| Author | Message | ||
     Diablobrian |
Even the most seasoned champion can have a bad day. | ||
| Blake |
SPOILER!!! Do not read if you want to experience the drama watching on SpeedTV later today! WOOOOHOOOO!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! From www.SuperbikePlanet.com (since the www.motogp.com site is not working)... MotoGP: Valencia Grand Prix -- BOMBSHELL!!! | ||
| Eboos |
Yep, motogp.com is down. I read that in crash.net. Is anyone watching the race right now? | ||
| Diablobrian |
I'm still on motogp.com's timing page and it's active. | ||
| Blake |
Another SPOILER!!! Do not read if you want to experience the drama watching on SpeedTV later today! GO NICKY GO!!! WOOOOHOOOO!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! From www.SuperbikePlanet.com (since the www.motogp.com site is not working)... MotoGP: Valencia Grand Prix -- Update | ||
| Blake |
Brian, What is the URL for that page? (right click - properties... cut and paste here.) | ||
| Bigdaddy |
I can't get motogp site up. It's probably suffering flood. | ||
| Diablobrian |
sorry Blake I didn't see the request until after it was over. | ||
| Blake |
SPOILER!!! Two laps to go, Rossi and Hayden racing like mad! What a finish! What a championship! What a crappy MotoGP website! LOL. SPOIER!!! MotoGP: Valencia Grand Prix -- It's Within Reach For Nicky Hayden | ||
| Blake |
Eboos and all, In order to avoid spoiling the race for those who wish to watch it on Speed later, please be sure to post at least forty or so characters prior to announcing anything that will give the race away. Cool?  Eboos, I removed your last post for that reason. (Message edited by Blake on October 29, 2006) | ||
| Blake |
Guys, when someone is using the "Search for New Messages" they will see the first 30 or 40 characters of every new post. Carriage returns or line breaks or whatever you want to call them will not prevent following characters from being displayed. So please. Here, use the following to preface all new posts talking about the race results... SPOILER!!! I'm going to talk about the race results in the this post, so if you are wanting to watch it on a delayed broadcast later, please do not open this page or read this post. Just cut and past that or something like it and everyone looking to watch the race later with ingorant (a good thing in this case) enthusiasm will thank us.  (Message edited by Blake on October 29, 2006) | ||
| Lake_bueller |
Danm job getting in the way of watching the race (even on delay). I need to get a TiVo Looking forward to the spoiler results!!! | ||
| Diablobrian |
Spoiler....Spoiler....Spoiler....Spoiler....Spoiler....Spoiler....Spoiler....Spoiler.... Better yes? Nicky finished 3rd Rossi finished 14th. We have a new MotoGP Champion. (Message edited by diablobrian on October 29, 2006) | ||
| Eboos |
This enthusiast is conducting a test of the Spoiler Broadcast System. This is only a test. BEEEEEEEEP This has been a test of the Spoiler Broadcast System. The broadcasters of your area in voluntary cooperation with the administrators and other custodians have developed this system to keep you informed in the event of a race. If this had been an actual spoiler, the Attention Signal you just heard would have been followed by racing information, news or instructions This enthusiast serves the Bad Weather Bikers. This concludes this test of the Spoiler Broadcast System. | ||
| Blake |
 Now if Richard will also kindly take note. | ||
| Swespeed |
SPOILER!!! I'm going to talk about the race results in the this post, so if you are wanting to watch it on a delayed broadcast later, please do not open this page or read this post. Congrats America!!!! You have a Motogpchamp!! Go Nicky!!!  (Message edited by swespeed on October 29, 2006) (Message edited by Blake on October 29, 2006) | ||
| Jens |
SPOILER!!! I'm going to talk about the race results in the this post, so if you are wanting to watch it on a delayed broadcast later, please do not open this page or read this post. Yeah, CONGRATULAION! Now you got your US GP 500 Champion (-: Jens (Message edited by Blake on October 29, 2006) | ||
| Rocketsprink |
SPOILER!!! I'm going to talk about the race results in the this post, so if you are wanting to watch it on a delayed broadcast later, please do not open this page or read this post. So I take it Bayliss won? Maybe Ducati needs to rethink it's Stoner choice. Great, Super. Blah, Blah, Blah. There isn't one guy out there that doesn't deserve to be champion. They all put their @ss on the line. At the risk of being flamed, good for Nicky. But it's a shame that a crash, on Rossi's part, spoiled what could have been one hell of a race between the two. (Message edited by Blake on October 29, 2006) | ||
| Coolice |
Now I can watch Da Bears and not have to channel surf, well not as much, cab races on too...Still not the same as last Sat night at Daytona MotoST, standing on the podium with the team. Congrats *****!!!  | ||
| Rocketsprink |
Mike, saw the Photo's on the Moto-st site. Great job! You all should be proud. Now back to your regularly scheduled gloating.  | ||
| Rocketman |
SPOILER!!! I'm going to talk about the race results in the this post, so if you are wanting to watch it on a delayed broadcast later, please do not open this page or read this post. Fantastic Congratulations to the spoiler. It couldn't have gone to a nicer guy, and one that's tried hard all season. Loved Nicky's start line antics. Did you catch him rubbing elbows off the line with Valentino? Nicky gave it all. Stayed in contention with Capirossi until it was safe to consolidate third. A faultless run and one deserving to steal Rossi's thunder. Rocket | ||
| Blake |
SPOILER!!! I'm going to talk about the race results in the this post, so if you are wanting to watch it on a delayed broadcast later, please do not open this page or read this post. Invisible ink. How about that Baylis! Ducati needs him back for 2007 in MotoGP! Next season with the debut of the 800's and all the new but no longer rookie talent should make for a great show. I still don't get the need to drop down to 800cc's though. Am still looking forward to watching the race... in five more hours. SpeedTV runs infomercials instead of showing the race live. Somebody please smack the guys running the show at SpeedTV! | ||
| Brucelee |
SPOILER!!! I'm going to talk about the race results in the this post, so if you are wanting to watch it on a delayed broadcast later, please do not open this page or read this post. Congrats to Nicky. Well deserved Championship. He will never be the same! (Message edited by Blake on October 29, 2006) | ||
| Ceejay |
Spoiler! spoiler! Ha! you guys make it even harder to not look by doing that. Still great to see and I'll still be watching because the racing won't be changed by knowing who won. Excellent... Blake I think they do that here in the states for the football folks, I have to wrestle the TV from my wife as she's a Pburgh fan | ||
| Blake |
SPOILER!!! I'm going to talk about the race results in the this post, so if you are wanting to watch it on a delayed broadcast later, please do not open this page or read this post. From a press release issued by Honda: HONDA RACING INFORMATION Nicky Hayden MotoGP World Champion The ‘Kentucky Kid’ is now the 2006 MotoGP World Champion. Nicky Hayden has taken on the best riders in the world and triumphed in what has been a gruelling 17-race season spanning the globe – the toughest task in motorcycle racing. But here at Valencia, Spain the 26-year-old has achieved his life ambition and taken the greatest prize in two-wheel racing. At the end of an emotional day Nicky said. “When you dedicate your life to something and the dream comes true it feels so good. This is a proud day for me, the team and my family. I want to thank everybody back home and I hope they’re partying back there in Owensboro. When I went down at the beginning of the Estoril race I thought the dream was over but I just didn’t give up. Anything can happen in racing and you just keep fighting until the end. I just believe good things happen to good people and this is a great day for me. I swear on the warm-up lap this morning I was riding round in front of a full house here and I had tears in my eyes because I knew this was the chance of a lifetime and I had to go for it. I’ve felt all year that this was my year – even at Estoril when Elias beat Rossi I believed it. I knew that, win or lose, I was going to sleep well tonight because I was gonna give it my all today. Satoru Horiike, Managing Director of HRC, was quick to praise Nicky he said. “First of all I wish to congratulate Nicky and thank him for bringing the title back to Honda. He rode a good clever race today. I also have to thank Dani because he also did a good job for us today. During the season we had to put in a great effort and had to cope with some problems with the clutch but finally Nicky made it.” Nicky’s two wins and 10 podiums, combined with his 16/17 points scoring finishes have made him the first American rider since Kenny Roberts JR in 2000 to lift the biggest prize in bikesport. Nicky’s consistency has been his greatest strength this year. Even when the Repsol Team has struggled to adapt his development Honda RC211V to a certain track, his sheer grit and refusal to yield to circumstance has ensured he has scored points when a lesser rider might have crumbled. Nicky’s competitive urge and the huge amount of experience he has gained over four seasons of premier class racing have finally come together to give the bike-crazy Hayden family it’s first World Champion. For a kid who started riding when he was three and was telling his dad Earl he wanted to be a World Champion when he was five – this first World crown is the culmination of years of hard graft learning the craft of Grand Prix motorcycle racing. Nicky’s dirt-riding skills gave him a head start over most of his rivals when he graduated to riding the big 990cc four-strokes and it was no surprise then that he secured the Rookie Of The Year title in 2003. But further success then seemed a long time coming. His 2004 season was blighted by injury and it wasn’t until he won his ‘home’ race at Laguna Seca in mid-2005 that belief started to course through his veins. Nicky finished 2005 with four consecutive podium finishes and this was a pattern he would continue in 2006. Hayden scored four top three finishes in Spain, Qatar, Turkey and China, then dropped to a fifth in France before regaining momentum with wins the Netherlands and again at Laguna Seca. But then success tailed off with a ninth in the Czech Republic, fourth in Malaysia and two fifth places in Australia and Japan. He had to dig deep to get his title-winning season back on course with just two rounds to go and with only a 12-point lead over his nearest rival Rossi. But when he needed a big performance, he found it when it mattered most… To dethrone a multiple MotoGP title winner in Rossi is a towering achievement and to do it while developing a second generation RCV machine for Honda puts Hayden’s 2006 performance among the best yet seen in the four-stroke era. This was one of the closest title contests in years with an ebb and flow to it that has gripped race fans for seven tense months. Nicky is no stranger to winning, but now he has a World title to add to a string of American Championships. It’s taken this former US flat-tracker four years to fulfil a dream, and this success is without doubt the sweetest yet tasted for Nicky. The approachable, amiable and supremely able rider formerly known as ‘Mr Dirt’ for his success on the cinders can now formally call himself ‘Mr MotoGP 2006’. | ||
| Blake |
SPOILER!!! I'm going to talk about the race results in the this post, so if you are wanting to watch it on a delayed broadcast later, please do not open this page or read this post. From a press release issued by Dorna Communications: Hayden takes title after Rossi crash, Bayliss wins race Gran Premio bwin.com de la Comunitat Valenciana - Sunday 29th October In another incredible race of what has been an amazing season, Nicky Hayden achieved motorcycling’s ultimate accolade of being crowned MotoGP World Champion. The American star’s third place, coupled with Valentino Rossi’s early crash, Starting from fifth on the grid, the Repsol Honda rider laid his chips down early, pulling away from the grid and veering sharply to the right and nearly touching Rossi, who led him by eight points ahead of the final race. By lap seven Hayden was in a comfortable third, a position he stuck in until reaching the chequered flag. In the pre-race press conference, Hayden had been insistent that Rossi was not a “choke artist,” but that he needed a bad day from the Camel Yamaha rider to take the title. It was an uncharacteristic error on lap four that proved to be Rossi’s undoing, as he lowsided his Yamaha M1 and was unable to make up enough points upon rejoining the race. The Italian eventually finished thirteenth. With all the focus on the overall classification, the fantastic achievement of Troy Bayliss could easily be overlooked. The Australian rider was standing in for the injured Sete Gibernau to finish the journey of the Ducati Desmosedici 990cc bike which he started back in 2003, and did so in style by leading from the first corner on his 50th Grand Prix appearance. Bayliss took the early holeshot and was untroubled by team-mate Loris Capirossi, who finished second, as he earned first ever MotoGP win. Capirossi also had reason to celebrate when he crossed the line, taking third place in the championship from compatriot Marco Melandri. Dani Pedrosa was alongside Hayden for the second race in a row, but this time there was no reason for friction between the two riders. On the second lap the Spaniard took a wide line to let his team-mate through, and did a sterling job of Immediately behind Pedrosa were two other Honda riders, Marco Melandri and Toni Elias. A top six finish tops off a good year for Melandri, who just missed out on third spot in the overall standings, and continues Toni Elias’ run of good form which culminated in victory two weeks ago in Portugal. Shinya Nakano was seventh in his final ride for Kawasaki, ahead of Kenny Roberts Jr, Colin Edwards and Carlos Checa. Hayden becomes the first rider apart from Rossi to win a MotoGP World Title since 2000, before the championship was run on 990cc four-stroke machines. On that occasion it was compatriot Kenny Roberts Jr. and Hayden joins him as the seventh American to win a MotoGP World Championship. MotoGP will be run on 800cc machinery next season, and the first race will take place at Qatar on March 10th, 2007. Yeah, I felt obliged to do some editing. | ||
| Curtyd |
My damn cable co., Time-Warner/Bright House, can NOT unscramble the digital signal in their broadcast, all I get is digital GARBAGE, am I missing the best race of the season? NOW, I can't even get the Colts Football game, I can't wait to get my Direct TV dish after we move in the spring  (Message edited by CURTYD on October 29, 2006) | ||
| Blake |
Best race of the season as far as I'm concerned. Page up to this post and read all about it. Valentino Rossi choked. Who would have guessed it. | ||
| Anonymous |
Blake, Thanks for the editing. Doesn't it suck when folks aren't willing to give Nicky full credit? He got taken out, and they say it was because he was slow, and Valentino crashes on his own, and it will be called a brave charge, probably. Well, as Rocket says, Nicky did earn this one the hard way. He gave it everything possible, and finally racing karma caught up with Rossi for a change. | ||
| Brucelee |
The nice thing about winning the championship is that by definition, it makes Nicky the BEST rider for this MGP season. Game, set, and match. |
