Valencia Moto GP (SPOILER,SPOILER,SPOILER)

Unbelievable....I get up incredibly early, watch the 250 race with no
problems, then the live feed drops after 17 minutes of the Moto GP race!

BUT....did I already see the most important development? This newsgroup
will be very interesting to read later in the day.

 

motogp.com could not keep up. I watch all season without trouble but of
course it fails on the final race - and I'm up early here on the west coast.
Crap! So I followed the text comments on eurosport.com.

I'm having a hard time typing what happened even though you said SPOILER
three times!



Read down here









Congrats Nicky! Sorry Rossi, it was not your year, mate!

 

Still trying to find out the final order. Where did Troy Bayliss end up? I
thought he was a bit of a story himself.

 

TROY WINS!

 

What a great race for Troy, and like him or not, Nicky deserves this
championship.....I am a big fan of Rossi, but Nicky did what he needed to
do, and I wonder if the pressure got to Rossi a bit more than it did to
Nicky!

How about that initial contact between Rossi and Hayden? Rossi comes out up
front I believe, but quickly finds himself behind Hayden and in 7th place
soon after. Great ride by Hayden. Terrific ride by Bayliss! Sete should
take note!

 

Rossi falls, Hayden World Champion UPDATE Nicky Hayden has sensationally
beaten back Valentino Rossi's world championship lead to win the MotoGP
title by 5 points with third place in Valencia Sunday, while Troy Bayliss
took his first MotoGP victory ahead of teammate Loris Capirossi. Pole sitter
Rossi fell from seventh position on lap five of 30, rejoined a distant 20th
and was simply never a factor from then on, finishing in 13th place.

1. Troy Bayliss AUS Ducati Marlboro Team 46min 55.415 secs
2. Loris Capirossi ITA Ducati Marlboro Team 46min 56.734 secs
3. Nicky Hayden USA Repsol Honda Team 47min 4.645 secs
4. Dani Pedrosa SPA Repsol Honda Team 47min 7.480 secs
5. Marco Melandri ITA Fortuna Honda 47min 11.721 secs
6. Toni Elias SPA Fortuna Honda 47min 12.805 secs
7. Shinya Nakano JPN Kawasaki Racing Team 47min 14.744 secs
8. Kenny Roberts Jr USA Team Roberts 47min 18.589 secs
9. Colin Edwards USA Camel Yamaha Team 47min 21.487 secs
10. Carlos Checa SPA Tech 3 Yamaha 47min 23.609 secs
11. John Hopkins USA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 47min 24.779 secs
12. Makoto Tamada JPN Konica Minolta Honda 47min 25.122 secs
13. Valentino Rossi ITA Camel Yamaha Team 47min 33.961 secs
14. James Ellison GBR Tech 3 Yamaha 48min 15.428 secs
15. Garry McCoy AUS Ilmor SRT (800cc) 47min 10.246 secs

DNF:
Alex Hofmann GER Pramac d'Antin MotoGP
Jose Luis Cardoso SPA Pramac d'Antin MotoGP
Chris Vermeulen AUS Rizla Suzuki MotoGP
Casey Stoner AUS Honda LCR
Randy de Puniet FRA Kawasaki Racing Team

 

Interesting to think that the situation would have been reversed if
Rossi had beaten Elias last time. Or have I got my calculations wrong?

 

True, but it's usual to apply more weight to events that happened at
the end of the championship. And we have two events in the last two
races where Rossi lost points due to his own actions (and lack of
actions).

 

And you don't think Rossi crashing down the order
didn't factor into Hayden finishing third? If Nicky had to win, I'm sure the
Ducati guys would have gotten squeezed harder. Win or finish second was't
the option...

 

Rossi himself declared on italian television that he lost 5 points in
more than one occasion and that's the truth
Yet you are right, had Rossi won 2 weeks ago the championship would have
been tied today and he would be World Champ having won more races

 

Why not the live audio? I'm in San Diego this w/e and had no trouble
listening to Toby, Julian & Randy commentating, via wi-fi in my hotel room.
(Except that I omitted to bring any proper speaker and this Dell is a bit
tinny...). Had a moment of panic getting hooked up to the motograndprix.com's
live timing, but it came good just in time.

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So you don't think Hayden could have had Capirossi for 2nd if he had
needed to?

 

I had never tried the live audio on eurosport and when I did I must have
been on the wrong page or something:. I clicked on live audio and was
present with about 30 thumbnails of past sporting events. What was I
supposed to click? I dunno but it matters not until next year! I'm
downloading the Eurosport version torrent right now.

 

So, pour yourself a nice, big cup of shut the **** up.

 

calculations Hayden !! you the man. i can dig it.

 

I might have come in closer to Capirossi and fight for second. Having
him would not have been easy for sure

 

That's the right page, but you reminded me that I needed a couple
of clicks to get that started up cleanly too. There may have been some
interest in the coverage this time... Once it was going it was fine.

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Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".