MotoGP 2014

[merv]

Point I was making basically is that two of the other Yamahas (Vale and Pol) were clocked at around 8km/hr faster than George and he was the one that needed the speed in front of our boy on the Honda.

[Shaun Harris]

Point I was making basically is that two of the other Yamahas (Vale and Pol) were clocked at around 8km/hr faster than George and he was the one that needed the speed in front of our boy on the Honda.

Do you know exactually where the speed check point was? As it tends to be at end of track in the braking area, so that often gives a not real top speed in these cases- IF it was where I said they are often are.

[Shaun Harris]

There have been various suggestions hereabout as to who Suzuki should be signing to ride their GP bike. I'm not sure as to the significance of this, but a few days ago Eugene Laverty was testing the bike in Japan.

And is also testing it in OZ at P Island, that info has been on crash.net for weeks mate. Eugene is a DEFF Poss No2 rider for next year, but in my mind he is the wrong one. No2 Should be A Lowes I reckon.

[Cam_Valk]

Point I was making basically is that two of the other Yamahas (Vale and Pol) were clocked at around 8km/hr faster than George and he was the one that needed the speed in front of our boy on the Honda.

Read somewhere that the official top speed published by Dorna is measured by the average speed over a distance of 30m.
On-board telemetry is usually 15-20kmph more.

[BMWST?]

I wonder if jorge has a new frame

[badlieutenant]

awesome race! interesting lines from both bikes on that series of corners leading to the main straight.
Sommet tv is freaking awesome.

[badlieutenant]

I wonder if jorge has a new frame

+1
(defintely a new frame of mind after that, I imagine it would boost your confidence alot)

[pritch]

Do you know exactually where the speed check point was? As it tends to be at end of track in the braking area, so that often gives a not real top speed in these cases- IF it was where I said they are often are.

There has been some discussion about this in the last week or so on Motomatters and elsewhere. Because they measure the speed over 30m or so and place the speed trap near the end of the straight some riders are braking within the measured area. Can't remember the exact figures, but the maximum speeds recorded by the transponders are sometimes quite a lot faster than the official figure (15 to 20kph?).

From Motomatters:
"Brembo data shows that the MotoGP bikes reach 363 kilometers per hour, though the official Dorna record is still 349 km/h, held by Dani Pedrosa. Veteran journalist and TV commentator Dennis Noyes has spent time digging up the real top speeds at various tracks, and the discrepancy between the officially stated top speeds and the actual top speeds is down to how they are measured. The official top speed is an average over a distance of 30 meters, but a lot can happen in that distance. Riders start braking, and the average plummets, whereas peak speeds measured on data are more accurate. Those peaks are staggeringly fast."

[pritch]

So what has CS27 been up to?
http://sport.bt.com/motogp/casey-sto...11363907393509

[Banditbandit]

awesome race! interesting lines from both bikes on that series of corners leading to the main straight.
Sommet tv is freaking awesome.

+1 .. and I loved the Moto3 race .. 13 bikes in the lead group going into the last 120 laps? Awesome racing ...

Marquez and Lorenzo were just spectacular ...

[ckai]

+1 .. and I loved the Moto3 race .. 13 bikes in the lead group going into the last 120 laps? Awesome racing ...

Marquez and Lorenzo were just spectacular ...

Before last year I would only watch MotoGP and didn't care about 2 or 3. Then after catching the tail end of a Moto2 race, I thought I'd stick with them as well. Then this year, after missing the last Moto3 race and seeing some snippets of them, I thought, bugger this, I'm watching it as well. FUCKEN BRILLIANT! Almost looks like the little buggers were faster than Moto2 being some tightly packed.

It was a shame Val wasn't mixing it up with the other 2 but it was a good race anyway. I bet Lorenzo is a shit tonne happier.

[Erelyes]

Moto3 is farkin cool. Just wish the bikes didn't sound so zzzzzzzzz.
Moto2, now those things are screamers!
MotoGP, how come the 4's sound so flat compared with your average street thou?

[pritch]

MotoGP, how come the 4's sound so flat compared with your average street thou?

Coupla things: if you were standing there they would not sound flat, they would sound fucking LOUD! Seriously.

They don't sound like yer average sprotbike 'cause the Ducati and the Honda engines are V4s. The Yamaha, although an inline four, is also a cross plane/big bang/long bang. (Take your pick.)

[Drew]

... is also a cross plane/big bang/long bang. (Take your pick.)

Cross plane and big bang are very different things. Big bang fires two slugs at once. Cross plane fires one at a time, but in such a way that the crank needs to do a complete revolution without any slugs firing.

[Moise]

Coupla things: if you were standing there they would not sound flat, they would sound fucking LOUD! Seriously.

They don't sound like yer average sprotbike 'cause the Ducati and the Honda engines are V4s. The Yamaha, although an inline four, is also a cross plane/big bang/long bang. (Take your pick.)

Nah they're not that loud but the V4s sound awesome. The loudest are the satellite Hondas for some reason - different pipes?

The Yamahas just sound weird, like they're revving lower.