World SBK | ROUND 01 | Yamaha Finance Australian Round | 28 FEB - 01 MAR

The gap has definitely been closed. The Honda especially with someone like Haslam or Bautista on it is going to be very fast top speed wise. Makes for much better racing. I sure hope it's a season full of battles.

 

Bautista was fastest through the traps at 203. He was also fastest last year. He's a midget. Honda is making good power. All in the last 4 or 5k.

 

welp, “atar” world superbike has now been postponed

 

What happened to Toprak's bike in race 2?

 

Ran out of gas. Like Spies.

 

How the hell do they run out of gas?

 

That's a question for the factory Yamaha team.

 

Didn't he bow out with 4 to go?

So like 15-20% miscalculation?

 

Cause you can’t tell the Italians they’re wrong. So you fire them all and bring over your AMA SBK crew. Oh ya. Spies also lost a rearset in South Africa.

 

Rea knocking back million Euros a year. Smart move Kawasaki staying out of MotoGP.

https://www.gpone.com/en/2020/02/29...ion-euros-because-they-only-do-superbike.html

 

same thing Mladin did. He was winning lots of championships and making tons of money here instead of going off to Europe on an unknown challenge.

 

Huh. I honestly thought he made a little more than that. I realize he’s probably doubling that number with other endorsements and race wins etc. but I figured with all his championships it would be between 2 and 5.

 

“ More than €1 million“

 

It’s another team manager saying what he’s making, no way he knows for sure exactly what his contract spells out...Kawasaki is clearly pleased with their return on investment with him.