Wsbk -Assen

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egor110

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17,365 posts

210 months

Saturday 20th April
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This is going to be interesting !

doogalman

734 posts

252 months

Saturday 20th April
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Anticlimax end to race 1.
Why did they stop it?

Kneedragger95

241 posts

82 months

Saturday 20th April
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Race stopped due to oil on track past 2/3rds race distance.

airsafari87

2,861 posts

189 months

Saturday 20th April
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Not quite up to the high standards of the opening races but good to see the Barni bike take a win.

At what point do we have to start seeing Toprak as a serious title challenger this year? I think we might be at that point now.

Panamax

5,091 posts

41 months

Saturday 20th April
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Visited Assen a few years back for Moto GP - a brilliant bike circuit.

It was the 2015 race where Rossi muscled past Marquez in the last corner to take the win,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GodENhtQ_CE

ZX10R NIN

28,384 posts

132 months

Saturday 20th April
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airsafari87 said:
Not quite up to the high standards of the opening races but good to see the Barni bike take a win.

At what point do we have to start seeing Toprak as a serious title challenger this year? I think we might be at that point now.
In all honesty the only way Toprak doesn't win the title is if Bautista gets to grip with the bike bur I'm not sure he will, Rea might as well write off this season & get to work on a good base setting & go from there.

Zarco

18,494 posts

216 months

Saturday 20th April
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The Supersport race was good as it was similar half wet half dry (although the opposite parts of track to superbike), but it ran the whole length. So the quickest slick shod riders caught those on wets right at the end.

rodericb

7,261 posts

133 months

Sunday 21st April
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airsafari87 said:
Not quite up to the high standards of the opening races but good to see the Barni bike take a win.

At what point do we have to start seeing Toprak as a serious title challenger this year? I think we might be at that point now.
I think seeing Toprak as a serious title challenger started at Phillip Island....

He's very good! As much as I want Ducati to win it's great to see Toprak get up there. He was great to watch on the Yamaha and his transition to BMW has been excellent.

But what a first race yesterday - half wet, half dry. Barni took a punt on it raining again (or the track not drying out as fast as everyone else expected) as they had nothing to lose and the race ended early due to oil on the track! Yeah boo hoo the race ended earlier but that's how races go sometimes.....


Edited by rodericb on Sunday 21st April 01:56

slopes

40,143 posts

194 months

Sunday 21st April
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What happened with Rea? He was at the front for the first lap but then seemed to fade backwards.

Toprak is by far the best rider in WSBK and now with the BMW he has something to challenge the Ducati dominance but i will hold off on title for this year for maybe another round or two, then see where things lie.

As someone on ph stated though, Toprak is just proving that Redding isn’t as good as his BSB results potentially suggested. 5 years on from his run to the title in BSB and he is going backwards.

egor110

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17,365 posts

210 months

Sunday 21st April
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Is todays 1st race not being shown anywhere?

I've just endurance all morning on eurosports and quest from midday

HybridTheory

475 posts

39 months

Sunday 21st April
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Todays race 2 must be on discovery plus only

Biker's Nemesis

39,624 posts

215 months

Sunday 21st April
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That was a brilliant first race, its not often I sit forward when watching a race on TV. I can't remember the winner of the sprint race but I was so happy he won it. It was like seeing a baby seal make it to an ice berg as 2 killer whales are about to finish it off.


Toprak is something else...

Speedywurzel

466 posts

228 months

Sunday 21st April
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What a race this 3rd one is turning out to be! Bit of drizzle brings out the big gonads!

slopes

40,143 posts

194 months

Sunday 21st April
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It is going to be quite the year this year, a massive fight between the two dominant riders in the championship judging by that last race

cherryowen

11,959 posts

211 months

Sunday 21st April
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Well, I think it's fair to say that WSBK is going to be the series to watch this year.

Toprak's riding this afternoon was majestic

Mr Tidy

24,337 posts

134 months

Sunday 21st April
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I had a right result today as the full race was on Quest during their BSB broadcast. smile

Based on that it looks like Toprak will take some beating!


CypSIdders

1,055 posts

161 months

Sunday 21st April
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WSBK & BSB have been much better viewing than MotoGP for the last couple of seasons.

gareth_r

5,971 posts

244 months

Sunday 21st April
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egor110 said:
Is todays 1st race not being shown anywhere?

I've just endurance all morning on eurosports and quest from midday
There was an hour and a half programme - 18.30 to 20.00. superpole race and race 2. Repeat broadcast 08.00 tomorrow (Monday).

There's also a weekend highlights program and a supersport programme, both repeated numerous times.

rodericb

7,261 posts

133 months

Monday 22nd April
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A good sunday superpole and race. I don't know what happend with Bautista in the sunday superpole but something threw a switch somewhere about halfway and he went loco.

Then the in main race Toprak found himself thumped back to like 11th or something and then dragged himself back up to take it.

Gardner first podium in SBK.

Johno

8,520 posts

289 months

Monday 22nd April
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WSB racing this year is so far the pick of the 3 main race series I watch, with BSB and MotoGP.

Great to see Toprak really getting to grips with the BMW, the Yamaha's weren't so far off at Assen and the Bautista is a little inconsistent so far - which I think will settle down into the season.

Shaping up nicely for a good season ahead.