Phillip Island, Australia | WSBK 2013

Do you have an MV Triple now?

 

Its a good thing that Chaz is this fast early in the weekend....

 

From Soup:

Holy Shit! If Carlos Wrecka says it was the biggest highside of his career.....that must have been a BIG highside. Did the bike land in the ocean?

 

Looks like Suzuki might not totally suck this year. Poor Steeltoe, he's gonna stroke out.

 

Im taking Melandri. He went full dumbass and gave the title away last year.

 

And Dorna wants to fuck with the formula. They need to keep their damn hands off WSBK

 

I feel this is an inaccurate assessment. It can't keep going the way it's going, the grid size keeps diminishing in World SBK as well. It doesn't have anything to do with Dorna trying to strip World SBK. It's just not financially feasible to keep going the way that they're going.

 

Same here , I was locked and ready to mess with all my my suk/honda/kaw riding friends too. Then I had to watch him give it away.

 

Did you say that in a Charlton Heston voice?

-jim

 

hope aprilia has a good showing

 

Looks like Fabrizio will highlight them, one way or another.

-jim

 

Lowes threw down a pretty impressive lap - look at where it would stand in the Superbike QP1 times!


1. Michel Fabrizio (Red Devils Roma) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1'31.317
2. Eugene Laverty (Aprilia Racing Team) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1'31.392
3. Marco Melandri (BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK) BMW S1000 RR 1'31.539
4. Leon Camier (Fixi Crescent Suzuki) Suzuki GSX-R1000 1'31.608
5. Chaz Davies (BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK) BMW S1000 RR 1'31.638
6. Leon Haslam (Pata Honda World Superbike) Honda CBR1000RR 1'31.687
7. Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) Kawasaki ZX-10R 1'31.754
8. Davide Giugliano (Althea Racing) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1'31.793
9. Sylvain Guintoli (Aprilia Racing Team) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1'31.863
10. Jonathan Rea (Pata Honda World Superbike) Honda CBR1000RR 1'31.884
11. Jamie Stauffer (Team Honda Racing) Honda CBR1000RR 1'31.984
12. Carlos Checa (Team Ducati Alstare) Ducati Panigale 1199 1'32.063
13. Max Neukirchner (MR-Racing) Ducati Panigale 1199 1'32.243
14. Glen Allerton (Next Gen Motorsports) BMW S1000 RR 1'32.352
15. Loris Baz (Kawasaki Racing Team) Kawasaki ZX-10R 1'32.497
16. Ayrton Badovini (Team Ducati Alstare) Ducati Panigale 1199 1'32.540

1. Sam Lowes (Yakhnich Motorsport) Yamaha YZF R6 1'32.545

17. Ivan Clementi (HTM Racing) BMW S1000 RR 1'32.757
18. Jules Cluzel (Fixi Crescent Suzuki) Suzuki GSX-R1000 1'32.801
19. Federico Sandi (Team Pedercini) Kawasaki ZX-10R 1'32.898
20. Vittorio Iannuzzo (Grillini Dentalmatic SBK) BMW S1000 RR 1'33.082
21. Alexander Lundh (Team Pedercini) Kawasaki ZX-10R 1'33.305

 

Simon Buckmaster must be fuming at the moment.

-jim

 

No, but I wish I did! I'll have to settle for racing my 2010 F4 :P The triple would definitely be easier on the tires, but the F4 has more parts available. Either of them is a slight step up from my K5 GSXR 750.

 

I think the bike is helping quite a bit with that. Lowes is fast, but he's not that much faster than Kenan on equal equipment.

 

I will admit it was nice to see a bunch of R6's at the top.

-jim

 

:up:

 

Repost, I know. But if you missed it in another thread, from the facetubes:

-jim

 

Damn. Lowes is 1.2s back on the SBK leader, and 2nd fastest SS rider is 1.1s behind Lowes.

 

Oh...that's too bad. If you ever see me at the same track day as you....just pack up and leave. I say this to spare you the destruction of your bike not to say I don't want to be on the track with you.

You see, I've only seen 3 MV F4's at the same track day I was at. All 3 of them came back completely wadded up.