SBK staring grid

[tjs]

Ben Spies on pole. Troy 2nd row 8th place. tjs

[SAHD]

Spies will win both races.

No need to watch it now, unless you like to see the epic battle that will occur for 2nd 3rd and 4th. Keep your hats as Corser finishes in 5th.

[markjenn]

Originally Posted by SAHD

Spies will win both races.

No need to watch it now, unless you like to see the epic battle that will occur for 2nd 3rd and 4th. Keep your hats as Corser finishes in 5th.

Maybe, but a huge wild card is who Johnny Rea is going to take out before the season is over. He's a terrible accident waiting to happen.

- Mark

[Reformed Squid]

Originally Posted by SAHD

Keep your hats as Corser finishes in 5th.

The only way this will happen is if the race is changed to under 10 laps. In the last few races he's been in the top five or close at the start, but quickly falls back as the race progresses. Not sure what's going away on his bike so quickly, but it's been a disturbing pattern.

[Reformed Squid]

Originally Posted by markjenn

Maybe, but a huge wild card is who Johnny Rea is going to take out before the season is over. He's a terrible accident waiting to happen.

- Mark

I can understand the desire to win, but he needs to understand that he's out of it and all he can do is screw things up for someone else. Even if he won every remaining race and Fabrizio, Haga, and Spies all DNF'd, he could only move into third place (Rea 263, Fabrizio - 330, Spies - 388, Haga - 391). He needs to calm down and stay the hell out of the battle between Haga and Spies.

[cageyar]

Originally Posted by Reformed Squid

The only way this will happen is if the race is changed to under 10 laps. In the last few races he's been in the top five or close at the start, but quickly falls back as the race progresses. Not sure what's going away on his bike so quickly, but it's been a disturbing pattern.

Tires-the bike must shred them.

[cageyar]

Originally Posted by tjs

Ben Spies on pole. Troy 2nd row 8th place. tjs

10 Superpoles ties the record-2 left, one more and he owns the record..in his rookie year. Quite an achievement on mostly unseen tracks prior to qualifying.

[roger albert]

It's an AMAZING record.

and on the S-bike, it MUST be tires. (or the rider is old and tired, but he didn't fade late laps last year, so I'm not buying that)

[shreddr]

Originally Posted by markjenn

Maybe, but a huge wild card is who Johnny Rea is going to take out before the season is over. He's a terrible accident waiting to happen.

- Mark

no $hit, i saw a bunch of pics of him catching air at the races, and I thought he was rad, but he isn't rad, he's dangerous. if he takes any contenders out he should be shot and then banned

[bill pierce]

Originally Posted by markjenn

Maybe, but a huge wild card is who Johnny Rea is going to take out before the season is over. He's a terrible accident waiting to happen.

- Mark

He reminds me of Haga a few years back. Go fast, pass people, crash. Then get up and repeat.

[tjs]

Originally Posted by SAHD

Spies will win both races.

No need to watch it now, unless you like to see the epic battle that will occur for 2nd 3rd and 4th. Keep your hats as Corser finishes in 5th.

Troy had a quicker QT in superpole#2 than in#3. In that one he finished 3rd behind , Ben, and Rea. tjs

[BXR12NT]

I noticed after the first race in a quick close up of Corser's front fairing something I had not noticed on the bike before .

Under the S1000RR logo was a smaller logo including the letters HP , wondering if they are redisignating the bike and considering two models .

It was just a glimpse and I couldn't see it any photos to date of the bike so I am assuming it is something new.