MotoGP 2016

[roogazza]

I let my 2016 videopass renew automatically and I got the off-season plus 2017. Here's what the email says:
I thought the same thing happened if you renewed manually, but your experience suggests otherwise.
I agree that cutting it off so soon after the last race is pretty harsh.

2017 Season & Off Season
Price: 99.95€
Expires on: 2017-11-13 23:59 GMT
Your subscirption to the MotoGP VideoPass will be valid until the day after the last race of the current season.
Your seasonal subscription will automatically renew at the end of the MotoGP Season and will include the Off Season package for free.

100 euro ,what 200 bucks ?? I'll stick to Sky for a Hundee thanks and just use the mute on Nick harris and co.
(maybe I'm losin interest ,huh ?).

[pritch]

I let my 2016 videopass renew automatically and I got the off-season plus 2017.
I thought the same thing happened if you renewed manually, but your experience suggests otherwise.
I agree that cutting it off so soon after the last race is pretty harsh.

That's not quite what happened. I let it expire at the end of last season, but stuffed if I'm paying an extra 30 Euros to watch a few days testing which is marginally more exciting than watching grass grow. I'll just have to rely on Messrs Emmett, Oxley, et al to keep us informed.

I can understand why they cut it off when they do because there's only one day off (for the riders, if not the mechanics) then testing starts. There were many mammoth hangovers yesterday but it'll be back to work tonight our time.

Gazza, the conversion rate isn't double, for a couple of years it's been about one and a half so just over NZ$150 at the current rate. As well as the live races there is a selection of "classic" races. Of course the selection of those is limited by the advent of coloured TV coverage.

Anyone lusting after the real deal: B&W film, single cylinders and horsehide riding suits, could visit the British Pathe collection on Youtube. Which will be what i do if I start to suffer withdrawal symptoms.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Lol. Dude's done.

So how much money did ya win on him? Come on...I know you prob had a sly dabble on the man...

[Oscar]

The dozy bint did the 'One step back for the selfie' I would have kicked her in the handlebar too.

Meanwhile... To add to my action-packed day I had the septic tank emptied and unblocked a drain.

..........

[onearmedbandit]

^^^^ That's gold^^^^

[James Deuce]

So how much money did ya win on him? Come on...I know you prob had a sly dabble on the man...

I don't gamble because I don't need to fuck things up worse by developing yet another pointless compulsion.

[Crasherfromwayback]

I don't gamble because I don't need to fuck things up worse by developing yet another pointless compulsion.

That's quite a good answer.

[pritch]

Impressions from Twitter overnight:

Honda now have a big bang engine. Crutchlow immediately subjected his to the gravel test. Don't be unkind, there were a lot of crashes, later in the day when Crutchlow got his new engine and the others were trying for fast laps, the track cooled and there were a lot of crashes.

MV, JL, and AI wasted no time getting up to speed on their new machinery, all are quick. JL is testing GP16, Dovi the GP17. As David Emmett says the difference between the M1 and the GP16 is huge, difference between the 16 and 17 small. The teams are impressed with the professionalism of the riders. It's a love in.

There are some different paint jobs, some commentators like them but I think it may just be that they're different.

Some of the Ducatis are still using wings. This is so as to eliminate one variable when testing other parts. The basic rule is you only change one thing at a time or you won't know what worked.

Final times for the day and MV's test paint job:

[EJK]

Impressions from Twitter overnight:

Honda now have a big bang engine. Crutchlow immediately subjected his to the gravel test. Don't be unkind, there were a lot of crashes, later in the day when Crutchlow got his new engine and the others were trying for fast laps, the track cooled and there were a lot of crashes.

MV, JL, and AI wasted no time getting up to speed on their new machinery, all are quick. JL is testing GP16, Dovi the GP17. As David Emmett says the difference between the M1 and the GP16 is huge, difference between the 16 and 17 small. The teams are impressed with the professionalism of the riders. It's a love in.

There are some different paint jobs, some commentators like tham but I think it may just be that they're different.

Some of the Ducatis are still using wings. This is so as to eliminate one variable when testing other parts. The basic rule is you only change one thing at a time or you won't know what worked.

Final times for the day and MV's test paint job:

Jesus they are all neck and neck! Top 10 riders are all within 0.4 seconds!

[Drew]

Jesus they are all neck and neck! Top 10 riders are all within 0.4 seconds!

On a track they've just spent 4 days riding, in similar conditions.

It's well documented that the testimate times mean little regarding race weekend pace.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Some of the Ducatis are still using wings. This is so as to eliminate one variable when testing other parts.

Final times for the day and MV's test paint job:

Crazy Joe's Suzuki still had wings...and a fucking awesome paint job to match his leathers.

[pritch]

On a track they've just spent 4 days riding, in similar conditions.

It's well documented that the testimate times mean little regarding race weekend pace.

Some of them are faster than the pace they set during the race, but then the bikes are not in race trim now.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Final times for the day and MV's test paint job:

This looks better I reckon!

http://www.motogp.com/en/videos/2016...is-mark/216463

[pritch]

There was much less news from Valencia overnight but I did receive an email reply from Dorna to my query about video passes. Very brief, it basically said video passes for 2017 will be available in 2017. I might not want one then.

David Emmett posted that the MotoGP 'Live Timing App' is currently available free. I have no experience of it but I might give it a try although there's nowt to watch until the next test.

[Dave-]

So hang on, I let my subscription renew.

It said the package would usually be 139 euro and I only paid 99? euro.

This means I'm good to watch all of motogp until this time next year right?