MotoGP 2017

[Doppleganger]

Yeah MM wasn't anything to do with a strategy, he fucked up on tire choice and got real lucky it worked out in the end.
Danny and the Yamaha's worked hard at getting back into it and yes Rosi stayed out for too long again.

Still 8 rounds left and heaps can happen

[Drew]

As soon as it was obviously going to be flag to flag, everyone knew Rossi would have it wrong.

Lorenzo got shafted by poor planning, but the reality is he only lost an extra ten seconds in the pits. Which is about what it coat Dovi to stay out the extra lap.

[Cosmik de Bris]

Yeah Nick Harris was extra annoying, as if he took entire tablet of viagra.

Yeah but it was the master stroke of all master strokes!

Cheers

[Mental Trousers]

I suspect MM expected the soft to last a lot longer.

However with the tyre shitting itself almost instantly I think he had a "Fuck it, changing to slicks can't be worse than this situation" moment on lap 2 and it paid off.

He probably planned to change early, but I suspect not that early...
I bet Honda have a pretty neat algorithm which calculates expected lap times etc for wet/dry track and tyre combinations which gives them the ideal lap to change etc given some parameters for track conditions. Given electronics are one of their specialties I find it hard to believe they wouldnt'.

I'd say Honda were hoping to run away from the field in the first few laps then deal with the rest of the race accordingly. However, the soft wet got torn to shit in no time so he had to swap bikes and run slicks. Turned out to be the race winning move.

I'm surprised there wasn't anyone who did the warm up lap, thought fark this and swapped bikes so they started from pit lane on slicks. Had anyone done that they would've won the race by miles.

[Crasherfromwayback]

I'm surprised there wasn't anyone who did the warm up lap, thought fark this and swapped bikes so they started from pit lane on slicks. Had anyone done that they would've won the race by miles.

Funny you should say that. I couldn't believe they were all using wets at the start. No fucking way I would've. Slicks all the way.

[speights_bud]

Googled @nickharris Motogp hoping to find a twitter account, this was the top result. Not a bad read with some more recent posts and some good links to races commentated by Barry sheen.

http://motomatters.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3364

[Mental Trousers]

I'm surprised there wasn't anyone who did the warm up lap, thought fark this and swapped bikes so they started from pit lane on slicks. Had anyone done that they would've won the race by miles.

Funny you should say that. I couldn't believe they were all using wets at the start. No fucking way I would've. Slicks all the way.

Could see on the warm up lap that lots of the track was bone dry. But it sounds like everyone was listening to the weather people, ie those guys that seem to get it wrong more often than not but still get paid.

[pritch]

Googled @nickharris Motogp hoping to find a twitter account,

His Twitter handle is @NickHarrisMedia. Be nice. I sent a polite message once about the way he consistently mispronounced Bastianini's name. He got the message because he made reference to his pronunciation during the next race and he did try - for a while. Later though I noticed he was mispronouncing another similarly spelled word and wondered if he had a reading disability. That caused me to feel somewhat guilty..

He only commentates on the big bikes now so we're OK until Bastianini gets a MotoGP ride?

I was annoyed when he announced that the wrong rider had crashed. That's unprofessional. Jonathon Green was a bugger for that but Steve Martin, his Aussie co-commentator, would haul him up. Martin, a world endurance champ at the time, knew that riders' family members are watching and the wrong information can be upsetting people unnecessarily.

I must ask an Italian about the correct pronouniation of Bagnaia. I'd assume that the g would be the same as the one in Bologna but that's just a guess. I might ask one of KB's resident Italians.

[speights_bud]

His Twitter handle is @NickHarrisMedia. Be nice. I sent a polite message once about the way he consistently mispronounced Bastianini's name. He got the message because he made reference to his pronunciation during the next race and he did try - for a while. Later though I noticed he was mispronouncing another similarly spelled word and wondered if he had a reading disability. That caused me to feel somewhat guilty..

He only commentates on the big bikes now so we're OK until Bastianini gets a MotoGP ride?

I was annoyed when he announced that the wrong rider had crashed.

I'm too nice to have a go at him if I'm honest.

Best case for us viewers IMO is to let him do all the press conference stuff but drop him doing the live commentary.

He still does a good job when it's not the live feed and he seems to have a good relationship with the riders.

[Autech]

His Twitter handle is @NickHarrisMedia. Be nice. I sent a polite message once about the way he consistently mispronounced Bastianini's name. He got the message because he made reference to his pronunciation during the next race and he did try - for a while. Later though I noticed he was mispronouncing another similarly spelled word and wondered if he had a reading disability. That caused me to feel somewhat guilty..

He only commentates on the big bikes now so we're OK until Bastianini gets a MotoGP ride?

I was annoyed when he announced that the wrong rider had crashed. That's unprofessional. Jonathon Green was a bugger for that but Steve Martin, his Aussie co-commentator, would haul him up. Martin, a world endurance champ at the time, knew that riders' family members are watching and the wrong information can be upsetting people unnecessarily.

I must ask an Italian about the correct pronouniation of Bagnaia. I'd assume that the g would be the same as the one in Bologna but that's just a guess. I might ask one of KB's resident Italians.

Yeah as bad as Harris is that Nick Green was 1000 times worse. He'd constantly argue with Steve Martin, fucker.

I was half asleep when I watched the race so managed to filter out the Harris drivel, many blessings!

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[pritch]

And on the master stroke to end all master strokes...

Julian Ryder is quoting MM as saying, "He changed to soft on grid as medium didn't feel good on sighting lap. But soft was destroyed in one lap so had to pit."

That his bike was set up ready to go on slicks is not entirely due to luck, that's good management. Of course it could have pissed down as he exited pit lane and a different story would've been written. In those conditions the race becomes a raffle, but Marquez and his team seem to get it right more often than not.

[roogazza]

Yamahas new fairing. Although for Rossi,he thinks it won't be used in Austria as top speed is affected . Speed is important in Austria so he says. He likes the new Ohlins too which give a lighter feel to the front of the bike. Doocati have been using them for a while.

[EJK]

Yamahas new fairing. Although for Rossi,he thinks it won't be used in Austria as top speed is affected . Speed is important in Austria so he says. He likes the new Ohlins too which give a lighter feel to the front of the bike. Doocati have been using them for a while.

That's got new Yamaha R1 design written all over it.

Plz Yamaha, make it to production..!

[pritch]

He likes the new Ohlins too which give a lighter feel to the front of the bike. Doocati have been using them for a while.

Dunno I'd like those forks on a road bike. Carbon fibre pushbike frames apparently have a high failure rate and a crash on a motorbike is potentially more catastrophic. OK if you've got a team of mechanics to look after them, but the price should stop them appearing on road bikes for a decade or two.


Rossi is happy with them but Vinales is not.

[speights_bud]

Dunno I'd like those forks on a road bike. Carbon fibre pushbike frames apparently have a high failure rate and a crash on a motorbike is potentially more catastrophic. OK if you've got a team of mechanics to look after them, but the price should stop them appearing on road bikes for a decade or two.


Rossi is happy with them but Vinales is not.

Interesting note from that photo. They appear at first glance to use a similar principle to lightweight Rifle barrels. A metal core with the Carbon wrap adding strength to reduce flex and harmonics.

Kiwi crowd Hardy Engineering are making the barrels here.
https://hardyrifleengineering.co.nz/.../#.WYp4WYSGO70