Wsbk 2015

**Shaun Harris** · 24th May 2015, 10:55

When is RDP gunna get axed? 2 seconds slower than your team mate on the same dam equipment is Just NOT accepetable

**Shaun Harris** · 24th May 2015, 10:56

Jonny Ray in discussions with Honda again for next year in MotoGP! They want him back.

**Autech** · 26th May 2015, 09:02

Originally Posted by Moto-Dynamix

Jonny Ray in discussions with Honda again for next year in MotoGP! They want him back.

Cal Crutchless better button up his socks!

Fucking awesome race 1. Jonny clearly decided after they touched that the battle was no longer worth it and let him go for it. Race 2 was a bit different but still looking good for Rea for the Championship.

WSS was cool with those wildcards in the mix, that Ryde chap sure can get that Yamaha round the track. Cluzel needs to pull his socks up otherwise the one trick pony is going to get another championship I think.

**pritch** · 26th May 2015, 09:16

Originally Posted by Autech

that Ryde chap sure can get that Yamaha round the track.

Second on the grid, third in the race, dicing with Sofuoglu for the lead early on, and he's seventeen. It's fair to say he made the most of his wildcard oportunity. He was hard not to notice. Be interesting to see how he goes at another track.

**roogazza** · 26th May 2015, 10:21

Originally Posted by pritch

Second on the grid, third in the race, dicing with Sofuoglu for the lead early on, and he's seventeen. It's fair to say he made the most of his wildcard oportunity. He was hard not to notice. Be interesting to see how he goes at another track.

Yeah pritch,when wild cards do that they're very shortly given a ride.
Brings to mind a couple of aussies that performed as wild cards.
Doohan on the Marlboro Yamaha superbike and 'Wild Child' on the 750 Kawa a bit later. Smoked them !
Like you say,another track might be different?

**Autech** · 26th May 2015, 12:01

Originally Posted by pritch

Second on the grid, third in the race, dicing with Sofuoglu for the lead early on, and he's seventeen. It's fair to say he made the most of his wildcard oportunity. He was hard not to notice. Be interesting to see how he goes at another track.

Originally Posted by roogazza

Yeah pritch,when wild cards do that they're very shortly given a ride.
Brings to mind a couple of aussies that performed as wild cards.
Doohan on the Marlboro Yamaha superbike and 'Wild Child' on the 750 Kawa a bit later. Smoked them !
Like you say,another track might be different?

That's the truth, they mentioned he is 1 point behind in the British WSS so he's doing alright there. They also mentioned he lives 20miles from Donnington so if anyone would know the track it would be him. That said talent is talent and that looks like a farking tricky track to ride!

**pritch** · 28th May 2015, 09:45

Britain has a long history of having local track specialists. This also applies in the "roads" series. Some years ago BIKE named Bruce Anstey as rider of the year or decade or some such. The reason they gave was most of the British riders try really hard to win at their local track but away from home they tend to circulate safely down the field a bit, content to collect the start money. Anstey, they said, came to race - everywhere.

Back in the sixties many of the factory GP riders were from the commonwealth. Each of the British tracks had local specialists with really intense competition and it was a very difficult scene to break into. The commonwealth riders tended to side step this and race the second tier events on the classic European tracks. So when a vacancy arose in a factory team, the choice was between a British star e.g. a Brands Hatch specialist, or a commonwealth rider who already knew all the GP tracks; the choice was easy. Thus world champions Jim Redman and Gary Hocking from Rhodesia, and Hugh Anderson from NZ. Also prominent were Tom Phillis and Jack Findlay from Australia; Paddy Driver, South Africa and Mike Duff, Canada.

Anyhoo I hope young Ryde can produce the goods somewhere other than Donington. Leon Haslam has done more laps of Donington than most, his dad runs a track school there. Didn't help him that much last weekend.

**ElCoyote** · 29th May 2015, 11:52

Originally Posted by Moto-Dynamix

Jonny Ray in discussions with Honda again for next year in MotoGP! They want him back.

That's funny they want Johny Rea also

**steveyb** · 29th May 2015, 13:51

"Poor Old Johnnie Ray"

**pritch** · 29th May 2015, 14:54

Most of you guys are too young. But there was a famous Johnnie Ray previously.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCjTWYoRTzM

That's not an early earphone he's wearing, it's a hearing aid. He was partially deaf.

Meantime back to the Superbikes...

**Shaun Harris** · 31st May 2015, 20:25

P J Jacobsen from the wss grid has jumped ship from his Kawasaki team to a Honda team

**Shaun Harris** · 2nd June 2015, 08:14

WSS Team manager goes missing????

Josef Kubicek, the owner of the Intermoto Pony Expres World Supersport team, has been listed as missing by Czech Police and the squad will not travel to Portimao this weekend.

Rider PJ Jacobsen jumped ship from the team yesterday and it would appear that both Lucas Mathias and Aiden Wagner have followed suit, but to where is not clear at the moment.

Kubicek has reportedly been missing since last Thursday. The disappearance was reported by his wife, who fears for his safety.

As all the trucks, bikes and equipment are in Kubicek’s name, police have said they cannot be moved or tampered with in any wa

- See more at: http://www.bikesportnews.com/news/ne....93DXy49G.dpuf

European teams and money going missing again. My guess is the team owes some bad boys a shit load of money, and this man is running for his life.