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Post by philthewindsurfer on Apr 19, 2018 18:13:47 GMT
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Post by philthewindsurfer on Apr 21, 2018 10:30:53 GMT
Didnt expect Alex Lowes to be on pole, good effort!
Rea still favourite, but Lowes, vd Mark, Davies, Melandri, Forres, Sykes could all win.
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Post by philthewindsurfer on Apr 21, 2018 10:36:51 GMT
Junior SS 300 seems a bit unfair this year machinery wise. Kawasaki have bumped their twin's cc up to 400. The bike has a RRP of £5249, the Yamaha R3 321cc twin is £5299. KTM's single 390cc race version (only 500 units produced) is a whopping £9500 including the optional 230 piece race kit. None race version £5099. Watching SP2 a KTM 390 RC overtook a Kawasaki 400 down the start/finish straight! In the past the Junior series has produced some close racing, thinking of the Kwack 300 a few years ago. |
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Post by matt989 on Apr 21, 2018 20:51:37 GMT
The KTM with all the special bits comes in around 20K Phil.
It's bonkers. The Yamaha and Honda are allowed airbox mods and cut inlet trumpets this weekend, but unless you have the facility to set that up in the journey from Aragon to Assen you aren't going to see much benefit.
Very frustrating for the riders, that's for sure.
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Post by philthewindsurfer on Apr 22, 2018 7:18:53 GMT
20k was mentioned on Eurosport but when I looked it up a UK dealer was saying 9.5k. I doubt you could actually walk in to a KTM dealers and buy one as there werent many kits made available. Crescent dont even offer the race version of the bike and they are a larger dealer.
It goes against the idea of cheap and fair racing concept of a Junior development class.
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Post by philthewindsurfer on Apr 22, 2018 10:36:10 GMT
Hell of a SS race at Assen, as usual. Krummenacher's ride to 2nd from the back of the grid was amazing. They forgot to fill his bike up with petrol before the sighting lap!
Stapleford not being allowed to appeal that penalty is wrong, he said he didnt touch Caricasulo. The small straight before the previous little kink he got alongside but lost out 1/2 metre before the crash. You cant tell from the replay if his fairing touched Caricasulo's bars and it tucked the front or if Caricasulo lost the front on his own. I suspect the former as he lost the front quite early in the corner. Either way, there doesnt look like enough room for 2 bikes through that kink.
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Post by philthewindsurfer on Apr 22, 2018 10:58:14 GMT
I guess if given a ride through and you dont take it you are black flagged. So you cant appeal a ride through. As it happened late in the race the following applies as there isnt time for a ride through, but the infraction happened with 6 laps to go. www.fim-live.com/en/sport/regulations-and-documents/superbike/ If the infraction is committed during the last five laps, and the rider will not
be able to enter the pit lane for complying his ride through, therefore an
automatic time penalty will be applied.
This automatic time penalty cannot be subject of any protest or appeal.
This automatic penalty will be calculated thus: The time to pass through
the pit lane from pit entry to pit exit at 60 km/h + 20% rounded down to
the nearest second. |
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Post by pantah on Apr 23, 2018 18:32:45 GMT
Sunday's WSS race was for me the most excited i've got watching motorcycle racing in years. It had everything. The drama of RK working his way through from last on the grid to the action at the front with maybe 5 guys capable of winning and even the dream result for Randy K. CluzeRr did an amazing job to hold them off on a thrilling last lap. Amazing. I fucking love Assen.
Pleased for Sykes in race 2, shows he has the pace, just needs to be ruthless like his team mate ( eg Rea's move on Forres).
The Eurosport coverage was brilliant by the way.
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