Biaggi: Donnington.

[Cleve]

Actually that is a fair point - he'd have had a clear start without any opponents for 3 or more laps and possibly gotten a good enough jump to end up in the points even after a drive through. Plus it would mess with the other riders minds!

I like your style sir.

Gobert did that a few years ago at an Aussie Superbike round at the Phillip Is MotoGP...

[Brian d marge]

If I was him and I jumped the start like that I wouldnt have stopped I woulda just blasted off out the front haha Take the ride through a few laps later

Me too, written off the race, popped in front of the anyone ho had a possibility of taking my champion ship away , , slowed them down Picked up a lot over very valuable data

Then gone home ( too bloody cold mate , sod this for a lark )

Stephen

[Yow Ling]

Probably better for his sponsors that he didnt do the ride through, he was getting way more airtime each lap he stayed out, if he had done the ride through and gone to last place they would have forgotten all about him, probably only cost him 2 or 3 points

[pritch]

Biaggi said he didn't see the board telling him to do the ride through.

Then again, he said he didn't see Milandri in qualifying even though Milandri said Biaggi looked right at him.

Maybe Biaggi needs to see an optician?

[chrispy121]

Me too, written off the race, popped in front of the anyone ho had a possibility of taking my champion ship away , , slowed them down Picked up a lot over very valuable data

Then gone home ( too bloody cold mate , sod this for a lark )

Stephen

isnt that what biaggi tried to do in Qualifying? he is not smart enough to to it in the race too.
biaggi was in front of the panel for bad behaviour two days in a row at donnington hopefully he does it agin and they kick him out!

[scroter]

If I was him and I jumped the start like that I wouldnt have stopped I woulda just blasted off out the front haha Take the ride through a few laps later

at riders briefing at pmcc round a few years back we were told 10sec penalty for jumping start, few guys thought it would be a great idea to just not slow down from the warm up lap and take the penalty

[codgyoleracer]

Biaggi said he didn't see the board telling him to do the ride through.

Then again, he said he didn't see Milandri in qualifying even though Milandri said Biaggi looked right at him.

Maybe Biaggi needs to see an optician?

You would think at that level of competition , it would be pretty simple to communicate the message to the riders team & show the rider a pit in signal on their own board. Showing a small black coloured board out on the front straight at some random location is damm hard to see at speed & doubly hard if you are amongst a pack of bikes fighting for a position.

One thing you do check most laps though is your own board, & it it said PIT, then..............

[roogazza]

You would think at that level of competition , it would be pretty simple to communicate the message to the riders team & show the rider a pit in signal on their own board. Showing a small black coloured board out on the front straight at some random location is damm hard to see at speed & doubly hard if you are amongst a pack of bikes fighting for a position.
One thing you do check most laps though is your own board, & it it said PIT, then..............

Reminds me of a funny story Glen, Was at a Manfeild meet in the 70's and in the heat of a first lap dash I ran off at the hairpin,Pissed, I waited till the leader came around, (Dave Hissy as it happens) tucked in behind and did the rest of the race. Finished 2nd and got the prizemoney !!!! No one said a thing ...... or me, LOL .

[Wingnut]

You would think at that level of competition , it would be pretty simple to communicate the message to the riders team & show the rider a pit in signal on their own board. Showing a small black coloured board out on the front straight at some random location is damm hard to see at speed & doubly hard if you are amongst a pack of bikes fighting for a position.

One thing you do check most laps though is your own board, & it it said PIT, then..............

Pretty sure they did just that. Or was I thinking of De Angelis in Moto 2... Saw them try to nitify their rider in one of the races

[denill]

Reminds me of a funny story Glen, Was at a Manfeild meet in the 70's and in the heat of a first lap dash I ran off at the hairpin,Pissed, I waited till the leader came around, (Dave Hissy as it happens) tucked in behind and did the rest of the race. Finished 2nd and got the prizemoney !!!! No one said a thing ...... or me, LOL .

Hey Gaz - that would make a good story for a book.

[Shaun]

Reminds me of a funny story Glen, Was at a Manfeild meet in the 70's and in the heat of a first lap dash I ran off at the hairpin,Pissed, I waited till the leader came around, (Dave Hissy as it happens) tucked in behind and did the rest of the race. Finished 2nd and got the prizemoney !!!! No one said a thing ...... or me, LOL .

Hope you enjoyed the beer man.

[codgyoleracer]

Reminds me of a funny story Glen, Was at a Manfeild meet in the 70's and in the heat of a first lap dash I ran off at the hairpin,Pissed, I waited till the leader came around, (Dave Hissy as it happens) tucked in behind and did the rest of the race. Finished 2nd and got the prizemoney !!!! No one said a thing ...... or me, LOL .

Man thats just plain sneaky, Dunno any other racer that would try to get away with that......

[Crasherfromwayback]

I ran off at the hairpin,Pissed, I waited till the leader came around, (Dave Hissy as it happens) tucked in behind and did the rest of the race. Finished 2nd and got the prizemoney !!!! No one said a thing ...... or me, LOL .

And you're proud of that? I'm surprised.