MotoGP 2024

[F5 Dave]

I don't think he could see it from there. You could almost see him recoil when he looked down and jump off fastish.

[Grumph]

I remember Holden at a GP on old short Ruapuna had the under-seat muffler catch fire on the Ducati he was riding. Spread to the fiberglass seat before he noticed it.
Marshalls were pointing etc. He realised it was burning on the start/finish straight and pulled in at the hairpin for the marshalls there to put it out.

Pretty sure if his arse hadn't got hot he would have kept racing.

[F5 Dave]

Wind of 100kph in slow corners would do a fair amount to direct the heat away from the rider.

Not quite as spectacular as Edwards on the Cube. Must youtube.com that.

Hmm, not coming in first 18 second so losing attention. Ohh, a Kereru.

[iYRe]

Thanks for the opinions.

Also today in other MM news.. a couple of millimeters of green denied him an all time lap record. Tomorrow could be very interesting.

[onearmedbandit]

Today even, the sprint race is done and it was an interesting race.

[iYRe]

Today even, the sprint race is done and it was an interesting race.

sure was.. bummer for Acosta, and Pecco was running on a depowered map the whole race? odd

[Grumph]

sure was.. bummer for Acosta, and Pecco was running on a depowered map the whole race? odd

Apparently used more fuel on the sighting lap than planned so had to race in economy mode.

[jato]

Did we all see the "chatter" on jack's rear wheel in qualifying? there was a slo-mo at one point and it looked like the whole swingarm had a massive twisting shudder going on ... maybe he's a lot better than his results have been. roll on race time

[iYRe]

Apparently used more fuel on the sighting lap than planned so had to race in economy mode.

well that explains it.. I only had time to watch the race and didnt get the reviews etc

[onearmedbandit]

Did we all see the "chatter" on jack's rear wheel in qualifying? there was a slo-mo at one point and it looked like the whole swingarm had a massive twisting shudder going on ... maybe he's a lot better than his results have been. roll on race time

Yeah that was crazy, watched it a handful of times just trying to take it all.

[Grumph]

Did we all see the "chatter" on jack's rear wheel in qualifying? there was a slo-mo at one point and it looked like the whole swingarm had a massive twisting shudder going on ... maybe he's a lot better than his results have been. roll on race time

Been living with it for 10 months apparently.

Can't help wondering what would happen if the traction control was dialled back a tad - just enough to allow some wheelspin.

[Brian d marge]

So that's about fourteen dollars yeah?

Ya not wrong there !

[Brian d marge]

Well I got off my lazy arse ,,
It was good to be there, the atmosphere etc and all the bikes the sound etc

So, they had roped off the usual area and it was 10 000 yen to get in , then they tried to sting ya for parking "twice"

but if you went to the south gate by the hairpin,, all free good view and a great crowd

ya have to feel sorry for the tyre teams

I got a photo from me mate ,, Just for the Asia Cup teams they went through near on a (3/4?) container load of tyres

Still the president ( or the asian CEO ) of Pirelli bought them dinner!

Next race Tskuba Twin Shock series

Stephen

[pritch]

Cheers guys, hobblin around but its only been two days, I got told to slow down on the stretching n shit. But they reckon I'm well ahead and doing fantastic.

My most recent new knee caused me some angst. Was released from hospital Friday with an appointment for physio Monday. All weekend I worried about even being able to get in a taxi. Monday morning it was obvious that wasn't going to happen. I phoned to cancel the appointment. Was told they had just been laughing about it. "Somebody is keen."
Got an appointment for two weeks later.

They had a group circuit training thing with the usual gym equipment plus items specific to knee and hip ops. It was only once a week but in combination with exercises at home it was excellent.

[F5 Dave]

So, where i get most of my understanding, Oxley noted, (sort of but with my thoughts added) we all know that riders get sucked in to aero wake of rider they are trying to pass. Because they are shielded, they suddenly lose wind resistance and thus can't brake as fast as the rider in front.
So you really have to sling past then brake hard and hope the rider behind you doesn't hit you for that same reason. This leads to boring races as this opportunity is rare.


But the nuance i really didn't understand is that coming Out of the corner behind someone, your aero doesn't work. Thus your bike is more wheelie prone , so that cuts down the amount of power the rider (or electronics) can get to the rear wheel. So you may get a better line, but you can't sling past them if they are effectively blocking your wind resistance.