• There has been a recent cluster of spammers accessing BARFer accounts and posting spam. To safeguard your account, please consider changing your password. It would be even better to take the additional step of enabling 2 Factor Authentication (2FA) on your BARF account. Read more here.

WSBK 2012 Round 5:Donington Park, England

In the battle of consonants vs vowels, who does better this weekend

  • SMRZ-Kevin is right, vowels are for losers

    Votes: 6 31.6%

  • Rea-Clutchslip is correct, too many consonants slows you down

    Votes: 10 52.6%

  • haga-im not saying he deserves it, but he does have the perfect ratio

    Votes: 3 15.8%
  • Total voters
    19
motobecane10 said:
actually he was signed to a WSBK ride to see if he could win first and only then take the next step. There was no auto wins he had to earn them first and once he did then his career gets reassessed.
Click to expand...

Again he only went to prove he deserved it.

He already had 3 wild card rides were he did pretty good. Would have had 5 if it wasn't for weather.

A lot of people knew he would show up in wsbk and win but they didn't know he would go there and wipe the floor clean.
 
Rea

"In the last corner there were five guys out there wanting to win a race, most of all Melandri came from a long way back on Leon to create a gap that I went for, me and Leon touched and I'm really sorry that he crashed. But more importantly we've won, taken 25 points and I've given my team a great reward for giving me a great bike this weekend."
Click to expand...


pretty much sums it up. sorry bro, but gotta get that win :laughing
 
number_6 said:
What a bunch of shit. Rea is dirty.

Skip to about 0:50 for the last couple corners, or watch the whole thing if you also want to see Rea's bullshit on Melandri at Melbourne loop.
Click to expand...

yea he pretty much gets the :bs flag and hopefully a penalty is assessed before someone gets seriously hurt from this asshat:thumbdown
 
Biaggi reaches out to Rea past the finish line: "Thanks for knocking out Melandri, bro..."

Unbelievable. Not sure what to think but perhaps a bit more contrition from the Northern Irishman would've been nice.
 
That was a great race!
Punk ass move??? Or just a hella of a race??? :nerd
Tough call,but im goin with it was a racing incident...
 
Melandri fucked it all up, in my opinion, just got too greedy and probably due to hubris from winning in Race 1.

vlcsnap-2012-05-13-18h36m45s27.jpg​

I agree that Rea was racing hard, but then again, all four of them out of the five at the front (Sykes the exception) were taking scalps throughout the race. Bottom line, Melandri screwed up on the last two corners trying to get ahead of his teammate, and the second time he screwed up, I also thought that it would make Haslam run wide enough for Rea to go through. I'm SURE Rea thought the same thing as he watched it unfold in front of him. What happened between Haslam and Rea was straight-up race incident. What Melandri did TWICE was just :wtf.

Although, I got a good chuckle at the irony of Melandri causing all that, and being the one that got collected at the very end. :laughing

vlcsnap-2012-05-13-18h31m04s179.jpg
Sometimes, "using up all the track" is still not enough for Rea​
 
hahahaha, just when you thought they blew their wad in race 1, they pull out the penis pumps and shot an even bigger package for race 2!!!! Good going boys!!!!!
 
If you turn into a guy from the outside of the last corner on the last lap that is usually the end result.

Dirty pass? Hardly. Watch Haslam, Melandri or Sikes on their passes and the places the passes were being made; on the curbing out of nowhere with the guy having no clue you were there until there was contact or you were pushed wide.

Haslam was wide, as in there was still asphalt between his knee and the curbing, at a World level event that is enough to warrant making a go at it, at your home race.

Rea did the right thing IMO; he went for it. The ongoing trend in these race threads is better racing this, better racing that... well folks that was better racing two races that were filled with boat loads of excitement. Sure it sucks that someone went down (and I am glad no one was hurt), but that is not all Rea's doing, Haslam was leaving doors open for a lot of laps before and some of the blame for the situation lays on him for not protecting the line.

Bottom line, Jonathan Rea showed everyone what it takes to win a WSBK race and the Flying Unibrow learned a little bit about racing on the last lap. I don't doubt he'll win one this year, and I highly doubt there are hard feelings between the two.
 
Melandri dives inside on the last turn too hot then comes out wide.
Haslam see's that Melandri comes in hot and hesitates to pass and leaves just enough room for Rhea to sneak in on the inside. Rhea bumps into Haslem. Haslem low sides and slides to the outside of the turn. Melandri see Haslems bike coming at him and straightens up but can't avoid Haslems bike and both BMW's are down. Rhea, Biaggi and Sykes motor on through for the podium spots.

Wasn't that fun to watch?
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top