MotoGP 2016

**Crasherfromwayback** · 22nd August 2016, 23:10

Originally Posted by ellipsis

...I don't think I've ever been to Silverstone and it hasn't rained, apart from the once when it was too fucking hot...

Yeah it's not a GP I'd book.

**James Deuce** · 23rd August 2016, 08:01

Originally Posted by Berries

Nah, he was too busy on the phone.

What an arse.

He was talking to his wife who'd not long given birth to his first kid.

He has his priorities sorted.

**Autech** · 23rd August 2016, 08:45

Originally Posted by James Deuce

He was talking to his wife who'd not long given birth to his first kid.

He has his priorities sorted.

Yup 100%

Plus he just earned his kids Uni fees in one race so that would make the Mrs very happy.

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**speights_bud** · 23rd August 2016, 09:46

Originally Posted by Crasherfromwayback

Yeah I saw that.

Orange Plastidip?

**pritch** · 23rd August 2016, 10:24

http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/op...-s-brave-heart

And from Oxley in the public coments below the article, " A lot of people don't get Cal because they don't realise that most of the time he's talking he's kinda taking the piss."

And an unrelated piece:
http://www.worldsbk.com/en/news/2016...1+in+Brno+Test

**malcy25** · 23rd August 2016, 12:27

Originally Posted by Crasherfromwayback

Yeah it's not a GP I'd book.

Only one I've been to, and not likely to go back out of choice......

**Crasherfromwayback** · 23rd August 2016, 13:23

Originally Posted by malcy25

Only one I've been to, and not likely to go back out of choice......

Paying good money to prob get a wet arse ain't my idea of a good GP. Mind you...normally get some rain at PI too.

**russd7** · 23rd August 2016, 21:16

Originally Posted by Dadpole

Well.. My pics were up to the usual standard.

I didn't see a single loser in MotoGP. A great effort in tricky conditions. Nice to see Crutchlow bag a win, but the ride of the day for me was Marquez. When you mix that much riding talent with clear thinking you can end up with someone who will dominate for quite a few years Ala Rossi

PS:
I fully expected an "I am the greatest" moment from Crutchlow in Parc Ferme.

no loser, hmmm i think lorenzo scared himself, it was a wet race and he was up in about tenth so thought to himself, cant have this better go change bikes, come out on slicks, still one behind him so go change bikes again, thats better, last place.

as for ride of the day, hard to pick but i think lannone finishing the race with his tyre missing big chunks, not normally a lannone fan but hell thats some ballsy riding, but yeah MM and rossi getting up to 2nd

**Dadpole** · 24th August 2016, 00:17

Originally Posted by russd7

no loser, hmmm i think lorenzo scared himself.

Much as we want to point and laugh at Lorenzo for bottling out, he did have a reason that I didn't pick up on during the race.

After the race Lorenzo revealed he had been forced to pit not because he wanted slicks but because - like a number of other riders - he was losing chunks of rubber from his soft wet front tyre.

"Seven laps before the end the front tyre tore up, but when I stopped the [damaged part of the tyre] was on the tarmac," Lorenzo said. "So the front tyre looked perfect. It was only when they moved the bike that they understood a piece of the tyre was missing. That's probably why Ramon [Forcada, crew chief] didn't understand why I wanted to change the bike."

http://www.crash.net/motogp/news/232...Ehuh1zp7okO.99

**speights_bud** · 24th August 2016, 12:50

Originally Posted by pritch

And from Oxley in the public coments below the article, " A lot of people don't get Cal because they don't realise that most of the time he's talking he's kinda taking the piss."
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This is exactly the conversation I had with my old man the other night. Crutchlow flicks between that dry sense of humor and a banter attitude so frequently that people often just don't get him.
I know a lot of fellas who have a dry sense of humor and you know what they are all about because they stay that way.

**pritch** · 24th August 2016, 14:20

http://ontrackoffroad.com/magazine/o...7-august-23rd/

**jasonu** · 24th August 2016, 14:24

Originally Posted by speights_bud

This is exactly the conversation I had with my old man the other night. Crutchlow flicks between that dry sense of humor and a banter attitude so frequently that people often just don't get him.
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Maybe he is just a fuckwit.
A guy in his position earning the sort of money top riders in his position can command should have a good PR advisor.

**pritch** · 24th August 2016, 15:33

Originally Posted by jasonu

Maybe he is just a fuckwit.
A guy in his position earning the sort of money top riders in his position can command should have a good PR advisor.

Nah. The others are all media trained up the wazoo, designer hair and perfume optional. Oxley covered that in his piece.
Whatever he is Crutchlow is real and that's a nice change.

**Autech** · 24th August 2016, 16:20

Originally Posted by pritch

Nah. The others are all media trained up the wazoo, designer hair and perfume optional. Oxley covered that in his piece.
Whatever he is Crutchlow is real and that's a nice change.

Yup which is why I like Jack Miller too, someone I can relate to not just a Spaniard groomed from age 4 to be a superstar.