Stoner smashes ’em up in FrenchGP

[WayneMember]

Honda, Honda, Ducati

Stoner dropped from 1st to 4th before the first corner. He was then back to 1st before the finish of the opening lap. Pedrosa stayed with him for a while, but couldn’t stay with him.

The 3 Hondas were 1,2,3 for quite a while.

Pedrosa was out braked into a corner by Simoncelli and then hit his rear wheel and went down. Looks like Pedrosa has smashed his collarbone again!! Simoncelli got a ride through penalty…..unbelievable. Daryl Beattie thought it was an OK move.

Dovisioso and Rossi went at it near the end, but Rossi had to settle for 3rd – his first podium since joining Ducati. Lorenzo, on his Yammy, couldn’t stay with them.

Spies just not getting their yet.

Stoner ran out of fuel of his victory lap!!!! Now 2nd in the Championship.

Stoner beat Rossi’s 2008 lap record too!

Crash

[Jeffrey SmithMember]

I reckon it would be a hard thing to go from a high reving yammy to the low revs of the Ducati’s. I road a Ducati once after getting off my CBR600F and thought there was something wrong with it at first. I went to wind it out a bit through the gears and it was breaking down in the revs, then I realised it red lined at about 5 or 6 thousand revs I think from memory where as the CBR red lined at about 13000

[Richard WMember]

Enjoyed Moto2, forgotten his name already, but in just is forth race at 16 managed to pull off a win.

Whats the story with Kasey punching out some dude and getting fined $5k?

[ScottMember]

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Whats the story with Kasey punching out some dude and getting fined $5k?[/quote]

He didn’t punch him out he hit him on the arm…….

Stoner was on a fast lap during morning warm up apparently close to 300kph, Randy De Punet was apparently playing around with his brakes doing about 100kph and swerved onto the racing line in front of Stoner. Stoner belted him in the arm as he went past and then got up out of the seat and shook his fist at him.

I’m interested to know peoples opinions on the Dani Pedrosa, Marco Simoncelli incident… was the ride through penalty warranted or not?

[WayneMember]

Dickie wrote:

Enjoyed Moto2, forgotten his name already, but in just is forth race at 16 managed to pull off a win.

Whats the story with Kasey punching out some dude and getting fined $5k?

Dickie,
He is Repsol Hondas’ Marc Marquez.
He won the 125cc Championship last year and has only riden 50 races all up!
He hasn’t finished a race this year until last night.

PS. Karma caught up with De Puniet…….he came down on his own during the race. (he’s OK)

Badbowie, As for an opinion on the Simoncelli incident………..My opinion is that a ride through penalty wasn’t warranted. The cutting in front of Podrosa looked pretty bad on 1 hand, but on the other, Simoncelli clearly out braked him into the corner out wide and took the clear track in front of him. Podrosa wasn’t in tight on the apex and seemed to be starting to stand his bike up as he clipped the back wheel. I don’t know enough to argue either way, but am quite willing to go along with Daryl Beattie whose experience with all things MotoGP is pretty hard to ignore…………He reckons it’s a racing incident and did not deserve a penalty!!

Crash

[MAL BURMEISTERMember]

Hey what a great result, enjoyed the race ps : lucky those repsol guys know their maths could have gone pear shaped,the fuel in stoners bike. look out lorenzo stoners coming cheers too all BULL 400.

[Matt BakerMember]

Jeffro wrote:

I reckon it would be a hard thing to go from a high reving yammy to the low revs of the Ducati’s. I road a Ducati once after getting off my CBR600F and thought there was something wrong with it at first. I went to wind it out a bit through the gears and it was breaking down in the revs, then I realised it red lined at about 5 or 6 thousand revs I think from memory where as the CBR red lined at about 13000

I think you will find that the Motogp Ducati engine is nothing like the road bike engines, its a v4 and revs to about 18,000

[GarryMember]

Videos:

Stoner vs RdP – http://www.streetfire.net/video/stoner-vs-de-puniet_2252637.htm

Simoncelli vs Pedrosa – http://www.twowheelsblog.com/post/6362/video-why-marco-simoncelli-got-a-ride-through-penalty

Gaz

[Jeffrey SmithMember]

LC4skin wrote:

Jeffro wrote:

I reckon it would be a hard thing to go from a high reving yammy to the low revs of the Ducati’s. I road a Ducati once after getting off my CBR600F and thought there was something wrong with it at first. I went to wind it out a bit through the gears and it was breaking down in the revs, then I realised it red lined at about 5 or 6 thousand revs I think from memory where as the CBR red lined at about 13000

I think you will find that the Motogp Ducati engine is nothing like the road bike engines, its a v4 and revs to about 18,000

Really? they don’t sound like they are reving that high

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