Suzuka 8 Hour testing in action

[Shaun Harris]

Enjoy you stoner freaks. A FULL 2 seconds fastest in this session at end of Yesterday


http://www.suzukacircuit.jp/motorsports_s/ustream/

[trev]

Suzuka 8 Hours: Top 10 teams through to Pole Shootout
1. #87 Team Green Yanagawa/Watanabe/Yudhistira (Group A)
2. #12 Yoshimura Suzuki Tsuda/Lowes/Waters (Group B)
3. #21 Yamaha Factory Racing Nakasuga/Espargaro/Smith (Group A)
4. #778 FCC TSR Honda Hook/Aegerter/Smith (Group B)
5. #634 Musashi RT Harc-Pro Takahashi/VD Mark/Stoner (Group A)
6. #71 Sakurai Honda Herfoss/O'Halloran/Uramoto (Group B)
7. #17 Team Kagayama Kagayama/Haga/Kiyonari (Group A)
8. #01 Trickstar Deguchi/Izutsu/Nigon (Group B)
9. #104 Toho with Moriwaki Yamaguchi/Elias/Wilairot (Group A)
10. #32 MotoMap Supply Konno/Aoki/Ogata (Group B)

Unofficial top 10 riders list:
Ranking by best lap time set during qualifying
1. Watanabe Kawasaki 2m 6.656s
2. Nakasuga Yamaha 2m 6.877s
3. Tsuda Suzuki 2m 6.958s
4. Stoner Honda 2m 6.963s
5. Espargaro Yamaha 2m 7.075s
6. B. Smith Yamaha 2m 7.308s
7. Kagayama Suzuki 2m 7.594s
8. Yamaguchi Honda 2m 7.622s
9. Lowes Suzuki 2m 7.717s
10. Aegerter Honda 2m 7.798s

[pritch]

Big crash for Stoner, rider OK but bike apparently munted. No three in a row for VanDerMark

[sil3nt]

Strange crash he was lucky

[merv]

Certainly looks weird like he made no real attempt to lean around the corner and just ran off on to the grass.

[sil3nt]

Well my ‪#‎Suzuka8H‬ ended spectacularly!Stuck Throttle = Broken Scapula + Fractured Tibia and a few more tweaks. Sucks!

Bugger!

...

[merv]

Stuck throttle does explain the weird line he took into the corner.

[husaberg]

Certainly looks weird like he made no real attempt to lean around the corner and just ran off on to the grass.

Casey Stoner’s return to competitive motorcycle racing has lasted less than fifteen minutes, after he ran wide and crashed out at Degnar just minutes into his first run on the MuSHASi RT Honda bike
Taking over from 2014 winner Takumi Takahashi, the team were leading the race when Stoner had his high speed fall on the exit of Degnar 2.
Unsettling the front wheel on a bump, he let off the brakes to save a crash, but in the process ran wide onto the grass on the exit. http://www.motorcyclenews.com/sport/...suzuka-8-hour/

if you look at the video at first 1-2 seconds you can see the bump and wiggle. in the original video
or at 17 secs here.

[pritch]

Fractures to the right shoulder blade and left tibia. "Rider OK " seems a tad optimistic now? Don't be fooled by the smile, that may be a pain killer assisted smile.

If he was thinking of a wild card at Phillip Island this may have changed his mind.

[steveyb]

Yeah, seen it written before somewhere, that Bradley Smith is pretty shit eh?

[carbonhed]

Yeah, seen it written before somewhere, that Bradley Smith is pretty shit eh?

Shockingly bad. Always said it.

[Shaun Harris]

Yeah, seen it written before somewhere, that Bradley Smith is pretty shit eh?

Lol, been laughing my tits off at this one mate

[pritch]

Ah yes. I was going to write an "I told you so" type message about Smith but I try to limit those and I already delivered one to someone else today so...

Afterthought: On looking at the video of Stoner's bin again, after seeing yet another pundit point out you can hear the rev limiter working. I'm not surprised the thing is at maximum revs, if I was about to crash into a wall with a stuck throttle I'd probably at least consider pulling the clutch in. Here's hoping I don't have to face that situation though.

[steveyb]

Really outstanding stuff.
He is really rising to the top of his game, on and off the circuit.

https://motomatters.com/blog/2015/07...ck_on_the.html

[carbonhed]

Really outstanding stuff.
He is really rising to the top of his game, on and off the circuit.

Thanks for that. Fascinating stuff.