MotoGP 2012

[roogazza]

Still waiting for the knowledgeable ones to tell me the result

Can't remember the final result Bill , that's all the clip was. But good dicing all the same.
The other teams caught up with Ducati 08 and 09 but yes it was a rocket that first year of 800's.

[Crasherfromwayback]

The other teams caught up with Ducati 08 and 09 but yes it was a rocket that first year of 800's.

Funniest thing of all is...it's still a rocket. Just no one left with balls big enough to ride it as it obviously needs to be ridden.

[merv]

Can't remember the final result Bill , that's all the clip was.

I answered that for ya back at #87.

[roogazza]

Funniest thing of all is...it's still a rocket. Just no one left with balls big enough to ride it as it obviously needs to be ridden.

It may still be fast but not the 20k's it had over everyone in 07. You got those Tracy Boner glasses on again ? Let it go pete he'll be retired 2013.

I answered that for ya back at #87.

Cheers Merv, I need some of those glasses.

[Crasherfromwayback]

. You got those Tracy Boner glasses on again ? Let it go pete he'll be retired 2013.

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Better than Rossi glasses. They look really gay. And you may be right, but I think he'll stay a bit longer than that. Maybe at end of 2014?

Shouldn't Rossi's GF be having their baby by now?

[roogazza]

Maybe a phantom pregnancy huh, keeping it very quiet aren't they ?
I'm still hoping to meet the man one day, have met a bloke from Tavullia who went to school with him, on a flight home last year. He has offered assistance for next years sojourn. Only 2 thousand in the town so I'm getting closer. (storker !)

[Crasherfromwayback]

Maybe a phantom pregnancy huh, keeping it very quiet aren't they ?
I'm still hoping to meet the man one day, have met a bloke from Tavullia who went to school with him, on a flight home last year. He has offered assistance for next years sojourn. Only 2 thousand in the town so I'm getting closer. (storker !)

Yeah trying to get near the guy at Mugello is a tall order!

[imdying]

Fuck the CRT bikes and fuck moto2. I would rather the GPs were entirely cancelled before they resorted to that sort of faggotry.

[slowpoke]

Funniest thing of all is...it's still a rocket. Just no one left with balls big enough to ride it as it obviously needs to be ridden.

It may still be fast but not the 20k's it had over everyone in 07. You got those Tracy Boner glasses on again ? Let it go pete he'll be retired 2013.

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Stoner included I reckon: 5 DNF's in 2010, 4th in the championship behind a bloke who missed 4 races with a busted leg, he knew the Duc was going nowhere in a hurry. Yup, he won 3 races towards the end of the season but there was a DNF to match each win, and win it or bin it doesn't win you championships. If he thought the Duc was so good why'd he got to HRC?

Fuck the CRT bikes and fuck moto2. I would rather the GPs were entirely cancelled before they resorted to that sort of faggotry.

Nah, if you prefer racing above spec sheets you'll be the one missing out, especially when the spec ECU comes in. The lap times might be slower, the bikes mightn't have quite so much unobtainium onboard, or be rolling IT smorgasboard's, but they'll be spectacular and it'll be more of a riders championship again instead of the engineering olympics it is now.

Now stop typing and put those mad skills of yours towards the 2013 Britten V4 with conventional Ohlins front end.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Stoner included I reckon: 5 DNF's in 2010, 4th in the championship behind a bloke who missed 4 races with a busted leg, he knew the Duc was going nowhere in a hurry. Yup, he won 3 races towards the end of the season but there was a DNF to match each win, and win it or bin it doesn't win you championships. If he thought the Duc was so good why'd he got to HRC?


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Don't think I've ever said ANYWHERE ever that the Ducati was 'so good'? It was always a steaming pile of poo, and fucked many racers career. And crashing is what happenes when you try and win all the time on said pile of poo. THat...or finish mid pack as Rossi often did.

[slowpoke]

Don't think I've ever said ANYWHERE ever that the Ducati was 'so good'? It was always a steaming pile of poo, and fucked many racers career. And crashing is what happenes when you try and win all the time on said pile of poo. THat...or finish mid pack as Rossi often did.

Haha, I'll give ya 10 outta 10 for consistency Pete!

But I reckon the Duc was actually a good bit of gear earlier on. Capirossi won it, and was right in the hunt for the championship until that big Turn 1 crash with Gibernau. Bayliss podium'd early on then came back for that epic 1 off win. So it was no munter.

Stoner's farkin' good but he inherited a good bike, and had a tyre advantage to start with. After that he's the only rider who got to test and develop along with the bike as it morphed into something quite unique. And now the tyres are no longer developed around the Duc either. Pity the bloke who's gotta make the leap of faith when climbing aboard it these days.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Haha, I'll give ya 10 outta 10 for consistency Pete!

But I reckon the Duc was actually a good bit of gear earlier on. Capirossi won it, and was right in the hunt for the championship until that big Turn 1 crash with Gibernau. Bayliss podium'd early on then came back for that epic 1 off win. So it was no munter.

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Yeah but both of them had the good results on the thou. The 800 of '07' was obviously fast, but that's not to say it was a good package all round. Like the clip Gazza posted...Stoner beating Rossi then had nothing to do with power whatsoever. Just that some can't accept the fact that maybe Stoner is actually better than Rossi. The stats head to head certainly show he is.

[denill]

Just that some can't accept the fact that maybe Stoner is actually better than Rossi.

Oh no. Pete you said that? Look out!

[Crasherfromwayback]

Oh no. Pete you said that? Look out!

Just in case they missed the other thousand times I've said it!

[Crasherfromwayback]

But I reckon the Duc was actually a good bit of gear earlier on. Capirossi won it, and was right in the hunt for the championship until that big Turn 1 crash with Gibernau. Bayliss podium'd early on then came back for that epic 1 off win. So it was no munter.

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Revvin Kevin's take on it.

"He's obviously a huge talent. Maybe the Ducati in '07 let him show a little bit of that, but I think if we look back and see where Valentino and Nicky are now with a very similar Ducati, you've got to give Casey a really big pat on the back for what he did achieve while he was there. We all thought in '07 that the Ducati had a bit of a performance advantage. Maybe it did, in a straight line. But not too many of the racetracks are all determined by big long straightaways. He obviously still had to ride the thing really, really hard"