MotoGP 2015

[ecko_nzed]

Aleix Espargaro in the wars http://www.suzuki-racing.com/motogp/...LONA.58263.cms

[Autech]

I saw they were introducing that feature but thought I would wait before signing up as users on a number of sites were reporting in the early stages that some of the options failed at times. If it's now accessible regularly, that is a dream come true for many.

Autech, if you get a start in the comm box I will have the bikes-only function disabled round at my joint, and gleefully join in again. I must say at least Birt has a clue, which helps. Commentary everywhere is in the doldrums, I watched some of the NW200 and they had Parrish and had also exhumed the execrable Richard Nicholls from the crypt, presumably because Huewen would have been doing the GP at Le Mans.

And Bwadley Smiff has looked pretty good at times, certainly got a cheer from me when he was looking the goods running in fourth in Texas for a while. As pointed out, he is knocking Pol off which is a clue. Someone must have spotted something exceptional about him, and I think in time he will get it happening. Certainly fires it up the road a lot less nowadays.

If commentary were through a democratic process, I would have one vote! Autech for president.

And BTW? Relying on a French Canadian for French pronunciation is a little like using an Aussie as a guide to proper English.
As far as the French are concerned, they can get fucked, and if Harris annoys them - all the better.

Considering Quebec speaks more traditional French, than the French... But we all know about arguing on the internet... We also know about opinions and how everyone has one... So lets hug it out and you can add me to your ignore list if it bothers you that much .
Best include 90% of this thread contributors to that list though as most people here have had a whine at some stage about Zippy and friends. I just think we deserve better commentary than what we are getting.

Back to the racing, George is looking pretty damn solid at the moment, really hard to call this Championship, I don't think the Ducati's are quite there to win the championship, but there are many rounds to come. Looked to me that if they (Duc's) could get their immense power down out of the corners a bit better that the Yams wouldn't have stood a chance. Case and point was when Rossi overtook Dovi, I thought that with the speed difference that Dovi would have been able to get past him on the next straight but Rossi got out of the corner quick enough to negate the speed difference by the end of the straight, even with Dovis late braking Rossi stayed ahead. Yams chassis is certainly working fantastically.

[pritch]

IIRC the only cock up I recall this year is the dif in the way one of them says Espargaro.

You haven't been paying attention. Harris murders Bastianini's name. His co-commentators get it right and he did after I mentioned it - once. Now he doesn't even try.

Birt has experience as a print journo I think, but is new to broadcasting. He has potential, but he confuses Espagero with asparagus. He also stuffs up Bagnaia and Quateraro. He puts a hard G in Bagnaia as if the rider was a bag lady. He makes Quateraro rhyme with twatt.

None of this is the end of the world, but it isn't indicative of top men on the job either. It grates. I don't expect them to roll their Rs like the Spanish, either when they talk - or when they walk, but they could at least make an effort.

[george formby]

I take it that Harris is the commentator who goes from a quiet discourse to yelling out whatever corner the racers are approaching in case he has sent us to sleep? Really starting to rip my nightie. Almost spilled some beer when he did it last night.

[McWild]

It's such a weird inconsistency, Birt did a great job with "Andrea" this time (tapped "r") but the two of them still incredibly say, as you said, BAG-NAI-A.

See I don't let it bother me if it's just someone I'm chatting to in person. But these guys... they're flying around the world. They've been to the home countries of almost all these riders many, many times. They've interviewed them in person. They work for a Spanish company!

These are people with more overseas experience than many of us could ever dream of, commentating on an international sport where many of us never even see their faces but only hear their voices. It really, really stands out when they make such amateur errors in pronunciation, so frequently, because while you're listening to them, you're watching three races of perfectionists at work... people who have to work so hard just to keep their ride... for whom that one little error could mean a contract extension or a trip to hospital... You see a shining great example of work ethic and talent, but what you hear through your ears are the voices of a couple of people who don't pronounce those riders' names correctly?!

So yeah I think it is worth being annoyed about it if you're an admirer of the guys doing the racing. It's disrespectful and (because?) it's an easy fix.






"DOWN in pit lane".

[GD66]

And, as you'll see towards the end of the season, Harris in all that time has still not mastered basic maths. He spends all of every race telling us about Vital Championship Points, then when it's time to factor them in at the end of the year, he ALWAYS throws his hands in the air and fesses up that his maths is crap, and always was.





Kunt.

[Autech]

And, as you'll see towards the end of the season, Harris in all that time has still not mastered basic maths. He spends all of every race telling us about Vital Championship Points, then when it's time to factor them in at the end of the year, he ALWAYS throws his hands in the air and fesses up that his maths is crap, and always was.





Kunt.

Anyone else see how well Miller was doing before he binned it? Give that bogan a decent bike, he will take care of the rest

And speaking of binning it, anyone else though about how funny a name Brad "Binder" is for a motorcycle racer?

[Drew]

Anyone else see how well Miller was doing before he binned it? Give that bogan a decent bike, he will take care of the rest

Are you high? Pushing to the limit means sometimes you crash. Repeatedly going past the limit means you're not as god as you think you are. I should fucken know.

[Erelyes]

On the fourth lap I started to notice that I had a lot of problems with the front end.

Interesting. To my armchair expert point of view it looked as if MMs bike was tying itself in knots (Gordian ones) every time it was given some power. Maybe it was doing both, and he did bloody well to get where he was!

The BTSport commentary may be the lesser of the evils. They still fuck up half of the names though, and tend to be oblivious to some of the onscreen action, and have a blatant bias towards pommy riders, and.... OK, maybe they're average too.

[Reckless]

Interesting. To my armchair expert point of view it looked as if MMs bike was tying itself in knots (Gordian ones) every time it was given some power. Maybe it was doing both, and he did bloody well to get where he was!

Yeh he did but I wanted him to come 6th just for the championship. We also saw some more desperate stuff from him this race, Pressure aye

[Erelyes]

Forgot to mention, I think it was Neil Hodgson's comment to Pedro when he was on the grid; 'You picked a physical track to come back to'
Pedro's reply? '...... I didn't have any choice'

I wonder if that means he had to come back when it was right no matter the track; or if he got a bit of a hurry-up due to Aoyama's performance...

[Erelyes]

Interesting article here. Seems the RC213V is a bit of a Rubik's cube to set up, one whereby the colours of the pieces will change randomly from time to time....

[carbonhed]

Interesting article here. Seems the RC213V is a bit of a Rubik's cube to set up, one whereby the colours of the pieces will change randomly from time to time....

Very interesting. Also good to see him point out that Smith had executed a sweet pass on Iannone's factory Ducati only for Marquez to come blasting through, miss the apex by a country mile and punt Smith wide and back to the rear of the bunch... cue junk yard dog brawl that could have ended in disaster at any moment.

[Autech]

Forgot to mention, I think it was Neil Hodgson's comment to Pedro when he was on the grid; 'You picked a physical track to come back to'
Pedro's reply? '...... I didn't have any choice'

I wonder if that means he had to come back when it was right no matter the track; or if he got a bit of a hurry-up due to Aoyama's performance...

I would say he wanted to come back for this round no matter the track.

Very interesting. Also good to see him point out that Smith had executed a sweet pass on Iannone's factory Ducati only for Marquez to come blasting through, miss the apex by a country mile and punt Smith wide and back to the rear of the bunch... cue junk yard dog brawl that could have ended in disaster at any moment.

Typical Marquez, still as dangerous and exciting as ever.

[McWild]

I feel a bit sorry for Redding this season, I've seen a fair few comments around the place saying he doesn't deserve his ride etc.

He was on that dog of a RCV1000R for his rookie season and did everything he could have on it. He's now got himself an RCV213 with his old team, which you have to say has the best pedigree (EstrellaG/MarcVDS) of any privateer team out there. Expectations for him this season were understandably high, probably moreso of himself than for anyone else.

But the Gresini team had years and years with that bike and an established relationship with HRC. LCR has similar years and years of that relationship. And how well did they ever do, on average? With some creamy creamy riders onboard, no less. Repsol have racked up the wins and poles, but the satellites have always been about even, if not slightly worse, than Tech3.

These things take time to come together. New team, working in a new class, with a new bike, a bike like nothing they've dealt with before. A bike that, people are starting to think, takes a lot of work to make work for even the Repsol team with MM at the helm.

The pressure's on the team to get results straight away, because hell the main sponsors and teams involved could barely afford the downpayments and they're used to winning.

And the pressure's on Redding because he's the top dog of a pyramid of riders that goes Redding > Rabat > A Marquez > Quartararo > Navarro > future CEV champions.



Which all in all would seem to me to be quiiiite a lot of pressure to either perform or lose the ride. Stupid petty comments on Reddit about "What's he doing there!" Well, he earned it, what did you do recently.