MotoGP Round 1: Grand Prix of Qatar

[zelot]

wonder which p2p streaming prog can watch it..

[kenNUFC]

pls share if got!!!

[kenNUFC]

guys TV ANTS espn hk!!!!

[rein_jahat14]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

GREAT 125CC race...!!!!!!

 

15 yrs old British riders SCOTT REDDING...

 

VERY IMPRESSIVE...

Gotta watch him out for this season...

 

:thumb: :thumb:

[kenNUFC]

eh 800cc after this?

[kenNUFC]

i think the 250cc race damn damn damn exciting and really tremendous!

[Non Stop Racing]

starting alreadi. ROOM ROOM .

[Fad]

Can we have more night races like this? The bikes are so shiny and the atmosphere is just amazing. Wooo

[rein_jahat14]

Go Lorenzo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

:thumb: :thumb:

[kenNUFC]

omg, i thought tonight rossi gonna have a chance winning but in the end even lose to a debut guy? stoner and his machine are really far too good. Lorenzo will be the guy this season to put on the pressure on stoner? i hope so, dun like boring and single race. on the straight, stoner got so many chances of overtaking!

[warrior.c.o.n.p]

YEAH!!! Casey Stoner is back wif a bang... but poor Rossi, he's aggresive at first but after that i dunno wat happen until he was overtaken by Lorenzo followed by Dani n Andre. i hope he culd comeback to face 1 on 1 wif Stoner like last year. i hope..

[-fspider-]

wow.. rookies doing good.. suPer exciting season looming..

hoPe stoner or the dukes dont run away with it..

btw elias wth were u??!!

[Pauche]

it was a good race until the stoneman broke away......

 

this time round rossi has nothing to comment this time about tyres or engine..... cos he using same tyres as stoner, and using same engine as lorenzo..... yet both finish better than him in the race.

 

this season fiat yamaha team will be very strong combining points. its a pity toesland is using the 2007 machine where the bike fails to achieve some decent top speed, if not, he would probably finish ahead of dovisiozo and rossi too.....

[antonioshabirto]

it was a good race until the stoneman broke away......

 

this time round rossi has nothing to comment this time about tyres or engine..... cos he using same tyres as stoner, and using same engine as lorenzo..... yet both finish better than him in the race.

 

this season fiat yamaha team will be very strong combining points. its a pity toesland is using the 2007 machine where the bike fails to achieve some decent top speed, if not, he would probably finish ahead of dovisiozo and rossi too.....

 

Dun blame the poor guy .... its the machine having problem..... its really obvious during the race....

[antonioshabirto]

Valentino Rossi reckons his bike suffered from set-up problems in tonight's Qatar Moto Grand Prix and that his Fiat Yamaha team must forget what they had learned while using Michelin tyres.

 

The seven-time champion demanded and obtained a switch to Bridgestone rubber at the end of last year, after being soundly beaten to the title by Casey Stoner's Ducati fitted with the Japanese tyres.

 

This opening round of the 2008 season saw, however, another win by Stoner, while second went to Rossi's rookie teammate Jorge Lorenzo on equal machinery fitted with Michelin tyres.

 

Rossi finished in a disappointing fifth place.

 

"I think we aren't ready yet and the set-up of our bike isn't optimal," the Italian told Italia1 television. "In the first laps we go well, but then the bike starts moving a lot. I think it's a set-up problem.

 

"We must forget all the settings we had over the past years and start over again to have the bike working differently. I'm really quick under braking, but I'm slow around the corners and I struggle.

 

"I think we'll need to set-up the bike in a completely different way, because these tyres have to be used in a very different way. But no more than a month ago we flew in Malaysia, we were really quick, and Stoner is up in front with the same tyres.

 

"So we must only understand the way to use them. We must do it quick, we need to be more reactive and quick, and most of all we must forget how we've used the bike up to now."

 

Rossi held the lead of the race for three laps, then after being overtaken by Stoner and Lorenzo kept Repsol Honda's Dani Pedrosa behind for five laps, and finally held off Andrea Dovizioso until the last lap, when the rookie made a move that stuck.

 

"We knew it would be a tough race," continued Rossi. "I had hoped to get on the podium, and I tried to keep Pedrosa behind in every way but there was nothing I could do.

 

"But as it happened in the warm-up already, when I have so much grip at the beginning, I know I have to pay for it a bit later. We changed the tyre compared to this morning, but the problems remained the same, so there's something we have to do differently.

 

"There are also some positives, our bike has a strong engine. I started well and rode well especially in the first laps. But we got beaten, so we must accept that and try to understand why."

 

Asked if the set-up problem may turn out to be even bigger on circuits where he hasn't tested yet, Rossi replied: "That's impossible to say, in the sense that this is the track where we've had the most problems with Bridgestones, already in the tests. At Jerez we went better, and in Malaysia we went very well."

 

He added: "These rivals are very strong and young, but I think that, once we're sorted, we'll be able to easily fight with them."

[antonioshabirto]

i hope yamaha team is able to tacke the problem ......

 

Its geting more and more issues now.

[fruitcakepablohoney]

Still early days...

[Pauche]

hope to see an ALL-yamaha podium someday this season!

[honda_lover]

when's the next race ???

[antonioshabirto]

Next Race : 30th March

[FieryGiX]

the 2008 M1 have pneumatic valves while Tech 3's 2007 are still stuck with buckets and springs

 

It's good to see the rookies doing so well.

 

Praises go to Stoner for his aggression and consistency, Pedrosa showed his no push-over too. The last lap moves by Dovizioso against Rossi was simply amazing..

[warrior.c.o.n.p]

The last lap moves by Dovizioso against Rossi was simply amazing..

 

YEAH!!!! i like tht part

[GuiNNeSS]

cool v nice race......was so excited that i roll on bed from 11pm until 4am then i get up to watch the nite race.body's resting but mind still thinking if there will be 1 to 1 fight between rossi n stonner......so cool.....thumbs up to all the 250cc riders to motogp.......they rode really well especially lorenzo......rossi bike like got problem leh...wld like to see lorenzo perform more though......And the bikes really v nice under the spot lite.....the lacquer like v thick as they really shine............This season gd to watch..........

[cagiva03]

the 2008 M1 have pneumatic valves while Tech 3's 2007 are still stuck with buckets and springs

 

 

 

I thought the 2008 M1 have already stripped off the Pneumatic Valves ???? The team was complaining about that last year at the end of the seasons that it's not doing the M1 any good, so they decide to take out the Pneumatic valves and replaced it with the original Springs.... Correct me if i am wrong guys..... i am really

[cagiva03]

The new riders really put up a good fight in the first race. Let's hope to see these spirits in the subsequence races later on... Guess all the "Old Birds" are now under a lot of pressure..... i guessed it wouldn't be that exciting to watch if we see Rossi, Stoner, Pedrosa, Hayden, Melandri, Hopkins, Nakano, Collin, all these famous riders at the front.... Yesterday GP was so exciting until Stoner starts to pulled away from Lorenzo, and honestly my eyes shutted a couple of times during the last 5 laps.... As compared to the 250 races, wow, my heart was thumping when i watch the riders trying to squeeze pass one another right from the start till the end of the race....