WSBK Rd 11 -- Silverstone (Spoilers)

[fastwin]

More of the same in race two. I'm still liking the results!

[tufty]

I can't believe Aprilia pulled out team orders on Leon Camier on his home race. Biaggi is 50+ points clear for crying out loud... like he cares if Camier finishes ahead of him.

[tufty]

Forgot to add, Cal Crutchlow coming around the last corner drifting he bike the whole way on to the straight...
make the beast with two backsing awesome!!

[swampduc]

Very impressive rides by crutchlow. I guess the temp helped preserve the rear tire, or do they finally have the R1 sorted? We'll see.
As for haga, this just gets sadder and sadder.

[fastwin]

Yeah, what happened to Haga? Medicore through practice, qualy and both races??? Not typical Haga style at all. Granted the Ducs did better in race one than in race two. Don't recall this being a bad Duc track or one that Haga hates. Maybe all the changes and updates to Silverstone just didn't favor Haga or the bikes. It certainly was an all Brit track for sure! For everyone except poor Camier in race one... although he made up for it in race two!! No orders that time around.

[gm2]

Forgot to add, Cal Crutchlow coming around the last corner drifting he bike the whole way on to the straight...
make the beast with two backsing awesome!!

hellz yeah.. that was gorgeous   

[gm2]

I can't believe Aprilia pulled out team orders on Leon Camier on his home race. Biaggi is 50+ points clear for crying out loud... like he cares if Camier finishes ahead of him.

i dunno.  aprilia has put a shittton of money into that bike, this series, and max.  they want to be SURE they're gonna win a title.. and while camier definitely had the pace he's also been inconsistent all year.  "finish in front of max only if you can also finish in front of haslam" makes sense.  this is only the 2nd year of that bike and their involvement in wsbk.. winning would be HUGE.  they don't want to jeopardize that for anything.

plus, they probably don't get to run their gear-driven cams next year, so maybe this is their only shot 

[gm2]

Yeah, what happened to Haga? Medicore through practice, qualy and both races???

broken.

[Spidey]

Go, Cal!!! Finally. 

I love watching him ride.  He's a total lunatic.  This weekend, I kept thinkin' he was gonna toss it away in the last coupla laps, but he held it together beautifully.  And what well-run races.  In each, he just sat behind Rea so that those two could gap everyone.  Once he knew it was just the two of them, he just kept running Rea's pace and saving the tire.  With a couple to go, he went to the front and just uncorked it.  In Race 2 in particular, I think he picked up nearly 1.5 seconds in a lap and half.   

Did anyone see/hear what happened with RLH in Race 1?

Camier did a good job in Race 1 of sitting on Max's butt, not passing him and protecting him from riders behind.  It was good to see that he was given the go-ahead for Race 2.

I liked that the Jonathan Greene (or was it Steve Martin) was giving douchebrizio shit for pulling in the pits.  They basically said "If the bike isn't in six pieces, stay out on track and get some points, ya fackin' poosy."

Toseland said he held back from being more aggressive in Race 2 b/c he didn't want to screw up Haslam's championships.  Really??  I mean, he had a shot at the podium. 

The points are starting to look a little more like they should.  The Ducatis are sliding and Cal and Camier are moving up.  I couldn't believe that Haga and Fabrizio stayed as high up as they should.

[Spidey]

broken.

Yup.  He's perfect for Kawasaki.

[gm2]

I liked that the Jonathan Greene (or was it Steve Martin) was giving douchebrizio shit for pulling in the pits.  They basically said "If the bike isn't in six pieces, stay out on track and get some points, ya fackin' poosy."

martin.  "if i were a team manager i'd think he's a little too anxious to head to the showers".. something to that effect.  ouch.


and yeah, esp in race 2, cal's racecraft was awesome.  maybe he took some cues from the guy who predicted he would win this weekend... 

[derby]

...maybe he took some cues from the guy who predicted he would win this weekend... 

 

[tufty]

plus, they probably don't get to run their gear-driven cams next year, so maybe this is their only shot 

Heh, yeah I keep forgetting that they're running a cheater bike.

Homologation? What's that?

[Triple J]

Heh, yeah I keep forgetting that they're running a cheater bike.

Homologation? What's that?

What's the main difference? Just the gear driven cams? I honestly don't know.

Hell, look at the R1...the fuel cell is in a completely different location than on the streetbike.

[gm2]

Hell, look at the R1...the fuel cell is in a completely different location than on the streetbike.

yeah but that's legal.  the mod rules are very flexible in wsbk (on certain things)