Spoiler: WSBK at Imola

[Sketchy_Racer]

Spoiler alert!















Impressed to see Tom hold the lead so long, but what they heck is up with lanzi's pass through the esses??? They haven't announced a penalty yet, but I doubt there is one coming.

[NZsarge]

Yeah I was stoked to see Tom on the Kawasaki hold in there like that, really nice, he was riding the nuts of that thing! Pretty good all round really, congrats to Biaggi, he got the deal sealed and commiserations to Haslam, tough break but it was a pretty outside chance him to take the championship from where he was anyway. Some bloody good riding by a lot of riders but in particular Haga and the Yamaha rider whose name escapes me right now bugger it!

[cowpoos]

sofoglu and laverty were bloody awesome to watch....I wasn't expecting it to end like that.

But wasn't surprised either actually...by the way thay had been going at it!

[slowpoke]

Some bloody good riding by a lot of riders but in particular Haga and the Yamaha rider whose name escapes me right now bugger it!

Not quite sure why you've singled out those guys. Haga on the Factory Ducati wouldn't have been on the podium but for Haslam's desperation (understandable) in the first race and was even beaten home by Lanzi on a lower spec Ducati. Crutchlow also had a forgettable first race.

Nah, Checa was in a class of his own. Lanzi and Sykes deserve special mention for great efforts on what are generally considered to be uncompetitive bikes.

[NZsarge]

Not quite sure why you've singled out those guys. Haga on the Factory Ducati wouldn't have been on the podium but for Haslam's desperation (understandable) in the first race
Perhaps but the point is he did podium because he rode the bike well and judged his race well meaning he kept it on the straight and narrow and didn't spear off into the gravel in any moves of desperation and got just rewards for his effort, I understand that Haslam had to give it a nudge but in hind sight it didn't work out too well for him and yeah it's always easy to look at things in hind sight... A shame really, but for that one mistake...



Crutchlow also had a forgettable first race.

Yeah Crutchlow did the same as Haslam in the first race but his second race effort was a good one.
I singled out those two riders because given their starting positions on the grid they rode really really well (barring Crutchlow kitty litter mistake in the 1st race), if they had only managed to qualify nearer the front either of those two I think could well have worried Checa for the win but they didn't qualify well enough on the day and that's the way it goes.
Checa certainly deserved his double though, got everything right on the day and that's what you have to do to win...

[rachprice]

sofoglu and laverty

These two were out of control!
It was always gonna go bad

That track looks hard, very open to mistakes

[lukemillar]

sofoglu and laverty

These two were out of control!
It was always gonna go bad

That track looks hard, very open to mistakes

WSS was awesome! By far one of the most exciting superpsort races this year. Despiet what happened, it doesn't actually make that mush difference to the championship, though I still hope Laverty takes it from Superglue.

I was more bummed about Chaz not inheriting the win!

[discodan]

WSS was awesome! By far one of the most exciting superpsort races this year. Despiet what happened, it doesn't actually make that mush difference to the championship, though I still hope Laverty takes it from Superglue.

I was more bummed about Chaz not inheriting the win!

Yeah, the Eurosport comentators were carrying on about how Chaz had won the race but I was didn't think I had seen him come past the mayham on the last corner. He must be gutted.

Snufulufagas is hard to beat in terms of crazyness but he probably should have won that race.

Careless Chucka is da man!

[pritch]

WSS was awesome! By far one of the most exciting superpsort races this year.

I'd go a bit further, that'd be a contender for the best race of the year.

I'll be pleased whoever wins WSS, I'm even happy for Biaggi.
And I haven't had a drink for days???