It's been over a month now that I've not had my Moto2 fix, I'm going into withdrawals, watching replays of past races. I can't wait for next sunday.
13 August 2010
125ccFP1
12:40 - 13:40
MotoGPFP1
13:55 - 14:55
Moto2FP1
15:10 - 16:10
14 August 2010
125ccFP2
09:00 - 09:40
MotoGPFP2
09:55 - 10:55
Moto2FP2
11:10 - 12:10
125ccQP
13:00 - 13:40
MotoGPQP
13:55 - 14:55
Moto2QP
15:10 - 15:55
15 August 2010
125ccWUP
08:40 - 09:00
Moto2WUP
09:10 - 09:30
MotoGPWUP
09:40 - 10:00
125ccRAC
11:00
Moto2RAC
12:15
MotoGPRAC
14:00
Predictions?
Mine are:
Lorenzo
Vale
Dovi
Woot! [moto] [moto] [moto]
Let's hope our long wait is finally over ;D
FP1
1. Jorge Lorenzo ESP Fiat Yamaha Team 1m 57.215s
2. Dani Pedrosa ESP Repsol Honda Team 1m 57.756s
3. Valentino Rossi ITA Fiat Yamaha Team 1m 57.821s
4. Andrea Dovizioso ITA Repsol Honda Team 1m 57.873s
5. Nicky Hayden USA Ducati Marlboro Team 1m 58.286s
6. Colin Edwards USA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 1m 58.497s
7. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati Marlboro Team 1m 58.532s
8. Marco Simoncelli ITA San Carlo Honda Gresini 1m 58.840s
9. Ben Spies USA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 1m 58.970s
10. Alvaro Bautista ESP Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 1m 59.204s
11. Loris Capirossi ITA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 1m 59.216s
12. Aleix Espargaro ESP Pramac Racing 1m 59.254s
13. Mika Kallio FIN Pramac Racing 1m 59.289s
14. Marco Melandri ITA San Carlo Honda Gresini 1m 59.510s
15. Hector Barbera ESP Paginas Amarillas Aspar 1m 59.910s
16. Randy de Puniet FRA LCR Honda MotoGP 2m 0.184s
17. Alex de Angelis RSM Interwetten Honda MotoGP 2m 1.098s
Apparently the session started to get wet toward the end, so the times aren't that reliable. 'cept for the part where George destroyed everyone. Yet again.
Good to see that the new front end is doing sumptin' for Colin.
Quote from: Spidey on August 13, 2010, 09:39:55 AM
Apparently the session started to get wet toward the end, so the times aren't that reliable. 'cept for the part where George destroyed everyone. Yet again.
Good to see that the new front end is doing sumptin' for Colin.
;D ;D ;D
Is it supposed to be raining all weekend?
weather.com says 80% chance of thunderstorms on Sunday
http://www.weather.com/weather/weekend/EZXX0002 (http://www.weather.com/weather/weekend/EZXX0002)
What happens if it rains? Does the race go on as planned?
Quote from: NoisyDante on August 13, 2010, 02:27:50 PM
What happens if it rains? Does the race go on as planned?
Yep
I seem to recall pedrobot not liking the rain particularly much.
I doubt he'll place well.
Rain is the great equalizer. Some guys that are usually in the back do well in rain.
Quote from: NoisyDante on August 13, 2010, 02:27:50 PM
What happens if it rains? Does the race go on as planned?
It literally takes a hurricane to cancel or stop early a motogp race (Indy 2008).
mitt
Quote from: El Matador on August 13, 2010, 02:32:03 PM
I seem to recall pedrobot not liking the rain particularly much.
I doubt he'll place well.
that is true. but it's also true that he has gotten over that a lot in the last 2 seasons.
Quote from: mitt on August 13, 2010, 02:47:54 PM
It literally takes a hurricane to cancel or stop early a motogp race (Indy 2008).
mitt
there were some moments there i thought the grandstand was gonna come down
Quote from: gm2 on August 13, 2010, 06:43:51 PM
that is true. but it's also true that he has gotten over that a lot in the last 2 seasons.
You might even say that he has
grown quite a lot.... Or not.
QP
1. Dani Pedrosa ESP Repsol Honda Team 1m 56.508s
2. Ben Spies USA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 1m 56.846s
3. Jorge Lorenzo ESP Fiat Yamaha Team 1m 56.865s
4. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati Marlboro Team 1m 56.868s
5. Valentino Rossi ITA Fiat Yamaha Team 1m 57.059s
6. Andrea Dovizioso ITA Repsol Honda Team 1m 57.117s
7. Colin Edwards USA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 1m 57.222s
8. Nicky Hayden USA Ducati Marlboro Team 1m 57.635s
9. Hector Barbera ESP Paginas Amarillas Aspar 1m 57.960s
10. Loris Capirossi ITA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 1m 57.981s
11. Randy de Puniet FRA LCR Honda MotoGP 1m 58.089s
12. Marco Simoncelli ITA San Carlo Honda Gresini 1m 58.169s
13. Mika Kallio FIN Pramac Racing 1m 58.182s
14. Marco Melandri ITA San Carlo Honda Gresini 1m 58.43s
15. Alex de Angelis RSM Interwetten Honda MotoGP 1m 58.522s
16. Aleix Espargaro ESP Pramac Racing 1m 58.700s
Lorenzo and Fiat Yamaha team-mate Valentino Rossi both finished the session on foot, having crashed out in separate incidents in the closing stages.
Lorenzo fell first, lowsiding from his factory M1, which then skipped across the gravel and vaulted onto the top of a tyre barrier.
The Spaniard was unharmed and briskly walked to his machine to switch off the engine, in an attempt to limit any engine damage.
Rossi's accident was less spectacular, the Italian slipping off after losing the front into the final chicane.
The reigning seven time MotoGP champion, who broke his leg in June, was visibly furious with the error which has left him fifth on the grid.
Meanwhile, Rossi's rumoured 2011 replacement Ben Spies had led the Yamaha challenge for much of the second half of the session, first taking pole with 17 minutes to go, then putting his Monster Yamaha Tech 3 back on top with five minutes remaining.
The MotoGP rookie, who won a World Superbike race at Brno last season, was eventually denied pole by a last-minute lunge from Pedrosa, which put the Repsol Honda rider 0.338sec clear for his third pole of the season.
Spies in 2nd...
Fingers crossed for an interesting GP.
Woot! Go the Ben! Maybe it will be an interesting race after all, I read somewhere that Yamaha had thrown a coule of factory parts to Colin and Ben over the break. I sure hope Rossi didn't injure his leg further, the Jorge-haters will have a field day if he did
Quote from: El Matador on August 14, 2010, 07:30:59 AM
I sure hope Rossi didn't injure his leg further, the Jorge-haters will have a field day if he did
His right leg barely touched the tarmac in the crash. It was a pretty uninteresting left hand low side. He was pissed because he was .088 off the pace and probably had a front row spot with that lap.
One worry I have is that Spies wasn't terribly consistent, still great effort.
The other thing to note is the potential for surprises, given how many folks crashed during the very end of practice. Lorenzo and Rossi looked to be close to the pole pace but then, bam.
Like I said, fingers crossed for an interesting GP. The magic 8-ball says "signs point to yes" [thumbsup]
can someone tell Ben it's OK to smile when he gets on the front row in a GP.
Maybe he thinks the blank/race face thingy works for Pedro-bot so maybe if he tries it too it might work for him. [laugh] When he raced AMA SBK I always thought he should use some of that big contract money and buy a personality. When he went to WSBK and got on the world stage he seemed to open up more and actually joked around.
I thought is was a fairly boring race, other than Casey blowing by Ben.
Quote from: kopfjäger on August 15, 2010, 07:20:37 AM
I thought is was a fairly boring race, other than Casey blowing by Ben.
+1 Not too interesting, would love for Lorenzo to actually have some competition.
OTOH, the Moto2 race was an absolute cracker. ;D
YAWN.
Still haven't watched moto2 yet though.
Quote from: ducpainter on August 15, 2010, 04:13:43 AM
can someone tell Ben it's OK to smile when he gets on the front row in a GP.
If that were Pedro, you guys would be calling him names and ripping him a new hole. Spies is kind of boring in the same fashion to be honest. I don't even recall him smiling when he took off his helmet at the end of QP. Maybe he spent too much time alongside Mladin in AMA.
The difference is that spies is humble and thusly comes across as a reserved, hard working man. Pedrosa is cocky, so he just comes across as an asshole
Quote from: Jester on August 15, 2010, 08:48:47 AM
<snip> Maybe he spent too much time alongside Mladin in AMA.
Any time next to Mladin is too much.
Quote from: El Matador on August 15, 2010, 10:33:20 AM
The difference is that spies is humble and thusly comes across as a reserved, hard working man. Pedrosa is cocky, so he just comes across as an asshole
I understand Ben is a reserved kind of guy, but great champions have some flair.
He needs to go find some or he'll get the robot ribbing too.
I guess you do have a point there. And while we're on the subject, Lorenzo's celebration failed pretty hard.
He's no Tiger.
That race was boring. It looked promising for the first few laps, then not so much.
Lorenzo looks unstoppable this year. He hasn't made a single mistake.
And those Suzukis suck ass. Suzuki is behind three or four privateer squads in the manufacturers standings.
Moto2 was some good racing. It didn't have the oh-so-frequent last lap heroics, but it was a great race to watch until Elias checked out toward the end. Man, Elias was bangin' fairings the first third of the race.
Quote from: Spidey on August 17, 2010, 07:14:44 AM
And those Suzukis suck ass. Suzuki is behind three or four privateer squads in the manufacturers standings.
It’s sort of amazing how far they’ve come since the 2007 bike. Not in a good way.
Quote from: Spidey on August 17, 2010, 07:15:39 AM
Man, Elias was bangin' fairings the first third of the race.
Where was it, Assen?, where he was waving other riders on mid-corner? Insane. I know he’s trying to get back into GP but moto2 sure as hell fits him well. …no pun intended