MotoGP Laguna Seca ***SPOILERS***

[JonS]

Well, that's a weird one. Just a week ago, BMW said they were shutting that team down to switch their support to BMW Italia. Maybe it was the latter team the rumors were referring to.

Yes, that's what I just read in Autosport. Spies to BMW Italia, but it is silly season...
I'm sure that if this is really what's happening, Spies will be very successful there.

[motodog650]

Yes, that's what I just read in Autosport. Spies to BMW Italia, but it is silly season...
I'm sure that if this is really what's happening, Spies will be very successful there.

If this does in fact happen I'm pretty sure there is an eventual return to MotoGP with BMW in the deal...  

[Blunder]

If this does in fact happen I'm pretty sure there is an eventual return to MotoGP with BMW in the deal...  

That would be shattering to see the return of Kompressor bikes and baggy black leathers.  

[squeezer]

Yes, that's what I just read in Autosport. Spies to BMW Italia, but it is silly season...
I'm sure that if this is really what's happening, Spies will be very successful there.

I like the sound of that and hope it's true. Even better if BMW hangs on to Melandri and moves him there too.

[notarian]

First practice is the usual suspects, Pedrosa, Lorenzo, Stoner, Spies then a gap to Dovi, Cal...Edwards fastest CRT.

[DogBoy]

FP1 times. The Attack CRT story is very compelling.

[motodog650]

FP1 times. The Attack CRT story is very compelling.

When I interviewed Rapp at Barber he said that Laguna would be more of a test session for them than anything and that just finishing the race would be their main goal. He said that by Indy they hoped to be able to compete head to head with some of the existing CRT efforts.

[Blunder]

FP1 times. The Attack CRT story is very compelling.

Looked up the story on RRW. Prior to this weekend the complete bike, with a frame built by Stanboli, has only run up and down the street next to the shop. A scheduled test at Buttonwillow was cancelled so this mornining is the first time Rapp has ridden the bike in, if not anger, then in mild annoyance. They hope to be better by Indy where they have another wild card entry.

[garry]

When I interviewed Rapp at Barber he said that Laguna would be more of a test session for them than anything and that just finishing the race would be their main goal. He said that by Indy they hoped to be able to compete head to head with some of the existing CRT efforts.

Steve didn't qualify for the race because he is outside 107% of the pole lap time. He needs to find about 0.7 seconds in the morning warm-up to be allowed to race. He is about 2 seconds off the slowest CRT bikes right now. I hope they find that improvement and he gets to race. It's a gutsy effort to try to get a brand new, untested bike on the grid.

[black hills]

Stoner continues to whime about the CRT's and lack of "proffesional racers"    they cost him the pole you know...

[Scoop]

Steve didn't qualify for the race because he is outside 107% of the pole lap time. He needs to find about 0.7 seconds in the morning warm-up to be allowed to race. He is about 2 seconds off the slowest CRT bikes right now. I hope they find that improvement and he gets to race. It's a gutsy effort to try to get a brand new, untested bike on the grid.

Yes, they were afraid that he'd be in the way and get lapped.  So, he couldn't race.  Meanwhile about, what, 4 riders got lapped?  About time they fixed this series.  Two separate classes in one race doesn't work.  

[DogBoy]

I don't care what comes out of Stoner's mouth as long as he rides like he did today. Can't get enough of seeing a MotoGP bike ridden over the limit all the time.



In other news, you can tell when someone is a class act buy how he or she acts when having a shitty day (week/month/year).

[tbzep]

Just watched Emily Seebohm (Aussie swimmer) and thought how tiny Casey Stoner would be standing next to her.  She's 5'11" 140lb and is nowhere near the biggest female swimmer.  It's fitting that Stoner held the lap records at Laguna Seca before this weekend and Seebohm has already set an olympic record.  

[DkKnight]

Spies crash - possibly a broken swingarm  
Not a good weekend for him.

[tbzep]

Yes, they were afraid that he'd be in the way and get lapped.  So, he couldn't race.  Meanwhile about, what, 4 riders got lapped?  About time they fixed this series.  Two separate classes in one race doesn't work.  

I bet Agostini, Roberts, Spencer, Lawson, Gardner, Rainey, Schwantz, Doohan, Mamola and the rest of the top contenders of yesteryear laugh uncontrollably at today's riders who complain about dealing with a lapped rider every now and then.  Back in the day, they lapped a dozen riders a race and often used them strategically as rolling roadblocks to beat the competition.  Nothing against Casey, but the CRT's aren't slower in comparison than the back markers of the old 2 stroke days.

[DredheadV2.0]

Latest rumour here on Spies is that he's going to replace Haslam on the BMW in World Supers.

Smeggy!

[DogBoy]

AMA SPOILERS from LAGUNA:

Nice scrap for 2nd-5th in Superbike while Hayes keeps raising the bar. I hope he had time to check in with the Tech 3 crew that he rode for in Valencia. DSB race was a nailbiter. Not only great racing and bike control from Cameron Beuabier but very cerebral racecraft to put that move on Cardenas. Wish I could have seen the Supersport race. Sounds like the top two were really fighting. My pal Garrett Willis had a good race to grab thrid in SS by .001 at the flag.

[Capirex]

AMA SPOILERS from LAGUNA:

Nice scrap for 2nd-5th in Superbike while Hayes keeps raising the bar. I hope he had time to check in with the Tech 3 crew that he rode for in Valencia.

heh.  

Steve Blackburn ‏@steveblackburn1
Josh Hayes rode up to the pitwall and high 5'd us all after his AMA win yesterday, rode for us in Valencia last year

[DogBoy]

 

Thats cool.

I remember some of the Ducati MotoGP wrenches who had worked with Ben Bostrom in WSBK were on pit wall animatedly cheering for him during the AMA Superbike race at Laguna in 2010.

[Tyrroneous]

Hayes has schooled everybody for the last two years.  I'd love to see that Mississippian in WSBK.  Prolly won't happen but it'd sure be cool if it did.