MOTM - Indianapolis

[lebowski]

MOTM- Bautista. Good to see him and Suzuki get a result. He and the team have done well to develop that bike on their own. They deserve support.

DOTM- again, Rossi and the Duc

[Tourn46]

MOTM - Spies. Good run through the pack after an unlucky start.

DOTM - IMS... awful track, unused surface. Abysmal.

[Faster1]

MOTM -
Bautista,, alien aboard second best. Another great rider strangled by his equipment... Hey Suzuki,, you CAN make a good bike,, don't walkaway from a 1000cc entry next year.
Spies - got roughed up on the start, but he was the second fastest rider and the fastest Yamaha

DOTM -
Ducati,,,who are the newest Suzuki,, with probably 2 or 3 completely different versions of their bike out on the track,, and they all are horrible.
Simoncelli - the only Honda who couldn't manage the tires,, Dovi's fastest lap was the last lap.

Dishonorable Mention-
Crutchlow - Battling with Elias?

[JcM]

MOTM Bautista.

DOTM Ducati.

[Kropotkin]

MotM: Stefan Bradl. What a brilliant job of managing an awful starting position. Honorable mention to Spies for correcting a terrible start


DotM: Marco Simoncelli. 'nuff said.

[Albert]

MOTM.
125’s – Terol. Down one week then back up and showing championship credentials the next!
Honourable mention to Vinales and Gadea for keeping Paris Hilton happy! (and hopefully OUT of the newspapers!)
DOTM? Nothing really – just typical 125 action – as expected!

Moto2. The vast majority of the field for showing us how good our two wheeled sport can actually be. Honourable mention to Bradl for rescuing some very good points from a dire situation and to Scott Redding for giving us a glimpse of what’s been lacking from him so far this year!

DOTM. Mike Di Meglio. Not what I’ve been expecting from him to be honest. I really thought he’d show Bradley the way home this year!

MotoGP. Spies for the dogged determination he showed in getting to the podium despite being swamped in the first few corners.
Lorenzo must be starting to feel a little of what Rossi felt last season!

DOTM.
Ducati! After finding something at Brno it seems to have gone missing on the trip to Indy!
Equal 1st – the track itself! Simply abysmal is an understatement! The crud that was sitting just offline was a disgrace to see!
BIG improvement required for next year Indy!

Dishonourable mention to the woman of dubious vocal talent who absolutely crucified the American national anthem!
Why on Earth do the organisers allow someone who sounds like she’d struggle to take 3rd place in a karaoke contest behind two tone deaf warbling goats, to butcher their anthem??

[Oscar]

Didnt' see the support races, so can't comment on them, but for the motoGp race itself:

MOTM: Lin Jarvis, for allowing Spies to ride to his potential and not impose team orders.

HM: Spies for the climb back, and certainly Bautista.

DOTM - the track. It just doesn't have an 'IT' factor to make the racing look exciting anyway, and the amount of marbles and just torn rubber off-line ruined any chance at all of anything bar a procession.

[CLX]

There's nothing wrong the track. Long straight, check. Fast corners, check. Swinging left and right sections, check.
It just doesn't look beautiful and go around rolling hills, but it's fine in my book.

edit: for the record, I don't love IMS, but I'd rather see the backs of some 3 or 4 tracks before it.

As for the marbles, they did not stop Spies and we didn't see half a dozen crashes or more.

MOTM - Stoner for making the other aliens look normal. Bautista for wringing the neck of the Suzuki again.
DOTM - Ducati's overall form. Not good for them, not good for MotoGP itself, and it just doesn't look like it'll get truly better any time soon.

[yzr750]

MOTM Bautista, superb ride, I reckon he's a top rider
DOTM Rossi (and crew), no excuse for not being top Ducati.

[Richo]

MOTM Stoner for making a bad track for everyone else look easy for him (although I'm sure it wasn't).
HM Spies for fighting back after another miserable start.

DOTM All Ducati's and the IMS circuit. I said before this weekend I didn't like this track, and nothing has changed my opinion. Bring on Texas.

[ipso]

MotM – Austin Texas track creators
DotM – Steve Rapp (the bonehead)

[Cam D]

MOTM - Spies for his classy come back. Special mention for Lorenzo. I reckon he did a pretty good job with a stuffed front tyre. Most of the others just went backwards at a great rate. Shows his class.

DOTM - Rossi and his team. Just never did anything special all week end. Hayden has shown more promise on the new bike.

[Desmo44]

MOTM- Bautista

HM- Spies climb back

DOTM- VR/JB/Corse: Pathetic. The impossible has now happened in MotoGP: Rossi is irrelevant.

HM- Spies start. Oh what this race might have been...

[Rusty Bucket USA]

DOTM - the track. It just doesn't have an 'IT' factor to make the racing look exciting anyway, and the amount of marbles and just torn rubber off-line ruined any chance at all of anything bar a procession.

Ironic, then, that this isn't even the second time for this story at this track.

...for the record, I don't love IMS, but I'd rather see the backs of some 3 or 4 tracks before it.

As for the marbles, they did not stop Spies and we didn't see half a dozen crashes or more.

Yes.

Dishonourable mention to the woman of dubious vocal talent who absolutely crucified the American national anthem!
Why on Earth do the organisers allow someone who sounds like she’d struggle to take 3rd place in a karaoke contest behind two tone deaf warbling goats, to butcher their anthem??

I'm not sure if that means Speed has an even more dishonorable mention for not showing it to us (the host country, you know: our National Anthem), or if they deserve to be thanked for saving us from suffering through it. What does it say about Speed's business model that they (theoretically) can sell more advertising revenue for a rerun of Tommy Kendall driving a Porsche Panamera around Laguna Seca in between the MotoGP and Moto races than showing us more of the event in our own country? (rolling eyes smiley)

[Richo]

Dishonourable mention to the woman of dubious vocal talent who absolutely crucified the American national anthem!
Why on Earth do the organisers allow someone who sounds like she’d struggle to take 3rd place in a karaoke contest behind two tone deaf warbling goats, to butcher their anthem??

Yes, that was pretty bad wasn't it. I actually turned the sound right down so I couldn't hear it as it was so embarrasing.

[Tourn46]

I'm not sure if that means Speed has an even more dishonorable mention for not showing it to us (the host country, you know: our National Anthem), or if they deserve to be thanked for saving us from suffering through it.

Honestly... it was that bad mate, me and my girlfriend just sat and looked at each other in total astonishment that she was allowed to sing it!Strangled cat, etc... all those phrases are applicable.

She was a bit of a munter too.

[RatsMC]

Spies definitely deserves it as does Bautista. However, I have to give this round to the director. They finally worked out how to make a boring race for the win interesting by showing the other battles going on as well as some brilliant slo-mo shots. Still a little more pit-crew shots than needed but much better overall.

[Rusty Bucket USA]

Honestly... Strangled cat, etc... all those phrases are applicable.

Damn... Can't find it on youtube, either.

[RedJet]

Honestly... Strangled cat, etc... all those phrases are applicable.

Damn... Can't find it on youtube, either.

She sang through a clenched jaw. Like she was chewing a tough steak and singing at the same time.

It really was quite special...

[motomania]

MOTM - Stefan Bradl - Amazing ride to 6th
HM - Spies podium comeback after a pinball start back to 9th

DOTM - The "Singer" - I was close to praising the porcelain after that. Crucified doesn't begin to describe that wail. The first question out of the Missus mouth was "Where'd they find that?" She needed to be put out of OUR misery

DHM - The tire eating track, although Stoner and Spies seemed to deal with it better.
DHMb - Ducati, 'nuff said

[carty]

I must concur that DOTM was the 'national anthem singer finder' - I don't like to be too disparaging and fair play to her for having a go but it truly was awful. It was like one of the funny reject clips off X factor.

MOTM Stoner - I wish he'd had more airtime as he was simply phenomenal to watch. The way he carried the speed right to the edge of that turn (turn 5?) where a couple of people popped over the lip and he had it dancing on the back wheel millimetres from the edge. Stunning.

[Squidpuppet]

Honestly... Strangled cat, etc... all those phrases are applicable.

Damn... Can't find it on youtube, either.

She sang through a clenched jaw. Like she was chewing a tough steak and singing at the same time.

It really was quite special...

Her name is Amanda Overmyer. She is a former contestant on American Idol.

I think they selected her because she is from Mulberry Indianna and is an avid motorcyclist and a frequent performer at "Biker" events.

She definitely has a Janis Joplin thing going on. Sounds like she has been smokin four packs a day for decades, but in this video from 2008, she is a 23 year old nonsmoker. Just raspy genetics.

Franky, I think she has an awesome blues/rock voice. But I have alway preferred wailers over crooners.

Her performance starts at the 2:11 minute mark.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRf7VvCL4gc

[Desmo44]

Her "performance" is in the complete race video at MotoGP, but I must say this is nothing new. I've been listening to the anthem for 60+ years and trust me, there have been many worse than this. In fact, in recent years, there seems to be a contest, especially by the famous performers, to see who can change the tune to an almost unrecognizable self promoting statement. Trust me, compared to some of these so full of themselves, she wasn't all that bad. (Which only shows how much anymore, anything goes...)

[Squidpuppet]

Her "performance" is in the complete race video at MotoGP, but I must say this is nothing new. I've been listening to the anthem for 60+ years and trust me, there have been many worse than this. In fact, in recent years, there seems to be a contest, especially by the famous performers, to see who can change the tune to an almost unrecognizable self promoting statement. Trust me, compared to some of these so full of themselves, she wasn't all that bad. (Which only shows how much anymore, anything goes...)

Agreed. I think there should be a law (I'M SERIOUS) that the Anthem should be performed as it is written and NO personal interpretations allowed.

[The Scribe]

Honestly... it was that bad mate, me and my girlfriend just sat and looked at each other in total astonishment that she was allowed to sing it!Strangled cat, etc... all those phrases are applicable.

I'm no expert in National Anthem singing, but when we heard her at home we said 'Well, at least she's much better than the Laguna Seca singer'.

But what do I know, the Spanish anthem doesn't even have any lyrics...