MotoGP 2014

[Wingnut]

Bring back toby moody!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!

[Smokin]

Bring back toby moody!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!

It's just not the same without him.

[merv]

No worries crasher, I see your boyfriend still holds the race lap record, from 2008 no less on the 800cc Ducati.

Dorna with all its dicking around of the rules certainly is keeping the speed under control.

[carbonhed]

It's just not the same without him.

Moody, Ryder and Mammola were a great team athough the new guy that replaced Randy M was very strong on the tech. Denning?

[roogazza]

Well it's probably because he's English. Supporting the home riders.

Never catch an Aussie commentator doing that though. Notorious for fair play, balance and objectivity those bastards... yeah, nah.
Thought Smith took a massive leap today. Alright he binned it towards the end but he went down trying to get back into podium contention rather than settling for 5th. Same for Bautista. Redding beat Hayden on the same bike in his first GP which is just amazing to me

Yes, Smith did very well,pity he fell. Who would want those assassins behind you tho ?
Australians have one eye as well for sure.
The cream came to the top as we suspected, but I still don't like the 20 lt restrictions . Closes the lap times up I suppose ?

[Shaun Harris]

something else I noticed about Rossi style, he carries his head in different angles to what he was last year also on the bike


Just goes to show you are never to old to learn new tricks

[pritch]

Bring back toby moody!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!

OK, some of us are apparently aware that there have been big changes in the English language MotoGP commentaries. Eurosport and the BBC have lost the rights to cover GPs and the coverage has been taken over by BTSport which is apparently a pay per view system. No more Toby Moody, no more Azi Farni etc etc and that is sad. Especially for those who actually lost their jobs.

The only change that effects the internet coverage that I see is that Gavin Emmet has jumped ship and been replaced. If some of you are missing Toby moody am I to assume that Sommet run the BT coverage?

Anyhoo this is a long read but I thought it was both fair and interesting:

http://trunkman.co.uk/blog/a-new-era...ogp-in-the-uk/

[Mental Trousers]

The Eurosport crew were the best. The BBC crew were better than the Sky lot. But the BT Sport mob suck.

• Melanie Sykes is ok on the eye but majorly pisses me off (she also seems to have a wide on for Bradley Smith)
• Keith Huewen has major experience but he's no Toby Moody
• Julian Ryder is 1/3 of the best commentary team ever but now he's taken to pronouncing names the same as Keith Huewen does, which is wrong!!
• James Toseland needs to work on actually getting something out as he stumbles his way through things at times

I could go on but it'd piss me off.

The good thing about BT Sport is they show every lap of all 3 classes - practices, qualifying and race for Moto3, Moto2 and MotoGP

[GD66]

Shame Nick Harris is back and we have another season of listening to his drivel, if I hear him say "where will it end?" one more time I'll scream.

And that's being polite...


God he's woeful. How can Toby Moody get flicked, Emmett moved sideways, Randy disappears, and the best pit reporter of all Dennis Noyes long gone, when that honking cliché manages to hang on by his fingernails.

And as has been pointed out elsewhere, he does sound like Zippy from Rainbow....

[Shaun Harris]

And that's being polite...


God he's woeful. How can Toby Moody get flicked, Emmett moved sideways, Randy disappears, and the best pit reporter of all Dennis Noyes long gone, when that honking cliché manages to hang on by his fingernails.

And as has been pointed out elsewhere, he does sound like Zippy from Rainbow....

all us Harris folk talk shit

[pritch]

I don't think anybody answered, does Sommet run the BT commentary?

I'd like to check out the BTSport team. Most of them have had racing careers so they should know that of which they speak. Even so, they are learning, one apparently poked a mic at Crutchlow at an inopportune moment and received a sharp response. The offender has said on Twitter that he learned his lesson and he won't do that again.

IIRC Harris suggested that the pit lane man interview Lorenzo about his crash more or less immediately after it happened. The suggestion was politely refused - until later. Having a microphone surgically removed has the potential to be painful.

The only commentator that does piss me off, and I'm not sure if it's frequently or continually, is Jonathon Green on Superbikes. If it wasn't for Steve Martin the commentary often wouldn't make sense.

[Shaun Harris]

[QUOTE=pritch;1130698375]I don't think anybody answered, does Sommet run the BT commentary?

I'd like to check out the BTSport team. Most of them have had racing careers so they should know that of which they speak. Even so, they are learning, one apparently poked a mic at Crutchlow at an inopportune moment and received a sharp response. The offender has said on Twitter that he learned his lesson and he won't do that again.




That was x WSB Champion Neil Hodson, him and CC are personall friends haha

[raziel1983]

Cheers Bill just got a txt 10 minutes ago, good news.
VALEEEEEEEEE ! (sorry had to!) A few fell down tho huh.

Not to rain on the parade but he came 2nd at qatar last year too.

[pritch]

My apologies to those of you who still have to attend daily toil. Living the glorious life of a retiree I was just doing the dishes while listening to the MotoPod podcast and they were discussing Colin Edwards' problems with his FTR. As recently as this morning he said on Twitter that he could just not get the thing to turn.

Their thoughts are that Spies couldn't turn that bike either, the bike having been designed to suit Lorenzo. (They didn't mention Rossi, but he couldn't turn the bloody thing last year either, for what was generally considered to be the same reason.)

So the podcast dudes came to the conclusion that EsA must ride with a somewhat similar style to Jorge. Which is a simple enough explanation, but it does seem to answer a question that had been bothering some of us. Well, me anyway, dunno about you...

[pritch]

Not to rain on the parade but he came 2nd at qatar last year too.

Yep, and one swallow does not a summer make and all that.

Next up is CoTA where last year the Hondas had a big advantage in edge grip. Jorge has already been complaining about edge grip and he hasn't even got to Texas yet.

Last year Rossi said he will know his future plans after six races. By then we should all have a more reliable indication of how the title race is looking too.