Assen MotoGP

Sherpa · Post by **Sherpa** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 2:07 pm

Well a dull race in general with Stoner doing a repeat of Donnington.

Livened up by Rossi falling off on the first lap, taking out dePuniet, then getting up and eventually reaching 11th. More remarkably though, when Eurosport showed his bike back in the garage the end of his shift lever was missing. Only the straight bit remained - no right angle bit on the end. Also, his left hand bar was bent. Despite this, Rossi was lapping fastest on many laps towards the end. An amazing performance.

Edwards was held up by the Rossi incident too but carved his way up through the field to reach fourth which looked like it until Hayden's pneumatic valve engine ran out of fuel at the last chicane to gift him a podium.

Other noteworthy points:

Hopkins huge crash in practice. He'll be out at least one race.

Capirossi crashing on first day but Spies turned down chance to fill in again in preference to testing at Indianapolis.

Melandri continues to be 3 seconds a lap off Stoner's pace. How long 'til Gibernau ends his misery?

Post by **Gazza** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 2:12 pm

Made the perfect changes to my MotoGP team this weekend.

A day too late!

Forgot it was a Saturday.

Sherpa · Post by **Sherpa** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 2:27 pm

Gazza wrote:Made the perfect changes to my MotoGP team this weekend.

A day too late!

Forgot it was a Saturday.

That's excellent! Made my day. Makes up for Rossi losing me points.

It's ALWAYS on a Saturday at Assen.

Post by **Gazza** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 2:38 pm

Sherpa wrote: It's ALWAYS on a Saturday at Assen.

I know, I know.

Coddy · Post by **Coddy** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 2:43 pm

Think changes have to normally be done Thursday latests, so might have been Wednesday for this one.

Few shizzle scores coming i think, including mine.

coullstar · Post by **coullstar** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 7:59 pm

That was some crash by Hopkins yesterday

Stoner was impressive again today, Rossi as per usual showing his class.

roadie scot · Post by **roadie scot** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 8:03 pm

Sherpa wrote:Well a dull race in general with Stoner doing a repeat of Donnington.

glad I'm not the only one that found the main race as dull as dish water. Knew is was going that way when Ducati announced an improvement in their electronics. It's no longer just down to the guy strapped across the bike.

Stick to watching the wee bikes then bugger off out to do something else instead :)

grantwils · Post by **grantwils** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 8:07 pm

I take it none of you saw the 125 races then - you'd be talking about them if you had. Now the 2nd 125 race is what I call a real RACE. Watched it twice now (I love Sky+). 4th-1st-6th? On the last half of the last lap? It was mayhem!

garymitch · Post by **garymitch** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 8:20 pm

sorry guys but i think the day go,s to colin edwards

Sherpa · Post by **Sherpa** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 11:12 pm

grantwils wrote:I take it none of you saw the 125 races then - you'd be talking about them if you had. Now the 2nd 125 race is what I call a real RACE. Watched it twice now (I love Sky+). 4th-1st-6th? On the last half of the last lap? It was mayhem!

Yeah the 125 race was great - as ever.

Pity the rain came otherwise Bradley would have chalked up his first win and we'd have had two Brits winning in a row.

Maybe all 125 races should be 5 laps

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