2013 MotoGP Round 2 - COTA <Spoilers? You Bet!>

[derby]

Spies in 13th... beat by the ART

That's the shitz.  Ribs, elbows, whatever....... still the shitz.

he looked to be in a lot of pain on the cool down lap.

i'm expecting his performance to improve once he's healthy enough to do some testing and have more laps on the bike.

[gm2]

sounds like he didn't expect much else given the weird chest pain thing. 

[zooom]

there was 1 great thing about the SPEED broadcast....no Ralph Shaheen !!!

Johnathan Green paired with Scott Russell made for a much better commentation pairing.

[Spidey]

The only reason I didn't fall asleep is cuz I loved watching Marquez put the hurt on his teammate.     And just watching Marquez is fun -- elbow down, basically laying down on the asphalt, getting HARD on the gas at the apex and having the rear come around, and even entering the turns all out-of-sorts.  He does it less in GP than he did in Moto2, but as soon as he got by Pedrosa, his bike started goin' all over the place.  Me likey.  

Am I the only getting really sick of this Yamaha/Honda circuit shit?  Seems like its even more pronounced now than it was previously, but that might just be me.

Wanna feel bad for Crutchlow?  Read this one --  http://www.motomatters.com/analysis/2013/04/22/2013_austin_motogp_sunday_round_up_of_re.html

[zooom]

Wanna feel bad for Crutchlow?  Read this one --  http://www.motomatters.com/analysis/2013/04/22/2013_austin_motogp_sunday_round_up_of_re.html

I read that earlier today and this particular part right here brought about a particular thought...

....Crutchlow's enjoyment was dampened by the fact that no one came to his press debrief after the race. A combination of an overly long press conference, and a timing clash with Valentino Rossi, whose debrief had been hastily rescheduled with complete disregard to the previously agreed schedule, drawn up so that as many journalists as possible got to speak to as many riders as possible. A group of journalists gathered to hear the man who came 6th, ten seconds behind Crutchlow, but no one came to see Crutchlow, who had just ridden one of the best races of his career. The media are a fickle mistress, more interested in fame than in actual achievement....

if he had some negative rant lambasting someone or other....he would have gotten more than his fair share of press time...believe that for sure!!!

[desmoquattro]

I read that earlier today and this particular part right here brought about a particular thought...

....Crutchlow's enjoyment was dampened by the fact that no one came to his press debrief after the race. A combination of an overly long press conference, and a timing clash with Valentino Rossi, whose debrief had been hastily rescheduled with complete disregard to the previously agreed schedule, drawn up so that as many journalists as possible got to speak to as many riders as possible. A group of journalists gathered to hear the man who came 6th, ten seconds behind Crutchlow, but no one came to see Crutchlow, who had just ridden one of the best races of his career. The media are a fickle mistress, more interested in fame than in actual achievement....

if he had some negative rant lambasting someone or other....he would have gotten more than his fair share of press time...believe that for sure!!!

First his pit garage burned down. Then nobody came to his press conference. I wonder if he still has to buy his own brakes?

[Speeddog]

I'm sure Crutchlow will serve up some tasty comments about the media.
Justifiably so, that's rude.

IMO, the MotoGP championship train has left the station, never to return.
Pedrosa and Rossi are not on that train.

Seems Rossi has inherited Ben's stable of lame horses.

[gm2]

IMO, the MotoGP championship train has left the station, never to return.
Pedrosa and Rossi are not on that train.

Seems Rossi has inherited Ben's stable of lame horses.

you may be right on both counts.. but i think it's way too early to say. 

at least the latter point.  one more something-random-breaking and i'll agree =)

[gm2]

he's not, but looks like he ought to be in big trouble here..

[desmoquattro]

he's not, but looks like he ought to be in big trouble here..

Check out the scrapes on the leathers...

They call Spies Elbows...

Maybe they oughtta call Marquez Assholez

[Jester]

Check out the scrapes on the leathers...

They call Spies Elbows...

Maybe they oughtta call Marquez Assholez

Those scrapes are from his practice crash.

I'm not so sure the train has left yet though.  Pedro will snatch a few wins, Rossi will probably sneak at least one or two, and we'll see Crutch snag a podium if he learns not to crash in late race battles.  I think with the way these guys will take points off each other, that the championship is wide open.  Whoever breaks, crashes, goes past engine limit first will be a big part of how things shake up.

[triangleforge]

I figured that, but Repsol only brings one set of leathers for the rookie on trips outside Spain?

[Spidey]

I figured that, but Repsol only brings one set of leathers for the rookie on trips outside Spain?

I *think* he didn't bother to change.  He still had time left in FP and just jumped back on the bike rather than sacrifice the time. 

[triangleforge]

You're probably right - I looked at the site and found out the MotoMatters image above is from Saturday, when he swapped ends, then got back on and kept going faster than everyone else. I originally thought it was taken during the race.

[gm2]

nah, that was fp3.  he had new stuff for the race.