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n8r posted:Lol you care about rider personalities, perhaps you should start watching WWE if you like soap operas. WWE? Please. I watch F1 for drama.
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theperminator posted:Why do they even interview the riders? the point is I don't give a gently caress. It's nice to get little insights into the finer points of why their bike does x and why they did y during the race but unfortunately it's moved into twitter post territory recently.
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Slavvy posted:It's nice to get little insights into the finer points of why their bike does x and why they did y during the race but unfortunately it's moved into twitter post territory recently. What? 99% of answers are general bullshit. You rarely get actual insightful commentary from riders, usually because the journos interviewing them aren't good enough to ask the right questions. If you watch the press conferences, it's 99% the same droning bullshit. Then, once in a blue moon, an astute journalist notices that the Yamaha riders are entering T5 in 4th while the Hondas do it in 3rd and asks one why, and the riders eyes light up as they snap back to reality and give an uncoached response.
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n8r posted:Lol you care about rider personalities, perhaps you should start watching WWE if you like soap operas. If you like soaps the whines would be the best part i would think?
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Nov 20, 2015 10:29
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Bradley Smith does pretty good interviews. Usually fairly interesting.
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Shimrod posted:Bradley Smith does pretty good interviews. Usually fairly interesting. Yup. It depends a lot on how articulate the rider is, it isn't just down to the retard journos.
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KARMA! posted:If you like soaps the whines would be the best part i would think? Poor old Johnny Rae sounded sad upon the radio, he moved a million hearts at Magny-Cours.
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Nov 20, 2015 20:52
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 Stoner officially back at Ducati.  says when dovi leaves they'll con him into coming back to race.
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Nov 24, 2015 07:56
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I'm a realistic person so I'll leave my hopes to a PI wildcard
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Nov 24, 2015 08:05
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That's really all I'm hoping for too but a guy can dream. TBH my big heart-pounding hope is that Suzuki will have a competitive bike and cutie vinalez as my missus calls him gets to win some races 
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Nov 24, 2015 08:15
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You want another Spanish fraud on the podium?
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Nov 25, 2015 01:06
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 How could you say no to that face? He's like an excitable puppy who gets to ride bikes for a job. Mainly I just want a break from yamahonda hegemony; a ducati championship would be nice too but unlikely.
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Nov 25, 2015 01:13
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Slavvy posted:
Iannone could do it. He won't, but he could. Maybe.
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Nov 25, 2015 20:02
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Can someone explain to me why Kawasaki isn't represented in MotoGP? I've only recently (last 2 years) begun following the sport & it's one of the things that struck me as odd.
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Nov 29, 2015 22:02
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Their last effort was right around the gfc and tanked really badly so they couldn't justify keeping it on AFAIK so they focused their efforts on WSBK and other superbike championships. Same thing with Suzuki who have only just made their comeback to gp.
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Slavvy posted:Their last effort was right around the gfc and tanked really badly so they couldn't justify keeping it on AFAIK so they focused their efforts on WSBK and other superbike championships. Same thing with Suzuki who have only just made their comeback to gp. I've never done any reading on the expense of fielding a MotoGP team, but I'd imagine it's substantial enough that even Kawasaki can't just throw dollars into the air & have an entry (or two) just for the sake of being in the race. I'll have to Google Kawi's financials; I just figured they were large enough to absorb the '08-'09 period well enough.
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Nov 29, 2015 22:33
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Before crt bikes it was literally just Yamaha Honda and ducati fielding bikes, the whole field would score points just by finishing a race. Reducing costs is the reason crt/open class came about - it pads out the field with heaps more bikes and was a way of field-testing the control electronics which are now mandatory. IMO if they want to reduce costs without significantly affecting the racing as well as making it closer, they should ban seamless shift transmissions. Just renting such a trans off Honda for a year costs a good chunk of a million bucks.
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Nov 30, 2015 00:39
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You'd think that Kawasaki Heavy Industries would have plenty of money to throw around. Why doesn't BMW have a MotoGP team? Both those companies are massive, money shouldn't be an issue.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:You'd think that Kawasaki Heavy Industries would have plenty of money to throw around. Why doesn't BMW have a MotoGP team? Both those companies are massive, money shouldn't be an issue. BMW entered WSBK and drat near won a championship a few years later but then they pulled out. Lame. If only Melandri had held it together the last few races.
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nsaP posted:BMW entered WSBK and drat near won a championship a few years later but then they pulled out. Lame. If only Melandri had held it together the last few races. Toyota has more money than basically everyone yet their F1 effort didn't net a single win. Takes more than cash I think.
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Nov 30, 2015 06:03
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Takes HISTORY and TRADITION. Toyota never won anything ever. BMW used to dominate bike racing back in the good old days when they had the best planes and the best tanks and the best government.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:Takes HISTORY and TRADITION. Toyota never won anything ever. BMW used to dominate bike racing back in the good old days when they had the best planes and the best tanks and the best government. Toyota has won heaps of poo poo  I didn't know BMW raced bikes in the late thirties though 
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They were actually master racers, back in the day
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I was gonna' post this earlier this morning when I got in from work, but was too tired. Anyway, here is a Lanesplitter article posted last night that kinda' delves in to all the technical changes coming to MotoGP, including the tire change but also touching on Open Class abolishment, unified electronics, and giving a bit more assistance (looks like more engines/testing) to the non-Yamaha, Honda, Ducati triumvirate. It's pretty in-depth, at least to a newb like me.
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Dec 4, 2015 20:54
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While MotoGP has been pretty entertaining lately, I'm really looking forward to a satellite team taking a win.
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Is this real?
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Yeah, he joined Ducati as a test rider
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oh boring ok
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Well the tease of a wild card ride has some of us salivating. How great would it be if he just races PI and wins it? And especially if that win has an impact of the championship at the time. Honda didn't want him on the bike because he could potentially beat Marquez. Ducati is probably not so worried about him showing up their lead riders IMO.
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Yeah, it's not going to happen. Casey doesn't want to race, period. Also, new tires, new electronics, and the pace is moved on from when he was last competitive. If he raced, he'd be midfield at best.
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I don't know about that. He wanted to stand in for Pedrosa last season but Honda wouldn't let him.
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I thought that was pretty much the same reasoning. Compared to people's unrealistic expectations, he would probably put in an underwhelming performance being out of competition for so long and Honda didn't want to deal with the political/media shitstorm from that.
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Spiffness posted:Yeah, it's not going to happen. Casey doesn't want to race, period. Also, new tires, new electronics, and the pace is moved on from when he was last competitive. If he raced, he'd be midfield at best. doesn't he just not want to talk to anyone? like if he could show up, race and show home and have some spaghetti with his family and not have to deal with anything else ever he'd be all about it.
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hes not italian you racist
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Casey has been riding the bike since he retired and was matching DP and MM's lap times so I dunno where the idea that he'd be too slow is coming from. Have you seen the guy ride?
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Yeah.... test conditions are not race conditions, or qualifying or even practice conditions. I'd be shocked as all hell if he could wildcard and be at the very sharp end of the pack. Who knows, maybe. Thats why people like Casey right? They can point at him and say 'OH IF ONLY CASEY WAS HERE, he could do it!". I have my doubts.
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EX250 Type R posted:hes not italian you racist man, I ain't talking bout no pasta. 
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Spiffness posted:Yeah.... test conditions are not race conditions, or qualifying or even practice conditions. I'd be shocked as all hell if he could wildcard and be at the very sharp end of the pack. Who knows, maybe. Thats why people like Casey right? They can point at him and say 'OH IF ONLY CASEY WAS HERE, he could do it!". Biaggi got a podium in one of his wildcards last year (crashed in the other) and he was on a pretty poo poo bike (albeit with the benefit of a custom gear ratio and stuff) compared to the front runners FWIW. But SBK is easy mode or something apparently.
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