SBK Portugal

[Higgs boson]

FP2 just finished, and JR is second - still a few 10ths off TR.

[roboxm3]

We were on track last weekend and their times around there are quite frankly, insane!!

[Higgs boson]

Lucky you!

It's been half a lifetime since I competed.

I'm old (and fat), but I still wobble around on a 22 year old zx900r, and I would bloody love a few laps of that track.

[roboxm3]

Oh we weren’t racing, just a track weekend and even if they extended the qualifying times to +20% they still wouldn’t let me on the back of the grid

[Higgs boson]

There aren't any slow riders at that level!

Sometimes they might look like it, relatively, but you wouldn't want to be a pillion.

[LukeBrown66]

Let's be fair with the power advantage he has how Bautista has not already won it by now is a joke the guy has 10 mph on every straight worth a damn. I know that is not the be all and end all but it is not a hindrance is it!

[egor110]

LukeBrown66 said:

Let's be fair with the power advantage he has how Bautista has not already won it by now is a joke the guy has 10 mph on every straight worth a damn. I know that is not the be all and end all but it is not a hindrance is it!

Is that his fault though ?

If your going to penalize a team for developing there engine better than the others we might as well just have every team on stock bikes.

[Higgs boson]

The bike is a rocket ship - no fault of AB, though.

When you see it in the flesh, it looks like - in 2 stroke terms - a tz350 passing a tz250.

It literally is mirror, signal, manouver!

[Higgs boson]

BTW, did anybody see what happened to the 300 rider who fell coming out of the last right-hander to the main straight?
I looked up and he was on his hands and knees, looking distinctly 2nd hand, causing FP2 to be stopped.

[egor110]

Higgs boson said:

The bike is a rocket ship - no fault of AB, though.

When you see it in the flesh, it looks like - in 2 stroke terms - a tz350 passing a tz250.

It literally is mirror, signal, manouver!

Surely Yamaha and Kawasaki have just been lazy at development though ?

If you penalize Ducati for actually investing in there bike what incentive is there for any company to invest?

May as well make super stock the wsbk and just race a " show room " bike

[Abdul Abulbul Amir]

Has race 1 been delayed? Eurosport showing old footage.

[egor110]

Abdul Abulbul Amir said:

Has race 1 been delayed? Eurosport showing old footage.

Yeah ss300 race was red flagged one of the riders flown to hospital pretty sharpish.

Wsbk is 2.30

[Abdul Abulbul Amir]

egor110 said:

Abdul Abulbul Amir said:

Has race 1 been delayed? Eurosport showing old footage.

Yeah ss300 race was red flagged one of the riders flown to hospital pretty sharpish.

Wsbk is 2.30

Thanks

[Zarco]

egor110 said:

Higgs boson said:

The bike is a rocket ship - no fault of AB, though.

When you see it in the flesh, it looks like - in 2 stroke terms - a tz350 passing a tz250.

It literally is mirror, signal, manouver!

Surely Yamaha and Kawasaki have just been lazy at development though ?

If you penalize Ducati for actually investing in there bike what incentive is there for any company to invest?

May as well make super stock the wsbk and just race a " show room " bike

It's not the bike entirely though is it. It's because Bautista is so small and light. Plus he has the technique to exploit the advantage.

Would be fairer to have a 'stock' weight for all the riders.

[Abdul Abulbul Amir]

Abdul Abulbul Amir said:

egor110 said:

Abdul Abulbul Amir said:

Has race 1 been delayed? Eurosport showing old footage.

Yeah ss300 race was red flagged one of the riders flown to hospital pretty sharpish.

Wsbk is 2.30

Thanks

Still not on?

[egor110]

Abdul Abulbul Amir said:

Abdul Abulbul Amir said:

egor110 said:

Abdul Abulbul Amir said:

Has race 1 been delayed? Eurosport showing old footage.

Yeah ss300 race was red flagged one of the riders flown to hospital pretty sharpish.

Wsbk is 2.30

Thanks

Still not on?

Here we go , 14 laps.

[DarthtaterM16]

Victor Steeman was airlifted to hospital with polytrauma and head injuries. Only 22. Poor lad.

[slopes]

DarthtaterM16 said:

Victor Steeman was airlifted to hospital with polytrauma and head injuries. Only 22. Poor lad.

Oh not again! Fingers crossed for him

[Hungrymc]

Loved Toprak’s jump.

[HybridTheory]

Doesn't look good for steeman at all sadly