2014 Racing Thread - Spanish Anthem Sucks SPOILERS INSIDE

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2014 World Champion? This poll is closed.
Valentino Rossi	13	19.40%
Jorge Lorenzo	13	19.40%
Dani Pedrosa	8	11.94%
Marc Marquez	33	49.25%
Total:	67 votes

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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

tarzanspuma posted:

10. Rossi

# ¿ Mar 23, 2014 01:23

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 15:29

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

I would assume so because everyone was a bit closer this time. But if you add the DNFs back in, Ducati is right back in like, 9th/10th as it was all of last season. I guess the finishes will be exactly the same but maybe it'll be a little more interesting getting there this year? Improvement?

# ¿ Mar 24, 2014 20:31

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

I long to be a sneering wine-drinking Euro.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2014 18:55

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

The only track I've ever been on isn't even in there

# ¿ Apr 6, 2014 22:54

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

Every euro tv commentator sounds awesome to me. I still remember watching the Phillip Island race last year on what used to be Speed and their guys didn't even notice when Marquez missed his pit stop.

# ¿ Apr 8, 2014 01:29

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

I think in principle if a rider can do something but a computer does it for him instead, that's bad for racing. Generally, anyway. Obviously we don't want riders having to move a lever while they're accelerating to control the ignition advance manually, which they probably did at some point in history. And some kind of restrictions to keep costs down makes sense, so that the podium in every sport isn't just RedBull RedBull RedBull. How you actually write that into a rule book I have no idea. Seems like every major motorsport fails when trying to implement those principles.

# ¿ Apr 17, 2014 19:41

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

Raven457 posted:

He'll win again this year, unless he crashes out and becomes so injured that he can't race.

I have to think that there is a decent chance of this happening. Remember how many fairly big crashes he had last year that were just blind luck that he didn't break a bone?

# ¿ Apr 26, 2014 19:49

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

How did they all settle on 16.5 as an ideal wheel size for racing?

# ¿ May 27, 2014 00:19

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

Christ, the full song is even more annoying, I guess I should thank BT Sport for only playing that 4 second clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSZVs82NBoM

# ¿ Jul 13, 2014 14:17

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/race/motogp-race/the-problem-at-ducati/

quote:

Another mechanic told me about the overabundance of 7mm, 8mm, 9mm and 10mm nuts and bolts on the Desmosedici.

Seriously? I work on Indian bikes and even they don't do that.

# ¿ Aug 1, 2014 00:31

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

darth cookie posted:

I'm not saying the race was bad, because it wasn't. I'm just saying that it really seemed like an anonymous piece of tarmac that wasn't worth getting up at 3 am to look at.

I heard the BT commentators saying several times, "wow this track is so much better, what an amazing job they did! But the track still kinda sucks."

# ¿ Aug 13, 2014 13:36

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

It annoys me so much that someone didn't have a high speed video camera on him when that happened. In this day and age.

# ¿ Aug 22, 2014 02:42

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

George Zimmer posted:

$50 for adults for a one day ticket. I went to a Grand-Am race last year that was $25 at a similarly sized circuit (Mid-Ohio), and Grand-Am was a much more visible series than AMA.

Pricing by DMG in their quest to destroy motorcycle roadracing in the United States.

I heard they're gonna redesign the road course at NHMS to run AMA there next year. I seriously hope so, would be awesome.

# ¿ Sep 18, 2014 04:04

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

xzzy posted:

Shame about Fox Sports deciding no one wants to watch it and eliminating it from their channel.

They killed it the way DMG was trying to kill AMA road racing. Made the coverage so incredibly bad that no one would want to watch it, then cancelled the programming because nobody was watching it.

# ¿ Sep 28, 2014 01:44

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

n8r posted:

That's not what I was talking about. In particular F1 teams have crazy forecasting and stuff like that. The GP teams go outside the paddock and hold their hands out it seems.

And then they don't even tell the rider what to do with pit boards, they just let him screw it up for 4 laps until he crashes.

# ¿ Sep 30, 2014 00:12

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

Is that rough surface an optical illusion? It looks so uneven it would eat a set of pads in 2 laps.

# ¿ Oct 11, 2014 02:23

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

I missed the Q, how come Marcy Marc didn't get pole? Crash?

# ¿ Oct 11, 2014 20:05

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

Holy poo poo loving Cal. Holy poo poo loving Rossi!

# ¿ Oct 19, 2014 16:41

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

Except Rossi because he's the best rider ever

# ¿ Oct 21, 2014 01:56

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

Lorenzo visibly did exactly that move a bunch of times in a row in one race last year. Marquez and I dunno who else were right behind him, he was causing all of them to bunch up. I don't recall any protests.

# ¿ Oct 27, 2014 03:30

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

At the time I remember thinking it was brilliant. I think it was a championship deciding race, Marcy Marc only had to finish like 5th to win it, and Lorenzo had the pace to win the race but for him to have a chance in the championship, MM would have to crash out or something. So Lorenzo deliberately got in front and held everyone up, apparently in the hopes that all the other guys behind him might interfere with Marc. Eventually it turned out it was causing Lorenzo as many problems as anyone else, so he gave up and rode out ahead full speed, won the race but not the championship.

# ¿ Oct 27, 2014 03:39

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

Is there some footage of the moto3 incident?

# ¿ Oct 27, 2014 04:53

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

Do you want to touch him consistently real soon?

# ¿ Oct 28, 2014 21:24

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

I like Rossi he's fun.

# ¿ Nov 1, 2014 04:02

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 15:29

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

echomadman posted:

you might as well watch robots riding camels

2015 thread title?

# ¿ Nov 10, 2014 04:05

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