Round 8 - MotoAmerica at the Brickyard

For 10k a pop I'd warm it up and eat it straight off the exhaust can.

 

Damn! That's a big chunk of change!

 

I’m pretty sure you didn’t pick up on his sarcasm when he said that.

 

There were so many yellow shirt facility workers there, it has to be a lot. I’ve never seen so many track personnel before and someone has to pay their wages... the county health order restricting fans had to be tough news for MA. It was an awesome track to ride and if there was ever a way to do a WERA round there, I’m in, no question.

 

Yeah, I wish you had been able to make it. There were a lot of people to race with and I think the high speed nature of the track helped equalize things for those of us who didn’t grow up riding mini bikes on go kart tracks.

 

I think a lot of those dudes are volunteers. I could be wrong but I didn’t see one that wasn’t a few years into social security.

 

I went to a dealer meeting in Indy 3 years ago and the company rented out the place for a dinner party. They had some pro drivers giving people hot laps.

I'm sure it cost a pretty penny but I don't think it was outrageous.

 

Bobby Fong literally had his bike dialed for this track which showed the Suzuki’s strength off the turns. Loved it! Actually he’s been the guy this whole year with M4 Ecstar. I see room for improvement on his corner entry but man when he pulled the pin off the mid turn to exit that bike was a rocket!

As for that long front straight I really did not see all weekend a deficit of top speed for the Suzuki or the factory Yamaha’s against the full factory Ducati. When pinto bean passed he did use a lot of draft when close enough and was not a complete fly by off the turn coming onto long straight to T1.

The Ducati does win loudest bike award. Loud shit been done away with in SX and MX long time ago. BUT Loud pipes save lives.

 

Me too. I told my wife that's not a good look for the series. A guy who got whacked in the back by a motorcycle being asked to fold himself into a sports car.

 

With every class championship being wrapped up this weekend, Laguna Seca could be really fun to watch cuz they're all gonna be racing just for fun, not thinking of any championship points...at least not the top guys in every class.

 

I’m a bigger fan now. I love it. F the haters.

 

I think AZ was able to pass all of the Yamahas and Suzukis on the front straight over the course of the weekend. I don’t recall anyone drafting/passing AZ.

 

Look at the size difference. All the other riders on the Yamies and Zooks are small in comparison to Zennetti. He passed all the other bikes on the straight, draft or not. No one passed him, even with the draft.

 

I think I heard GW or JP say that Kyle's Ducati had the stock motor back in it for this weekend?

I wonder if Kyle will stick with the Ducati again next year. It seems like he's struggled with setup on it all year, and Celtic has kind of taken the Ducatisti flag away from him.

 

He said before that he has to much invested in the Ducati to switch to a superstock bike,so I would imagine the same goes for switching brands.

 

I wondered the same. Perhaps he can go back to the Yamaha R1?


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I didn't get the sense from the commentator's chatter that Ducati has swung it's resources behind Celtic so much as Celtic went out and paid for them.

 

Why would he stay with it. Hell he can buy a entire new R1 for what a swingarm costs on that thing. And he can't have a spare race motor that's stupid. Switch and save like the commercial says.

 

Agreed - I meant it more like KWR being the default team Ducati fans root for in MA. I don't think Ducati is giving anything to Celtic for free.

The bike has just seemed to be a headache for him this year - he's even said so himself in one of his videos that the V4 is a cruel mistress, or something to that effect. When his team gets the setup right it's awesome, but it seems like it has a narrow performance window.