WSBK Assen - SPOILER

[Bikernereid]

Bloody fantastic races, and nice to see the UK punching its weight (all three podium positions). Good to see a return for James Toseland and awesome riding by J. Rea. Glad to see that Haslam got it the set up right for race 2 and was back on the podium where he belongs.

Race 1:

1 65 Rea J. (GBR) Honda
2 52 Toseland J. (GBR) Yamaha
3 2 Camier L. (GBR) Aprilia
4 7 Checa C. (ESP) Ducati
5 11 Corser T. (AUS) BMW
6 3 Biaggi M. (ITA) Aprilia
7 96 Smrz J. (CZE) Ducati
8 35 Crutchlow C. (GBR) Yamaha
9 67 Byrne S. (GBR) Ducati
10 41 Haga N. (JPN) Ducati
11 91 Haslam L. (GBR) Suzuki
12 66 Sykes T. (GBR) Kawasaki
13 84 Fabrizio M. (ITA) Ducati
14 50 Guintoli S. (FRA) Suzuki
15 99 Scassa L. (ITA) Ducati
16 57 Lanzi L. (ITA) Ducati
17 77 Vermeulen C. (AUS) Kawasaki
18 15 Baiocco M. (ITA) Kawasaki
19 95 Hayden R. (USA) Kawasaki
20 76 Neukirchner M. (GER) Honda
RET 23 Parkes B. (AUS) Honda
RET 111 Xaus R. (ESP) BMW

Race 2:

1 1 65 J. REA GBR
2 4 91 L. HASLAM GBR
3 10 52 J. TOSELAND GBR
4 11 3 M. BIAGGI ITA
5 3 11 T. CORSER
6 6 7 C. CHECA ESP
7 2 96 J. SMRZ CZE
8 7 67 S. BYRNE GBR A
9 16 76 M. NEUKIRCHNER GER
10 12 111 R. XAUS ESP
11 17 99 L. SCASSA ITA
12 8 84 M. FABRIZIO ITA
13 13 50 S. GUINTOLI FRA
14 19 77 C. VERMEULEN AUS
15 21 15 M. BAIOCCO ITA
16 22 95 R. HAYDEN USA
17 20 23 B. PARKES AUS
--------------------------------------------------Not Classified--------------------------------------------------
RET 5 2 L. CAMIER GBR
RET 9 35 C. CRUTCHLOW GBR
RET 15 41 N. HAGA JPN
RET 18 57 L. LANZI ITA
RET 14 66 T. SYKES GBR

[Duke girl]

What the Hell is wrong with Haga and Ducati so far this Series?. He seems to be going backwards instead of forward. Even his team mate Fabrizio not doing much better.

[cmoore]

is that pommie commentator the worst ever...........but yes the racing was very good.......Rea seemed to have a bit in reserve and played a good race...strange how biaggi/aprilia could win both of the first races and then drop off after that...each track it seems will have it's favored bike/setup....

[NZsarge]

Them there were some pretty entertaining races, particularly race 2, That Camier dude is coming on strong, be interesting to see how he goes in the next few rounds and Toseland is getting usefully near the pointy end too, nice.

[roogazza]

is that pommie commentator the worst ever..........

Don't get me started. plenty of poms up there,and thats ok, but we don't need to hear Brit or Foggy every 5mins. The other Aussie guy has all the tech knowledge, if he can get a word in.
Motogp has a couple of screaming heads as well, I have to turn the sound down.

[Tony.OK]

Awesome racing...............go the Honda's

Think Haslem will take the series though, 11psi in his front for race 1 must've been like riding in mud.

[Peter Smith]

Go Mr CORSER Sir!!!
He looked so good in race 1. I'm not a Beemer fan, but man that bike is quick and it handles well too!!

[FROSTY]

I thought Rae did a fantastic job of controlling r1 from about midway. SLOOOOW it down so the guys behind bunch up -then SEEYA I'm outa here.
-did anyone hear what the cause of crutchlow's DNF was. Looked pretty messy engine wise

[Bikernereid]

Awesome racing...............go the Honda's

Think Haslem will take the series though, 11psi in his front for race 1 must've been like riding in mud.

+1 for Halsam he just has that extra bit of drive and the balls to match. He did a bloody marvelous job clawing back the places his did considering what he was riding with. Go Pocket Rocket!!

[Duke girl]

Well it was great to see that Sky finally replayed both Race 1 & 2 this time around so I actually got to watch both Races.
That 2nd Race was unbelievable to watch and so so close, Fantastic Riding by those Riders who were in the top 6 places.
Rae is riding extremely well and who knows it could be Hondas year this year.
Looking forward to the next Round.

[Kiwi Graham]

Fantastic racing especially race two. big ups to the front guys to race so cleanly and so close. How the heck did Haslam get an 11th place in race 1 with a front tyre withless than half the pressure in????

Assen always delivers on high speed close racing awesome, Monza next :) Thats if the ash cloud hasnt got worse....did someone mention the ash cloud once or twice during the race his bloody corny one liners were getting to me too.

[discodan]

Yea I can't stand Jonathan Green either, if you can get the Eurosport verison with Jack Burnicle and James Whitham it is much nicer and they are genuinely funny guys too.

[carbonhed]

Yea I can't stand Jonathan Green either, if you can get the Eurosport verison with Jack Burnicle and James Whitham it is much nicer and they are genuinely funny guys too.

+1 Whitham and Burnicle for WSBK Moody and Ryder for MotoGP.

Great to see Toseland really fighting his way back. Love his combative style. When Camier learns to stay on board...well he's certainly quick... but throwing away a certain third on a remotely possible second. Young I guess.

Wonderful scary racing.

[TonyB]

+1 Whitham and Burnicle for WSBK Moody and Ryder for MotoGP.
+2 then. But sometimes Burnicle does my head in a bit- he's so busy trying to flesh out his comentary with little facts etc that he misses the action while he's waffling on... "Oh look, Rae's in front! When did that happen??" About 3 corners ago....

Brilliant racing though! WSBK seem to have hit on a winning formula.
Whitham and Burnicle reckoned that Xerox Ducati is suffering because David Tardotsi has gone. Poor old Haga eh, I have a feeling he'll never quite win that championship.

[carbonhed]

+2 then. But sometimes Burnicle does my head in a bit- he's so busy trying to flesh out his comentary with little facts etc that he misses the action while he's waffling on... "Oh look, Rae's in front! When did that happen??" About 3 corners ago....



:laugh: Very true but I think they're watching on a tiny monitor up in the commentary booth so I cut him some slack and Whitham's always as funny as fook.

Think I'll have a rerun of that second race.