2009 World Superbike Round 12 - Imola (Race Spoilers!!)

[DanTheMan]

There's no rain here, i think the traction issue was a hard scrubbing of the track after the last car day, no rubber on the track.

[zooom]

There's no rain here, i think the traction issue was a hard scrubbing of the track after the last car day, no rubber on the track.

they were reporting no rubber on the track and or possible remnants of oil just not completely gotten up in cleansing of the surface or possible oils coming up from the track with additional heat post washing...it is a lil ambiguous....

I think where it is slippery...they need to send a buncha hooligans out there to just do burnouts all over the surface there to lay rubber and burn off oils and it'll be all good!...LOL...J/K.

[zooom]

Damnit Dan...you make my Indy coverage look like crap!

it is an easy job to do!...LOL...cause it was CRAP!...

[EvilSteve]

So, Sykes is out... where's Mladin when you need him. 

[desmoquattro]

So, Sykes is out... where's Mladin when you need him. 

Whingeing somewhere...

[DanTheMan]

I never thought much of it at the time, but i had to take a piss really bad, and the only spot was T1. I think, i dont know, never been there before.


Well wer're suppose to have a parade lap to the towm of Imola, lead by Troy balyss, but we'll see it it happens. 

[gm2]

Superpole 3

Jonny Rea was once again the first to go fast, taking provisional pole with a lap of 1'48.045. Noriyuki Haga took pole away from Rea at the halfway mark, with a lap of 1'47.885. But Haga's reign would not last long, with just over three minutes to go, Ben Spies edged ahead of Haga with a lap of 1'47.778. Haga, already out of his leathers, had no option but to accept defeat, for the duration of Superpole at least.

But Ben Spies was not to take his 10th Superpole of the season. On his final flying lap, after the checkered flag had fallen, Ducati's Michel Fabrizio put in a final blistering lap of 1'47.735 to take pole, pushing Spies down into 2nd. Jonny Rea almost took forced Spies even further back, but lost a couple of tenths in the final sector, and had to settle for 3rd, ahead of Noriyuki Haga.

Results:

Pos   No.   Rider   Bike   Time   Diff
1   84   M. Fabrizio   Ducati 1098R   1'47.735   
2   19   B. Spies   Yamaha YZF R1   1'47.778   0.043
3   65   J. Rea   Honda CBR1000RR   1'47.834   0.099
4   41   N. Haga   Ducati 1098R   1'47.885   0.150
5   96   J. Smrz   Ducati 1098R   1'48.156   0.421
6   3   M. Biaggi   Aprilia RSV4 Factory   1'48.665   0.930
7   67   S. Byrne   Ducati 1098R   1'49.092   1.357
8   58   M. Simoncelli   Aprilia RSV4 Factory   1'49.338   1.603
9   11   T. Corser   BMW S1000 RR   1'48.971   0.892
10   91   L. Haslam   Honda CBR1000RR   1'48.992   0.913
11   57   L. Lanzi   Ducati 1098R   1'49.060   0.981
12   10   F. Nieto   Ducati 1098R   1'49.105   1.026
13   7   C. Checa   Honda CBR1000RR   1'49.168   1.089
14   9   R. Kiyonari   Honda CBR1000RR   1'49.340   1.261
15   14   M. Lagrive   Honda CBR1000RR   1'49.641   1.562
16   66   T. Sykes   Yamaha YZF R1   1'49.681   1.602
17   71   Y. Kagayama   Suzuki GSX-R 1000 K9   1'49.906   1.522
18   23   B. Parkes   Kawasaki ZX 10R   1'50.012   1.628
19   111   R. Xaus   BMW S1000 RR   1'50.152   1.768
20   31   K. Muggeridge   Suzuki GSX-R 1000 K9   1'50.414   2.030

http://www.motomatters.com/results/2009/09/26/2009_imola_world_superbike_superpole_res.html

[Spidey]

I coulda been wrong about Simoncelli.  Looks like he sumptin' for everyone.  New bike, new tires, new team and he's top 8 in Superpole.  That's what we *would* have expected from Hopper when he first moved to WSBK.  WTF, mang?

Ducati better have given Douchebrizio team orders at this point.  If he and Haga are 1-2 in the race, he needs to let Haga past for the points.

[derby]

I coulda been wrong about Simoncelli.  Looks like he sumptin' for everyone.  New bike, new tires, new team and he's top 8 in Superpole.  That's what we *would* have expected from Hopper when he first moved to WSBK.  WTF, mang?

...you forgot to mention his significant loss of track time due to the cancelled practice sessions.

[DanTheMan]

SENNA TRIBUTE




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MANY YEARS OF bAYLISS

[Spidey]

OTT interview with Martin and Greene:

http://www.onthethrottle.com/content/view/365/1/

[ducpainter]

Great race!

I'll bet Ben comes back in race 2 on fire. He just didn't seem to have the machinery to do it today.

[DanTheMan]

Simoncelli makes some hairball passes, we was doing that all day, and also in practice.

The stands were absoultly nuts with Fabriz and Haga finishing 1 and 2, but they loved Simoncelli. And there were some Max B fans. Great races.

[gm2]

where are we, austrailia?

helluva day for the italians  

...back to -3.  gonna be a battle to the end.

[DanTheMan]

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=142321642571#