MotoGP || Mugello, Italy || July 15, 2012

Circuit info
Length: 3.259 miles
Width: 14m
Left corners: 6
Right corners: 9
Longest straight: 1.141 m. / 0,709 miles
Constructed: 1974

MotoGP
Fastest Lap 2011 Casey STONER (AUS) Honda 1'48.034 174.8 km/h
Circuit Record 2011 Jorge LORENZO (SPA) Yamaha 1'48.402 174.2 km/h
Best Pole 2011 Casey STONER (AUS) Honda 1'48.034 174.8 km/h
Top Speed 2009 Dani PEDROSA (SPA) Honda 349.3 km/h

 

349.3 km/h .... thats cookin

 

^And that was on an 800! what do you think the 1000's will see?!

 

I would like to thank BigBird for getting the spelling right.

 

Im excited for them to release the onboard videos on their youtube channel like they have been doing this season.

349kmh is like what, 215mph? FUCK THAT

 

Think they'll hit 362? That'd be 225 mph... which would be asinine. By "asinine" I mean "awesome". (plus a but asinine)

 

I'd think 225mph is possible. Bridgestone has to be shitting themselves right about now.

 

They're allocating four additional hard "longer-lasting" rears for each rider this weekend, above the usual 10 rears per weekend.

The above sentence just sounds wrong, but a true story.

-jim

 

PunyFirecrackerShell: Marc "The Joker's Smile" Marquez confirmed to Repsol Honda for 2013...

 

We will see another spectacular exhibition of Honda's superiorority:up:

 

How many races before Jorge complains about Marquez being to aggressive next year?

Who is Vermeulen riding for this weekend? He is showing up as a choice in fantasy.

 

By "longer lasting" do you mean, rears that might make race distance?

 

Man this should be a great race. Come on "THE BEN" Tuck that big body behind the bubble.. I LOLed when they had THE Ben's bike next to Jorge's... The windscreen had to be a good 5 inches higher it looked like on TV

 

I'm going to go out on a limb and say:

NICKY FTW!!!!

 

Id love it if that happened, but that's really going out on a limb. If the Duc is working that well, Rossi would have to be in the gravel for Nicky to win at Mugello

 

The only way any Ducati will win the race is if all the Honda and Yamaha riders crash out.

But nothing would please me more to see Nicky win a race on that pile of shit this year, then have Ducati continue to fail miserably in MotoGP with Rossi and his future team-mate that will never win a title.

 

Thanks for putting your finger on what was so familiar-looking about MM. Definitely the Nicholson Joker.

 

I wouldn't go that far, unless your only talking about Factory Honda and Yamaha. Im sure a Duc will finish ahead of at least one Honda or Yamaha that takes the checkered.

 

...if it's raining.

 

Assen was the only race so far this year where a Ducati didnt finish in front of at least one honda or yamaha