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Apr 10, 2015 15:52
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BT has Julian Ryder, the husky sounding fella and the color guy for race day. The posh sounding guy is Gavin Emmett, old motogp.com announcer and now a bt presenter and the dude with the heavier accent is Neil Hodgson, ex racer and host for BT now. He does the track laps and the grid walk.
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Apr 10, 2015 15:56
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I was going to say, one of them sounds very much like Guy Martin, except that you can understand him. edit: Great view of the elevation changes... that's awesome 
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Apr 10, 2015 16:03
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Come the gently caress on, dog on the track?
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Apr 10, 2015 17:08
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DOG ON TRACK! 
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Apr 10, 2015 18:52
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I rode a night trackday last year where a coyote got on the track and was chilling in the sweeper off the main straight. Didn't even red flag the session 
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Apr 10, 2015 20:16
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It finally cleared up, FP2 might be the fastest times all weekend
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Apr 10, 2015 21:36
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Holy poo poo, Marquez is a beast Edit: The end of that session alone was worth the cost of admission Day Man fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Apr 11, 2015 |
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Apr 11, 2015 20:58
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Qualifying 2 was loving intense, and we're at turn 18 cause we have grounds passes, but it's an awesome spot.
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Apr 11, 2015 21:08
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I'll keep that in mind for tomorrow when I show up. I hopefully can get into the tower for a little bit too.
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Apr 11, 2015 21:29
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AncientTV posted:Qualifying 2 was loving intense, and we're at turn 18 cause we have grounds passes, but it's an awesome spot. The hill at turn 1 has a pretty great view
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Apr 11, 2015 21:57
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Just like last year, everyone who's not Marquez can only hope that Marquez makes a mistake.
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Apr 11, 2015 23:58
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Day Man posted:The hill at turn 1 has a pretty great view We sat there for the supersport race but we liked being able to see the end of the laps rather than the beginning.
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Apr 12, 2015 00:51
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:Just like last year, everyone who's not Marquez can only hope that Marquez makes a mistake. It's incredible that he managed to do that after sprinting 50m in race leathers; I'll bet it was the extra weight lost from sweating his gigantic brass balls off.
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Apr 12, 2015 04:39
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Day Man posted:The hill at turn 1 has a pretty great view Agreed. It was the best spot in the whole place. Turn 15 was for nerds . I parked on the GA hill next to turn one and could see a ton. It was awesome.
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Apr 12, 2015 23:58
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Meh races. Highlights for me: Quartararo getting it figured out. Hope he gets a win before he turns 16 but he's running outta time. Nice to see Lowes stay on, him/zarco/rabat/simeon/rins fighting for the title probably? Should be better than last year at least, I barely watched. GP was a snooze once the podium sorted itself but that was to be expected. Despite all the riders praise of the circuit, has COTA given us a good race yet? I think the moto3 last year might have been p. good but I can't remember. It seems to suit the cars much better for action on track. I wish the US hadn't dropped the one track that gave some good racing.
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Apr 13, 2015 02:25
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nsaP posted:Meh races. Highlights for me: As much as the Indy track is poo poo for racing, it's in a great location for people to get to. The downfall for COTA is the back straight. Get anything near correct in the first part to stay close and blast past someone in the draft or on the brakes. What the hell does Rossi do at COTA that's so different from everyone else, and that different from what he does at the other tracks, that he consistently and utterly shreds the front tires.
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Apr 13, 2015 03:11
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Skreemer posted:What the hell does Rossi do at COTA that's so different from everyone else, and that different from what he does at the other tracks, that he consistently and utterly shreds the front tires. Rides balls out to make up for the bikes shortcomings mostly. His lines were totally different to Dovis all through the race, and with the horsepower deficit he was making everything up on the braking. After MM's qualifying lap it was pretty clear that the only person that was going to beat him was himself by making a mistake. I was sorry it didn't rain during the race as that would have levelled the playing field a bit and given us the excitement of the bike swap scramble in pit lane.
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Apr 13, 2015 14:15
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It's vaguely disappointing that ducati now appear to have a bike with parity bordering on superiority to yamaha. Wonder what it'd be like if they somehow win a bunch of races and then get soft tyres taken away?
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Apr 14, 2015 10:19
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They're not using the soft tyre in the race anyway, I don't think it'd make a huge difference.
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Apr 14, 2015 10:48
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They already lost the fuel bonus after the first race, right? Apparently both Ducati bikes ran out of fuel on the victory lap. 
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Apr 14, 2015 11:49
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Collateral Damage posted:They already lost the fuel bonus after the first race, right? They only went from 24 to 22 liters. The full factory teams only get 20.
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Apr 14, 2015 13:35
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Hmm. Will be interesting to see if they can keep their power advantage if they're forced back into factory rules then.
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Apr 14, 2015 15:34
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Collateral Damage posted:Hmm. Will be interesting to see if they can keep their power advantage if they're forced back into factory rules then. Everyone's back to 22 Litres and spec ECU next year.
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Apr 14, 2015 19:33
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And even with 22 liters, they both ran out of gas on the outlap as mentioned. I think Dovi was complaining that one of the reasons he was really able to race with Rossi is the bike was holding back, whenever Dovi gave it the WOT, the bike would meter the fuel to make sure he finished all the laps. I'm not sure if anyone follows World SuperBike, but Suzuki has switched to Magneti Marelli after the opening of the season basically throwing any chance of any hunt in the championship out the window. Alex Lowes and Randy DePuniet are screwed. Skreemer fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Apr 15, 2015 |
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Apr 15, 2015 01:50
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I thought one of the reasons for the fuel concession was that they are running the spec electronics and couldn't finish a race with 20 liters because they are limited on the amount of fancy electronic tricks they can do.
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Apr 15, 2015 18:39
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Skreemer posted:I'm not sure if anyone follows World SuperBike, but Suzuki has switched to Magneti Marelli after the opening of the season basically throwing any chance of any hunt in the championship out the window. Alex Lowes and Randy DePuniet are screwed. I've only just started following WSBK. Why is MM bad?
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Apr 15, 2015 23:17
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Slavvy posted:I've only just started following WSBK. Why is MM bad? Suzuki switching to MM electronics is not inherently bad. It's just that according to the rules for WSBK, all new testing for this season is banned, meaning that all of the feedback testing and setting testing for RDP and Alex Lowes for the MM ECU will be sorted out during practice, qualifying and the races itself. Sure they might be able to get close, but they supposedly didn't get any base line settings for the ECU and their bikes and they were running a different ECU package until the 3rd race of the year.
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Apr 16, 2015 03:32
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What a bummer of a race after the amazing Qatar round. Met some chill ducati dudes at the bar who were thrilled that ducati is doing so well. They also complained how both their bikes have been in the shop for months, ahohoho.
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Apr 16, 2015 06:21
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and if you haven't seen it in the other threads, EBR (EriK Buell Racing) has closed/bankrupt and the team is saying "all is well for us". http://www.worldsbk.com/en/news/2015/Team+Hero+EBR+statement+following+EBR+closure holy hell even the EBR website is down and showing just the default server page.
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Apr 17, 2015 17:46
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Hero racing appears to be continuing on however, with the EBRs for now.
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Apr 17, 2015 18:12
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They caught the dog from COTA and he's up for adoption, Austin goons I'm looking at you https://www.facebook.com/austinanimalservices/posts/10153761445033696
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Apr 17, 2015 21:17
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Italian bikes amirite?  edit: Amazing race end. Looked like it would be another snoozefest, but with Marquez crashing and crutchlow passing right on the finishing line it really shaped up. Collateral Damage fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Apr 19, 2015 |
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Apr 19, 2015 20:12
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Dang. Glad i didn't assume it was gonna be a runaway at the front and stop paying attention.
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Apr 19, 2015 20:51
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Go Johnny Rea pulling the double in WSBK. Go watch World SuperSport. Marcquez should just bide his time, and stay healthy, sharp and pull wins, at some point Rossi will retire and he won't Marcquez won't have to work so hard at winning. Anyone watch Moto3? Danny Kent pulled out a 10 second lead over the rest and the battles for second on down went pretty much up to the line.
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Apr 19, 2015 21:09
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I only saw the hilarious incident during Moto3 warmup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7fep8y0X2w
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Apr 19, 2015 21:25
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Johnny Rea on the same bike as Sykes is making Sykes look pedestrian. MotoGP thoughts: I have no sympathy for Marc Marquez at all, he tried to ride right through someone like he has so many times and Rossi punched him right in the mouth for his troubles. I don't know what is going on with Lorenzo, he's on the same bike that Rossi is getting fastest laps and race wins with but other than the first race he hasn't really been threatening. And Dovi with 3 2nds on a bike that still has development allowed for it might be able to Nicky Hayden his way into a championship by being consistently good and maybe taking 1 or 2 wins.
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Amazing ride by Rossi, I felt pretty confident he'd have won even if MM didn't fall. Also, I didn't notice until after the race that Pedrosa wasn't there -he's getting surgery for arm pump issue.
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Apr 20, 2015 01:16
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I have to wonder if MM is kicking himself for swapping to the Hard on the grid, instead of sticking with the Extra Hard. Once the bike started to slip and slide around 10 laps out it was only a matter of time.
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He should be kicking himself for trying to fight back that hard on Rossi when MM's tire was clearly shot and Rossi had hunted him down and stalked him in the Rossi style. 2nd place is 20 points but he threw that away riding aggressive and putting himself at risk and it bit him, one of the few times I can remember his aggressive riding biting him and not someone else. I'd expect him to be smarter than that at this point but I guess when you're mid race the racer can override the thinker. Dovi being just behind with a sneaky 3 2nd places is pretty great.
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