Yooperbikemike's 2013 MotoGP Thread

Saw that the other day, if they had Toby, Julian and Neil doing the comms I'd buy the pass in a heartbeat.

Is this available for add'l $$ or included in the usual subscription?

Rick: For a price, Ugarte, for a price........

Cool toy I guess. I'll be happy when racing begins.

Day 1 Jerez results (wet)


Pos Rider Team Fastest lap Lead. Gap Prev. Gap Laps Last lap
1 LORENZO, Jorge Yamaha Factory Racing Team 1:47.423 24 / 39 1:51.519
2 PEDROSA, Dani Repsol Honda Team 1:48.474 1.051 1.051 23 / 30 1:49.615
3 MARQUEZ, Marc Repsol Honda Team 1:48.524 1.101 0.050 29 / 38 1:50.254
4 IANNONE, Andrea Energy T.I. Pramac Racing Team 1:48.984 1.561 0.460 27 / 27 1:48.984
5 PIRRO, Michele Ducati Test Team 1:49.292 1.869 0.308 39 / 48 1:52.348
6 ROSSI, Valentino Yamaha Factory Racing Team 1:49.443 2.020 0.151 25 / 36 1:51.291
7 HAYDEN, Nicky Ducati Team 1:49.643 2.220 0.200 20 / 20 1:49.643
8 CRUTCHLOW, Cal Monster Yamaha Tech 3 1:49.692 2.269 0.049 10 / 19 2:01.233
9 BRADL, Stefan LCR Honda MotoGP 1:49.790 2.367 0.098 27 / 33 1:51.125
10 DOVIZIOSO, Andrea Ducati Team 1:50.266 2.843 0.476 21 / 22 1:50.543
11 SPIES, Ben Ignite Pramac Racing Team 1:50.957 3.534 0.691 18 / 18 1:50.957
12 HERNANDEZ, Yonny Paul Bird Motorsport 1:51.269 3.846 0.312 25 / 31 1:53.465
13 BAUTISTA, Alvaro GO&FUN Honda Gresini 1:51.277 3.854 0.008 27 / 31 1:52.402
14 ABRAHAM, Karel Cardion AB Motoracing 1:51.333 3.910 0.056 26 / 26 1:51.333
15 CORTI, Claudio NGM Mobile Forward Racing 1:52.034 4.611 0.701 31 / 35 1:54.088
16 SMITH, Bradley Monster Yamaha Tech 3 1:52.047 4.624 0.013 14 / 14 1:52.047
17 PETRUCCI, Danilo Came IodaRacing Project 1:52.180 4.757 0.133 11 / 18 1:53.516
18 BARBERA, Hector Avintia Blusens 1:52.291 4.868 0.111 13 / 17 1:53.494
19 AOYAMA, Hiroshi Avintia Blusens 1:52.676 5.253 0.385 50 / 56 1:53.495
20 EDWARDS, Colin NGM Mobile Forward Racing 1:53.992 6.569 1.316 12 / 17 1:55.788
21 STARING, Bryan GO&FUN Honda Gresini 1:56.119 8.696 2.127 31 / 37 1:56.234
22 PESEK, Lukas Came IodaRacing Project 1:56.413 8.990 0.294 17 / 17 1:56.413
23 LAVERTY, Michael Paul Bird Motorsport 1:56.931 9.508 0.518 12 / 12 1:56.931

Crazy Joe , in the wet

Sweet precious jesus, my prayers have been answered, the ability to turn off commentary while continuing to get track audio! Crank up the sound without the annoying yammering. Seems like you could keep your eyes on the inevitable battle for 3rd or 4th that gets missed while the main feed captures the winning rider going solo across the line.

Looks like a free trial (with regular subscription) is available for Qatar and then I imagine some sort of upgrade fee for the rest of the season.

Just got an e-mail from MotoGP indicating Rossi topped the time sheets on the last day of testing at Jerez, leading Jorge by.015 seconds.

The sad (unintended, I'm sure) headline at Soup was one of Dean's bold "bombshell" announcements about Rossi being quickest. It's hard to imagine such a headline 3 short years ago.

About as relevant as the fact Dovi was 3/10 quicker than MM.

More relevant: Rossi knows how to play in peoples minds

What better way to look like slowest alien, ahem, maybe even sandbagging a little, then right before the end, show the kids what you got?

I really need to resubscribe to MotoGp, this is going to be a hell of a season.

yep, he's done that before.

Amen. I was wearing down the enamel on my molars grinding my teeth at Nick Harris' inane, incessant crap.

If the multiscreen display is part of the regular subscription, great; if there's a premium, it sucks.

Still trying to find that out.

Anyone know?

The site stays a sample will be available at Qatar. I take that as meaning there will be an upgrade charge for this year with it eventually included in the normal pass ( which maybe goes up in price).

Put the crack pipe down. Half the session was wet, it was windy. The running order of day 2 is not representative of true performance.

And today is NOT the final day. There is another day of testing tomorrow. Penultimate means next to last.

Half of today was too wet to ride. I believe the day was ended with more wet. Not belittling Rossi's pace today. It just may be a little bit early to crown him champion.

Who here thinks Spies is in for a long season.. Should be interesting

If he finishes ahead of the CRTs, it might be considered an improvement over last season (not all his fault of course). If he finishes ahead of Iannone, I'd say that was reason to celebrate.

Rossifumi doing the elbow down boogie.

Kevin Cameron interviews Tom Houseworth about Ducati, Yamaha, and Ben Spies. Short and surprisingly insightful.

http://www.cycleworld.com/2013/03/1...ew-chief-for-ben-spies/#.UU8HQFgLEKo.facebook