MotoGP @ Silverstone!

MotoGP @ Silverstone!

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egor110

16,869 posts

203 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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Far Cough said:
yesterday they said very little chance of rain for the race but today my laptop says heavy rain. Lets hope so for a level playing field.
it was raining for the start of moto2 but its dried up now.

Lorenzo's anti rain dance must of worked.

Reardy Mister

13,757 posts

222 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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I have actually mute the entire build up (except the Edwards interviews) because that commentary team is so rife with bell-ends.

g4ry13

16,995 posts

255 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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Is it me or Cal is awful? He could be very unlucky, seems every race he's not finishing or getting mediocre results.

FourWheelDrift

88,541 posts

284 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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g4ry13 said:
Is it me or Cal is awful? He could be very unlucky, seems every race he's not finishing or getting mediocre results.
Did he reverse into his team mate?

g4ry13

16,995 posts

255 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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FourWheelDrift said:
g4ry13 said:
Is it me or Cal is awful? He could be very unlucky, seems every race he's not finishing or getting mediocre results.
Did he reverse into his team mate?
That was this time. It's always something every race. His finishing of races is atrocious.

Yazza54

18,521 posts

181 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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Masterful from Rossi, back in the lead by 12 points. Brilliant.

Very impressive from Petrucci

LoonR1

26,988 posts

177 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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Again, not the best race, but a great ride from Rossi and Petrucci. Lorenzo is a strange one. I don't understand how someone so smooth can struggle in the wet, he should really excel in it.

12 points is a good lead for Rossi and only one win behind Lorenzo if it goes to count back as well.

Le TVR

3,092 posts

251 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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woowahwoo said:
oh, dear. Miller has torpedo written all over him.
Complete prat, WTF was he thinking.
Pol too but at least he didn't take out Jorge but that was close!

LoonR1

26,988 posts

177 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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woowahwoo said:
jeez, what do more do you want - cheerleaders and fireworks on every corner? smile

It would be be good if we could see the racing but the director seems to be on a jolly from daytime TV, showing random crap all of the time.
I'd like some racing, rather than riders on a racetrack. It looked like we could get it with Rossi and Marquez until the latter fell off. There is a world of difference between riders completing races & then doing some maths on the championship table compared to three or four racers banging fairings for a whole race.

The result was great, but I like the name given to it by a pretty good racer that I know; "MotoSleepy".

pozi

1,723 posts

187 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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LoonR1 said:
Again, not the best race, but a great ride from Rossi and Petrucci. Lorenzo is a strange one. I don't understand how someone so smooth can struggle in the wet, he should really excel in it.

12 points is a good lead for Rossi and only one win behind Lorenzo if it goes to count back as well.
It seems Lorenzo's visor fogged up again, crazy for such a silly problem to keep occurring at this level of racing.


moto_traxport

4,237 posts

221 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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LoonR1 said:
Again, not the best race, but a great ride from Rossi and Petrucci. Lorenzo is a strange one. I don't understand how someone so smooth can struggle in the wet, he should really excel in it.

12 points is a good lead for Rossi and only one win behind Lorenzo if it goes to count back as well.
Well I thought that was excellent.

Roll on Mr Kent.

P.S. Don't buy HJC lids by the look of things!

LoonR1

26,988 posts

177 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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pozi said:
It seems Lorenzo's visor fogged up again, crazy for such a silly problem to keep occurring at this level of racing.
That's piss poor if true. He should dump HJC, even if they bung him a fortune now, as it could be the difference between a championship or not.

epom

11,533 posts

161 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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Masterclass from the Doc smile

obscene

5,174 posts

185 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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rofl

FourWheelDrift

88,541 posts

284 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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What I always find infuriating is Ryder's and Heuwen's reliance on a separate timing monitor to give race positions that only ever updates when bikes goes through the sector lines. So they are often wrong. The on-screen totem is always realtime and accurate.

LoonR1

26,988 posts

177 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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Perfect result for him with his closest competitors getting 0 and 3 points respectively. 70 point lead with 150 up for grabs

Edited by LoonR1 on Sunday 30th August 15:43

FourWheelDrift

88,541 posts

284 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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woowahwoo said:
FourWheelDrift said:
What I always find infuriating is Ryder's and Heuwen's reliance on a separate timing monitor to give race positions that only ever updates when bikes goes through the sector lines. So they are often wrong. The on-screen totem is always realtime and accurate.
I thought the gaps on the live timing were actually live, and that it's the totem that is sometimes not updated immediately (e.g. depending on the corner)
You'll see a move on screen and within a second the positions change on the totem, it won't register on the timing monitor they use until they go through the next timing sector beam. In which time they could have swapped positions back again.

Turn7

23,616 posts

221 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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Kent had the nearest thing to a crash coming out of the Luffield complex 3 laps
From the end.....

Reardy Mister

13,757 posts

222 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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I have been scathing about Crutchlow in the past but he absolutely did not deserve that and I felt bad for him.

Miller lacks experience and hopefully that's the first and last time he'll pull that stunt. I imagine the atmosphere in the garage gets a bit frosty when you take both the teams bikes out of their best positions all season. hehe

That said, if you're in a second tier team, you're likely to have a second tier team mate and that increases your risk if he decides to try and stick his name lights and put one past you. So its still Cal's fault smile

mitzy

13,857 posts

197 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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Not watchedvtge race due to family weekend fleegle just told me the result
Can't wait to watch it