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PostPosted: 08:46 - 21 Jul 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: 08:49 - 21 Jul 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nobody watches WSBK any more...
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PostPosted: 09:50 - 21 Jul 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

We're good at WSBK for the same reason the Spanish and Italians dominate MotoGP, our feed in classes are production bike based rather than prototype based.

If you're British and want to get your kid into racing, it's far cheaper to go down the production route than to up roots to Spain to take them through the Junior CEV whajamacallit.

WSBK hasn't been very popular here for 15-20 years I reckon though, at least not in comparison to GP.
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PostPosted: 19:57 - 22 Jul 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've two problems with WSBK.

Firstly I don't really like the format, I prefer the GP style Q1 Q2 qualifying and single race compared to the two races and superpole or whatever the WSBK qualifying format is called. I could probably get used to it if I gave it a go.

Secondly, I'm pretty invested in GP now, I've been following it closely for the last 6 years or so, and less closely for another 2 of 3 before then. I've seen racers come through the classes, I just get it all. I tried following WSBK on top last year to see how some of the faces I knew from GP were getting on, but keeping up with two race series' was too much!

Maybe I'll give it a go again some time, but not this year.
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PostPosted: 00:52 - 23 Jul 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Totally boring now. Jonathan Rea wins nearly every race, usual suspects fighting out for the minor places. FFS formula 1 is nearly as interesting.

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PostPosted: 10:09 - 23 Jul 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Old Git Racing wrote:
Jonathan Rea wins nearly every race, usual suspects fighting out for the minor places. FFS formula 1 is nearly as interesting.


It happens in all motor sport, once the best rider/driver ends up on the best machine it does become monotonous.
MotoGP has been heading that way with MM93.
I'd like to see MM93 on a different manufacturers' bike but with him being Spanish, the same as Dorna, they've bent the rules for him numerous times already, so that's not going to be happening anytime soon.
I prefer watching the WSS and Moto3, to the so called main events, it's always much closer racing!

One of the problems with WSBK, this year in particular, is that despite their denials, Ducati are not developing the current bike, they're obviously tinkering with the new V4.
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PostPosted: 11:36 - 25 Jul 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll watch any bike racing on the telly - WSBK, MotoGP, BSB, any road racing. Christ knows, it's better than the other crap they put on.

I am tired of Jonathan Rea's seeming invincibility too, but as Sid says, you see it in all racing at one time or another. But each one is capable of producing the odd classic ding-dong.
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PostPosted: 11:43 - 25 Jul 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

chickenstrip wrote:
I'll watch any bike racing on the telly - WSBK, MotoGP, BSB, any road racing. Christ knows, it's better than the other crap they put on.

I am tired of Jonathan Rea's seeming invincibility too, but as Sid says, you see it in all racing at one time or another. But each one is capable of producing the odd classic ding-dong.


Only slight aside, that it why i always rated British Touring Cars as one of the best spectator motorsports around (in recent times at least), with their success ballast (weight penalty) system and the reverse grid, it really mixes up the racing at each event

But i guess it's much trickier adding ballast to a bike than it is to a car
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PostPosted: 11:52 - 25 Jul 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

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But i guess it's much trickier adding ballast to a bike than it is to a car


You could have a fat riders championship? Laughing
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PostPosted: 00:48 - 27 Jul 2018    Post subject: Unbalanced grids. Reply with quote

It's interesting that Kawasaki are now ruling the roost, but don't go near motogp. The UK may be a small market for bikes compared to Asia, but we love a litre superbike. Wsb, when weighted towards the twins got a little like motogp is now.certain bikes won..it went stale, then the rules changed and everyone had a go. Competition breeds competition.
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PostPosted: 22:53 - 30 Jul 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

chickenstrip wrote:
rpsmith79 wrote:


But i guess it's much trickier adding ballast to a bike than it is to a car


You could have a fat riders championship? Laughing


Think I won that one in my last season racing Smile . Fat old git beating the kids, lol.

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PostPosted: 19:22 - 31 Jul 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

I kind of egg on Alex Lowes - a Brit on a Yamaha. Then Van Der Mark. I have a soft spot for Yamaha.

Strange thing is, if I could still ride sports bikes, I probably wouldn't have an R1 Confused
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