Troy's OK

replay it and you will see Marco Melandri needs a smack in the head!!

 

Sad sad boy ...


Still - good that Bayliss is OK

I saw a headline in the Herald Sun (I think) that was something along
the lines of "Local hero in 245km/h fall". Something tells me he was
doing a loooot less than that into Honda corner.

Where do they get their figures from ...

Cheers



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Kevin Gleeson
Technical Director
Blue Rocket Productions
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
www.blue-rocket.com.au

 

I read in the Herald that Bayliss stated that he only got through thanks to
being in constant contact with you. :|

Dave ZZR600 => ST2 (stolen) => '03 XX

 

Yeah - it was a funny camera angle though. I thought Melandri had
tapped him at first but in slow motion I decided he was clear and just
moving across for a better line.

There was a chopper shot later that I didn't see clearly - did that
show whether they touched?

Cheers



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Kevin Gleeson
Technical Director
Blue Rocket Productions
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
www.blue-rocket.com.au

 

Thank God

Looked like a shocker type fall

But after a x-ray scan was on his way back to P/Isd. that same Sunday night

Onya Digger,tough as nails

Better luck next and last race in 2 weeks time,last chance for the year

Forza Ducati Forza Troy !!

CDIHL

 

They didn't touch
Melandri moved to get a better line as Troy was about to pounce
Troy had to grab a fistful of brake and lost it in the dirty edge.
Just bad luck
not melandri's fault.

 

Actually you will find that it is "just a racing accident/incident", i
noticed Troy had the back wheel in the air ,cranked over steering and on the
wet white line....all at once ! NOT like when Biaggi was trying to force
Valentino off onto the grass in the Jap GP

Notice how Valentino gets back a bit away from all these nutcases at the
beginning ( u cannot win the race till the last lap) and then just picks
them off one by one when they are all spread out,or fallen off

No need to get all bunched up and attack 1 corner as if your life depended
on it

As for Valentino,claims it was the first time ever that he was doing laps at
100% after he found he had +10secs he was on fire so to speak,give him 10
out of 10 for that effort

As for Loris,first of the mortals home in 2nd and was trying for sure,doubt
Valentino could have got the Duke to go any faster (then again.....)

Last chance for somebody else to win at Valencia,GO THE WCM !!

CDIHL

 

well.

Now-now, James... just because the leering dimwits (chief among them bike
journos who should know better than to succumb to hero worship) hanging off
the bandwagon are spoiling the view...

 

I did (and many others) have a bit of a pray for him and yeah it did the
trick,but really i dont deserve any credit for it ) give that to the MAN
upstrairs so to speak

I dont want to see any of them get hurt,but he did look like a puppet
sliding on the grass

CDIHL

 

True - was a pretty shocking thing to watch.

Dave

 

The cops?

 

Well, Kevin, I'm glad you asked.

Everyone knows speed causes accidents. So if he did 244km/h up
the main straight without falling off, he must have been doing
245km/h or he wouldn't have fallen off ...

If only a safety camera had been there to prevent it ...

-----sharks

 

Smee is of the opinion:

Speaking of dirty edges, where the fsck did all those rocks and shit come
from? I don't think they were on the track when Bayliss went off (at least
not all over the track) but every time after that there was shit everywhere
on that corner.

Can't imagine it got scattered all over there when Troy went off - in the
wrong direction, for a start. But I didn't hear of anyone else coming off
there, which is the only likely scenario for scattering that much crap on
the track.

Would have been rather unnerving going around Honda corner - you go from a
nice wide racetrack to a non-lethal width of about a metre - lose your line
around that corner and you're just about guaranteed to end up going for a
bikeless ride...

- Matt
GT750 and proud!

 

That's true - so if he'd just dropped off 5 km/h and entered Honda
corner at 240 km/h he would have been OK!

Silly me for not spotting that earlier.

Cheers



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Kevin Gleeson
Technical Director
Blue Rocket Productions
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
www.blue-rocket.com.au

 

Why? Bike goes down, tumbles end-over-end or pirouettes on its side,
scooping up gravel and tufts of turf and flinging it off in all directions
in the process...

 

Intact Kneeslider is of the opinion:

Perhaps. The track seemed very well coated, and pretty evenly distributed,
though. And there was a *lot* of crap on the track.

I guess I'll just have to go to the damn thing next year, so I can see what
happens properly. Damn TV cameras never give the right angles to answer
these incredibly vital questions. <g>

- Matt
GT750 and proud!

 

Yeah - but I can understand it down the side he went down on but there
was so much more shit behind him on the other side of the track. It's
like someone had a big moment in the dirt on the other side.

I was watching the chopper angle of the crash to see where the dirt
came from (which is why I missed looking for Melandri's move) and it
didn't seem to come from the Ducati[1]

Cheers

[1] Shouldn't have said Ducati[2] should I? Hatz will get all excited
again.

[2] Whoops!



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Kevin Gleeson
Technical Director
Blue Rocket Productions
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
www.blue-rocket.com.au

 

No, that's what brought Casey Stoner undone... The rain had stopped and the
track had dried out by the time the big bikes lined up on the grid...

 

Yeah all he had to do was...
"Wipe off 5"

 

Didnt all the gravel get on the track by being washed onto it from the heavy
rain?