MotoGP Round 3 - Turkey

[ozrevhead]

surprising GP
What the **** was Jacque doing ?

by the looks of it he was touch at the back by Pedrosa - could be wrong though

[ChrisS]

The 125 race was great with 7 riders fighting for the top 3 positions, Concrats to Corsi for his first win. Shame Pasini once again had problems

Dovi had a great 250 race and I was surprised the Honda was able to keep up with the Aprilias let alone taking the win in the last turn, Bautista is making fellow rookies Luthi and Kallio look average

Bridgestone ruled the MotoGP race, shame Vermeulen was taken out, I think he had the pace for a podium, Stoner was again on his own and its nice to see Loris at the front again

[tha_jackal]

I thought the 125s were the pick of the bunch, great to see Corsi and Olive fullfilling their potential, aswell as Bradley Smith, Rafalle DeRosa and Lorenzo Zanetti. 250s were rather dull with three riders only ever in contention, such a large gap between factory spec and the 'rest' in 250s, its a shame.. GP well, bitter sweet for me. Great to see Casey win but Vermy set the fastest lap of the race on his second last one Coulda been an Aussie one-two .. Moving on to China I guess.. No comment about Westys weekend, what a frustrator, did about four laps on friday and that makes the rest of the weekend VERY hard..

[leopard]

One two pole position doesn't count anything. Starting the race from front line, didn't make squad of Yamaha Fiat to take benefit a rider to support another to keep leading the race. It wasn't quite a while Edwards dropped off the position to mid group where the most risky collisions usually happens in this group.

Besides formerly crashy Stoner rode that strong, and Elias who was surprising everyone, that was good to see riders rarely to be at the front: Alex Barros, Hopkins, Rde Puniet, and Hofman.

Melandri performance wasn't convincing everybody at the race where he was a king in the previous two consecutive season. This is a contrast to what his team-mate, Toni Elias, has performed yesterday.
With that result, question about the first part of bike left remain a question.

Frankly I was wishing to see the real battle between Rossi against two young guns, Stoner and Pedrosa.

[jim mcglinchey]

Really enjoyed that race, although a Casey-Vale dice with Casey winning would ve been even better.

From the Suzuki perspective, Hopper rode like a demon, but faded a bit at the end, wonder why? though he still beat Nicky at the run up to the flag to steal 6th Ha!.

If Chris hadnt been skittled I think he would ve been in the fight for third, because he rallied brilliantly after his off. Did anyine else notice how beautifully his bike was collected by Danis and carefully carried off the circuit. Chris only had to straighten it up, hop back on and he was a way like a rat out of an aquaduct.

[ChrisS]

Did anyine else notice how beautifully his bike was collected by Danis and carefully carried off the circuit.

I thought it was very clever of Chris to lay his bike on top of Perdrosa's it minimized the damage and made the bike easy to pick up, that stroke of genius allowed him to continue

[fatman]

From the Suzuki perspective, Hopper rode like a demon, but faded a bit at the end, wonder why? though he still beat Nicky at the run up to the flag to steal 6th Ha!.

I'll bet for Hopper to steal 6th from Hayden was *almost* as nice as getting onto the podium. No love lost between those two.

[MrJan]

Some good racing at points, could have been much better if Jacque hadn't sailed up the inside (yes Dani touched him but only because OJ tried a stupid move just as Pedrosa was about to turn in) Shame that Rossi's tyres went off, meant that Stoner just cruised to victory. He certainly seems to have grown up since moving to Ducati, I know it might be too soon to say but he isn't throwing points away like last season.

[fatman]

Finished watching the 125 and 250s this morning. Excellent racing all around. The last M section of the track creates a lot of excitement for all classes. I'm surprised that it was only in the MotoGP race that riders got a little too bunched up. They were diving in 6 wide in 125.

Pasini is having a terrible start to the season. I was almost certain he would be in contention for the title. His team mate Joan had an outstanding race. It's about time Joan was riding at the pointy end. Matt was telling us all last year what a great rider he was, in Turkey we were actually able to see for ourselves.

Bautista impressed me most in the 250s I think. Apart from Qatar he's having a great start to the season. He probably won't really put up a huge title fight this year, but he'll be stealing points all year long.

Even if OJ took out a couple of candidates for a win, I think the race for 3rd place in the MotoGP class was as exciting as both lower classes.

[Ranger]

Some good racing at points, could have been much better if Jacque hadn't sailed up the inside (yes Dani touched him but only because OJ tried a stupid move just as Pedrosa was about to turn in) Shame that Rossi's tyres went off, meant that Stoner just cruised to victory. He certainly seems to have grown up since moving to Ducati, I know it might be too soon to say but he isn't throwing points away like last season.

I'm quite surprised how he's turned from that pimply guy who always crashes to that pimply guy who is suddenly leading the world championship for the second time this year - he seems so laid back about it that you just think it isn't possible! :\

Jacque just presented bait for a trap. No, he wasn't the one who collided with someone else but man that looked silly when he just dived straight into a group of 10 bikes going around a corner.

Good race for 3rd, though it would've been nice if Rossi or Vermeulen were still up the front battling for 1st on the last lap.

Michelin and Honda still seem to have some work to do though - Ideally there would be more riders at the pointy end of the championship standings.

3 Ducati's in the top 4 would also indicate that they have the best bike at the moment... Yamaha and Rossi need to step it up a bit here I think, because that combination is starting to look like it isn't the combination to beat race in, race out.