Motogp 2018 News & Chat

tommyboy26

legrand wrote: »

Predicting short flag to flag. Roll up roll up anyone's a winner...

too many riders saying they dont want to race it is too dangerous. safety car driver said its getting worse

RustyNut

Sitting in the club corner stand. People here staring to lose faith. Alternating between raining and lashing.

RustyNut

CJhaughey

Silverstone was only resurfaced recently, this is a joke of a track.

Max Headroom

Pussy's...............Hodgeson said it right..the tail wagging the dog...

XsApollo

RustyNut wrote: »

Sitting in the club corner stand. People here staring to lose faith. Alternating between raining and lashing.

Said on BT they will re-evaluate at 1pm as it’s supposed to clear a bit at 1.30pm.
Could be a long day.

RustyNut

I'd say they will call it. The track is sodden now. Even if it stopped now it would take a lot of drying out.

RustyNut

Just announced racing to begin at 1.30. I'm not holding my breath.

XsApollo

RustyNut wrote: »

I'd say they will call it. The track is sodden now. Even if it stopped now it would take a lot of drying out.

Well They just said they had the meeting and they are thinking of racing at 1.30, also Crutchlow is with them in studio and he said they will keep updating until about 3 -3.30 before they call it.
You might get a race yet

Gremlinertia

This will be insane if it runs at half one imo.

RustyNut

It's worse now than it was earlier.

Gremlinertia

There's a truck sweeping water off the track!

The Nal

Why dont they just wait until 4pm or so? Rain mainly due to be gone by then.

XsApollo

Cal is still in the studio so I don’t think 1.30 is gonna happen 😀

RustyNut

Gremlinertia wrote: »

There's a truck sweeping water off the track!

XsApollo

Well he’s gone now had to run , possible race at 2.

Gremlinertia

Track inspection at 13.30 for possible 14.00 race

Gremlinertia

Delayed til further notice, didn't take long to decide that..

RustyNut

Next track assessment 3 o'clock. It's raining harder now than all day. Time to head back up to holyhead we think.

Max Headroom

RustyNut wrote: »

Next track assessment 3 o'clock. It's raining harder now than all day. Time to head back up to holyhead we think.

it got heavier here in wexford before it started to clear...nice now since around 1......hang in there..

RustyNut

Max Headroom wrote: »

RustyNut wrote: »

Next track assessment 3 o'clock. It's raining harder now than all day. Time to head back up to holyhead we think.

it got heavier here in wexford before it started to clear...nice now since around 1......hang in there..

We may as well. The boat is not till 2am ðŸ˜

RustyNut

Max Headroom wrote: »

RustyNut wrote: »

Next track assessment 3 o'clock. It's raining harder now than all day. Time to head back up to holyhead we think.

it got heavier here in wexford before it started to clear...nice now since around 1......hang in there..

We may as well. The boat is not till 2am ðŸ˜

Gremlinertia

15.00, let's see what we are told now. Hope they don't mess with safety..

RustyNut

Gremlinertia wrote: »

15.00, let's see what we are told now. Hope they don't mess with safety..

Someone will drown or die from pneumonia.

Gremlinertia

Reschedule for tomorrow you think?

h3000

Gremlinertia wrote: »

Reschedule for tomorrow you think?

If it doesn’t happen today it won’t happen at all.

Gremlinertia

h3000 wrote: »

If it doesn’t happen today it won’t happen at all.

Hmm. Then no points or as qualifying, apologies if that's a stupid question but I'm unsure, only an amateur observer..

h3000

Gremlinertia wrote: »

Hmm. Then no points or as qualifying, apologies if that's a stupid question but I'm unsure, only an amateur observer..

There’s no stupid questions. There will be no points if there’s no racing.

h3000

Latest updates
https://twitter.com/MotoGP/status/1033717850161205248
https://twitter.com/denkmit/status/1033720220257538049
https://twitter.com/denkmit/status/1033720503163383808

XsApollo

Looks like it’s gonna be cancelled.

h3000

According to Jack Miller it has been cancelled due to rider concerns. He and Zarco seem to be the only riders that want to race. There seems to be a lot of confusion as to what is actually happening though.

h3000

That’s it. It’s been officially cancelled.

RustyNut

They just called it now. Ah well.

tommyboy26

ridiculous to be cancelled so late with fans sitting there all day

Max Headroom

tommyboy26 wrote: »

ridiculous to be cancelled so late with fans sitting there all day

Feel even more sorry for even RustierNuts..........:o

Infoanon

tommyboy26 wrote: »

ridiculous to be cancelled so late with fans sitting there all day

Not really - they tried there best to run the grand prix but weather and track conditions worked against them.

It's a disaster for Silverstone,the reason for the gp not being run tomorrow is that a lot of the Marshalls are already assigned to other race meetings tomorrow apparently.

Tito Rabat is thankfully recovering from yesterday's accident albeit with 3 fractures to his right leg with a long period of recuperating. Although it is to be confirmed in laymans English it is believed that an artery in Titos right leg was cut in the accident.

Against this back drop,Pols and Mikas injuries it is easy to understand why all bar Jack Miller and Zarco would not race today.

Hope to see Tito back on a bike soon - one of the stars of the season on his year old Ducati

pablo128

Well we are sitting in our tent over here with nothing to do but get drunk. Ferry not till 2pm tomorrow. Gutted.:mad:

RustyNut

pablo128 wrote: »

Well we are sitting in our tent over here with nothing to do but get drunk. Ferry not till 2pm tomorrow. Gutted.:mad:

Were on our park an ride bus back to the car then KFC and holyhead.

RustyNut

Hope Tito is on the road to recover soon. Its a pisser but was never going to happen.

RustyNut

Hope Tito is on the road to recover soon. Its a pisser but was never going to happen.

Max Headroom

The divas riders are reminding me of footballers now, overpaid showmen...think there were more than just two guys who wanted to race..

h3000

Max Headroom wrote: »

The divas riders are reminding me of footballers now, overpaid showmen...think there were more than just two guys who wanted to race..

I think you’re being a bit harsh Max. The track was not draining and while it was dry enough to start racing if it rained again there could be a big accumulation of water which could have led to more crashes involving multiple riders. Did you see Rins trying to stop his bike.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eHqt2Dbsqk

XsApollo

Overpaid showmen :-D
I presume your trolling?
I don’t think anybody that follows motorcycle racing would hold any rider in any class or championship as Overpaid Showmen.

Max Headroom

XsApollo wrote: »

Overpaid showmen :-D
I presume your trolling?
I don’t think anybody that follows motorcycle racing would hold any rider in any class or championship as Overpaid Showmen.

Well they're there for our entertainment..they parade around a (relatively) safe track and get paid huge amounts of money....except ,now it seems if it rains.....like there never has been a wet race...I watched the whole day of coverage today and even the guys on the panel were surprised at the cancellation...and they were/ are riders...or maybe just trolls...:p

BTW Nice to see Bruce out for a lap yesterday....

CJhaughey

Rabat's Injury is a potential career ender, Open fracture of Femur, Tib and Fib and hip damage as well, how anyone could think that it would have been OK to race in these conditions with a 280+hp bike is deluded.
The press conference afterwards was.. interesting, some teams complaining that they were not told until after the decision was made to cancel.
Ducati being one.
This plays into Marquez's favour assuming he has no DNF's between now and the end of the season.
I hope those that attended will get a refund of their ticket at the very least.
This kind of debacle is not good for the sport, there is no way that a modern surface should hold water like that, it will be very interesting to see what happens if F1 ever has to race in similar conditions a cancelled F1 race would be a much bigger deal.

Max Headroom

Rabat's injury was caused by another bike collecting him....just unlucky...could have raced today..all that "no staff" is bullsh1t...

XsApollo

Unlucky?
I’d say he was lucky that’s all that happened.
4 or 5 riders went off at the same corner
The track was a mess, the resurfacing job was a mess , simple as.
If the track was up to scratch we might have got a race.

Can’t blame the riders for that.

pablo128

I was there. It was raining for much of the day. But it wasn't properly belting down. From what I can make out, the track not draining was the problem. As much as I wanted a race, I couldn't blame the riders. I will be expecting some sort of refund though.

Max Headroom

pablo128 wrote: »

I was there. It was raining for much of the day. But it wasn't properly belting down. From what I can make out, the track not draining was the problem. As much as I wanted a race, I couldn't blame the riders. I will be expecting some sort of refund though.

I knew a few guys that went over and they said exactly the same.....some standing water in a couple of places...my guess is that the riders were standing around so much that they just got fed up ..as i did watching from my comfy sofa..
Maybe the riders need to come to Mondello for a few track days....

pablo128

Max Headroom wrote: »

I knew a few guys that went over and they said exactly the same.....some standing water in a couple of places...my guess is that the riders were standing around so much that they just got fed up ..as i did watching from my comfy sofa..
Maybe the riders need to come to Mondello for a few track days....

No the track was flooded where we were. And that was with tractors and sweepers trying to clear it. The water simply wouldn't drain at all.