WSBK round 2 @ Qatar **SPOILER THREAD**
 

Allllllriiiiiiihgttt!!!!...Round 2...
--Spies...Looking good and very formidable
--Haga...See above
--Biaggi...Like a box of chocolates :D
--Neukirchner...He might just sneak away with a championship
--Haslam and Rea...Hondas only hope
--Sykes...Not so fast, my friend :lol
--Byrne...See above
--Smrz...Still needs to buy a vowel

Your thoughts?

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THE RACES ARE TELEVISED ON SPEED TV ON SATURDAY, NOT SUNDAY!!!!

YES, BOTH RACES WILL BE TELEVISED!!!!

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Spies is on the provisional pole...

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SPIES SPANKED"M!!
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funny he was born in Tenn though :lol:

Race 1 results

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Race 2 results

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Spies is tha man, I just wish Bayliss would have still been around to get spanked by the Rookie

yeah yeah..but was raised in????? ;) :p

Makes you wonder if a few phone calls are being made to Troy for a few "just for fun" races :D

or maybe to rossi for a wildcard slot. he has been seeking one recently :2cents:

How sweet would that be?...I doubt his contract will allow him to do it, though :(

from what ive been reading i think its ok as long as its not a track used in the motogp season

Salt Lake? lol

This is bad for GP.... if he gets a taste and likes it... there goes your centerpiece and about half of your fans.

IMO gp is dead in the water anyway

Why do you say that?

No kidding.

just the way things are going right now...
-the racing isn't as exciting as WSBK... Rossi has said so publicly...
-the cost is mounting... kawi pulled out... Dorna had to sponsor the team so they'd have enough bikes to fill the grid
-Honda provides motors to about half the field but now is putting a rev limiter on every bike but the factory bikes... so no privateer will have a fighting chance


I've also heard rumors honda and a few other privateers were gonna pull out... there needs to be big change for the series to be wildly successful again... with WSBK blossoming... and the cost mounting for MotoGP.... it doesn't give a good forcast

That big bang Yamaha is fast as fuck... I'm sure the rider helps too. :rockout:
I keep hoping Biaggi will bin it... No such luck though.

no real competition, no real benefit to retail bikes, factory pull out

if that were true sykes would be up front all the time. and eff you! i like biaggi :rockwoot:

Spies is kickin' azz and I'm glad to see it. American on a Yamaha...works for me. :lol:

In the past I've been more of a Moto GP fan but that has changed. I still like GP racing but WSBK is just more fun to watch imho.

I do hope Rossi stays out front.

BOOM! Spies is for real!
Suprise! The Aprilia is for real!:rockwoot:

seriously! What happened to all that bluster about the s1000rr? They havent finished very well just yet

well its a mid pack bike right now. a very distant midpack.

Suppose that is better than Kawaski, who have been in the series for years and still a mid pack bike!

but for a brand new bike... that's not horrible... it's just Aprillia apparently got shit dead on!

they seem to go for total domination in whatever series they end up in. cepting' of course their flop in motogp.

yeah... the cube was kinda like clear pepsi... what the fuck were they thinking :lol:

from what ive read of the cube it was an insanely powerful motor in a subpar chassis with almost no front end feel. Haga crashed it 28 times in one season!

speaking of Haga... wtf was with him in Qatar?! dude didn't ride at all like he normally does... he was patient... and just let max lead in the first race for the longest time... wasn't until Spies got up there did he start trying to get by...

:idk: he looked good though... this would be his year... but it's gonna take a lot to stop Spies... 4 races 3 wins... one 16 where he had two offs.. :panic:

he might be trying to adjust to spies. he's already discovered you cant intimidate the guy

Did you hear Haga say that Spies won because he is 10 years younger. LOL

Spies' bike pulls like a bat outta hell as compared to those Aprillias.

The boy is talented to the hilt though.

yeah where did the aprilia come from?! i thought it was just biaggi until shinya put his just off podium.

i think Xaus may stick his BMW up front once or twice but corser will be more consistent on the thing. I hope they do well.

really? every time down the front stretch out the first corner it looked like both twins, the duc and the ape... would pull on spies... but being such a long straight... spies caught them back... :idk:

yeah I think towards the end of the season... BMW will have a couple podium finishes... but shit.. they've got some stiff comp with the 1198 the ape... and the new R1...

I have heard on Superbike Planet and a couple other inerviews that Yamaha insiders admit the cross plane engine is down on top end HP. They also claim it doesn't hit the high straightaway trap speeds the Duc, GSXR, or Aprilia do.

This due to the fact they have not figured out how tight they can turn it and it still live. I feel like as they put race miles on these engines and experiment a little more that we will see a higher output cross plane later this season.

That said it doesn't look like they are going to need any more top end for now...:pat:

No shit!

Agreed...there trap speed seems off about 8mph to some of the others on the long straights.

Didn't Haga say something like "he will bring the pain to Spain" ? :lol:

The ape is a V4 now... which is a shame, I love the v-twin powerband and the noises they make! But more power to them if they can win races in their first year... c'mon aprilia...

Oh, and Spies is a monster. He surprised everyone as a wildcard in MotoGP last year.

I'm liking the sound of the Big Bang motor. It falls somewhere between a traditional I-4 and a V-twin and the Akra's complement it well. Deep, fat tone that sill has the high revs on top.

Huh. Though the ape was a twin... Thanks for the correction!

the ones in the daytona 200 were the older twin rsv r 1000s. Which is the only place i could see you getting befuddled. Ive certainly done enough rambling about the new v4 lol

Lol yeah dave you have... Brain fart I guess...