Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > New race strategy

[Nigel C]

Haven't seen any posts about ducati's new motogp strategy but what a brilliant idea get one of your riders to take out the field at the first corner leaving the way clear for the other bike

[Road Runner]

I have watched it several times and Im not so sure that it was all his fault looks like he had his nose cut off ?? and I hardly think Biaggi had any cause to complain he punted Loris off the race before..

[antonye]

Maybe it was Biaggi getting his own back

[skidlids]

Ditto Road Runners comments

[Ozz]

Shame Bayliss chucked it down the road again! Very sad to see.

[Ian]

there is no truth in the rumour that Loris has been employed by Bin Laden to take out every American rider.........

I thought it was Hopkins fault, - rest of the world seems to blame Loris, although I thought I heard Max in interview blaim Xaus!!! Don't you just know in every accident Xaus is going to be blaimed by at least one person?

I would say Baylis did the right thing today, it was win it or bin it, he was riding hard to get that podium.

I think my prediction would have been right if it was n't for that first bend incident, got Tamada and Rossi, just no Nakano but who would have called that, even on a Bridgestone track?

[antonye]

Apparently Loris hit Hopkins first.

Nice piccy here:
http://images.motograndprix.com/mult...4611_65017.jpg

[TP]

I watched this about 10 times last night on the video, you could see that Hopkins came from a fairly wide line across the front into Loris' line and then Loris locked the rear up and it came around and then he ran into Hopper. The rest was really the ensuing carnage!

It was really a racing incident I think, Loris might not have been expecting Hopper to take that line because he was fairly wide already - you'd think he'd give a bit more room in turn 1 of the race seeing as he was coming from a wide position but then Loris should have bene able to adjust so as not to hit him. IMO both riders are responsible.

If you think back to Biaggi running into Loris in the last race I think that was more Biaggi's fault (because he's a tw*t!) because Biaggi had a lot more time to see Loris coming back onto the line and that was always going to happen after Loris was pushed wide in the first place. Biaggi was complaining about people thinking they can win the race in the first lap (he said the same thing yesterday!) but it was realy his fault - IMO. Not that he'd really accept any blame for an accident anyway ....

[antonye]

You're always going to get this kind of incident where turn one is tight, and there's not much straight before it. I doubt they'll redesign the track, but it ain't gonna change until they do - racers want the best line and for people like Hopkins (and Capirex too) it's "win it or bin it" at the moment!