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MotoGP Off-Season Thread

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JO EBRMC said:
If racing forums were broken off, no one would visit them and they'd die.
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There are plenty of sub-forums on BARF that no one visits but is still alive! :laughing

P.S.
Hope I didn't confuse people into thinking that each race series will get a sub-forum. Every race series/racing discussions will be lumped into one sub-forum.
 
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JO EBRMC said:
If racing forums were broken off, no one would visit them and they'd die.

I don't really believe they would be a CRT.

And I'm not understanding why it would be a bad thing if they were. Same exact rules except they get more fuel and motors. Why would that be bad?
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I agree with the forum thing. It's at least five years too late. There use to be several threads that lasted for awhile. Now, it's basically just these MotoGP threads with a minty hint of WSBK.
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I was talking about CRT being bad for Spies as far as his career.
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I guess that I thought Suzuki still wasn't doing MSMA rules because of all the Aspar talk. I see that they, indeed, are testing with smaller tanks, etc.. I don't know about all this, really. I still would rather see Aprilia with a factory team, at this point.
 
Oh please Sweet Baby Jesus...

Distance from the fastest bike at the test to the first CRT machine (Randy De Puniet) is still nearly 2.5 seconds.

The madness continues... :rolleyes

Make it stop! Randy De Puniet: "Please SBJ, let me get that Suzuki gig." (need a "praying" smiley)

I'll take Mini P for the title this year, despite his team mate. Lorenzo's the only one who will be close and may actually win it as well. I'm on the fence with that one. Jorge/Mini P. Not sure.
 
Well. On to Austin, Texas. A new track to everyone, for a nice twist.
 
so in addition to Racer's Corner we gonna have Bench Racer's Corner? is that about it?
 
Is anyone else totally let down by spies? From AMA to wsbk to now has been just a shitty decline into basically a backmarker. I thought he had so much promising talent.
 
He is on a new bike that sucks. He has had less testing time and is not 100% yet. Last I checked he was around 2.5 off the leaders.
 
MotoMatters is reporting that Prezioso is retiring from Ducati citing health issues.
 
telly said:
Is anyone else totally let down by spies? From AMA to wsbk to now has been just a shitty decline into basically a backmarker. I thought he had so much promising talent.
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His 2009 WSBK season was legendary. Not only was he pretty much always the fastest at every track, even learning some of them in one weekend, but he made so many awesome strategic decisions on- and off-track that won races. I can't stop thinking there's an alien inside him after that, even with the shite GP career he's had.

It has been shite though :(
 
^I wonder how much of that has to do with the team and the bike, though. In every post-race interview in '09 he would say with a shrug, "bike was perfect. thanks, Yamaha."

Interesting point though. I wonder how Checa or Sykes would do on a factory GP ride, and vice versa, how well Spies would do if he could race his old Yamaha superbike against those two.
 
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^I wonder how much of that has to do with the team and the bike, though. In every post-race interview in '09 he would say with a shrug, "bike was perfect. thanks, Yamaha."
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Given his performance on a Suzuk in AMA, I'm pretty certain it's the rider. Plus, Sykes couldn't replicate what he did on it the same year, and neither could Melandri and Laverty, despite their relative successes on the R1 (which simultaneously, became the most powerful bike in the SBK grid after Spies left).
 
Besides MotoGp... Suzuki's GSVR could have been the base of one hell
of an exciting street bike on the order of their ground breaking GSXR
was back in 86... because if you're an engineer in charge of street
production with an eye to a potential WSBK winner MotoGp is your
technical reference point...

Cameron Donald takes the GSVR Suzuki for a little spin at the IOM and
states "thats the BEST bike he has ever ridden." OK a spin isn’t
exactly the right word, because Donald put the 800cc prototype through
a fast lap and hit a top speed of 325km/h (202 mph) down the Sulby
straight and to put things into perspective, HM Plant’s Keith Amor in
the Senior TT with a Honda CBR 1000RR did 310 km/h (192.8 mph)

Quote Donald:

”Man, that was just amazing! I thought the bike would be really difficult and
twitchy to ride, but it was great. I was expecting to ride a steady lap, but it
was so good that I was able to get a great rhythm going and pick up a fast pace.

“In fact, it was so good, I reckon we need to get some regulation
changes for next year, as this thing with a few more laps on it, would
really fly here.”


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V4 hall marks??? "Amazingly fast and easy to ride".
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i blame Houseworth for a lot of Spies' troubles in GP and most of his success in SBK. unfounded opinion, but i said it.
 
I don't want to blame anyone else. It sounds just like Rossi fans. It's always Rossi when he succeeds. It's always someone else when he fails.

I suppose we could REALLY blame Mary, since she is his management. Although, I hear she don't cook him Apple Crisp no more, and that's the real problem. :twofinger

(He has been a serious shocker, after the WSBK year, and fast early GP races. I am disappointed, too.)
 
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