MotoGP Round 10 - Laguna (SPOILERS)

[triangleforge]

It's "state the obvious day" at the dmf.

Huh, I did not know that. Guess I'm clueless as usual.

[duccarlos]

My comments were meant to be read in order based on my reply to Spidey:

Motomatters:  It is understood that no extra bikes will be laid on for Bostrom: the American will take one of Toni Elias' two Honda RC212Vs, leaving both Elias and Bostrom with a single bike to compete on.

They better not crash.

It's "state the obvious day" at the dmf.

[gm2]

JB talking about how they won in 2008.

http://motomatters.com/interview/2011/07/21/jeremy_burgess_on_laguna_2008_how_valent.html


"It's a shitty little race track with low gearing and high RPM, and no rest at all, so it's quite difficult, and to be perfectly fair it's highly undesirable for the sort of motorcycles we're riding. And add to that the topography of the place, and it's something that European riders when they first go there are terrified of.

Certainly there are elevation changes where the bikes would leave the ground and do all sorts of things. I mean it's lovely to have a racetrack like that, but it's really probably not a great racetrack. It created a great race on that particular day, mind you, and everyone said there should definitely be more races like them - everybody except Casey."

...

"Dani's an extremely fast rider, but a shockingly poor racer."


several other gems in there 
and some really interesting talk about laguna in general

[gm2]

http://superbikeplanet.com/image/2011/motogp/laguna/1/

[MadDuck]

I still get chicken skin when I see that Yamerhamer Yellow 2 smoke. 

[zooom]

1 Casey Stoner Repsol Honda Honda RC212V 1:22.300
2 Dani Pedrosa Repsol Honda Honda RC212V 1:22.402
3 Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha M1 1:22.420
4 Ben Spies Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha M1 1:22.806
5 Andrea Dovizioso Repsol Honda Honda RC212V 1:22.911
6 Marco Simoncelli San Carlo Honda Gresini Honda RC212V 1:23.210
7 Nicky Hayden Ducati Marlboro Ducati GP11 1:23.297
8 Colin Edwards Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha M1 1:23.459
9 Valentino Rossi Ducati Marlboro Ducati GP11 1:23.467
10 Alvara Bautista Rizla Suzuki Suzuki GSV-R 1:23.529
11 Hector Barbera Aspar Team Ducati GP11 1:23.596
12 Randy De Puniet Pramac Racing Ducati GP11 1:23.807
13 Cal Crutchlow Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha M1 1:24.018
14 Toni Elias LCR Honda Honda RC212V 1:24.324
15 Loris Capirossi Pramac Racing Ducati GP11 1:24.566
16 Karel Abraham Cardion AB MotoRacing Ducati GP11 1:24.682
17 Hiroshi Aoyama San Carlo Honda Gresini Honda RC212V 1:25.324
18 Benny Bostrom LCR Honda Honda RC212V 1:27.286


Pedrosa crashed unhurt in the session, re-mounted, wiped the bike off and re-joined the session.

[Speeddog]

Benny?

[brix821]

new low exit exhaust on the gp11.1 looks awesome!

[fastwin]

Benny?

Yeah. WTF?

[Speeddog]

Yeah. WTF?

Perhaps Soup was just having some fun with BBoz. 

[fastwin]

I was looking at SBKplanet and their pics of the Laguna action. Ran across one of Rossi's bike and noticed the "screen" inserts at the exhaust outlets.

Check it out: http://www.superbikeplanet.com/image/2011/motogp/laguna/tim02/p05.htm

Never noticed that before. Is that the DP "spark arrestor" exhaust to comply with off road riding regs??

[Speeddog]

I was looking at SBKplanet and their pics of the Laguna action. Ran across one of Rossi's bike and noticed the "screen" inserts at the exhaust outlets.

Check it out: http://www.superbikeplanet.com/image/2011/motogp/laguna/tim02/p05.htm

Never noticed that before. Is that the DP "spark arrestor" exhaust to comply with off road riding regs??

The Ducs have had those for a while, I think they coincided with the 6 engines/year deal.

Keeps the kitty litter out.

[Speeddog]

Qualy

1   Jorge Lorenzo      Yamaha Factory Racing     Yamaha M1      1:21.202
2   Casey Stoner       Repsol Honda                  Honda RC212V   1:21.274
3   Dani Pedrosa        Repsol Honda                  Honda RC212V   1:21.385
4   Ben Spies           Yamaha Factory Racing      Yamaha M1      1:21.578
5   Marco Simoncelli   San Carlo Honda Gresini     Honda RC212V   1:21.696
6   Andrea Dovizioso   Repsol Honda                  Honda RC212V   1:21.731
7   Valentino Rossi     Ducati Marlboro               Ducati GP11       1:22.235
8   Hector Barbera     Aspar Team                     Ducati GP11      1:22.238
9   Nicky Hayden        Ducati Marlboro              Ducati GP11      1:22.271
10   Cal Crutchlow      Monster Yamaha Tech 3   Yamaha M1      1:22.385
11   Colin Edwards      Monster Yamaha Tech 3   Yamaha M1      1:22.520
12   Alvara Bautista    Rizla Suzuki                     Suzuki GSV-R   1:22.669
13   Karel Abraham     Cardion AB MotoRacing      Ducati GP11      1:22.893
14   Hiroshi Aoyama    San Carlo Honda Gresini     Honda RC212V   1:22.937
15   Randy De Puniet   Pramac Racing                Ducati GP11      1:23.961
16   Loris Capirossi     Pramac Racing                  Ducati GP11     1:23.876
17   Toni Elias           LCR Honda                       Honda RC212V   1:24.156
18   Ben Bostrom       LCR Honda                       Honda RC212V   1:25.291

[duccarlos]

Whoreghey had a huge highside. The Ben lowsided before running a truly fast lap. Tough qualy in general.

[lazylightnin717]

Whoreghey had a huge highside. The Ben lowsided before running a truly fast lap. Tough qualy in general.

There was a good bit of action all weekend long.

I have high hopes for Spies.

Looked like Hayden was running the GP11 chassis in warm up. Wonder if he preferred it over the 11.1