MotoAmerica NJMP April 30-May 1 Official Thread!!

Is Corey Alexander 7ft tall? Dude looks like he's riding a Grom

 

Props to Christy Lee. Between her show on Velocity, working the Barrett Jackson auctions, and BEIN Sports, i think she does a great job.
She was a trooper today...and yeah I know she's the GF of some dude on here.

 

Yup. That bike was pouring oil no doubt. Musta smashed the side cover/case when girl high sided and the bike slammed the ground.

 

I thought he was gona use Herrin as a lapel pin! Looked like Stretch Armstrong legs & arms everywhere!

 

That wasn't a super bike, that was actually Caroline Olsen's 600 SSTK bike , she's the chick from Norway (I think) who got nailed in that HUGE 600 Supersport start crash at Road America like 2 years ago.

Just about. Everytime I'd see him at NJMP when he tucks in going down the front straight he picks his butt up and sits up on the tail of the bike with it so his back doesn't hump up too much lol.

 

So does Pegram get a couple of podiums and then let go? Or will he stay on with the Superbike and Lewis runs the STK bike in addition to him?

 

Larry got paid to fill in on the Superbike for one weekend while we figured out what we were going to do next. That was the deal, up front. He did a great job and earned some decent bonus money on top of being paid to ride and getting his expenses covered.(But for some bizarre reason he didn't actually get to stand on the podium.)

But the glamor of running a Superbike program isn't all it's cracked up to be and unless something big happens, I don't want to do it any more. It costs too much and dealing with the electronics is just too much of a PITA.

 

Larry did well but Corti finished 3rd in both races (plus first in SS) so he got double podiums

 

I hate using cell phones for stuff like this

 

<?> WTF??

 

So wait I'm lost cam b is superbike what class was eslick and what class was corti and gillam ?

 

Nope wanst Olsen... It was Chimi..... Ricardo Valdez..... Sucks too because he was on fire that weekend and kicked Ass up to that point....

 

Eslick, Corti and Gillim are on Superstock 1000 machines. The scoring is sort of weird. The STK1000 class is scored separately for those bikes. The really strange part is that the SBK riders have to complete with the STK1000 riders for their points but not the other way around.

Pegram was the 3rd SBK over the finish line, but since he was 4th overall, he gets credited with 4th place points in Superbike. Corti was 3rd place overall and 1st in STK1000, so he gets 3rd place points in SBK and 1st place points in STK1000. There is a thread on here somewhere where this scoring system was debated.

 

Actually she got collected in the pile up. Suffered a badly broken upper arm.

http://www.roadracingworld.com/news...otorcycle-ama-pro-road-races-at-road-america/

 

From 2013.

 

I was there yesterday and to me it looked corti gillam eslick then herrin in sstk so how did pegram get 3rd they should keep them separate makes more sense that way !

 

If they have separate class they should have separate scoring and podiums, like they do w the 600s. Pretty sure they aren't following FIM on this deal.

 

John, you still in Joisey or back on the Commie coast?

 

There's a separate thread on this. I think the consensus was that they want/need to penalize the Superbike riders for being beaten by Superstock bikes, or the separate classes really loses its purpose.

And I understand their thinking on this point. The 2nd (and beyond) place Superstock riders shouldn't be at a points disadvantage simply because the top Superstock rider put a few superbikes between himself and 2nd place. There is a much more reasonable argument to be made that the Superbike riders should be penalized for allowing someone on inferior equipment to beat them.

 

I think the discussion is on the podium deal, not the points.
They do an O/A podium and then a separate SSTK podium, so, even though LP was the 3rd superbike rider, he was 4th O/A and 1st SSTK rider was 3rd O/A and got to stand on the podium twice.