MotoGP Qatar

[colsan1]

Have seen on the BBC website he race has been resceduled and will run at 1900 BST.
thats 6am tuesday for us.

[Rcktfsh]

that sucked balls, I know it was raining but cmon. Fark me, I remember watching the old 500 gps, they would ride those things on flooded tracks in pouring rain. So you go a bit slower and its slippery. They should have waited for it to calm down a little. Pedrosa was like..."lets race in the rain". Cmon motogp HTFU.

If I was good enough to race, I would know that sometimes I would be racing in atrocious conditions. Have you people seen what conditions world superbikes have raced in before, now there is racing.

Dissapointed is an understatement. That was crap, at least the 250s were fantastic as well as the 2 laps of the 125.

Motogp is dying. The racers should be holding the umbrellas and the pit girls should be racing.

The problem was the glare from the lights reflecting of the rain(on track and visors) not the rain making the track slippery, if the race had been held anywhere else during the day it would have continued.

[ital916]

The problem was the glare from the lights reflecting of the rain(on track and visors) not the rain making the track slippery, if the race had been held anywhere else during the day it would have continued.

yeah, that why i didnt understand the night racing, supposedly it gets too hot but for the previous week temps had been at 25 degress from lunchtime onwards.

An afternoon start would have been best, hell they were practising in the afternoon. Like a mate said "god forbid if a few lightbulbs blew, oh what would they do".

They stated that the lights were brighter than daytime hence all the riders wearing sunglasses...i guess riding with tinted visors would have been an option.

[NZsarge]

Im not talking about when it was bucketing down, but did they have to wait till the track was 100% dry for the 250's?

The reason for waiting for the track to dry to nearly 100% is because it's being run at night with the huge lighting power all the water reflects and it's nearly impossible to see where the track goes etc...
Think about when your driving at night in town how it can be really difficult to see white lines and direction arrows and so forth, then think about that at 200+ kph!

[NZsarge]

The problem was the glare from the lights reflecting of the rain(on track and visors) not the rain making the track slippery, if the race had been held anywhere else during the day it would have continued.

Ahh! you beat me to it.

[Wingnut]

Sky advertising the Moto GP to be on at 5.55am tomorrow morning - Sky Sport 3

[1vanvan1]

I just saw that, Another early morning!

[Rcktfsh]

yeah, that why i didnt understand the night racing, supposedly it gets too hot but for the previous week temps had been at 25 degress from lunchtime onwards.

An afternoon start would have been best, hell they were practising in the afternoon. Like a mate said "god forbid if a few lightbulbs blew, oh what would they do".

They stated that the lights were brighter than daytime hence all the riders wearing sunglasses...i guess riding with tinted visors would have been an option.

not so much the heat as trying to schedule the race in primetime for euro tv viewers, same reason aussie f1 gp has been pressured into looking at running at night (they have resisted so far but now run as late in the day as pos) and singapore being a night gp. Hard to feel compassion for the euro's having to stay up late to watch when we do it all the time, but thats what happens when your an influential market.

[colsan1]

they will never change the time slot because a little island with 4 million people want to watch it in the afternoon.
even relatively small cities in europe have bigger populations than the whole of nz.
thats the markets they are playing for.

[Squiggles]

Think about when your driving at night in town how it can be really difficult to see white lines and direction arrows and so forth, then think about that at 200+ kph!

You dont have to go 200+ , just a bit faster than the other guy

[Duke girl]

Maybe they need to think twice about running another night meeting if conditions are going to play a major part in a race meeting being cancelled due to Mother Nature being at her worst.
It effects so many like Race Teams, Riders and Sponsors, and also spectators and others who are involved heavely in putting together the Moto GP.
At least when they hold meetings during the day and the weather is poor they still manage to get out there and race by having wet weather tyres on their bikes and calling it a wet race meet.

[NZsarge]

You dont have to go 200+ , just a bit faster than the other guy

Ha ha, that's exactly what the other guy is thinking...

[NZsarge]

Maybe they need to think twice about running another night meeting if conditions are going to play a major part in a race meeting being cancelled due to Mother Nature being at her worst.
It effects so many like Race Teams, Riders and Sponsors, and also spectators and others who are involved heavely in putting together the Moto GP.
At least when they hold meetings during the day and the weather is poor they still manage to get out there and race by having wet weather tyres on their bikes and calling it a wet race meet.

I understand they run at Losail at night due to the heat, I reckon they should flag that scene altogether and race at Hampton Downs...

[Duke girl]

I understand they run at Losail at night due to the heat, I reckon they should flag that scene altogether and race at Hampton Downs...

That would be Awesome if that ever happen so until it does all we can do is dream about it.

[nico]

Or they could just not run races under lights(stupid bloody idea anyway)Imagine being one of the poor saps in the grandstand.

they run under light's because of the super high temptures during the day i beleive it up near 30deg at night but suck id be pissed paying for a ticket 2 cee nufing