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« on: October 20, 2016, 07:18:35 PM »

Pissing down rain for FP1.

Crusty leads TFOG and The Monkey by a RCH.
Jackass, MM and Dovi about a half second back.
Nicky 10th, 2 seconds off.
Jones 14th, 2.5 sec back.
JLo next to last, nearly 5 seconds off.
Gimpy Bradley last, down 8 seconds.

Saturday supposed to be similar amount of rain, then decent Sunday, but cold.
However, this is PI, so it may snow, or clear off and be blazing hot.
Cold may tip the balance more toward the Suzukis and Hondas.

But if the first dry track occurs on a cold 'warmup' Sunday about Noon, and a colder race at 4pm... we could easily have our 9th winner.
I'm betting it's Nicky, and it'll just blow the lid off this season!
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« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2016, 09:01:38 PM »

FP2 pretty much a washout.

Really cool to have Vermuelen in with the announcing team.
Interesting perspective!
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« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2016, 10:41:34 PM »

If it stays wet then Jackass and Crusty should be favorites.
Crusty thinks he's back 'ome in Ol' Blighty, TFOG can use his Zimmer frame to assist with the bike to bike transfer in a flag to flag situation and Monkey is just ... Monkey Magic Dolph Monkey Magic.
Go Nicky.

Needles and Scoober are freezing their asses off down there.
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« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2016, 11:29:38 PM »

Lovely day down here.    Sad Started with wind knocking out the power here.

Great to see the bikes up close.
Very interesting contrasting kean angles between MM and Nicky.
Jackass set his lap a little later than Crusty and was right on the limit. Small off shortly later.
Was so obvious JLo was just cruising around.
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« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2016, 11:41:35 PM »

You getting the icy wind off the water? Even on a nice day if the wind comes off the water grip levels drop and you feel like you're skating around.
They gotta move this round back to the start of the season like the old days.

Forecast is cold, but fine 13 C for race day, but we'll see.
Make that 12 C and cloudy.
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« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2016, 11:50:54 PM »

The Old Goat was penalized by Race Direction for being on the wet tyres for too many laps and is sitting in P20. Huh?
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« Reply #6 on: October 21, 2016, 03:38:03 AM »

You getting the icy wind off the water? Even on a nice day if the wind comes off the water grip levels drop and you feel like you're skating around.
They gotta move this round back to the start of the season like the old days.

Forecast is cold, but fine 13 C for race day, but we'll see.
Make that 12 C and cloudy.
Just the icy wind would be ok. The fact it was icy wind full of water. Not so much.

I think they still jave too many old jackets to sell to change the dates.
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« Reply #7 on: October 21, 2016, 05:30:50 AM »

I'd much rather hear Chris on motogp than Steve Day. Wink
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« Reply #8 on: October 21, 2016, 06:03:14 AM »

The Old Goat was penalized by Race Direction for being on the wet tyres for too many laps and is sitting in P20. Huh?

Apparently Michelin said 10 laps max.
Rossi did 9 hot laps, plus one each in and out laps.

Seems race teams have trouble counting laps at PI.  cheeky
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« Reply #9 on: October 21, 2016, 06:17:28 AM »

Apparently Michelin said 10 laps max.
Rossi did 9 hot laps, plus one each in and out laps.

Seems race teams have trouble counting laps at PI.  cheeky

Cough [bullshit] cough
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« Reply #10 on: October 21, 2016, 07:29:18 AM »

Cough [bullshit] cough

Well of course.
Making an example out of him without doing any real damage.
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« Reply #11 on: October 21, 2016, 09:16:40 AM »

What I find ludicrous is they counted the out and in lap.

When Honda screwed the pooch  with Marquez at PI they didn't count the out and warm up lap.

Just bullshit.

Whether or not it does harm remains to be seen. There's no guarantee he will set another time good enough to avoid Q1.
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« Reply #12 on: October 21, 2016, 11:43:23 AM »

That's the problem, the rain is very heavy and driven hard by very strong winds so unless theres a break in the weather he's stuck in P20. I reckon they will have to spend time cleaning up the track tonight and Sunday morning. I feel sorry for all those who camped down there as the rain is pounding our house hard on the south east walls and coming in sideways.  Honestly this is the worst weather in years.
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« Reply #13 on: October 21, 2016, 11:50:52 AM »

Well of course.
Making an example out of him without doing any real damage.

If the weather holds as forecast, it will force him to go through Q1...so I would hardly say no real damage done.

And when you consider the rule was based on the same tires not lasting 10 laps at Assen on a 13*C warmer *drying* track, it's horse shit. Rossi's tires barely even looked scrubbed let alone shedding tread cap.
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« Reply #14 on: October 21, 2016, 11:58:50 AM »

JL must be chuckling to himself.
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