MOTOGP 2013 Round 4: Le Mans France, 5/17-5/19

[Tharkûn]

I think a search of 'kevin motogp pedrosa' would pull up every race thread from every season :laughing

 

[kevin 714]

lulz he mad

 

[kevin 714]

I think a search of 'kevin motogp pedrosa' would pull up every race thread from every season :laughing

probably 35+ posts in each thread too :laughing

guy really went to a lot of work to show that my 4 year old opinion, while actually having been RIGHT for four years, has evolved since then.

Sure you can change your mind (though of course it's easy now). I remember you specifically cause you're a really mouthy dude and said it a bunch of times, but I'm sure a 10 second search on half of the new Pedrosa believers would show the same thing.

Pedrosa hasn't even come closing to winning it yet, but already you want to be at the front of the parade...

well except for coming in 2nd in the title last year, winning more races than the champ in the porcess, and scoring more points than a huge number of previous champions did.

 

[Foxhole Atheist]

...evolved...

That's a good one.

But I'm not going to get into an extended pissing match with a guy who types on his phone.

 

[kevin 714]

just for the record theres 191 threads in which I mention pedrosa lol

 

[DaveT319]

probably 35+ posts in each thread too :laughing

You're WAY underselling yourself Kev... it's probably 75+. Hell, you've got 86 in this thread, and it's not even done yet.

EDIT: Oops, now it's 87 with the one above.

 

[kevin 714]

Dani

88.

 

[Kurosaki]

So I'm actually just getting around to seeing the race. I haven't seen a single race this season before seeing the results via facebook/tumblr/BARF. Been so busy with my new job. Anyway.

My thoughts on the race

Dani naysaysers: step.the.fuck.off. sooooo many great things to say about various riders' performances this race and Dani still cleared the field almost overshadowed by the other racers.

Dovi: If it were not for the demon Marquez, I would say you were robbed of a podium. holy shit, what a ride.

Crutchlow: As much "whining" as he's done, he puts his money where his mouth is when it counts. Sad fucking day if they take him off a competitive bike next season.

Marquez: To quote a song by the O'Jays, "They smile in your face, all the time they wanna take your place. Those back stabbers." Just in reference to Marc's off track demeanor compared to how he acts on track. All smiles, joy, happiness, buddy buddy off track. On track, little fucker pulls the hard passes anywhere anytime on anyone with no fucks given. The whole race, fully knowing where he finishes on the podium, I'm thinking how the fuck is he gonna get on the podium like this?

Rossi and Lorenzo: Foaming at the mouth thinking WTFFFFFFFF. Lorenzo because he was dropped like an anchor off the side of a boat. No wonder he was so mad after this round. Rossi because he was showing signs of hard charging for awhile. He will win a race this year.. It's coming. Yamaha Factory is not in trouble, as some have suggested. Bad round for both riders... Although Yamaha has their hands full trying to deal with this Honda onslaught.... Last year, they only had to deal with Casey in the early season and then the Dani push in the 2nd half. This season, they have both Repsols all up their ass every round so far.

Hayden: Anybody who thinks that dude is just phoning it in and collecting a paycheck all these years is seriously mistaken. Maybe not a 'great result' but he was clearly trying and focused to make something happen.

 

[Kurosaki]

Dani is not even 'old' yet and he is handling the challenge of the up and coming new phenom like a true pimp. Maybe Marquez will eclipse Dani by season's end or even before then. But (and if) that happens, the dude is handling his business and Dani ain't going down without a fight. 2 wins from the first 4 rounds and leading the points. At this point, any haters wanna say something about Dani, "I'm sorry? What does the leaderboard say again? oh... okay."

 

[DaveT319]

I haven't seen a single race this season before seeing the results via facebook/tumblr/BARF.

Then don't come into these threads once the race starts until you've seen it. It's what I do when I'm having to watch them on torrents at some later time.

 

[kevin 714]

I'm worried that this thread is movingnaway from my post history and towards actual race results

 

[DaveT319]

Sorry.

That's 89.

:teeth

 

[Kurosaki]

Then don't come into these threads once the race starts until you've seen it. It's what I do when I'm having to watch them on torrents at some later time.

Yes, I know, but I say fuck it. Trying to stay away from the internet cuz I haven't seen the race is too much effort. I'm almost never home on the weekends now and I spend 13-14 hours a day during the week driving to/working at/driving home from the office, so I catch up with shit whenever I can and I have downtime at work I can look at BARF.

 

[Kurosaki]

I'm worried that this thread is movingnaway from my post history and towards actual race results

pedrosa rulez

 

[Tharkûn]

pedrosa rulez

Bookmarked for 5 years from now when you say 'pedrosa sucks'

 

[insyder]

Rossi's problem is his weak qualifying. Having to charge back from a 7th starting position is going to result in a slip like he had. Guess we'll see at Mugello.

 

[GreenHornet]

Pedro deserves it more than Haga

 

[firstbuell]

[edited].....I remember you specifically cause you're a really mouthy dude.....

even tho it's a full page back, I'm still LOL about that quip

Kev, I was thinking of you the entire time that Dovi was leading/trading spots

 

[kevin 714]

Bookmarked for 5 years from now when you say 'pedrosa sucks'

:laughing

reports coming in that a[rilia is developing a pnuematic valved e gine fro their CRT bikes, around 1000 more RPMs for the bikes, and it should be ready by around sept or so. btw the new honda production racer wont even have those/

so next year we could have the production honda, leased yamaha, zook, pnemtaic apes, AND whatever teams wana continue to run the other CRT bikes like the FTR kawis and such.

article below cobvers it, as well as some of the CRT costs to run bikes, how much the honda and M1 should cost, etc. also, ore specs on the honda racer, including the fact it will not run the full 24 liters of fuel that it could


http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/race/motogp-race/pneumatic-valve-aprilia-for-motogp/

Yamaha say that the lease M1 engines will be “similar to Tech 3 spec”, which means they should be capable of running very close to the front, so long as your chassis builder is up to speed. Yamaha will charge £675,000 (“we are doing this on cost price, just to improve the sport”) to lease engines for one season, to which you’ll need to add at least £300,000 for two rolling chassis. That makes a total of £975,000, quite a bit higher than the target price of a million euros (£850,000) demanded by Dorna. And you have to give the engines back at the end of the year.

Aprilia sell their two-bike package including engine rebuilds for about £1 million. Honda’s production RCV – with steel valve springs – will cost £850,000, including engine rebuilds by HRC. Both will offer less horsepower than the M1 engines, but they are complete packages, developed by factory racing departments. In theory, they should be fast out of the box. And you don’t have to give anything back at the end of the year.

Of course, you have another option if you don’t have enough budget to afford any of these three packages. You can stick with cheaper Honda Fireblade/Kawasaki ZX-10/BMW S1000RR street engines in FTR/Kalex/Suter frames and face the fact that you’ll struggle just to get points. Ricard Jove, boss of the Avintia Blusens team, reckons his FTR-framed ZX-10 MotoGP bikes cost £600,000 a pair (including a season’s supply of engines) and he says it’s unlikely he can afford anything better.

Only one team is already pushing towards leasing M1 engines for 2014 – Coin Edwards’s NGM Mobile Forward outfit, though Sito Pons’ squad has also shown some interest.

 

[TTTom]

...
oh and in an interview with GPone, nakamoto says not only is honda NOT coming back to world superbike, but there shouldnt even BE a world superbike series.
...

HRC may not be headed back to WorldSBK but an expensive street legal RCV replica as a technology showpiece is a done deal, Honda CEO Takanobu announced the project last fall

of course it may be that they won't homologate it for WorldSBK just like Ducati never homologated the Desmosedicci