ROUND 01|Yamaha Finance Australian Round|22 - 24 FEB

West Coast elitist...I’m 55, live on the east coast, and am struggling to stay awake past 10pm.

 

Race 1.....about to go green

 

Bowling Bau into the lead on lap 1.



The Kawi's are dicing for 2nd and Bautista is steadily walking away at the front....hopefully he's not eating his tires up by doing so but looks like he's doing almost a second a lap gap so far.

 

Bau is gone! Damn

 

13 laps to go....Camier just crashed....Kiyo back in 16th, not a good start for Honder. Haslam and Rea still trading 2nd.....Bau is 7 seconds clear.

 

Haslam just crashed out of 2nd.... Bautista 10 1/2 seconds gone.

For comparison Davies is still down in 9th, so its not like the bike is giving him much of an advantage.

Sykes just moved up into 4th, he's looking good on his new bike.

 

Bautista is going to be able to walk the bike to the finish line from the last turn.

 

Wonder if Lowes can get past Rea. So far he’s staying with him.

 

13 sec and counting wow

 

I'm not watching, but that sounds like total domination to me. Where is Chaz? If Alvaro is whooping on Chaz this badly, he's making the WSBK grid look pretty bad!

 

Hate to see Chaz still down in P9. Hopefully he’ll figure out the V4 soon.

 

Damn, Sykes' Beemer is painfully down on power.

 

I wonder if Barni racing is thinking it was a bad idea to let Fores go.

 

I take that back. Rinaldi just passed Chaz.

 

Holy shit, that was one hell of a smack-down. Really didn’t think Bautista would be that strong. Damn!

 

Melandri 3rd

 

Race 1

1 - Bau

about 14-15 seconds back

2 - Rea
3 - Melandri

 

Wow that was a big gap....

 

Guess that might silence all the calls for Rea to go to GP. He got it handed to him by what was a mid pack rider.

 

That was impressive!