2011 200 Raceday Discussion - Spoilers Galore!

What a great race! I enjoyed reading through it here a ton more than watching Speed's regular programming. What an epic fail in every way.

I'm pulling the Dunlops off my riding mower.

 

Did I call it?

"Talk of protests are flying like paper plates at a picnic on a windy day."

 

DiSalvo? None.

 

I did become a fan of Bostjan Skubic if nothing else.

 

I saw no bi-winning, only tri-losing from Dunlop, DMG, and Speed. I think Eslick got a raw deal compared with our 'winner'.

Does this mean they are cutting tonight's Superbike race coverage to show the end of the Clusterf*ck 200. Seriously I could tear some verbal ass over at Speed. I just wanna drive a Nascrap truck straight through headquarters and cut the chord on rerun filled weekend programing.:down:

 

The rest of the world's bike racing organizations must be laughing their ass's off at us right now. How did AMA/DMG manage to become such a clusterf@#% ? :wow:


Speed channel

Dunlop :tut:

DMG :down:

 

The AMA/DMG is a F*****G JOKE! That is all.

Robert

 

It is sad because the riders and teams are working their asses off and the on track racing is really good.

 

Hmmmm, didn't get to see all of it but sounds like another clusterf@ck.

 

The on track racing was great. But the way everything else was run was a joke.

 

I thought I was back at the Moto-ST race.

 

At this point I don't have much venom for DMG. Well, at least not in this case. Okay, cutting the race was ass but still.

Now Dunlop? They f@cked up and f@cked up BIG. No, make that f@cked up EPIC!

Just, wow. That was Michelin F1 @ Indy EPIC.

 

I got some pics of fans asleep in the stands during the "longest Red Flag in the history of the world".

 

I should have called this. Elena Myers said something about tire issues on her bike in RRW in testing and looks like the new surface caught them with their pants down indeed. No excuse.

 

holy shit though what an epic finish
I think there were something like 4 leader changes every lap!?
Disalvo stood up out of the horse shoe with like 4 to go like something was wrong and let like 5 bike by.....then sat down and turned the hammer on.

the wait SUUUUUCKED in the stands so thanks to DMG, Dunlopgay for the sun burn on my face.
But holy cow it was epic racing all 15 laps. That wreck down the straight at the end was chilling to see.

 

the long red flag was due to a MANDATORY front tire change for everyone on the grid.......
but what I cant figure out is....
everyone has 2 scheduled stops remaining....no one had a front tire ready to go!? Everyone had to go to dunlop for a tire change?

 

They probably had the softer compound that was causing the problem so they had to go to Dunlop to get the harder compound would be my guess.

 

They made everyone go to a medium compound. Russell said that they were "going to a softer compound". That implies that they were all on hards. How going to a softer compound is supposed to alleviate tire chunking is beyond me.

 

Two warm up laps was kinda strange. I would think the tires would cool off too much.

 

well there were guys that had to start the sighting as soon as the front was put on the bike...no time for warmers. So they did one sighting lap and 2 warp ups