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    Have we got pics of the offending sensor and how it was stuck on there?
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    Quote Originally Posted by bogan View Post
    Have we got pics of the offending sensor and how it was stuck on there?
    Was going around facebook the other day. Broken wire from the sensor, not the sensor itself.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crasherfromwayback View Post
    Absofuckinglutely
    Trackday rules is the other option Crash. No passing on the inside and 2m spread between any one vehicle at any time (lets all go and have a nice cuppa-tea)............... :-)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Drew View Post
    Was going around facebook the other day. Broken wire from the sensor, not the sensor itself.
    Ah yup, might be a few crews going over the bikes and just tucking in wires a little more tightly over this week I think.

    If this isn't just a 'shit-happens' racing incident I really worry about the sport.
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    Quote Originally Posted by codgyoleracer View Post
    Trackday rules is the other option Crash. No passing on the inside and 2m spread between any one vehicle at any time (lets all go and have a nice cuppa-tea)............... :-)
    I have always laughed at that rule. It's fucken hard to commit to going the long way round some squid, with a shiny new full license to match his shiny new gixxer thou, when they take three attempts to tip into any given corner.

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    I currently find the commentators annoying. They keep going on about how many races Pedrosa won last year and how around this time last year he was winning everything. But that was only because Lorenzo let him. Lorenzo had a big lead in the championship and all he had to do to win the title was follow Pedrosa round and finish second. So that was what he did.

    Even when Honda specifically designed a bike around him and ignored his team mate, the then World Champion, Pedrosa couldn't really threaten a title.

    I note this latter inglorious piece of Honda history got a mention when Pete Benson recently explained why he wasn't going to Gresini with Scott Redding.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pritch View Post
    I currently find the commentators annoying. They keep going on about how many races Pedrosa won last year and how around this time last year he was winning everything. But that was only because Lorenzo let him. Lorenzo had a big lead in the championship and all he had to do to win the title was follow Pedrosa round and finish second. So that was what he did.

    Even when Honda specifically designed a bike around him and ignored his team mate, the then World Champion, Pedrosa couldn't really threaten a title.

    I note this latter inglorious piece of Honda history got a mention when Pete Benson recently explained why he wasn't going to Gresini with Scott Redding.
    Pfft, aint a single one of those guys sitting on the grid, who isn't focused on trying to win that race.

    Dribble like this is so stupid. "Lorenzo let him win". How would you explain that last lap of a mid year race last year when the lead changed between them three or four times in one lap?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Drew View Post
    Dribble like this is so stupid.
    Not at all. How many races did Pedrosa win last year, seven? He can normally only manage about two.
    That would have been a miraculous improvement - if it wasn't for the obvious explanation.

    Can't you remember how boring it was, and how we were all looking forward to this year?

    And if Stoner hadn't quit Pedrosa would have lost his Repsol ride, so even Honda weren't *that* impressed by his wins last year.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pritch View Post
    Not at all. How many races did Pedrosa win last year, seven? He can normally only manage about two.
    That would have been a miraculous improvement - if it wasn't for the obvious explanation.

    Can't you remember how boring it was, and how we were all looking forward to this year?
    I wasn't bored, i was on the edge of my seat hoping my boy was finally gonna get his title.

    I am biased of course. But there's no way Lorenzo "let" Pedro win. He might not have fought quite as hard, but we did see him fight fairly hard a couple times at least. Makes me think he was out classed, and Dani was unlucky.

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    Quote Originally Posted by codgyoleracer View Post
    Trackday rules is the other option Crash. No passing on the inside and 2m spread between any one vehicle at any time (lets all go and have a nice cuppa-tea)............... :-)
    Yeah fuck that shit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bogan View Post
    Have we got pics of the offending sensor and how it was stuck on there?
    Prolly want to swap that out for one with a 90deg fitting..?
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    Quote Originally Posted by codgyoleracer View Post
    No way there is a penalty there, If anything it just shows us how this type of stuff need to be tucked out of harms way for this type of contact - and a rule put in place to make it happen. Bit like the front brake protectors rule, that one stops a lot of incidents with accidental front brake application.
    Yeah maybe...........grumble, grumble, unfair, grumble.

    Still think he was being impatient.

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    Well I'dve thought that Honda could come up with something better than to just shut off the traction control if a sensor wasn't reading, seems a rather large oversight now

    Poor ole Dani, must be the unluckiest fella in MotoGP

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    MM seen slipping these into his leathers prior to the start of Aragon
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tony.OK View Post
    Well I'dve thought that Honda could come up with something better than to just shut off the traction control if a sensor wasn't reading, seems a rather large oversight now

    Poor ole Dani, must be the unluckiest fella in MotoGP
    It ain't *a* sensor...it's *the* sensor for wheel rotation think you'll find. And I'd rather have it let me finish a race on full power than anything else if it fails.

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