Mugello, Italy | MotoGP 2015 (Spoilers)

Words of wisdom. It really wasn't all that long ago that you would see plenty of riders getting lapped in the top tier. That's not happening, or not very often. The people you mention just happen to not be running as quick as their peers, and the grid needs to be full to provide the show. I don't want to go back to that.

-jim

 

Rossi's save today......like artwork


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO8BSqTDjjU

 

Cool, thx.

 

The best part was that he set his personal best lap time for the race that lap :wow:

 

Abruzzo must be a huge party right now!

 

Apparently ASPAR thinks so

"Teammate Nicky Hayden started with determination, gaining four places on the opening laps, and set a strong pace. The American had improved confidence thanks to a modification made before the race, and was ready to try to improve on his result from Le Mans. However, going through Turn 4 on the fourth lap of the race, another rider collided with him and he could not do anything to avoid a crash. He escaped unscathed, but was unable to finish the race."

And apparently Forward agrees!

"The race ended prematurely for his teammate Stefan Bradl. The German, who was the fastest Open until then, crashed during the third lap after he made contact with Hayden and was forced to retire."

 

If he only had had FOOT ANCHORS!!!!!

 

Had he had foot anchors the bike never would have even slid out. He could have reigned the bike in with the anchors.

 

Definitely thought Ianone jumped the start when I first watched it but just great timing. Damn good race for 2nd. Lorenzo's ability to get out front and just disappear never ceases to amaze me.

 

Hahahaha BOLLOCKS:crackhead:

 

IOM, I think you fell into the sarchasm.

 

haha No dude, hence my reply. Funny how engrish can be read differently by engresh speaking people

 

Foot anchors were banned last season due to unfair advantage they created.

 

:up:

 

Cheers, my perspective is it’s not easy or possible to say that one way is right or wrong, there’s a lot of moving parts and racers and race teams will do what they can to race especially if they are well funded, they can’t be faulted for it, so it’s up to Dorna to have the requisite rules and standards in place. You’ve answered the question; he’s there because he’s paid his way there. And my beef is therefore probably with Dorna for allowing these situations. I’d hope/assume if economic conditions/motogp’s sports profile were better and grids were fuller they might be a bit more discerning of who can join the motogp party.

I don’t want to get into an emotive discussion about the other names you mentioned as support cos that’s where it will go on this forum, always does.

You guys should be more concerned with Moto2 grids, it’s been dropping consistently 10-15% each year since it started.

Perhaps, but by that logic we should reserve a seat for him in 2020 gp as well.

 

It was intentional for year two, but after that?

-jim

 

I thought the moto2 and moto3 grids were oversubscribed at the start of the season?

Moto2 is the cheapest of the gp classes.

If you want to worry about a world championship, worry about WSBK.

 

Money is only part of the reason Karel is on the grid. If he wasn't fast enough, it wouldn't matter how much money they gave to Carmelo. He wouldn't be on the grid.

31 riders qualified for Moto2 at Mugello, all within 3.5 seconds of the top time. No reason for concern there. I'm pretty sure there's a waiting list of teams that want grid spots.

 

Great but I didn't say he was unwelcomed at Honda.