POLE POSITION: Left LENGTH: 5.403 Km CORNERS: 14 RIGHT CORNERS: 8 LEFT CORNERS: 6 I had to dig through the last few years of results to figure out that World SBK has not been to Brno since 2012. Race 1 podium
It's also been since right around Brno 2012 that BMW did anything significant in WSBK I'm curious to see if Van Der Mark becomes a consistent threat. I bet he'll have a whole lot more confident after doing the double last time out.
Rinaldi’s Ducati went boom and stopped FP3. Gagne and Jacobsen are at the bottom of the timing sheet.
The Honda’s are not showing well, but Camier was able to get his into 9th in FP3 and he’s 8 tenths off of Rea in first. As long as Camier is riding the wheels off the bike, Jake and PJ will be expected to narrow that gap.
Congratulations to Lowes on his first Superbike win! What a crash fest from the fast guys. Sykes crash was weird as he was down the instant he touched the throttle. Failed TC or bad TC map? Gagne rode a decent race as was only 7 seconds back from Camier over an 18 lap race. That is only about 0.4 seconds per lap. Less if you count the deficit at the start due to grid position. PJ was only a couple of seconds behind that. It is progress. The fact Melandri and Sykes could only manage 15th and 16th after remounting shows how tight the grid is.
Friggin electricity went out for 5 minutes. By the time my receiver rebooted and went through it process I was only able to catch the 1st 2 laps then the the last 5. Missed the crashes .
^ Get a UPS battery backup, about $60 from Office Depot or wherever. With all the t-storms in Fl and flickering/momentary power outages this has saved my sanity countless times.
Just watched the SS race and it was pretty good. I like Cluzel and his chicken hat wearing fans. Did Sykes take out Rea? Didn't hear much about it after the race but it sure looked like he knocked down his own teammate. That dude seems like a dick.