MotoGP 2015

[pritch]

Well the rain in Japan falls mainly on Motegi? Moto3 warmup postponed due to rain. Brollies everywhere and the riders wearing plastic tops.

Interesting. Well interesting for us who aren't getting a wet arse and don't have a world championship at stake.

As has just been pointed out by the commentators the delay is not due to the rain, it's due to the accompanying mist. There are two "ambulance" helicopters but they can't take off if they can't see. So until they can fly there will be no action on track.

[pritch]

After a two hour delay Moto 3 out now for 10 minute qualifying, to be followed by Moto2 at 3.00Pm our time.
Moto3 race reduced to 13 laps from 20.

[jasonu]

Ground conditions half an hour ago. (10.15AM ish here 6.15 there.)

Fucking excellent!!!!!

[pritch]

They have decided to race even though the helicopters are still unable to fly. Due to the improved medical facilities at the track, the distance to the nearest hospital, the availability of ambulances and the local police having assured them of full cooperation to clear the way. With the approval of the FIM the racing will get underway.

[Shaun Harris]

After a two hour delay Moto 3 out now for 10 minute qualifying, to be followed by Moto2 at 3.00Pm our time.
Moto3 race reduced to 13 laps from 20.

It cannot be a 10 minute Qual man, that happened yesterday. It will be a scrub to adapt to the wet

[bogan]

They have decided to race even though the helicopters are still unable to fly. Due to the improved medical facilities at the track, the distance to the nearest hospital, the availability of ambulances and the local police having assured them of full cooperation to clear the way. With the approval of the FIM the racing will get underway.

Fucking hell, that's just gotta fill the riders with confidence.

[BMWST?]

The brakes rate of work is more based on the weight of what its stopping and the speed, rather than grip.

you better think about that again.The brakes "rate of work" is dependent on the grip.The ammount of energy the brakes need to absorb is only dependent on speed and weight the only thing which affects the "rate" of braking is the ammount of grip(this is assuming the rider is on the threshold of grip)If it is not very grippy he will take longer to scrub of the speed so the "rate" of braking is lower.

[husaberg]

you better think about that again.The brakes "rate of work" is dependent on the grip.The ammount of energy the brakes need to absorb is only dependent on speed and weight the only thing which affects the "rate" of braking is the ammount of grip(this is assuming the rider is on the threshold of grip)If it is not very grippy he will take longer to scrub of the speed so the "rate" of braking is lower.

Remember we were discussing why they need the 340mm in carbon
I don't go along with that in regards to what we were discussing, the reason they have to run the supersized brakes is not to do with the grip being so much better now than it ever was at all but is more to do with the increased weight of the bikes (plus some speed while you might argue the speed has increased as well due to the grip allowing faster acceleration and top speed it is mute.)
Have a look at super karts brakes they have less weight and yet more grip and have far smaller brakes.

[Shaun Harris]

They were made to run 340 discs, due to the smaller ones over heating often causing danger. A lot of it is due to the weight of the package trying to be stopped now, which used to over heat the smaller discs, hence the big ones. And look at a lot of the bikes, they have air ducts on them to direct the air flow to the calipers and discs, to get them under over heat temp which i9s aroung 900 odd I believe. most of them use the ducts any way

[Shaun Harris]

SPOILER ALERT

Go the little man, and the Boss builds more points

[J.A.W.]

SPOILER ALERT

Go the little man, and the Boss builds more points

Well done Dani-boi, picked up his 1/2 century of GP wins..

Featherweight does make a difference, in a hard braking/soft rubber/wet-dry race lottery..

[Shaun Harris]

Lorenzo

Pedro

Crazy Joe

Rossi

MM

Dam hard to guess it these days eh, which makes it very cool

[pritch]

It cannot be a 10 minute Qual man, that happened yesterday. It will be a scrub to adapt to the wet

Ooops 10 minute warm up. In mitigation may I say things kept changing. It was announced that there would be a 10 min Moto3 warmup, a short break, then the moto3 race. Then they went back to doing the three warm ups. Everybody was confused.

The problem with the weather in Motegi is that it's in the mountains and nothing attracts shite weather like mountains.

[Autech]

Masterclass...


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[jasonu]

They have decided to race even though the helicopters are still unable to fly. Due to the improved medical facilities at the track, the distance to the nearest hospital, the availability of ambulances and the local police having assured them of full cooperation to clear the way. With the approval of the FIM the racing will get underway.

You mean the promoters and sponsors said get the fucking show on the road or else...