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ttom is right. It's true the speeds are slow but it teaches those youngsters corner speed. Besides watching young CJ Weaver in the AFM series sliding both front and rear wheels going through T1 at Thunderhill is very entertaining.

I don't see the debate about Elias getting a GP ride. He never should have left. He finished in the top half in his last year. Stick around for more Moto2 titles?! What for?! All the GP riders think moto2 is silly. Elias will be getting top tens and I dare say be the best satellite rider. Next year I think Super Sic will be his only satellite competition. He'll be good next year, why don't you think he's built for it? That would make me think half the class isn't built for it.
I'm just glad he's not with Pramac but really glad hes not with Suzuki!
Feel terrible for RDP, he looked SO strong the first half of the season. He was easily the best satellite rider the first half and who knows what might have been. He really deserves that ride. Its a shame LCR cant run a two man team, they actually have a competitive bike.

I hope RDP gets a ride with Pramac. He's a fearless rider, and he's fun to watch. Maybe he can get on with the Ducati beast, especially if Valentino can aid the bike's development.

If you think the Ninja 250s can't make a good cheap track bike I'd suggest you watch an AFM 250cc Production race at Sears Point or Thunderhill some time.

That's pretty funny.
And probably pretty accurate.

But what was that last line:
Rossi dreams of becoming a father?

..... he does not derserve the ride, and as the new Moto2 champ you would expect that rider to move up, what Im saying is thats it a bad idea for HIM.

His season in Moto2 has been far better then any seasons he spent in MotoGP. Yes he showed times of brilliance, but was never a regular at the sharp end.

I have always liked Tiger Toni, he really is a Legend in my mind, and its for this reason I would like to see him in Moto2 and get a few more titles under his belt.

In a way, this is a repeat of Troy Bayliss. A Supers champ, one of the best riders in the world by far, did good in MotoGP but not BRILLIANT, goes back to Supers and cleans up.

I dare say, CE2 could go back to supers and get better results then he is getting now in MotoGP.

I also have alot of time for Rdp. I think he does deserve to be in MotoGP, just not with Pramac.

The LCR set up reminds me of the old WCM Red Bull team by Peter Clifford who rain Gary McCoy for on the YZR stroker. The way that team & Dunlop made that Yamaha work for McCoys ( "different" !! ) style is just like the way LCR have made that HRC work for RdP.

Like I say, I have never bad mouthed them, nor have I said they dont deserve to ride in the Moto "X" Championship['s], I just think that when a rider finds a class that really suits them and they know they can win, why change, ALA J.M Aspar.

Elias has won races in each and every one of the 4 world championship categories he has raced: 125cc, 250 cc, Moto2 and MotoGP. As far as I remember, the only other rider in the paddock who has accomplished this is Rossi.

I agree with Brookespeed. If the Moto2 champ doesnt deserve a MotoGP ride, then who does?

The SBK World Champ? I think that is a soon to be 40 year old italian by the name of Biaggi. Should he come back to MotoGP then? Cal Crutchlow is taking Spies place in the satellite Yamaha team. I don't think anyone thinks he hasn't earned it. Is his track record any better than Elias'?

Are the pics on the back the same as the pics for each month?

Espeically since it was the first time all weekend he was on the Dunlop slicks.

Sofuoglu was bashing his handlebar because it was not quite adjusted right. His team were fixing the bike after his highside in warm up right up until he was ready to go out on the sighting lap, and the bars were not quite right. His shoulder was starting to hurt under braking, as his body position was a bit skewed, so he kept trying to bang them to where he wanted them. This meant he hit the kill switch a couple of times, cutting the engine (which is why he slowed dramatically).

He used his tires up really quickly, though, because this was the first time he'd ever ridden a Moto2 bike with the spec Dunlops. He had tested the Moto2 bike at Albacete with a tire from the Spanish Formula Extreme championship, which is a different construction and compound (the Formula Extreme bikes are similar to Superstock 1000s). Add to this the fact that the Moto2 bikes have a spec ECU, a simple slipper clutch and no traction control, as opposed to the top World Supersport bikes which are positively bristling with electronics nowadays.

Given that this was the first time Sofuoglu had been to Estoril, and his first race on the Moto2 bike, that was a pretty impressive outing.

should have won the race, if he didn't crash I think he would have done it.
Started like 25th or something, made his way up to 4th before he went down.

Yeah, the De Puniet part of the story reeks, if true.

He was running fifth in the championship before breaking his leg in a crash at the Sachsenring.

So is De Puniet going to be out of a ride next year? Depending on what's going on with Pramac.