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    Quote Originally Posted by pritch View Post
    Google (or DuckDuckGo) is your friend. I guessed the ‘waste of time’ but had to check to get the ‘and money’ part.
    Ahhhh yes, of course.

    This why I suck at guessing games.

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    Quote Originally Posted by roogazza View Post
    Hope that experience doesn't put you off Spyda and Malc.
    As I've said many times before, great circuit but shitty weather can ruin it.

    After 15 yrs of GP travel I am finally over it I think ? Though I may do one more with the other half next year?(just to show her what I've being spending all that money on lol.)
    It'll be Italy tho for sure. Not P.I.
    the weather was the weather, it is what it is, just would have liked to be able to see who was who simply

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    Quote Originally Posted by jellywrestler View Post
    the weather was the weather, it is what it is, just would have liked to be able to see who was who simply
    Armchair viewing takes a lot of beating.
    At Brno a few years ago, I could not tell the difference between Stoner, Dovi and Pedrosa.......
    What’s the point of that.
    Was so far back I couldn’t read the big screen. So with 10x zoom took a pic to see who was where.
    The joys of 100 thousand plus spectators
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    Quote Originally Posted by denill View Post
    Armchair viewing takes a lot of beating.
    The "corporate" hospitality of the Honda Riders Club at PI was brilliant. A marquee with a TV, a grandstand, portaloos, one of the big screens opposite just across the track, all at the end of the straight. Pitwalks included. The HRC are sadly missed.

    As you say though, the armchair is better viewing - and climate controlled.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pritch View Post
    The "corporate" hospitality of the Honda Riders Club at PI was brilliant. A marquee with a TV, a grandstand, portaloos, one of the big screens opposite just across the track, all at the end of the straight. Pitwalks included. The HRC are sadly missed.

    As you say though, the armchair is better viewing - and climate controlled.
    Yamaha tent was the same. No fucken booze though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by denill View Post
    Armchair viewing takes a lot of beating.
    nothing will replace being there, the smell of the motion lotion they use, the sound and the fans simply, lack of low cut tops though with the weather so bitter....

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    Quote Originally Posted by jellywrestler View Post
    nothing will replace being there, the smell of the motion lotion they use, the sound and the fans simply, lack of low cut tops though with the weather so bitter....
    You could also get to meet Freddie Spencer...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Oscar View Post
    You could also get to meet Freddie Spencer...
    Nice to see Freddy lookin like the rest of us Oscar !

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    Quote Originally Posted by Drew View Post
    Yamaha tent was the same. No fucken booze though.
    The Honda effort had booze but it cost extra. I didn't avail myself of the opportunity because I didn't want to spend the GP with my back to the track queueing for a pee.
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    Quote Originally Posted by roogazza View Post
    Nice to see Freddy lookin like the rest of us Oscar !
    What a nice bloke.
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    Surprised at your experience. I've not been since 2002 but always thought that the Aussies attended to details really well with a more polished effort 6 years in a row. Siberia gives a good view but you'll see what I meant by a tarpaulin is good for your back.

    Speakers were always fine with earplugs in and there was in later years monitors placed right in front of stands so you could see mist of track and clearly ahead of you.
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    Amazin tech!

    The numbers from MM's little off in qualifying.

    https://www.motogp.com/en/news/2019/...g-crash/317488
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    Quote Originally Posted by george formby View Post
    Amazin tech!

    The numbers from MM's little off in qualifying.

    https://www.motogp.com/en/news/2019/...g-crash/317488
    I'm hoping the champ learns from this having had two bad offs in the last few weeks and gets back to just going fast in practice and qualifying and sod the others, because he doesn't need to take such risks when he can blitz through the field anyway. I'm guessing that at worst he might have been about 4th on the grid and not 11th if it wasn't for his dicking around letting the tyres goes cold.
    Cheers

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    Quote Originally Posted by george formby View Post
    Amazin tech!

    The numbers from MM's little off in qualifying.

    https://www.motogp.com/en/news/2019/...g-crash/317488
    He said in an interview they are testing parts and setting up for 2020 now they have won the championship.
    So I'm guessing he wont have the optimum set up. Nice luxury to have
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    Quote Originally Posted by Reckless View Post
    He said in an interview they are testing parts and setting up for 2020 now they have won the championship.
    So I'm guessing he wont have the optimum set up. Nice luxury to have
    Yup doesn't bode well for those of us wanting less MM domination next year

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