2009 World Superbike Round 2 - Qatar (Race 1+2 Spoilers)

[Jester]

but only exciting for that accomplishment...

not the actual racing.

Last season with Haga and Bayliss swapping paint multiple times on the last few laps was more exciting IMO.

Maybe Ben should slow it down a little....for the sake of the 'show'

Yeah maybe Ben should phone Rossi and discuss how to manage races like Rossi did back in the 990 era on his Honda.

[Spidey]

Martin's comment made sense to me.  Ideally, you want to play connect the dots as you go through a turn.  Use a dark patch for a mid-turn reference point, a scape as an exit point, or a bump as roll off point.  A smooth, new track limits your reference points, makes it hard to play connect-the-dots, and therefore more difficult to be consistent lap after lap.  

It depends what you mean by "features", I guess.

[gm2]

A smooth, new track limits your reference points, makes it hard to play connect-the-dots, and therefore more difficult to be consistent lap after lap.  

esp when the track is in the middle of the desert.  your triangulation options with random earth features are greatly limited.

[zooom]

Martin's comment made sense to me.  Ideally, you want to play connect the dots as you go through a turn.  Use a dark patch for a mid-turn reference point, a scape as an exit point, or a bump as roll off point.  A smooth, new track limits your reference points, makes it hard to play connect-the-dots, and therefore more difficult to be consistent lap after lap.  

It depends what you mean by "features", I guess.

in the same vein, I can also say that certain tracks where their are blind turns on a rise you use various tree's, flag posts, score tower, or other variant ground structuring as a reference point...like at Barber for example, after you come down the hill at 3 (sometimes called other turn numbers depending on who's there), you look uphill and the Scoring tower showing through at a specific point in my frame of reference lets me know I am on my line for where I should be after the blind crest....so I too understand that comment completely...you take reference information from everywhere.

[gm2]

i think i just said that ^^ 

[Spidey]

What you failed to mention, gm2, is that the featurelessness (is that a word?) of a new track is exacerbated when you have a desert track that limits your options for triangulating with natural features.






I crack myself up.   

[gm2]

nope, i didn't fail to mention that at all....  

[Triple J]

OK...so the WSBK races were good. But I just watched the 2nd WSS race. HOLY CRAP!!  That was a great race...and a spectacular finish!! 

Speed must have only aired race 2 as it's all my DVR got...I'm going to have to RU race 1.

[OT_Ducati]

think you can watch it at wsbk now

[flanman]

They need to cut back on the whole Ben Spies domination commentary... Yeah he did great not trying to take that away from him but it seemed like every second there was a "Big Ben or Texas Two Step" thrown in by Greene or Martin.

[gm2]

Greene has some connection to texas...

[Spidey]

Greene has some connection to texas...

He said he grew up/lived there and went to college there?  But he tawks like a gawdamd furner. 

[ducpainter]

He said he grew up/lived there and went to college there?  But he tawks like a gawdamd furner. 

You talk like a lawyer...

and we don't hold that against you...