2012 MotoGP Round 13 - Misano (Spoilers!)

[duccarlos]

Was watching last year's race. Man, I miss Sic 

[gm2]

yeah.

[duccarlos]

FP1 was damp so it was a bunch of single riders tip toeing around. Only Hayden and Spies made it out there on prototypes.

1   9   Danilo PETRUCCI   ITA   Came IodaRacing Project   Ioda-Suter   252.0   1'43.178   
2   51   Michele PIRRO   ITA   San Carlo Honda Gresini   FTR   261.5   1'43.327   0.149 / 0.149
3   77   James ELLISON   GBR   Paul Bird Motorsport   ART   259.2   1'45.730   2.552 / 2.403
4   44   David SALOM   SPA   Avintia Blusens   BQR   257.4   1'46.886   3.708 / 1.156
5   11   Ben SPIES   USA   Yamaha Factory Racing   Yamaha   265.6   1'48.298   5.120 / 1.412
6   69   Nicky HAYDEN   USA   Ducati Team   Ducati   263.8   1'48.409   5.231 / 0.111
7   68   Yonny HERNANDEZ   COL   Avintia Blusens   BQR   254.6   1'48.553   5.375 / 0.144
8   Mattia PASINI   ITA   Speed Master   ART   258.7   1'50.482   7.304 / 1.929
9   Colin EDWARDS   USA   NGM Mobile Forward Racing   Suter   250.3   1'53.064   9.886 / 2.582

[duccarlos]

FP2 was more of the same. None of the top riders made it out. Spies heading out for like 2 seconds. Abraham pretty much led most of the session. What a wasted day.

1   17   Karel ABRAHAM   CZE   Cardion AB Motoracing   Ducati   273.6   1'42.030   
2   77   James ELLISON   GBR   Paul Bird Motorsport   ART   258.9   1'43.204   1.174 / 1.174
3   51   Michele PIRRO   ITA   San Carlo Honda Gresini   FTR   257.5   1'44.299   2.269 / 1.095
4   68   Yonny HERNANDEZ   COL   Avintia Blusens   BQR   261.6   1'44.565   2.535 / 0.266
5   56   Jonathan REA   GBR   Repsol Honda Team   Honda   275.6   1'44.999   2.969 / 0.434
6   9   Danilo PETRUCCI   ITA   Came IodaRacing Project   Ioda-Suter   250.6   1'45.048   3.018 / 0.049
7   44   David SALOM   SPA   Avintia Blusens   BQR   259.3   1'46.351   4.321 / 1.303
8   11   Ben SPIES   USA   Yamaha Factory Racing   Yamaha   266.5   1'46.471   4.441 / 0.120
9      14   Randy DE PUNIET   FRA   Power Electronics Aspar   ART   255.5   1'50.103   8.073 / 3.632
10     54   Mattia PASINI   ITA   Speed Master   ART   252.4   1'50.641   8.611 / 0.538
11     19   Alvaro BAUTISTA   SPA   San Carlo Honda Gresini   Honda   268.7   1'50.977   8.947 / 0.336

[ducpainter]

Noticed Gigi Dall'Igna in one of the CRT pit boxes during FP3

[fastwin]

Qualifying results...

http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2012/Sep/120915b.htm

[ducpainter]

Go Johnny Rae...

[Raux]

Boy, has Cal been on a tear since Ducati dissed him!

[Raux]

and Barbera qualifying behind a CRT machine kinda puts his whining about Pramac dropping him in perspective

[brix821]

CRAZY RACE!

[ducpainter]

CRAZY RACE!

Hate to say it...

Pedrosa got make the beast with two backsed.

Rossi 2nd...

Bautista 1st podium.

Go Johnny Rae...8th in his debut.

[derby]

Hate to say it...

Pedrosa got make the beast with two backsed.

yup, but now he knows pretty much how nicky felt at estoril.

Rossi 2nd...

i wonder how much of that was already having a setup from the testing they just did at that track or if they've actually found something.

Go Johnny Rae...8th in his debut.

yay, he beat all the crts!!! 

but seriously, only ~2s behind nicky for race distance. 

[ducpainter]

yup, but now he knows pretty much how nicky felt at estoril.

The whole cluster make the beast with two backs at the start was like a Chinese fire drill that got out of control.

The fact that they pulled Dani's bike into the pit to remove a tire warmer that got jammed when the start was screwed up by another rider and Dani is pushed to the back of the grid just seems a bit unfair.

He never would have been in that situation without the weird start.

i wonder how much of that was already having a setup from the testing they just did at that track or if they've actually found something.

both

but seriously, only ~2s behind nicky for race distance. 

exactly

[OT]

i wonder how much of that was already having a setup from the testing they just did at that track or if they've actually found something.

Too little, too late.

Oh, and so much for all the speculation that Rossi's gonna cruise for the rest of the year 

[duccarlos]

What a cluster make the beast with two backs of a race. Drama from the 2 starts. I won't believe that Ducati has found anything we see results in multiple races. Wouldn't it be interesting that all of a sudden the Duc is at least regularly beating the other satellites?