....starts this weekend, no comments?

Finally... finally... Haga?

pablo <(E-Mail Removed)> Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:31:35
>...starts this weekend, no comments?
>
>Finally... finally... Haga?

Haga's going to find yet another way to come second. IMHO.

Crutchlow is a crazy man.

I think this is the year that the old guard of Haga, Toseland,
Vermeulen, Corser, Checa, Biaggi discover they've got a real fight on
their hands. Haslam, Crutchlow and Rea have the attitude and machinery
to push them about.

I think Superpole was a reflection partly of the numerous crashes and
partly of some bad choices of when to use the 2 qualifiers. But then
Crutchlow pulls a 3rd place out of a race tyre as he'd already used both
Qs.

I think Camier is faster than 16th and should make it into the top 10
tomorrow. And Byrne's big highside may have left the team without a
competitive bike and Shakey, shaken. If the team can find the money and
Ducati supply the bikes, then Checa and Shakey will end up doing what
Shakey did last year, good but not startling rides just out of TV shot.
I don't see them really able to be up with the top 5 or 6 through the
year.

Bring it on.

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Champ <(E-Mail Removed)> Tue, 2 Mar 2010 09:01:43
>And Toseland's performance on the Yamaha gives and indication as to
>just how good Spies was last year, imo.

Not making excuses for him, but I think Crutchlow, Toseland and the team
made way too many mistakes. Not least was an extra 10hp, -10Kg (or
whatever) and insufficient testing to get the traction control right
with the effect of the changes. Flying replacement seat units out
between the test and race to try and get rid of chatter is the sort of
thing BMW did, not Yamaha.

Good racing though wasn't it. Though marred by a surprising number of
crashes that all affected the racing in some way. Xaus taking out Haga
on the way into Doohan's. Shakey Byrne de-tuning himself.

What's good for the year is just how close everyone is. There's a lot of
people who will have at least one good circuit or race day. This weekend
was definitely Haslam, Guintoli, Suzuki's and Checa's. It's not at all
clear to me that they'll manage this every weekend. We'll see.

Odd to see Biaggi (and Camier) have mixed confidence in the front end.
Some times both of them would absolutely rail into the corners. At other
times both of them bottled out and ran wide or off the track.

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Please Give Way

pablo wrote:
> ...starts this weekend, no comments?
>
> Finally... finally... Haga?
>
Was this on Speed Channel in the USA? My Tivo Season Pass did not pick
it up, and I cannot find any schedule for WSB for Speed.

Thanks.

On Mar 4, 11:02*am, eroseme <eros...@emonster.rose.hp.com> wrote:

> Was this on Speed Channel in the USA? *My Tivo Season Pass did not pick
> it up, and I cannot find any schedule for WSB for Speed.

Yes. My season pass didn't pick it up either. I had to start a new
one. It was on last week at 2:00 and 3:00 central standard time.

-Dirt-

Dirt wrote:
> On Mar 4, 11:02 am, eroseme <eros...@emonster.rose.hp.com> wrote:
>
>> Was this on Speed Channel in the USA? My Tivo Season Pass did not pick
>> it up, and I cannot find any schedule for WSB for Speed.
>
> Yes. My season pass didn't pick it up either. I had to start a new
> one. It was on last week at 2:00 and 3:00 central standard time.
>
> -Dirt-
Thanks. They must have changed the name from "FIM Racing". DO you
recall what the new name is? The next race is too far out to find it,
so I'll set up a wishlist. What a disappointment to miss the race.

On Mar 4, 1:10*pm, eroseme <eros...@emonster.rose.hp.com> wrote:

> Thanks. *They must have changed the name from "FIM Racing". *DO you
> recall what the new name is? *The next race is too far out to find it,
> so I'll set up a wishlist. *What a disappointment to miss the race.

I'll check tonight or tomorrow when I'm home.

On a different note I was disappointed to see that the broadcast
quality is still s**t. It appears as if we're still getting either a
PAL or NTSC SD signal upconverted to NTSC HD on Speed and the picture
quality was extremely poor. Some of the text boxes were almost
unreadable. I find quality like this inexcusable. If the broadcast
is in SD, so be it, I can accept that, but the conversion could be
handled much, much better. I watch a good number of SD DVDs on my blu-
ray player and the upconversion there is really quite good, so I know
what we're getting on Speed could be much better. Given that F1 is
still broadcast in SD and the F1 quality on Speed is much better than
WSBK, I'm thinking it has something to do with Dorna(?) and how they
handle the signal transfer.

-Dirt-

Champ - thanks Champ wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:10:34 -0800, eroseme
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>

> They're still repeating it on Eurosport. If you want, I can grab it
> again with my HTPC (I deleted mine after I watched it) and try and put
> it up on a torrent somewhere. Although, someone may already have done
> that, so it might be worth searching around.

Champ - thanks for the offer, but no need. My home internet is so slow
I cannot load torrents. I tried for a week to get the MXdN 2008 torrent
and could not load it. Finally, I was in Brisbane on my way to Phillip
Island MotoGP and loaded it there!