MotoGP 2014

[pritch]

Casey has put his model cars down to head to Motegi to test for HRC. Perhaps he is also instructing H Aoyama on how to be a Honda test rider?

[Bender]

Casey has put his model cars down to head to Motegi to test for HRC. Perhaps he is also instructing H Aoyama on how to be a Honda test rider?

Don't know why Aoyama has got the arse for next year - he's been consistently as good as the other riders on customer Hondas.

[roogazza]

did he fall or was he pushed ?
Followed him in 250 , had a good last year there.

[Banditbandit]

If only he had of ridden like that Mid Season ????

Different tracks suit different bikes and riders ..

[steveyb]

http://motomatters.com/press_release...s_path_of.html

[denill]

Casey has put his model cars down to head to Motegi to test for HRC. Perhaps he is also instructing H Aoyama on how to be a Honda test rider?

Mmmm, seems he remembers how it's done.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Mmmm, seems he remembers how it's done.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXeGVEx9-t8

[pritch]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXeGVEx9-t8

LOL You wish.

[Crasherfromwayback]

LOL You wish.

Lol. You know it mate! Shake things up a bit more!

[Reckless]

Vinales got some good stats in here off the moto GP site

Valencia Moto2 Preview
Monday, 3 November 2014
Having already clinched the Moto2™ World title in a dominant fashion Tito Rabat arrives at the final race of the year with an opportunity to go in search of another victory in front of the noisy home crowd at the Gran Premio Generali de la Comunitat Valenciana.

Rabat has already attained a total of 326 points in the World Championship this year and if he finishes in 13th place or better in Valencia he will set a new record highest points’ total in the intermediate class of Grand Prix racing. That record is currently held by Marc Marquez who scored 328 points in winning the Moto2 World title in 2012 over the course of a 17 round season, though this year there are 18 races in total.

Rabat has also finished on the podium 13 times so far in 2014 and another top three finish at the final race of the year in Valencia means he will equal the record of 14 podiums in a season in the intermediate class, also set by Marquez in 2012.

On the other side of the Marc VDS Racing Team pit box, Rabat’s colleague Mika Kallio has amassed a total of 289 points so far this year, which is already the greatest ever points’ total than any rider has achieved in finishing second in the intermediate class World Championship. Kallio’s performances this year have been commendable and he has made Rabat work extremely hard to take the title.

Meanwhile, Moto2’s remarkable Rookie of the Year Maverick Viñales (Paginas Amarillas HP 40), who is still only 19 years-old and is still the reigning Moto3™ World Champion, took the 16th victory of his Grand Prix career in Malaysia. Only three riders have scored more than 16 GP wins before reaching the age of 20: Marc Marquez, Dani Pedrosa and Valentino Rossi.

That is good company to aim to be keeping and Viñales will join them in the premier class next year, though before he does he will strive for another win, to make it four victories in his last five Moto2 races before he moves up to MotoGP™.

Behind Viñales in the standings an intriguing battle for fourth overall will be settled on Sunday with Swiss compatriots Thomas Luthi (Interwetten Sitag) and Dominique Aegerter (Technomag carXpert) both keen to finish ahead of each other.

[Badjelly]

That is good company to aim to be keeping and Viñales will join them in the premier class next year, though before he does he will strive for another win, to make it four victories in his last five Moto2 races before he moves up to MotoGP™.

...where I fear his run of victories will stop for a while, with him on a Suzuki.

Good luck to him, though. He's been exceptional.

[sil3nt]

Surprised this hasn't been posted:
http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2014/R...+at+Valencia+1

Pretty exciting I think!

[BMWST?]

...where I fear his run of victories will stop for a while, with him on a Suzuki.

Good luck to him, though. He's been exceptional.

agreed cant quite beleive that someone hasnt already grabbed him from motogp

[pritch]

There was discussion on Twitter some months ago by Smith and Laverty about how they are treated by airline staff. Young guys in hoodies and shorts , who may look as if they've lost their razor, frequently get questioned as to their right to be in the club lounge.

Alex Briggs who has a couple of decades on the young blokes experiences this several times a year as well. His latest:
"This is the business class check in."
"I am travelling business class."
"You don't look like a business class passenger"
"What does a (expletive optional) business class passenger look like?"

He said it happened to Mick Doohan once when Doohan could probably have afforded to buy the aeroplane.

Anyhoo the whole circus is underway again for the last time this year...

[denill]

Surprised this hasn't been posted:
http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2014/R...+at+Valencia+1

Pretty exciting I think!

Yeah, will provide another element of interest for sure.

DP's attitude to his non-inclusion in the 2015 team is commendable and mature, not common though.