Interested in MotoGP?

**roogazza** · 5th March 2009, 12:48

[QUOTE=Crasherfromwayback;1965751]But I'd be shitting myself if my main competitor was over a second faster than me.
Think Rossi's gonna have a tough time again this year. Bring it on!!!

Originally Posted by denill

Hey, I've just thought of something...........
Maybe, just maybe, Stoner is a pretty damned good rider of a MotoGP machine????

LOL its started already !!!! Good to see you two have got over 08 !!! Gaz.

**denill** · 5th March 2009, 14:26

Originally Posted by roogazza

LOL its started already !!!! Good to see you two have got over 08 !!! Gaz.

2008 Gaz? Hey, that is as they say - history.

**denill** · 5th March 2009, 14:44

Not really about MotoGP, but about a rider who should have spent more time in that class:

**Cleve** · 5th March 2009, 17:45

Originally Posted by Crasherfromwayback

Bectha Yamaha will have Spies on a GP bike next year!

But with what is happening at WSBK and MotoGP maybe he would prefer to stay in WSBK??!!

**Crasherfromwayback** · 5th March 2009, 22:52

Originally Posted by Cleve

But with what is happening at WSBK and MotoGP maybe he would prefer to stay in WSBK??!!

Nah mate. I simply cannot believe any true motorcycle racer wouldn't want to be the Moto GP champ!!!

Foggy...Mladin..and God knows how many others have said they're happy where they are...but seriously...would you?

I know when I started road racing...there was only one place I wanted to be.

And it wasn't AMA or World Superbike Champ!

**k14** · 7th March 2009, 06:37

Originally Posted by Crasherfromwayback

And it wasn't AMA or World Superbike Champ!

NZ superbike champs?

**johan** · 7th March 2009, 11:08

GP9 swingarm

**denill** · 7th March 2009, 12:24

Originally Posted by johan

GP9 swingarm

Just another example how MotoGP helps evolve the bikes we ride on the road.

We may all be riding on S/arms like the GP9, or maybe not.

**denill** · 14th March 2009, 11:53

Have Read Here: that Hampton Downs is to stage a MotoGP round in 2010?? Any one heard anything?
I don't think so................

**Oscar** · 14th March 2009, 11:59

Originally Posted by denill

Have Read Here: that Hampton Downs is to stage a MotoGP round in 2010?? Any one heard anything?
I don't think so................

It ain't gonna happen.
Leaving aside more practical problems like the vast sums of money involved, the waiting list for a round and the crowed calender - the track hasn't been inspected by DORNA.

**denill** · 14th March 2009, 17:01

Originally Posted by Oscar

It ain't gonna happen.
Leaving aside more practical problems like the vast sums of money involved, the waiting list for a round and the crowed calender - the track hasn't been inspected by DORNA.

Not MotoGP – From TM again: Hampton Downs Motorsport Park has recently won a bid to host a round of the SUPERBIKE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP. Hampton Downs CEO, Jamie Kett, said it was a fantastic international series and a major sporting and tourism boost for New Zealand. The SuperBike World Championship has 15 international rounds from late February to mid October. The New Zealand leg will be staged a week after the Phillip Island round in Australia in late February. Each round has four race classes with 140 riders from 27 countries participating. Mr Kett said that Hampton Downs had negotiated the rights to hold the event from 2010 for a minimum of 3 years. The SuperBike World Championship has a worldwide media audience of more than two billion people.

**johan** · 31st March 2009, 14:13

Has anyone read the new rules for 2010:

http://www.fim-live.com/en/media/new...regulations-6/

**codgyoleracer** · 31st March 2009, 14:17

Originally Posted by denill

Not MotoGP – From TM again: Hampton Downs Motorsport Park has recently won a bid to host a round of the SUPERBIKE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP. Hampton Downs CEO, Jamie Kett, said it was a fantastic international series and a major sporting and tourism boost for New Zealand. The SuperBike World Championship has 15 international rounds from late February to mid October. The New Zealand leg will be staged a week after the Phillip Island round in Australia in late February. Each round has four race classes with 140 riders from 27 countries participating. Mr Kett said that Hampton Downs had negotiated the rights to hold the event from 2010 for a minimum of 3 years. The SuperBike World Championship has a worldwide media audience of more than two billion people.

Geez, I hope that happens, may even take an extra day of work for it :-)