it's not cheating if there isn't a specific rule against it...

Coolest thing I've seen today

https://www.tumblr.com/iosonomer-blog/752258959658893312?source=share

yikes! that was as close as a shave

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2023/02/close-call.html

Father and son, Valentino & Graziano Rossi, 1994

 

it seems to me that this bike needs a heavier rider, or aero that adds downforce

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2021/11/jump.html

cool way to make that photo memorable, rotate it 90 degrees

I ain't got time to erase the watermark

https://americansinner.tumblr.com/post/653611136050216960

remarkably good recovery

Jonathan Rea claimed his sixth consecutive WSBK Championship at Estoril. The Belfast-born racer was awarded six gold rings and a golden helmet to mark his unprecedented success.

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/motorcycling/no-reason-why-world-champion-jonathan-rea-cant-be-in-seven-heaven-next-year-39639104.html

Missed it by that much

https://ogdaa.blogspot.com/2020/08/friday-gifdump_14.html#more

Moto2 FP3 - Steven Odendaal's big save

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/clkr05/textbook_save/

better tires in racing makes better braking possible, which begets better brake materials which creates more stopping power to apply closer to the turn, but there was one problem the recently solved... keeping the rider on the damn bike. Hence, tank wings!

tank wings/flares were possibly first created by someone else, but Jorge Lorenzo gets the credit for starting the fashion when he was at Ducati.

He wanted a tank that he could grip more tightly and protuberances above his thighs that prevented him being thrown forward. And the main reason for these new-fangled devices is the extra braking power that’s possible due to the downforce created by MotoGP’s latest aerodynamics.

“The limit for g-force on the brakes is tire grip,” explains Brembo brake technician Andrea Pellegrini.

“The new aerodynamics increase downforce on the front tire during braking, which gives the tire more grip, which means the riders can brake later and harder.”

 It’s the usual racing technical spiral: engine designers create more powerful engines, so tire technicians built tires with more grip, so chassis engineers design frames and swingarms with more rigidity…

https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/opinion/motogp/motogp-s-aerodynamic-advances-wings-are-creating-more-wings

thanks Steve!

I think I posted this before, but, better to be sure to point out just exactly what will get your punk ass beat up after the race

https://www.svtperformance.com/threads/random-picture-thread.1159350/page-360

Triumph’s first-ever Grand Prix ‘victory’ in Moto Gp

Triumph’s first-ever factory involvement in grand prix racing could hardly have gone better. The new 765-powered Moto2 race was a thriller, with Lorenzo Baldassarri beating Tom Luthi by three-hundredths of a second, the top five covered by 2.3sec and with no engine problems.

The extra power and torque of the 765cc triple also bettered the race record by 18sec.

“The first thing I noticed with the 765 engine is that you’ve got so much more power off the bottom, so you’ve a much wider working range. You can stop-start the bike – go in slow mid-corner, stand the bike up and get out. Or you can run corner speed and use a different gear, so the engine will make the racing more fun for the riders and it makes the battling closer and better, because different riders can work in different ways.

“With the 600 everyone had to use the same lines and the same gears.”

Triumph never entered a GP team even at the height of its powers in the 1950s and 1960s, because company bosses said racing was a waste of money. The brand’s best GP result was second place to Giacomo Agostini’s MV Agusta triple in the 1969 500cc at Spa-Francorchamps. The rider was factory road tester Percy Tait and the bike was a T100 twin street bike, developed by Tait and legendary engineer Doug Hele.

Tait, Hele and a few others worked on the project in their spare time, keeping the whole thing hidden from management. “It was all done in secret in a half-disused machine shed behind the Experimental shop,” said Tait.

“There was never an official policy to go grand prix racing,” said engineer Norman Hyde, who worked with Hele and Tait. “But Doug had come from Norton where he had worked under Joe Craig, so he was always mega-keen on racing.

“He would do racing work when he wasn’t supposed to, so he tended to be like Nelson putting a telescope to his blind eye: I see no racing bikes.”

In 1969 Tait contested several GPs, turning up at events in Triumph Experimental Department’s tatty Ford Transit, then racing home on Sunday nights to be back at work on Monday mornings.

https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/news/motogp/motogp-mutterings-2019-qatar-grand-prix-part-3

ride it, no matter what

http://darkdraggon.tumblr.com/

When destiny decides you're screwed, and not going to race... just give up: Sam Lowes, Federal Oil Gresini Moto2 at the 2016 Malaysian MotoGP

you can see it in the above video, if you change the speed to 2x speed, or, click the link below to get a clean image without the words written on it

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bps-oY5Fi1Z/?utm_source=ig_embed

holy cripes that guy is horizontal

http://darkdraggon.tumblr.com/page/5

WTF of the month, at the San Marino Moto2, (yesterday) Romano Fenati grabbed competitor Stefano Manzi's brake lever at 145mph. I say this is attempted murder

Romano Fenati was given a two-race suspension for pulling Stefano Manzi’s brake lever during Sunday’s Moto2 in San Marino.

Riders reacted angrily to the incident in which Fenati clearly pulled on Manzi’s brake.

“I think he should never race a motorcycle again,” Britain’s Cal Crutchlow said. “He should have walked back in his garage and his team should have just kicked him straight out the back. You can’t do this to another motorcycle racer. We are risking our lives enough.


Speaking before the ban was handed down, KTM rider Pol Espargaro said whatever punishment was handed down would still not be enough.

“There is no (right) punishment, even a ban of one or two races,” he told crash.net.

“Someone who does that is not a professional rider and there is no place in racing for riders who are not professional.”

Former MotoGP rider Colin Edwards said Fenati “put somebody’s life in danger”.

“This is unbelievable. Are you kidding me? That’s where you tell him, ‘go pack your bag and we’ll see you next year’. That’s ridiculous,” Edwards said on BT Sport.


Fenati’s action came in retribution for Manzi’s failed attempt to overtake causing contact a few laps earlier, in turn 14, resulting in both losing positions, dropping out of the points.

The stewards eventually handed down a two race ban, forcing Fenati to sit out the Aragon and the inaugural Thailand Grand Prix for his actions.

“You were found to have deliberately attempted to cause danger to another rider by interfering with his machine whilst on track,” the statement from the FIM MotoGP Stewards Panel read.

“This contravenes Article 1.21.2 of the FIM World Championship Grand Prix Regulations “Riders must ride in a responsible manner which does not cause danger to other competitors or participants, either on the track or in the pit lane. It is therefore an infringement of the FIM World Championship Grand Prix Regulations.


Ironically, Fenati had signed a contract to join Forward Racing - the team Manzi rides for - in 2019 when it begins an association with MV Agusta.

interfering in the controls of another racers bike, at full speed, in order to cause a crash, deliberately, premeditated, is to me.. not just something to ban him from the sport, but cause for attempted murder charges.

click though for more on Fenati's historical unsportsman petulant childish behavior on the track.
https://www.foxsports.com.au/motorsport/watch-crazy-moment-moto2-rider-romano-fenati-grabs-brake-lever-of-stefano-manzi-during-race/news-story/665a7a9b2a4c44dc8d023fb930027593

if you fall... get the hell out of the way of the racers that are coming through at full acceleration and don't have time for you to be in the way... awesome split screen coverage

Danilo Berto who, riding his Ducati, lost control of the bike by falling on the track

At the "Pirelli Cup" in Interlagos, Brazil, his leg was broken and he spent 10 days in the hospital, if the translation is correct

Interlagos Brazil Moto GP this past March 2018

https://www.lettera43.it/it/video/tragedia-sfiorata-in-superbike-il-pilota-cade-ma-si-salva-per-un-pelo/23783/

how many times do you have to lay down your bike to get this nonchalant to the wrecking, the sliding, and the untimely and unprofitable end of a race?

http://bikeintheshop.tumblr.com/page/76

nothing gonna breaka my stride, ain't nothing gonna slow me down, oh no. I got to keep movin