Moto GP starting this weekend

Who knows, Jack mystifies me and probably lots of others. It was brilliant and so unexpected and so typical of riding for Ducati. They love him but it looks like he doesn't get much support. Imagine just finding your best position on the bike taking nearly 2 years. As usual for them, he starts winning 5 minutes before he leaves. Does my head in.
 
Jack found a few thousands of a second and won, his team-mate couldn't and came nowhere. Remy was about half a sec off the pace and came virtually last. It's all in the ever shrinking margins. Fantastic to see Jack crack it, I had dread the moment he was put in that toxic factory team. His positivity despite them is an inspiration. The KayTee looks like it is getting closer to those margins, here's hoping.
 
He looked the goods in the first practice session. Bike obviously set up for the dry looking at his frustration in the where he usually is to the fore. He rode the race well, passed safely, pushed hard and when safe to do so took it easier. Could have won by a larger margin if he kept pushing, but then knowing his luck would either have gone down the road or run out of fuel :D
 
Vince said:
Zero reporting re Jacks win on 9 news or the ABC in the last 2 days, typical. The wrong balls were used.
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Hey Vince, Jack's win did rate a mention in the news on ABC Sydney radio on Monday morning. I suspect that the majority of the audience are not particularly engaged with that sport.

Cheers,

bazzee
 
I get it's not super popular, but plenty of other sports are not as well. My bet is it's Grand Final weeks and Billion dollar and that's unbelievable but true, TV contracts for ball sports in Oz come first and swamp everything else. How hard would 30 seconds be though?
 
I must say it has taken me some time to get used to Simon Crafar's softly spoken interview style but his commentry on bike setups for individual tracks is always interesting. I think the turning point for me, whether to enjoy or not, came when his fellow commentators were talking about the friendship between Jack and Maverick and how it all started when they used to share a van. Simon cut in with "Well, you have to learn how to drink beer at some time." I thought, here is a bloke with his hand on the pulse of life.
 
Dellortoman said:
I can imagine a crowd of excited Kazakhstan spectators waving their Kalashnikovs in the air.
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Having just returned from a holiday in Syria, which is at war with ISIS and their supporters (the Turks), where I felt safe and had a wonderful time, I’d suggest you check your biases before posting. If you believe all the crap our useless Foreign Affairs Department and CNN feed you you’d never go anywhere. More chance of getting mugged or coward punched by a grog-filled yob in any major Australian city, IMHO.
 
Hyperbola on both sides, I love reading about people doing The Stans and further on bike trips and the ordinary average people they meet usually are very friendly and helpful. The institutions not so much on occasion.
 
DaveB said:
Having just returned from a holiday in Syria, which is at war with ISIS and their supporters (the Turks), where I felt safe and had a wonderful time, I’d suggest you check your biases before posting.
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It was meant as a tongue in cheek reference to the violent unrest that happened there a few months ago. But I apologise if it pissed you off.

Syria is a long way from Kazakhstan but there always seems to be unrest in Central Asia. I've never actually set foot in that part of the world myself, although I have an Arab mate called Hassan who comes from Syria. He's an engineer who I worked with for several years. He's a lovely bloke, but even he reckons it's a good place to stay away from. The only thing that dragged him back there recently was to see his old and sick mother before she passed away.
I got offered a job as an engineer on a UN funded hydro power project in Afghanistan a few years ago (I think it was around 2010-2011). The incredible pay they were offering was very tempting so I asked Hassan if I should take it. He said, "Fuck no! You'd be mad to travel there now. I wouldn't even do it and I could pass as a local". The job site itself was in a protected area but getting there and back was the problem. Especially as I had to go through Kabul. In his opinion, I'd probably be OK if I had a dark complexion and spoke Arabic, but fair-haired English-speaking business travellers were too obvious a target for kidnappers, whether they were Taliban or not. I took his advice and said no to the job.
 
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