2010 MotoGP Round 14-Motegi (SPOILERS!)

[zooom]

1 Valentino Rossi Fiat Yamaha Yamaha 1:48.174
2 Andrea Dovizioso Repsol Honda Honda 1:48.387
3 Jorge Lorenzo Fiat Yamaha Yamaha 1:48.474
4 Casey Stoner Ducati Marlboro Ducati 1:48.481
5 Ben Spies Tech 3 Yamaha Yamaha 1:49.302
6 Hiroshi Aoyama Interwetten Honda MotoGP Honda 1:49.357
7 Colin Edwards II Tech 3 Yamaha Yamaha 1:49.377
8 Hector Barbera Paginas Amarillas Aspar Ducati 1:49.544
9 Loris Capirossi Rizla Suzuki Suzuki 1:49.568
10 Marco Simoncelli San Carlo Honda Gresini Honda 1:49.581
11 Marco Melandri San Carlo Honda Gresini Honda 1:49.620
12 Alvaro Bautista Rizla Suzuki Suzuki 1:49.644
13 Nicky Hayden Ducati Marlboro Ducati 1:49.882
14 Randy De Puniet LCR Honda Honda 1:49.957
15 Aleix Espargaro Pramac Racing Ducati 1:50.158
16 Mika Kallio Pramac Racing Ducati 1:55.746


Honda's Dani Pedrosa crashed just a few minutes into the session and broke his left collarbone. With three races in three weekends and still a mathematical yet distant chance at the world title, Pedrosa's crash comes at a very bad time in the season.

Pedrosa's injury is described as "multiple fractures" of the collarbone, exacerbating a quick recovery.

Spies and Hayden suffered small crashes in the session with Spies landing hard on his elbow and Hayden binning after suffering a mechanical issue.

courtesy of http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2010/Oct/101001b.htm

[zooom]

BTW...that is FP1

oh and while I am at it...Speed TV schedule for this round is as follows ( according to their website as of this posting)

Live broadcast is 2:00am EST for the GP race
SDD Broadcast of the GP race is 2:00pm EST
SDD Broadcast of the Moto2 race is 3:00pm EST

to be followed by WSBK Magny Cours finale round broadcasts for races 1 & 2 at 4:00pm EST and 5pm EST.

[Rameses]

Psst...

Round 13 was at Aragon 2 weeks ago.

[zooom]

Psst...

Round 13 was at Aragon 2 weeks ago.

thanks...my bad...updated...

[duccarlos]

I'm surprised no one has posted abour Pedrosa's accident and breaking his collarbone.

[El Matador]

Nice to see Rossi back on top, if only for FP1

Well that sucks for Thumbelina. But it sucks more for Lorenzo. I wonder how long till the idiots start saying that he was "Gifted" the championship when all of his competition injured itself.

[duccarlos]

Well that sucks for Thumbelina. But it sucks more for Lorenzo. I wonder how long till the idiots start saying that he was "Gifted" the championship when all of his competition injured itself.

Apparently not very long.

[El Matador]

Apparently not very long.

Update on Pedrosa:

Repsol Honda rider Dani Pedrosa crashed in the first practice session at Motegi today and broke his collarbone in multiple spots.

It is expected that he will miss the Japanese Grand Prix and possibly the next Grand Prix on the schedule as well.

http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2010/Oct/101001a.htm

[zooom]

I'm surprised no one has posted abour Pedrosa's accident and breaking his collarbone.

1st post I mentioned it....or are you more saying in terms of just general comments?

Well that sucks for Thumbelina. But it sucks more for Lorenzo. I wonder how long till the idiots start saying that he was "Gifted" the championship when all of his competition injured itself.

I'll bet he already thinks it....he said something to that effect a couple/few months back when he said he hated winning the championship by default (loosely paraphrasing from when Rossi was out)...

and yes...it sucks for any rider to be hurt, regardless of whether liked or not...especially moreso in the incredibly shrinking grid that is MotoGP...I kinda wanted him to win and Jorge bin it so that Jorge had to earn it...

[zooom]

more of an update on Smurfy

returns to Spain for surgury and is out for Sepang as well

http://motomatters.com/news/2010/10/01/pedrosa_returns_to_spain_for_surgery_out.html

and a throttle glitch maybe the cause...

http://motomatters.com/news/2010/10/01/throttle_glitch_cause_of_pedrosa_s_moteg.html

[Rameses]

and a throttle glitch maybe the cause...

He has a history of throttle glitches.


http://www.vbox7.com/play:5c75f26f?r=google

[Speeddog]

Crap, sleep for a couple hours and all the suspense goes out of the chase. 

[Speeddog]

Ow.

I figured he wouldn't make it through the season uninjured, but it still sucks.
Heal up quick, little guy.



Borrowed from Crash http://www.crash.net/2010+motogp/large_picture/675169.html

[ducpainter]

Nice to see Rossi back on top, if only for FP1

Well that sucks for Thumbelina. But it sucks more for Lorenzo. I wonder how long till the idiots start saying that he was "Gifted" the championship when all of his competition injured itself.

I'll be that guy.

Dani was closing hard on Jorge.

...and the fact that Ducati took the real bikes to Aragon didn't help.

Jorge didn't have it sewn up until Dani was put out of commission.

[duccarlos]

I believe I read that people thought he hurt his leg. You can't see it from the picture below, but he supposedly got his leg caught under the bike.