WSBK Rd 1 at Phillip Island

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And Bayliss on the Panigale second in the Australian Superbike Race 1, by 0.2 sec. not bad for an old man!

Great day for Ducati, here’s hoping for similar on Sunday, but did you see Melandri’s death wobbles down the straight at over 300 kmh? He rode the wheels of that Pani.
 
DucSyd said:
And Bayliss on the Panigale second in the Australian Superbike Race 1, by 0.2 sec. not bad for an old man!

Great day for Ducati, here's hoping for similar on Sunday, but did you see Melandri's death wobbles down the straight at over 300 kmh? He rode the wheels of that Pani.
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How high level ASBK is, if 48 year man can coming second, and not been racing in years..( nothing to take bayliss, he was/ is still super pilot...but we all coming old, and this is young mans game..)
 
Watching Melandri's Duc do the worm reminds me of my old Super Bike days, it looks like his swing arm is super soft, and his head angle is ultra steep. Marco has big balls, it's fun to watch him hang onto that bronc, spurring it all the way.
 
Predicted to be quite windy today (Sunday) so everyone will be effected by the cross winds that will change directions mid day. Hold onto that bronco Marco! And I’m sure Kawasaki will be working on Johno’s troubles.
 
jock39racer said:
Well I didn't make it and am currently sitting in petrol station 2 hours from Melbourne. Nothing like a Panigale on fire to .... your day up. After travelling 500kms in the wet one of the cyclinders decided to start cutting out. By the time I pulled over the inside faces of the cans were glowing red and it had melted the plastic sump cover to the point it had caught fire.

I have no warning lights, bike idles perfect but after 5-10 mins of riding it happens again.

Anyone have any ideas? I pulled out the BBS unit and found one wire that that exposed wiring so I wrapped it in insulation tape. Pulled the rear spark plug and nothing obvious.
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Same thing happened to my 1199, low speed injector plugging up on the rear cylinder. The quick fix is Red Line injector cleaner in a large dose, if it smooths out at high rpm large throttle setting , thats what your dealing with. The red line will clean it out while your riding. Taking the injector out on the road, and cleaning it out with carb spray and a 9 volt battery would not be my first choice. Good luck.
 
centeroff said:
Same thing happened to my 1199, low speed injector plugging up on the rear cylinder. The quick fix is Red Line injector cleaner in a large dose, if it smooths out at high rpm large throttle setting , thats what your dealing with. The red line will clean it out while your riding. Taking the injector out on the road, and cleaning it out with carb spray and a 9 volt battery would not be my first choice. Good luck.
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Cheers mate. Will look into it.
 
Sutki said:
How high level ASBK is, if 48 year man can coming second, and not been racing in years..( nothing to take bayliss, he was/ is still super pilot...but we all coming old, and this is young mans game..)
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Most of the top runners are not young. a few in the top end have raced part time in WSBK and IOM as well.

In both First races
Chad D got a high 1:31 lap (sykes got a 1:30)
TB21 got a low 1:33

Thats still pretty close in my books....
 
ASBK bikes are very slightly modified road bikes with many restrictions to make it affordable, and as such is dominated by Japanese bikes.

At the support race the top ASBK guys were in the low 1:33’s about a second off where the top WSBK guys are.

There are 3 Aussie wild cards all on their ASBK race bikes and doubling up in WSBK and ASBK races Maxwell on an R1 qualified in mid of Superpole 2 infront of a number of WSBK teams including the American red bull Honda team so not bad on essentially road bikes.

Bayliss has been running an ASBK team with some good young guns, and had a brain explosion this year to ride also, crazy really, but a legend all the same. He also does flat track and all sorts of events, I think he just loves riding. His son is also racing in the Aussie super sports, just fun all round I guess.
 
WOW YOU MUST WATCH RACE 2! Sensational

Love this circuit, love this series
 
Just a heads up without giving the results, it was a split race where every rider had to come in and do a tyre change as Pirelli had decided after race 1 that the tyres would not last the distance with a cooler track. Talk about drama.

Same thing was for the super sport race.
 
Macattack said:
frickin pirelli
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Happens every year at PI. Pirelli tells the teams not to mess around with the recommended tire pressures because of what PI does to them. Teams ignore them and tires explode. This year they started spot checking bikes on the grid and found many were below the advised pressure ranges. As a result, Dorna is instituting a random test of tire pressure on the grid at rounds going forward after Aragon. Although I suspect the heat in Thailand will cause them to start this early. Bikes that are under advised pressures will be sanctioned.

Quick note from Pirelli on the matter, was buried in the press releases from the weekend. But has been a hot topic if you listen to any of the more technical podcasts out there. This has been going on for years.

The topic of tyre pressure remains a crucial point for us, because it is clear that if a tyre is not inflated properly, it cannot work well and this, lap after lap, can trigger problems, especially on a particularly critical and sensitive track like Phillip Island. For this reason, Dorna and FIM, in agreement with Pirelli and starting from this round, have implemented a pressure control procedure a few minutes prior to the start, selecting a few riders at random. The first data collected gives pause for reflection: out of nine riders checked in the three races of the weekend, four were below the minimum 1.60 bar pressure recommended by Pirelli. The Championship organiser announced that from the Aragón round, riders who do not observe the minimum tyre pressure will be sanctioned.”
 
shakazulu12 said:
Happens every year at PI. Pirelli tells the teams not to mess around with the recommended tire pressures because of what PI does to them. Teams ignore them and tires explode. This year they started spot checking bikes on the grid and found many were below the advised pressure ranges. As a result, Dorna is instituting a random test of tire pressure on the grid at rounds going forward after Aragon. Although I suspect the heat in Thailand will cause them to start this early. Bikes that are under advised pressures will be sanctioned.

Quick note from Pirelli on the matter, was buried in the press releases from the weekend. But has been a hot topic if you listen to any of the more technical podcasts out there. This has been going on for years.

The topic of tyre pressure remains a crucial point for us, because it is clear that if a tyre is not inflated properly, it cannot work well and this, lap after lap, can trigger problems, especially on a particularly critical and sensitive track like Phillip Island. For this reason, Dorna and FIM, in agreement with Pirelli and starting from this round, have implemented a pressure control procedure a few minutes prior to the start, selecting a few riders at random. The first data collected gives pause for reflection: out of nine riders checked in the three races of the weekend, four were below the minimum 1.60 bar pressure recommended by Pirelli. The Championship organiser announced that from the Aragón round, riders who do not observe the minimum tyre pressure will be sanctioned."
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interesting thank you for your explanation .
My opinion is this is due to the fact that pirelli as a company has (year after year)let the riders down by providing a less than desirable spec tire.
why else does it happen to guys like Rea? logic would say the Kaw team would not make a mistake with tire pressure.
historically pirelli have dropped off substantially before the end of the race .

the whole point of the spec tire crap was to remove the tires from the determining factor in the races. ironically since the spec tire rules the teams who have had the ability to deal with the pirelli drop off and inability to handle heat and one sided tracks has been have been the most successful .
I could be completely wrong too LOL
 
Melandri was also on the tire specifically designed to deal with PI. It was an option for all of the riders. Rea and Sykes chose not to run it and use the standard tire. Hindsight being 20/20, they apparently chose wrong. Don't have the data handy at the moment to upload, but Pirelli makes compound choices that the riders made available to the public after the races. Interesting stuff in there and you can frequently see where even the top teams choose wrong on any given weekend.
 
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