MotoGP 2014

[roogazza]

http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2014/...thegoodson.htm
Nice story here.

[Shaun Harris]

Good Night live feed off Moto GP site

Moto 3 was bloody awesome
Moto 2 was the most processional of the races
Moto GP Great first few laps they really took it to MM but eventually he just has that few tenths that builds to 2 seconds??



I thought the TV coverage was well below average, we saw stuff all of the incidents, they didn't even catch what happened there Sean???

Secondly have been noticing how much Rossi is sweating at the after race conferences age kicking in??

10/10 when they monstered him at the start gotta give the kid credit aye

The yanks are complaining a lot about the TV coverage also, ( In fact the yanks are just complaining full stop about bike racing) is it contracted to different TV Filming companies in each country, or is it the same crew at all events?

[pritch]

We get the Dorna coverage now, Nick Harris and whoever replaced Gavin Emmett, they do all of the races. You could hear that they were on the PA as well at Indy.

Earlier in the year we apparently took the British Telecom coverage for one race but that's unusual and I would have liked to see that. BT is a new team that replaced the Eurosport coverage that Britain took previously.

[HenryDorsetCase]

the yanks (on reddit) are vociferous in their complaints about the commentary they received. My understanding is that there is one company contracted to provide the cameras and each "proveder" picks and chooses what views to show with their own commentary? I "think" I read that somewhere.

[Badjelly]

wow, so forward racing cannot afford to pay Colin Edwards what they owe him, how the hell are they going to be able to keep racing full stop if they are prepared to shaft him

Are they unable to pay him what they owe him? I haven't seen that.

But if this is true, the answer to your question is surely, "Find a rider who brings his own money." It's been done before now, many times.

[pritch]

Well we can't complain that the racing wasn't close enough.

[Shaun Harris]

Are they unable to pay him what they owe him? I haven't seen that.

But if this is true, the answer to your question is surely, "Find a rider who brings his own money." It's been done before now, many times.

that is the word in the USA mate

[pritch]

I saw the following message from David Emmett on Twitter:
"Jerry Burgess is a man of exceptional dignity and grace. Turning up with a #46 cap shows what a remarkable man he is."

Hoping that Mr Emmett had actually been close enough to chat, I asked him if he knew whether or not JB was writing a book.
I've received the following reply,
"He said he would write a book. No idea how far along it is. You would expect Christmas 2014 would be a good target date."

[roogazza]

Are they unable to pay him what they owe him? I haven't seen that.

I haven't found any evidence of that as yet ? and I'm looking.

[Shaun Harris]

I haven't found any evidence of that as yet ? and I'm looking.

that is because it has not been said out loud in public as yet

[HenryDorsetCase]

So that hot dark haired girl might be looking for a gig?

[jasonu]

I thought the TV coverage was well below average, we saw stuff all of the incidents, they didn't even catch what happened there Sean???

Yeah the coverage here with American commentators Scott Russell and co. was total shit. As you said no shots of incidents and we totally lost the last 7 laps with pix only of the last lap. MotoGP still not popular enough in the States to warrant the big media coverage of old...

[jasonu]

I just watched the Moto2 race. Same crappy coverage. It went to commercial, when it came back the announcer casually said the bikes were regridding for a restart with no mention or explanation of what happened. Piss poor! I think I might ask BRONZ to organize a protest BBQ on the steps of the White House....

[merv]

Well we can't complain that the racing wasn't close enough.

Exactly what I've been saying for a while - overall the racing is closer than its ever been with the lowly finisher only 10s of seconds behind the winners, not many minutes and being lapped like they used to be in the 500cc days.

Scott Redding on the proddy Honda was 40 seconds behind Marquez and less than a second behind Crutchless on the factory Ducati. Everyone complains about the top speed of that Honda but Nakamoto built Dorna a bike totally competitive against the old CRT just like they asked for.

All in I think it was a bloody good race.

[Dave-]

Downloaded the Fox coverage.

What a load of shit.

American coverage of an american race, american national anthem, american military present, american died 2 nights ago so you have to have an american moment of silence. American rider retiring so big segment on that, other american rider injured so they'd better ask him about his hand and his dad's book. Never fucking mind there was an incident involving two riders on the third corner of the first lap. Never mind that 12 laps of the 27 lap race were lost. Never mind there was a FUCKING RACE ON.

Fuck.