WSBK | Phillip Island | AUS | Feb 23 -25, 2018

That Duc looks really fun to ride weaving side to side down the front straight.

I like Troy's shoes.

 

Race 1 flag drops in 15 minutes

 

Where can you watch it?

 

I've got Sykes.

 

I miss seeing Nicky Hayden out there....

 

SPOILER for race 1



















1 -Melandri
2 - Sykes
3 - Davies
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12 - Gagne
16 - Jacobsen

 

Same. Won't be forgetting #69 every WSBK race I watch.

But go Jake! Good solid finish for a new move. Happy to see him out there and running well.

 

Melandri earned that one!

 

He did. That was an good start for the season. Looking forward to race two and WSS tomorrow.

 

What happened to Rea?

 

Tire or bike problems. He's lucky he didn't drop further.

 

I'm guessing he burnt up his rear tire because he kept looking back at it. They said he was the slowest rider on track a couple laps from the finish. Given how his rear tire blew up on him at Donnington a while back I can see how a shaky feeling rear tire would make him get gun-shy.

 

Solid full time debut for Jake. About 7 seconds off from Camier over race distance isn't bad with all things considered. Can't wait to see how he does as time goes on.

I do miss Nicky though

 

Fyi, the Go90 app worked perfectly. Was even in h.d. excited I can watch the races finally and even better there's a couple of good Americans racing.

 

Idk how Melandri could continuously stay in the gas and brake with the way the Duc wobbled by the end of the straight.. props to him, great race

 

What the hell was that?

 

Maybe a trade-off in the triples offset for handling vs stability? It looked ultra uncomfortable.. borderline almost violent lol

 

They kept talking about the new rear tire he was using too.

 

It was literally ridiculous looking seeing Syke and Melandri side by side going down the front straight and the differences between how the Kawi and Duc looked.

 

Compulsory pit stops for race 2 due to tire wear concerns.