MotoGP 2013

[Brett]

Lol. I think you know the answer.

The Mrs bitch slapped you and you fell over on concrete Crasher?

Loved watching that race...Jorge showed some mature class with the way he ultimately fought MM off, but MM blows me away every race he does now. Yes I know that a dislocated shoulder *can* be quite tolerable once popped back in, but this isn't always the case, and more importantly, dealing with the mind screw of a quick crash like that but not then getting shy and crash-worried for the main race is reasonably impressive...especially for a rookie. (Remember he has experienced this before in Moto2). The guys is still incredibly green, with very limited experience...he has an incredible future potentially. At the end of the race, they showed a slow motion shot of him sliding both wheels in sideways towards the apex while chasing JL...was absolute poetry.

[awa355]

The main race just about to start now on Sommet.

[Reckless]

Bloody great race!! Moto 2 and Moto GP!!

Looks like they have given MM a little smack on the hand

http://superbike-news.co.uk/wordpres...r-marc-marquez

[Mental Trousers]

Fuck all. Should've penalised him 2 places in the race instead.

Great race though. JL is starting to ride like he hasn't ridden before. It's a good thing.

[ecko_nzed]

Bloody great race!! Moto 2 and Moto GP!!

Looks like they have given MM a little smack on the hand

http://superbike-news.co.uk/wordpres...r-marc-marquez

It'll go well with the smack on the shoulder he gave himself.

How many penalty points does he have to rack up before he gets a more serious punishment?

I could look it up, but I'm essentially lazy.

[jasonu]

It'll go well with the smack on the shoulder he gave himself.

How many penalty points does he have to rack up before he gets a more serious punishment?

I could look it up, but I'm essentially lazy.

Here ya go...

Following the race, it was announced that Marquez has been given two Penalty Points under the new system due to not slowing down under the yellow flags in the morning Warm-Up. This also happened to be the moment that saw him crash at the same turn as Cal Crutchlow. Not to be confused with Championship Points, the penalty system was introduced in 2013, under which Up to 10 penalty points can be imposed, with sanctions applied at certain thresholds. Any rider reaching four penalty points starts the next race from the back of the grid, while seven points lead to a pit lane start and 10 points a race ban.

[Kendog]

Do any of them slow down for yellows?
I would love to see him start a race from the back of the grid.

[Drew]

I was reminded last night as I watched the race, of Jorge and Rossi. Rossi knew Lorenzo was the new talent coming through from very early on, but in that first season he taught the young fella a couple lessons in race craft.

That's exactly how it looked last night. Jorge did a fantastic job of managing the race, and at about one third distance I could swear he was slowing the pace to let Pedro catch up and give MM some grief.

Then on the last lap he was defending the line that MM took anyway, slowing them both down enough to give it a squirt between the two apex' of the double apex left.

It was fucken genius! Next year, I don't think anyone is gonna see which way MM went though.

[tail_end_charlie]

I gonna be betting that ol' Cal has a good day at the race. He always seems to do the best when he's pissed and got something to fight against that can be seen as holding him back (battered at bruised from Saturday's crashes).

Buggered if I make any more predictions about this shit, I'm either always wrong or jinx 'em.



Also, an interesting little artical written by Dean Adams from SuperbikePlanet on Nicky Hayden during his dirt tracking days. One thing I wanted to comment on about the 'incident' at Indy, if you watch the video you can see that Nicky does a much better job jumping the curb than Dovi does. Nicky must have kept the power on while Dovi chopped the throttle.

[Badjelly]

Also, an interesting little artical written by Dean Adams from SuperbikePlanet on Nicky Hayden during his dirt tracking days. One thing I wanted to comment on about the 'incident' at Indy, if you watch the video you can see that Nicky does a much better job jumping the curb than Dovi does. Nicky must have kept the power on while Dovi chopped the throttle.

Nicky had a bit more warning that he would have to jump the kerb than Dovi did, Nicky being the cause of it and all...

[tail_end_charlie]

An interesting part of David Emmett's post on the Silverstone round.

"Crutchlow suffered serious abrasions to his right lower arm, with his leathers tearing open and gravel and dirt getting in to rip up his skin. It is the fifth time this year that his leathers have let him down, though of course, if he didn't crash, his leathers would not be subject to such abuse. That is no excuse, however: motorcycle racing leathers should not burst at the seams, and riders should not be picking gravel out of their arms with a wire brush."

I wonder if this last incident will lead CC to drop Spidi leathers and move to another brand? (Dainese and AlpineStars seem to be the most popular choices; couple of people in Spidi, Revit, Arlen Ness, Berik and some others I'm not familar with.)

Especially considering that AlpineStars have released the data from MM crash. The report more or less saying that the airbag was successfully deployed before his big shoulder impact, and he ended up with a dislocated shoulder. The don't actually insinuate that the result was only a dislocated collerbone because of the airbag, but in light of the recent events with JL and DP, one could be alowed to connect the dots. But then again, JL and DP also have the airbag suit, yes?

[Crasherfromwayback]

An interesting part of David Emmett's post on the Silverstone round.

"Crutchlow suffered serious abrasions to his right lower arm, with his leathers tearing open and gravel and dirt getting in to rip up his skin. It is the fifth time this year that his leathers have let him down, though of course, if he didn't crash, his leathers would not be subject to such abuse. That is no excuse, however: motorcycle racing leathers should not burst at the seams, and riders should not be picking gravel out of their arms with a wire brush."

Do we know for a fact his leathers burst open? I biffed my 883 away at 200 clicks going into the sweeper at Manfield years ago...the shear impact on my arm hitting the deck at that speed twisted my leathers so fast round my arm they ripped all the skin off...and then as I went through the gravel trap ended up with an arm full of gravel and stones. But the leather never tore or *rode up* my arm. If they have burst open (esp if that's AGAIN)...they're fucking shit though for sure.

[Trudes]

Buggered if I make any more predictions about this shit, I'm either always wrong or jinx 'em.



Also, an interesting little artical written by Dean Adams from SuperbikePlanet on Nicky Hayden during his dirt tracking days. One thing I wanted to comment on about the 'incident' at Indy, if you watch the video you can see that Nicky does a much better job jumping the curb than Dovi does. Nicky must have kept the power on while Dovi chopped the throttle.

Funny article, loved it

[merv]

Funny article, loved it

Perhaps you could encourage your boyfriend Nicky to retire to NZ when he's finished like Fred Merkel did, though if he lived in Porirua instead of up Taupo way he could come around for dinner.

[Kornholio]

Pity there's not ten of them out there! Can you imagine it?

His younger brother got his first podium in Moto 2 the race before.... so there's another one comin... and I would say that the age both of them are they are bound to end up in GP battling it out...