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

Didn’t the Dicati engineers develop a 4 cylinder street bike that will rev higher than the competition? I thought the race rev limit was coorelated to the street rev limit so all is fair in that sense. Tough call to limit Ducati for using a design that has more potential. I said it on the book of faces too, but Wyman has to be pleased with how that Ducati is looking so far.

 

So what's the rest of the schedule this weekend?

 

That race was embarrassing for the rest of the field.
Bautista has a good chance of dominating this year, if the other Ducatis dont do well he wont get penalized with RPM limits, while Yamaha and Kawi might with several riders finishing high.

Warm up in 3 hours from now

 

Yes, because the street bike has the same rev limit. Kawasaki homologated a new ZX10RR and their rev limit is higher than last year as well. Fair game.

 

Milandri did the double, but the first race he won by less than 2 seconds and the second race he had to drag race Rea to the line.

I'm not going to say that Bautista will dominate this season, but I believe that he will be a very strong threat at every track that he raced last year on a GP bike.

Whether he wins the championship will be a tough call. Rea knows how to win championships and will podium on his worst days whereas AB19 will fight a struggling bike until he throws it down the road.

 

He's still on a GP bike.

 

WorldSBK.com says 8:00 PM EST for the next race according to the countdown clock.

 

Aren’t they doing like a 10 lap sprint race or some shit like that in between the 2 main races?

 

Yes, they are calling it the "Superpole Race" and it is the next race scheduled.
Followed by Supersport and then Superbike "Race 2"

 

Bikes are on the grid for the first "Superpole" race.

 

This SP race is odd. Top nine get points??

 

What is this crap. BEIN says race coverage from 8-12....there's some no name bullshit wrestling on?!

 

Was just going to post this!

 

The WSBK facebook page is showing snippets every few minutes.

Looks like a knife fight

 

it's on bein 6 streaming

 

Wow, Bautista is definitely getting under Rea’s skin by now.

 

Holy crap that was an all out sprint!

 

Yeah I just logged into BEIN connect to watch the end of the race.

 

That was good for awhile.......Looking like Rea will have a Bautista sized headache all season long.

Wow...Rea pretty much just gave up on race two.

 

FYI I just signed up for sling "world Sports" to get WSBK. You get 7 free days then its $10 a month.

Watching the whole race now, and can back up or fast forward