Donington Park, UK | WSBK 2012 (Spoilers)

Just watched WSBK 2002 Imola Edwards vs Bayliss (race 2) again.


I F@CKIN LOVE MOTORCYCLE RACING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Definitely the move of a fighter. Good on Haslam - would like to have seen a better outcome for him.

But Sykes on the box twice over is a-okay, too :up:

Unbelievable Race 2!

 

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Gotta agree with you on that one...Rea's move was certainly aggressive and aside from that last incident, overall both races were really exciting to watch!!
Bummer for BMW though. At least they didn't go home empty handed...

 

I will, in its entirety. May even post it early. And I did ask him about Biaggi during the grid walk.

Scheduled to talk with Leon Monday eve UK time. Apparently Sunday eve Hodgson, Corser, he and Jonny (and others) all went out to dinner and drinks and had a great time, so tempers defused.

-jim

 

What the hell. Note that this is fully unedited. Use VLC and knock it to mono for better sound.

http://extras.motopodcast.com/James.Whitham.Dony.WSBK.2012.wma

-jim

 

Some of the best racing I've seen in a long time....MotoGP? What's that? :up:

 

Thanks for the link. That's another reason I enjoy eurosports coverage. The announcers are good. When Whitham and Burnicle do the race it's usually pretty good and you can expect to hear Burnicle just stop commentating and start yelling when the racing is very close.

A few races back (not sure if it was WSBK or BSB) he wasn't saying words at one point just yelling WAAAAAAAAAHHH!!

Ryder and Moody are the best imo when it comes to motogp feeds.

 

thanks for that!

his take on Melandri's girl is priceless

i'd be interested in his (and anyone else involved in BSB) opinion of the new crash-and-you're-done rule in BSB. that sort of thing would really have affected, say, Josh Hayes at Infineon...

 

MSS released Hickman for riding the Suzuki without permission at Donnington.

http://www.crash.net/british+superbikes/news/179710/1/kawasaki_releases_hickman.html

 

The rider or the owner?

 

I hereby proclaim SBK race 2 of the WSBK European round at Donnington to be:

ONE OF THE GREATEST DING DONG BATTLES OF ALL TIME.

 

With Hopper's track record lately, perhaps he thinks he's going to get plenty of opportunities to ride????

 

denning tweeted that he isn't paid and has no contract

 

In the statement from MSS Kawi, there was an allusion to a contract being a "written agreement or a handshake". Makes you wonder if it was the later. Either way, it was a pretty poor judgement to not even apprise the team of his intentions.