| Author | Message | ||
     Figorvonbuellingham |
Lol. Yeh that was a crazy race. I’d say those corner marshals blew it. They should have been all over the radios and flags with the corner being wet. | ||
| Figorvonbuellingham |
Wow Espargaro is having a very good season on the Aprilia. Marquez had an incredible save in a turn. He had the bike leaned over 66*, lost the front twice in the same turn and saved it both times with his knee. Very lucky. | ||
| Jaimec |
I've felt for YEARS that Aleix Espargaro had to be the most UNDERrated rider on the grid. He's never really had anything competitive under him before, but I still remember him riding the BALLS off that Forward Racing Yamaha CRT bike back in the day. It's good to see him FINALLY have something competitive to ride. | ||
| Jaimec |
WOAH! I sure hope this is an unfounded rumor! https://www.crash.net/motogp/news/1002047/1/suzuki -quit-motogp-world-championship-end-season | ||
| Figorvonbuellingham |
Yeh that doesn’t make any sense. They’re pretty successful. | ||
| Fresnobuell |
It does if you look at the massive amount of money that it takes to run a factory team in MotoGP. Perhaps they will do what Kawasaki did and focus on World Superbike. | ||
| Figorvonbuellingham |
I was kind of wondering that about WSBK too. It seems to be gaining popularity. | ||
| Jaimec |
Superbike Planet has a couple of articles pointing out the reasons for Suzuki's withdrawal. Damned shame. https://www.superbikeplanet.com/interesting-notes- from-suzukis-annual-report/ https://www.superbikeplanet.com/to-the-shock-of-no -one-who-has-seen-the-balance-sheet-suzuki-set-to- pull-out-of-motogp/ | ||
| Fresnobuell |
Let's face it motorcycle sales is a niche market and shrinking. Suzuki apparently hasn't branched out to other areas of powersports to their detriment. Reading those two articles makes sense. For normal folks, you can't spend the money if you don't have it (contrary to popular Democratic belief). | ||
| Figorvonbuellingham |
Maybe the wokers can push sportbike loan forgiveness through after they get their student loans forgiven. | ||
| Fresnobuell |
LOL. Don't get me started on this loan forgiveness BS. In my world when you take out a loan, you pay the money back. Isn't this the definition of a LOAN?!?! It's all about the Dems buying more votes in any way possible. I digress... | ||
| Jaimec |
Taking out the IDIOTIC right-wing NON-LOGIC (I get enough of that bulls**t in the Quick Board): Suzuki also sells cars. I think they pulled out of the American market and only sell motorcycles here now... but they do, in fact, sell cars in other parts of the world. What Suzuki apparently CAN'T do is get sponsorship. I suspect this might end up biting Aprilia in the ass too... Look at the grid: Repsol Honda, Lenovo Ducati, RedBull KTM, Monster Yamaha. Ecstar is a Suzuki company so in effect, they're sponsoring themselves. (Message edited by jaimec on May 03, 2022) | ||
| Fresnobuell |
Sensitive are we? Suzuki cars were never anything to write home about but maybe they are better suited for the rest of the world that seems to be more logical about their car choices. Americans seem to still hold onto the "bigger is better" mantra regarding vehicles. Guessing the $150 to $200 it takes to fill up those status symbols might change some folks minds? | ||
| Rsh |
Most of the manufacturers did well during the past 2 Covid years, Suzuki was the exception. Unfortunately, they just didn't have a lineup that attracted buyers. As mentioned in other article's they used to be able to sell every GSXR they could produce, those days for now seem to be gone, times change. They have a new sports tourer coming out that so far has great reviews, people are starting to turn from the adventure segment, crashing out your 25k adventure bike on a dirt road is helping to change minds. | ||
| Fresnobuell |
So I guess Suzuki will not have any true factory race teams after this year? No GP, WSBK, MA....it certainly would seem like GP would be the worst series to participate in terms of cost and applicability to it's production line (since GP is "prototype based".) | ||
| Figorvonbuellingham |
Seems like the GSXR sells well around here. It would be my 2nd choice next tot the S1K. Too bad they’re not going to be racing anymore. Maybe they’ll come back down the road. | ||
| Fresnobuell |
Is the current Gixxer competitive with the other literbikes? I have fallen behind the times on reading the comparos, since I am not in the market. Would it be competitive in a homologated series? Personally, I think it is obvious the best "bang for their buck" would be to go WSBK racing...that would mean six manufacturers next year! | ||
| Figorvonbuellingham |
Looks like Yamaha is considering only having two bikes next year. Is Honda next? | ||
| Fresnobuell |
I believe the Yamaha "factory" team only has two bikes and the rest are satellite teams. However, not sure how defined those lines are these days and admittedly I am not following GP as near as close as I have in the past...seems to me like the manufacturers and sponsors are thinking about the excessive money it takes to race at the GP level. ie HOW many motorcycles do we have to sell to pay for this ?!?!? You can replace motorcycle with whatever product the sponsors sell too. | ||
| Figorvonbuellingham |
The details were a little grey. The question was put to quartararo during the opening press conference. They made it sound like there weren’t going to be any satellite bikes on only two Yamaha bikes. I dunno maybe I read it wrong. | ||
| Fresnobuell |
It would be interesting to know the cost to run a factory effort in GP vs. WSBK. I know GP is more expensive, but exactly how much? Certainly, the racebikes in WSBK are a far cry from what we can purchase from the dealer, but it has to be much cheaper than the prototypes in GP. I believe it is illegal to have any production parts in a GP bike. Someone correct me if this is incorrect, please. | ||
| Figorvonbuellingham |
It looks like Aprilia wants to start a satellite team next year but Dorna isn’t agreeing to it. Seems a bit odd. One team is pulling out completely and now the don’t want to let another be formed? Sounds like the right palms aren’t being greased. | ||
| Figorvonbuellingham |
Beaubier Was looking particularly strong in Lemans. It’s just a matter of time until he gets a podium. I’d like to see him be more aggressive. It just seems like he’s holding back. (Message edited by Figorvonbuellingham on May 16, 2022) | ||
| Jaimec |
(Nothing to do with the previous post from Figorvonbuellingham) Most likely "Karma" for ****ing up Rossi's chance at a tenth world title... | ||
| Figorvonbuellingham |
Moto 2 was pretty exciting. Pedro Acosta broke Marquez record of being the youngest ever to win a moto 2. He’s 18 years and 3 days. Joe Roberts did well. He managed 2nd. He’s 4th in championship points. He was showing a bit more aggression and riding very well. I hope he continues to improve in points. | ||
| Jaimec |
The annoying thing is... the two European series with American competitors is not available for viewing by any US network! Moto2 has THREE Americans competing, and WSBK has one. Moto2 is only shown in "highlights" before MotoGP, and WSBK coverage seems to occur only if the station can't find something else to broadcast. | ||
| Fresnobuell |
I have largely given up on network coverage of road racing in the US. Even on the stations that carry it, it often is not run at the time scheduled in the guide or a soccer game delays the race, hence any DVRing is thrown off. Nothing more annoying than getting down to the last quarter of a race and the recording ends. I watch MA on Fox Sports only by auto recording (see above comment). GP has a nice 20-25 minute highlight video that comes out on Youtube shortly after the races ends (next day?). My bread and butter is WSBK as I subscribe to the WSBK on demand streaming package (very happy with this.) | ||
| Figorvonbuellingham |
Yeh I’m glad my sister bought me the MotoGP subscription but I would never pay for it myself. It has tons of footage from opening statements to end of race conference. It’s nice. The really bad part is that I am not getting it in 1080, only 720 and sometimes not even that. I don’t know if it’s my provider which is T-Mobile or MotoGP itself. Next year I’m going to get WSBK subscription. I think it’s cheaper. And if my sister wants to buy it for me for my bday again, it will be easier on her wallet. But yeh, there’s no good coverage in America and everyone wonders why there isn’t a lot of interest here. When I lived in England there was all kinds of motorcycle racing on tv. It was huge there. Road racing, speedway racing, motocross, trials and it was all televised. You couldn’t avoid it. I loved it. It’s really sad what it’s become here. | ||
| Fresnobuell |
In this day and age, I can't believe you can't get 1080, especially when you are paying for a subscription. That doesn't seem quite right to me--you might want to google the issue or send an email if you can figure out where to send it. I think you will like the WSBK subscription. I can attest it comes in just fine at 1080...not to mention the superior racing. It is usually a dogfight from flag to flag and I look forward to every round. | ||
| Figorvonbuellingham |
Yeh I did Google it and there were several comments about it. It kind of seemed like they were pointing the finger at it being MotoGP streaming issue. I get most everything else in 1080 except Netflix. |
