MotoGP: Valencia (Spoilers)

[brents347]

This threads getting boring. Can we talk about Ben please?

[Pantah]

Originally Posted by mdubya

youtube is easy. Unfortunately this won't tell you much other than he was not at a "low" lean angle.



@ Fajita Dave, I have never encountered a motorcycle that didn't need to be on the throttle or on the brakes to turn. Trying to reach full lean angle with the throttle shut will result in your chin bouncing off the pavement. But what do I know?

To me that it was just what they said. The tire was cold and it spit him off when he picked up the thtottle. Looked just like a club racer on a 600 in his first wet race...

[azkiwi]

Originally Posted by Fajita Dave

Pro riders don't just high-side the way he did on their own.

Did you see anyone out there helping him?

I'm sure he would be the first person to tell you he still has more to learn and he might have learned something on that warm up lap.

Well, aaah, no. Hence my original post.

[mdubya]

Originally Posted by Pantah

To me that it was just what they said. The tire was cold and it spit him off when he picked up the thtottle. Looked just like a club racer on a 600 in his first wet race...

Yabbut, nobody starts a Moto GP race on cold tires like a first time club racer. Didn't Ducati put out that press release explaining how there was a mix up in their routine and the "hot" tires never made it on to the bike which had a full tank of gas? The team forgot to do it and Casey didn't know any better.

See there, mystery solved. Not Stoner's fault, no matter how bad anyone wants it to be.

Goddamn, if Spies does well and Stoner kicks ass next year, there are going to be a couple of very disgruntled posters on ADV.

[brents347]

Originally Posted by mdubya

Goddamn, if Spies does well and Stoner kicks ass next year, there are going to be a couple of very disgruntled posters on ADV.

Spies already did well next year, haven't you heard?! Merc said so. He loves Ben!

[Pecha72]

I may be wrong, so correct me - but wasn´t it Hayden´s usual grid strategy to do the first sighting lap on his spare bike, then have the back tyre changed to his race bike on the grid? And Stoner, on the other hand, has usually preferred _not_ to change the rubber anymore, rather drop back from the group on the warm-up lap, and then let the tyres get some, to get them really warm just before the actual race start? And that this backfired badly, when the ambient/track/tyre temperatures were actually cooler than they´d expected?

It happens to the best of them. Remember when Rossi choked, went down and gave away the championship in that same circuit 3 years ago? That looked like a very simple mistake, too.