the last lap but who cares. The pass of Haslam , then the way he scared Haga out of his seat when passed where no man had gone before, took me back to the duel that Bayliss and Edwards had on the last lap of the last race for the WSBK title. Good Stuff

Amazing Track fooked up.Corporate Wankers my DVD Motogp Assen 2001 Backup is in a safe lol

Tenkate home

Rea
Leon
Checa


Leon
Biaggi
Haga


Yoshimura Suzuki forced to abandon Assen WSBK debut
World Superbike Championship newcomer Yoshimura Suzuki has been forced to abandon its planned debut at Assen in the Netherlands this weekend due to the ongoing disruption caused by the eruption of Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull last week - and is now considering a possible bow at Monza instead
The Yoshimura Suzuki Racing Team has become the latest casualty of the ongoing global fall-out from the eruption of Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull last week – having admitted defeat in its efforts to get to Assen for what was supposed to have been its World Superbike Championship debut this coming weekend.

Late last year, the illustrious and highly-regarded Japanese parts and tuning company announced its intention to quit the All-Japan Superbike Championship – in which it was a regular front-runner – in favour of racing in selected rounds of WSBK this year as a satellite Suzuki operation, no doubt encouraged by the incredible success achieved by its US arm in AMA road racing of late, most notably with Ben Spies.

Aside from Assen, the team revealed that it planned to enter the Imola and Magny-Cours rounds in September and October respectively – ahead of a mooted all-out title challenge in 2011 – with four-time WSBK race-winner Yukio Kagayama aboard the GSX-R1000 in Holland and France, and Daisaku Sakai taking to the track in San Marino, after finishing as runner-up on home turf in the All-Japan Superbike Championship for Yoshimura last season.

However, as a result of the international travel chaos that has reigned for the past week, the squad has proven unable to transport its equipment to the Netherlands in time to compete this weekend, and is now understood to be eyeing a potential maiden appearance at Monza in Italy on 9 May instead.

Who will ride the bike, though, remains unclear, as Kagayama's British Superbike Championship Worx Crescent Suzuki team manager Jack Valentine previously told Crash.net that 'with the investment we have in Yukio, I would not foresee his BSB contract allowing any further races for Yoshimura' [see separate story

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Bootsakah @ Apr 21 2010, 10:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Honestly would be cool to see Tommy Hill back in WSBK on the Yosh Suzuki,

I think its going to be really good for Tommy to get a year of running at the front in a stable situations, fighting for wins and hopefully staying healthy. After that he should look to get back onto the world scene.

Rea said the revised Ruskenhoek requires big balls.



Excited to go there sunday. Hope the weather holds up

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (heyhuub @ Apr 22 2010, 11:02 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Rea said the revised Ruskenhoek requires big balls.



Excited to go there sunday. Hope the weather holds up
they say it'll be 22 C with full sunshine Im gonna pack my ...... and get a nice tan

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Marijke @ Apr 22 2010, 07:52 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>they say it'll be 22 C with full sunshine Im gonna pack my ...... and get a nice tan

yummy

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they say it'll be 22 C with full sunshine Im gonna pack my ...... and get a nice tan
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Pics please

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (heyhuub @ Apr 22 2010, 10:02 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Rea said the revised Ruskenhoek requires big balls.



Excited to go there sunday. Hope the weather holds up

Didn`t know about that! Deffo a big balls corner!

My picks

1.Haslam
2.Crutchlow
3.Rea

1.Haslam
2.Biaggi
3.Haga.

I LOVE ASSEN!!!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (heyhuub @ Apr 22 2010, 02:02 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Rea said the revised Ruskenhoek requires big balls.



Excited to go there sunday. Hope the weather holds up
Wow!  Excellent! What are they thinking?  That looks like a PROPER corner!  I can't EVER recall a track's layout being improved in this manner; usually they are installing some chicken-.... chicane to slow 'dangerous' sections like this.  You're sure the green doesn't represent the OLD section?  

Haslam for the double

not haslam plz.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (J708 @ Apr 23 2010, 06:32 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>not haslam plz.

I wish Biaggi for winning race 1 and 2.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (V5Stroker @ Apr 23 2010, 08:29 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>I wish Biaggi for winning race 1 and 2.

+1...and I would not mind if Vermi would get into the top5. Hey, it´s just positive thinking!

Nice going Haga! For a second i thought you weren't gonna be the last Ducati, but in the end you came through great being the last Duc in the timing sheets.



Man, sometimes it's just hard to root for him.

1. Jonathan Rea GBR Ten Kate Honda CBR1000RR 1min 36.789s
2. Troy Corser AUS BMW Motorrad S1000RR 1min 36.914s
3. Cal Crutchlow GBR Yamaha Sterilgarda YZF R1 1min 37.199s
4. Leon Haslam GBR Alstare Suzuki GSX-R1000 1min 37.556s
5. Jakub Smrz CZE PATA B&G Racing Ducati 1198 1min 37.660s
6. Carlos Checa ESP Althea Ducati 1198 1min 37.737s
7. Shane Byrne GBR Althea Ducati 1198 1min 37.781s
8. Michel Fabrizio ITA Ducati Xerox 1198 1min 37.781s
9. James Toseland GBR Yamaha Sterilgarda YZF R1 1min 38.040s
10. Luca Scassa ITA Supersonic Ducati 1198 1min 38.075s
11. Max Biaggi ITA Aprilia Alitalia Racing RSV-4 1min 38.206s
12. Lorenzo Lanzi ITA DFX Ducati 1198 1min 38.213s
13. Sylvain Guintoli FRA Alstare Suzuki GSX-R1000 1min 38.332s
14. Tom Sykes GBR Kawasaki SRT ZX-10R 1min 38.352s
15. Max Neukirchner GER Ten Kate Honda CBR1000RR 1min 38.435s
16. Noriyuki Haga JPN Ducati Xerox 1198 1min 38.456s
17. Leon Camier GBR Aprilia Alitalia Racing RSV-4 1min 38.580s
18. Ruben Xaus ESP BMW Motorrad S1000RR 1min 38.765s
19. Chris Vermeulen AUS Kawasaki SRT ZX-10R 1min 40.052s
20. Roger Lee Hayden USA Team Pedercini Kawasaki ZX-10R 1min 41.195s
21. Matteo Baiocco ITA Team Pedercini Kawasaki ZX-10R 1min 41.375s
22. Broc Parkes AUS Echo-CRS Honda CBR1000RR No Time


!st practice

Provisional Pole Qualifying
Superpole Tomorrow

1. Jakub Smrz CZE PATA B&G Racing Ducati 1198 1min 36.041s
2. Jonathan Rea GBR Ten Kate Honda CBR1000RR 1min 36.339s
3. Troy Corser AUS BMW Motorrad S1000RR 1min 36.489s
4. Leon Haslam GBR Alstare Suzuki GSX-R1000 1min 36.618s
5. Cal Crutchlow GBR Yamaha Sterilgarda YZF R1 1min 36.752s
6. Carlos Checa ESP Althea Ducati 1198 1min 36.805s
7. Leon Camier GBR Aprilia Alitalia Racing RSV-4 1min 37.064s
8. Shane Byrne GBR Althea Ducati 1198 1min 37.081s
9. Michel Fabrizio ITA Ducati Xerox 1198 1min 37.165s
10. James Toseland GBR Yamaha Sterilgarda YZF R1 1min 37.166s
11. Lorenzo Lanzi ITA DFX Ducati 1198 1min 37.344s
12. Tom Sykes GBR Kawasaki SRT ZX-10R 1min 37.434s
13. Max Neukirchner GER Ten Kate Honda CBR1000RR 1min 37.453s
14. Noriyuki Haga JPN Ducati Xerox 1198 1min 37.462s
15. Luca Scassa ITA Supersonic Ducati 1198 1min 37.506s
16. Max Biaggi ITA Aprilia Alitalia Racing RSV-4 1min 37.580s
17. Sylvain Guintoli FRA Alstare Suzuki GSX-R1000 1min 37.684s
18. Ruben Xaus ESP BMW Motorrad S1000RR 1min 37.685s
19. Matteo Baiocco ITA Team Pedercini Kawasaki ZX-10R 1min 38.795s
20. Chris Vermeulen AUS Kawasaki SRT ZX-10R 1min 39.079s
21. Roger Lee Hayden USA Team Pedercini Kawasaki ZX-10R 1min 39.186s
22. Broc Parkes AUS Echo-CRS Honda CBR1000RR 1min 40.485s