MotoGP 2014

[Reckless]

It wan't easy to see it coming in advance, but the game has moved on. The aliens, including Stoner I believe, have been left behind. If, however, Marquez learns that he is not in fact immortal, things may slow down to where the others can compete again.

Short of that we will have to wait until a new generation of riders come through, young guys who have been brought up to regard what Marquez is doing as "normal".

Agreed MM rides/slides like Stoner (but faster) and has a large streak of Simonchelli in him when the going gets rough.

[carbonhed]

Short of that we will have to wait until a new generation of riders come through, young guys who have been brought up to regard what Marquez is doing as "normal".

Reckon we should start passing the hat around to get "Crazy Joe" on a good bike. I suspect he'd like nothing better than inserting MM into the air fence fairly regularly

Other than that we could just sit back and watch the awesomeness.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Reckon we should start passing the hat around to get "Crazy Joe" on a good bike. I suspect he'd like nothing better than inserting MM into the air fence fairly regularly

Other than that we could just sit back and watch the awesomeness.

Yeah I'm liking what I'm seeing there.

[Kendog]

Could Dani have pushed MM if he didn't have the ground to make up first - I reckon he could

No chance I think. MM would simply have gone quicker if he needed to.
He is developing into a great rider, managing races from the front or making up places to win the race.

We could be watching a legend in the making.

[Crasherfromwayback]

No chance I think. MM would simply have gone quicker if he needed to.
He is developing into a great rider, managing races from the front or making up places to win the race.

We could be watching a legend in the making.

Yeah seeing how he's dominated qualifying nearly ever session at every track so far...and by quite some margin...think we're entering a new phase of kick arseness. Doohan and Rossi type of kick arseness.

[Dave-]

What's up with MM always picking the hard tyre option?

I think he's less sideways than last season too, so I don't think it's tyre wear due only to his excessive heat.

Though that motogp docco (faster) claims sliding doesn't wear the tyre out as fast as one might think.

[Crasherfromwayback]

What's up with MM always picking the hard tyre option?

I think he's less sideways than last season too, so I don't think it's tyre wear due only to his excessive heat.

Though that motogp docco (faster) claims sliding doesn't wear the tyre out as fast as one might think.

I guess if you can work them hard enough to be hot enough to do the job at the start of the race...there's the thought that you'll have more tyre at the end of the race to play with.

Back in the day...riders like Garry McCoy etc were found to be generating less heat into the tyre sliding it hard out compared to hard out cornering. The theory being that the heat caused by the sidewall during super extreme angles and sidewall distortion created less heat that the localised heating of the huge slides McCoy etc were doing.

[Crasherfromwayback]

http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2014/...rydernotes.htm

Meantime...waiting on Eelracing to tell us all what a bet actually is and why I'm a bottle less pussy and he's not. May be waiting a while yet though by the look of it...cat seems to have his tounge.

[eelracing]

http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2014/...rydernotes.htm

Meantime...waiting on Eelracing to tell us all what a bet actually is and why I'm a bottle less pussy and he's not. May be waiting a while yet though by the look of it...cat seems to have his tounge.

It's tongue you bumlick.

Go read your PM's.

[Mental Trousers]

I guess if you can work them hard enough to be hot enough to do the job at the start of the race...there's the thought that you'll have more tyre at the end of the race to play with.

Back in the day...riders like Garry McCoy etc were found to be generating less heat into the tyre sliding it hard out compared to hard out cornering. The theory being that the heat caused by the sidewall during super extreme angles and sidewall distortion created more heat that the localised heating of the huge slides McCoy etc were doing.

Fixed it for you.

Sliding only causes the surface to heat up, whereas the sidewall flexing put heat into the carcass which acts as a heat sink, ie it doesn't dissipate as quickly and builds up.

You can see it in the tyres they use for very abrasive tracks. They add more rubber to the carcass out towards the edges so they can soak up the heat better and then hopefully it can be dissipated once out of the corner.

[Crasherfromwayback]

It's tongue you bumlick.

Go read your PM's.

1: A bet is something two or more people have over the outcome of a particular event. Don't recall you putting anything up, so not really as bet as such.

2: Go back and read post # 1181 ya raving Goober.

3: As mentioned...that isn't even beer.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Fixed it for you.

Sliding only causes the surface to heat up, whereas the sidewall flexing put heat into the carcass which acts as a heat sink, ie it doesn't dissipate as quickly and builds up.

You can see it in the tyres they use for very abrasive tracks. They add more rubber to the carcass out towards the edges so they can soak up the heat better and then hopefully it can be dissipated once out of the corner.

That's the one. Ta.

[pritch]

For anyone interested in statistics?
Jerez is the only track at which MM has not won a race in any class.
Yet.

Bridgestone have increased the tyre allocations: each rider to get a choice of three different compound front tyres, and ten total, up from nine.

[roogazza]

For anyone interested in statistics?
Jerez is the only track at which MM has not won a race in any class.
Yet.

Bridgestone have increased the tyre allocations: each rider to get a choice of three different compound front tyres, and ten total, up from nine.

Will always remember Rossi bumping Gibernau in that last corner and then himself getting served by Elias and crashing another year.
Maniac Spanish crowds,100 odd thousand of them.

[Mental Trousers]

I wonder what the odds at the TAB are for Marquez starting every race on Pole and going on to win all of them.