WSBK Round 1

Stonewall · Feb 22, 2015

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Death R1 · Feb 22, 2015

Stonewall said:
Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wow indeed --great save by Haslom in race 1

YZF-Rich · Feb 22, 2015

What about Salom in qualifying? Freak'n ouch!

Stonewall · Feb 22, 2015

And in the race!

Acidsamuraix · Feb 23, 2015

I'm glad Haslam finally got a bike he deserved. Jonathan Rea too. Both were stuck on the outdated Hondas wasting talent for too long. That said, Van Der Mark really made a statement. Phillip Island is usually an outlier in terms of overall standings, but it's shaping up to be an exciting season. I love WSBK racing.

franky996 · Feb 23, 2015

Both races were very exciting and super close. To bad that Yamaha screwed up by introducing a new R1 for the street and not racing it this season in WSBK. Next season the bike is old news and most likely the others have new or updated models out.

MotoGp is supposed to be the top of racing, but I think WSBK is more interesting to watch. Where else do you see 3-4 manufacturers fighting so close together and swapping positions that many times throughout a race?

I hope they bring WSBK racing to COTA in the future

Stonewall · Feb 23, 2015

franky996 said:
Both races were very exciting and super close. To bad that Yamaha screwed up by introducing a new R1 for the street and not racing it this season in WSBK. Next season the bike is old news and most likely the others have new or updated models out.

MotoGp is supposed to be the top of racing, but I think WSBK is more interesting to watch. Where else do you see 3-4 manufacturers fighting so close together and swapping positions that many times throughout a race?

I hope they bring WSBK racing to COTA in the future

The rule changes they made is what brought all the MFG into the dog fight we saw, Makes it more of a rider race than just raw power.

One-ops · Feb 23, 2015

Love battles like that.
Go Davies! Been watching him since he ran ama. He's going to have good year. Bike seems a touch down on power.
Wtf was GUINTOLI thinking going to the Honda????

Stonewall · Feb 23, 2015

One-ops said:
Love battles like that.
Go Davies! Been watching him since he ran ama. He's going to have good year. Bike seems a touch down on power.
Wtf was GUINTOLI thinking going to the Honda????

Probably MONEY! :lol

franky996 · Feb 23, 2015

The Dutch guy, van de something or other, he led for a while with his Honda. Seems it's competitive, at least for a while, maybe the tires gave out later on

Stonewall · Feb 23, 2015

With the new rules all the MFG's will be competitive if they have a rider that can stay on the bike. Tires will be one thing that may still be a factor as some bikes are easier on them than others throughout the race.

HKr1 · Feb 23, 2015

Where's Baz? Where's Marco?? Where's Steve & Johnthan???
Sad, Just Sad....................:corn

DarkHorse · Feb 25, 2015

Just watched it. Holy sh!t.

YZF-Rich · Feb 25, 2015

HKr1 said:
Where's Baz? Where's Marco?? Where's Steve & Johnthan???
Sad, Just Sad....................:corn

Baz=Forward Racing (MotoGP)
Marco= Gresini Aprilia (MotoGP)
Steve=? Not sure who Steve is...

Jonathan= Kawasaki. Currently tied for the lead WSBK...

Can blame the first two for jumping ship to MotoGP. They have zero change of winning (or a top ten really), but I bet the money is a lot better.

Acidsamuraix · Feb 25, 2015

I think he means Jonathan Greene and Steve martin. I miss Steve a lot, great insight on the calls. I'm curious where they went too. I was hoping they'd be back for the race, but all newer guys.

Stonewall · Feb 25, 2015

One2 said:
Just watched it. Holy sh!t.

Indeed! Best racing I have seen on a opener.

hiddentoken · Feb 25, 2015

Acidsamuraix said:
I think he means Jonathan Greene and Steve martin. I miss Steve a lot, great insight on the calls. I'm curious where they went too. I was hoping they'd be back for the race, but all newer guys.

I am actually going to miss those guys if they have been replaced. I like the chemistry they have and how they would go back and forth sometimes and Steve would just flat out disagree with Jonathan when he started speculating on stuff. Always cracked me up.

YZF-Rich · Feb 26, 2015

The WSS race was pretty damn good as well. I don't think I have seen bikes that sideways in a long time. Not much from Yamaha (two bikes) in the whole WSBK series. I figured there would be more R6's, but WSS is a small series (relatively).

Stonewall · Feb 26, 2015

YZF-Rich said:
The WSS race was pretty damn good as well. I don't think I have seen bikes that sideways in a long time. Not much from Yamaha (two bikes) in the whole WSBK series. I figured there would be more R6's, but WSS is a small series (relatively).

Yes, A lot of black marks left!

YZF-Rich · Feb 26, 2015

Smith at turn 4 on lap 5 I think... Commentator says "I am actually reading the sponsors on the side of his bike"...

Honda, far right...

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