Stoner pisses on Rossi's parade !
Sachensring SPOILER
You have to give it to the little guy.....
Pedrobot can ride. Despite the Honda being so twitchy and being out-turned and out-braked by the Yamaha, he rode the ragged edge to edge past Lolly. Lolly has clearly matured as a rider and did a great job of keeping Pedrobot back for most of the race, before riding for the championship points and a strong second place.
But Rossi was the winner in my eyes.....to get to third until the last corner, and set a faster lap than Lolly....was incredible in his condition and with the thought that a bad crash on that damaged leg would not only be the end of his championship, but possibly his career.
And Casey was also a winner for that Rossi-esque last corner block pass on Rossi! Good for you, man! I smiled at Rossi's little shrug of frustration that Stoner dared to pass him like that......the pot calling the kettle
The modern day Goat cannot repeatedly dole out those moves to the youngsters and not expect them to learn from them and do the same back!
So, a fairly exciting race, and as the commentators said that despite the Yamaha being a step ahead of Honda and the Yamaha being visibly the most stable and smoothest bike out there, it's clear that Honda have made great progress to compete with the mighty M1. The Honda was clearly slower under brakes, and in the corners, where both Rossi and Lolly repeatedly out-turned the Hondas and Ducati, and there was no obvious advantage to the Honda on these short straights.....so all the more kudos to Pedrobot for that ride.
Pedrobot can ride. Despite the Honda being so twitchy and being out-turned and out-braked by the Yamaha, he rode the ragged edge to edge past Lolly. Lolly has clearly matured as a rider and did a great job of keeping Pedrobot back for most of the race, before riding for the championship points and a strong second place.
But Rossi was the winner in my eyes.....to get to third until the last corner, and set a faster lap than Lolly....was incredible in his condition and with the thought that a bad crash on that damaged leg would not only be the end of his championship, but possibly his career.
And Casey was also a winner for that Rossi-esque last corner block pass on Rossi! Good for you, man! I smiled at Rossi's little shrug of frustration that Stoner dared to pass him like that......the pot calling the kettle
The modern day Goat cannot repeatedly dole out those moves to the youngsters and not expect them to learn from them and do the same back! So, a fairly exciting race, and as the commentators said that despite the Yamaha being a step ahead of Honda and the Yamaha being visibly the most stable and smoothest bike out there, it's clear that Honda have made great progress to compete with the mighty M1. The Honda was clearly slower under brakes, and in the corners, where both Rossi and Lolly repeatedly out-turned the Hondas and Ducati, and there was no obvious advantage to the Honda on these short straights.....so all the more kudos to Pedrobot for that ride.
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GREAT move by Casey that appears to have caught Rossi by surprise. However, I doubt Rossi will be making comments about "sketchy" passes after the race like Stoner typically does. And yes, I have come to really not like Stoner due to his constant complaining, not to mention his conspiracy theories regarding his first year in MotoGP.And Casey was also a winner for that Rossi-esque last corner block pass on Rossi! Good for you, man! I smiled at Rossi's little shrug of frustration that Stoner dared to pass him like that......the pot calling the kettle
^ Maybe 'cause he's lighter than most hot girls .
Dani had a great feeling with the Honda to not only stretch ahead and get the
victory but he set a new circuit lap record on lap 10 and then again on 12,
assuming the race lead and breaking his own record from the previous year
and consistently riding in the low 1’22”s... you could say his tires were perfect
and his V4 was perfect...
Quote Pedrosa:
“I’m very happy because we are back winning races and it’s a great feeling,”
he said. “It wasn’t easy today because when the race is stopped and
restarted like that, sometimes you don’t have the same feeling on the
machine in the second part. Also you get nervous again on the grid and it’s
possible you won’t have the same pace after the restart. But it went very
well for us in both races.”
He continued: “We just made one small change with the rear suspension to
get a bit more traction for the second race. I made another good start and in
the first laps after Lorenzo had passed me I was pushing very hard to try to
take him back. I couldn’t do it with my first attempt, but when I got a second
chance I just went for it.”
Lorenzo tires were perfect... his I4 was perfect... but he settled for
second and blamed himself for not riding as well after the second start...
Quote Lorenzo
"It's always difficult when a race is split like this and I think I didn't ride quite
as well in the second race as I felt I had been doing in the first,” said
Lorenzo, who now holds a 47-point advantage over Pedrosa in the
Championship. “Dani was very, very strong and I was on the limit trying to
stay ahead. When he passed me I tried briefly to stay with him but he was
much faster than me today and I was going to have to take a lot of risks to
stay with him; the safest thing for me to do was finish second and take 20
points for the Championship.”
Stoner blames tires but enjoyed Rossi battle...
Quote Stoner;
“In the first part of the race we had a new rear tyre that wasn’t producing
the grip that the tyres had been all weekend. I just wasn’t able to keep up
with the lap times being set by Dani and Jorge.”
“For the second part of the race we went back to a tyre we were using in
qualifying yesterday so it already had laps on it, and immediately it felt better
with more grip and a better feeling in mid-turn. We were able to run a lot
faster lap times, maybe three or four-tenths of a second consistently. I tried
to chase the top two down but didn’t quite have the pace.”
We had a few nice passes and I just had to go for it in the last corner, and it
worked out. I’m pretty happy with the result, and we managed to pick up
points when we needed to.”
Rossi extremely happy with 4th... lets hope its Russo Rossi in the future...
Quote Rossi:
"Rossi was extremely satisfied despite just missing out on what would have
been a remarkable top-three finish, and continued to analyse his superb
result: “I need some more kilometres to really recover the feeling and feel
completely okay with the bike again, but I think I did a great job and this was
a very good comeback, better than we could wish for. I felt a bit of pain in
my shoulder but more in the leg when changing direction, but at the end the
battle with Casey was such fun that I didn't think about it. Unfortunately
though he just got the better of me on the last corner!”
“Thanks to all my team for helping me come back and be competitive like this,
we will try to do even better in Laguna,” he concluded.
De Puniet was racing injured and ended up surfing his Honda out of
pain...
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That caused Espargaró to crash into De Puniet Honda and Kailo to hit De Puniet breaking 2 bones in his
leg...
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Spies just escapes as Bautista T bones De Puniet's Honda...
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Out of anger German corner workers torch the Frenchmen's gas tank...
BP issues more apologies as black plume settles over their Head
Quarters...
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victory but he set a new circuit lap record on lap 10 and then again on 12,
assuming the race lead and breaking his own record from the previous year
and consistently riding in the low 1’22”s... you could say his tires were perfect
and his V4 was perfect...
Quote Pedrosa:
“I’m very happy because we are back winning races and it’s a great feeling,”
he said. “It wasn’t easy today because when the race is stopped and
restarted like that, sometimes you don’t have the same feeling on the
machine in the second part. Also you get nervous again on the grid and it’s
possible you won’t have the same pace after the restart. But it went very
well for us in both races.”
He continued: “We just made one small change with the rear suspension to
get a bit more traction for the second race. I made another good start and in
the first laps after Lorenzo had passed me I was pushing very hard to try to
take him back. I couldn’t do it with my first attempt, but when I got a second
chance I just went for it.”
Lorenzo tires were perfect... his I4 was perfect... but he settled for
second and blamed himself for not riding as well after the second start...
Quote Lorenzo
"It's always difficult when a race is split like this and I think I didn't ride quite
as well in the second race as I felt I had been doing in the first,” said
Lorenzo, who now holds a 47-point advantage over Pedrosa in the
Championship. “Dani was very, very strong and I was on the limit trying to
stay ahead. When he passed me I tried briefly to stay with him but he was
much faster than me today and I was going to have to take a lot of risks to
stay with him; the safest thing for me to do was finish second and take 20
points for the Championship.”
Stoner blames tires but enjoyed Rossi battle...
Quote Stoner;
“In the first part of the race we had a new rear tyre that wasn’t producing
the grip that the tyres had been all weekend. I just wasn’t able to keep up
with the lap times being set by Dani and Jorge.”
“For the second part of the race we went back to a tyre we were using in
qualifying yesterday so it already had laps on it, and immediately it felt better
with more grip and a better feeling in mid-turn. We were able to run a lot
faster lap times, maybe three or four-tenths of a second consistently. I tried
to chase the top two down but didn’t quite have the pace.”
We had a few nice passes and I just had to go for it in the last corner, and it
worked out. I’m pretty happy with the result, and we managed to pick up
points when we needed to.”
Rossi extremely happy with 4th... lets hope its Russo Rossi in the future...
Quote Rossi:
"Rossi was extremely satisfied despite just missing out on what would have
been a remarkable top-three finish, and continued to analyse his superb
result: “I need some more kilometres to really recover the feeling and feel
completely okay with the bike again, but I think I did a great job and this was
a very good comeback, better than we could wish for. I felt a bit of pain in
my shoulder but more in the leg when changing direction, but at the end the
battle with Casey was such fun that I didn't think about it. Unfortunately
though he just got the better of me on the last corner!”
“Thanks to all my team for helping me come back and be competitive like this,
we will try to do even better in Laguna,” he concluded.
De Puniet was racing injured and ended up surfing his Honda out of
pain...
That caused Espargaró to crash into De Puniet Honda and Kailo to hit De Puniet breaking 2 bones in his
leg...
Spies just escapes as Bautista T bones De Puniet's Honda...
Out of anger German corner workers torch the Frenchmen's gas tank...
BP issues more apologies as black plume settles over their Head
Quarters...
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To be fair, the I4 also grenaded in grand fashion causing a red flag in QP. Puked oil all over the damn place in the first turn and fukd up De Puniet's and Spies' weekends.
Yup, I was thinking the same thing.To be fait, the I4 also grenaded in grand fashion causing a red flag in QP. Puked oil all over the damn place in the first turn and fukd up De Puniet's and Spies' weekends.
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