Journalists lap times

Here we have the really important times from the last few days tests.
That of the journalists on the Ducati demo bike.

http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/article/?lnk=rss&article=30718

 

Yes. He should be about 30 now. Brought up in a similar fashion to KRJR:
combination of dirt track and Spanish road racing background.

 

Yes. He races with some success in various Spanish championships,
Barcelona 24 Horas, etc.

Micheal Neeves is an MCN reporter who has raced at a couple of rounds
of the Suzuki GSX-R European Championship series that has supported
some of the WSBK rounds.

Dario Marchetti is an ex-racer involved with the Ducati Experience
race school thing.

Steve Atlas sounds like a character out of a Boys Own Adventure. "At
the last minute, Atlas manged to wrestle the Ducati round the tight
left hander, only avoiding collision with Sir Alan of Cathcart and by
the narrowest margin. There would be hell to pay in the bars of Cheste
later that night..."

 

Iain Chalmers notes:

Why does Cycle Spew still give him so much space if he's that
slow? They must think the history factor - being able to compare
what he thought about last year's and the year before's etc -
is more important than actually being able to find out how the
thing works somewhere nearer race speed. I'd find somebody
new and faster if it was me.

And I thought the Gobert guy was a fairly fast club racer, he had
real rides for a while here in the states. If so, his times are
depressing for the rest of us club racers, in comparison to the
fast guys.


Go fast. Take chances.
Mike S.

 

You'd need to find someone who wasn't contracted to a particular
manufacturer in some way (as most racers and many ex-racers are),
someone that the teams trusted not to destroy their bike, someone who
could churn out a few thousand credible, intelligent and coherent
words, and finally someone who was available to come to where the bike
is at a time when it suits the team.

We also don't know how many laps each rider got, the state of the
tyres, traffic on the circuit, etc.

 

Champ notes:

Yeabut Crashcart was slower than any of the other slow
journalists. In particular to Cycle Spew, since I read it every
week, they've got a kid roadracer writing up new bikes,
wish I could remember his name. Why not send him instead
of Sir Slow? I guess it's because they don't see actually
exercising the bike as important. Just plodding along is
enough for them. I'd like more though.

Waitaminute. I just checked and Steve Atlas, 10 seconds
faster than His Royal Slowness at this test, is the Cycle Spew
road editor. Will they let him write up the MotoGP bikes???


Go fast. Take chances.
Mike S.

 

If it was a track you were familiar with and had some semblance of the speed
and braking available, I'll bet you could. And that shouldn't be too many
"ifs".