+1,
I just hope pple understood the difference between arguing and discussing !!

OK guys, time for a cease fire!
Lets get back to racing, shall we? A very big motorcycle racing weekend is right upon us.

WBSK at Donington and MotoGP at Assen. BTW, the MotoGP race will be on Saturday (Assen tradition).

Easy man ! Sorry about what i said too ! Cheers !

Yup Big weekend indeed ! Let the predictions start ! Last year Kiyonari rode an awesome race ! And i remember Baylistic crashing out ! Lets hope for rain again ! Rains bring super racing ! Quite a fast circuit ! so lets see !
Spies s last chance at coming sloser to hagabot !

Glad to see everyone kiss and make up !!

Its Donnington after all, it will rain !!
Assen might be a flag to flag again !! Lets see, I'll need to make some excuse to come back from office early on friday to see the MotoGP qualifiers !!

Guitar boy to be replaced with texan terror !

Visor down says Spies will replace Tose who will be tosed to WSB !

WSB: Toseland set to replace Spies in 2010 - Visordown Motorcycle news : Racing news

Hmmm wonder who the aprillia is looking to scout for !

Source: Castrol

Looks good, sounds good! Hope that Elbows is successful in MotoGP, would be shame to see him just making up the numbers.

HAgabot looks very slow ! And who s this guy ?

World Superbike Donington Qualifying -

1. Fabrizio M. (ITA) Ducati 1098R 1'30.775
2. Haslam L. (GBR) Honda CBR1000RR 1'31.191
3. Spies B. (USA) Yamaha YZF R1 1'31.294
4. Lavilla G. (ESP) Ducati 1098R 1'31.401
5. Byrne S. (GBR) Ducati 1098R 1'31.436
6. Camier L. (GBR) Yamaha YZF R1 1'31.454
7. Smrz J. (CZE) Ducati 1098R 1'31.584
8. Lanzi L. (ITA) Ducati 1098R 1'31.705
9. Checa C. (ESP) Honda CBR1000RR 1'31.736
10. Haga N. (JPN) Ducati 1098R 1'31.760
11. Sykes T. (GBR) Yamaha YZF R1 1'31.838
12. Ellison J. (GBR) Yamaha YZF R1 1'31.890
13. Biaggi M. (ITA) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1'31.913
14. Hopkins J. (USA) Honda CBR1000RR 1'32.007
15. Rea J. (GBR) Honda CBR1000RR 1'32.103
16. Kagayama Y. (JPN) Suzuki GSX-R 1000 K9 1'32.139

Hello Motorsport fans: i missed out on all the fun. hello to suren... sorry bro, i was in goa for a holiday.

a true race fan, i din't miss the last race at all. Touched in GOA on a sunday afternoon during lunch. went scouting to all the places looking for a resort that broadcast ZeeSports and Star Sports on their Tele. just so i could kick start my trip watching WSBK,WSS and F1.

Donigton looks set to be a Royal Rumble with all the Brits going headstrong for glorly in Homeland. Looks like the championship contenders will be playing second flute.

@soul ! Welcome back oldie ! how may litres of Feni did u dump in ?

And guys suddenly someone has tuned the Hagabot ! It is flying in the second qualifying !

1 84 Fabrizio M. (ITA) Ducati 1098R 1'30.493
2 41 Haga N. (JPN) Ducati 1098R 1'30.671
3 19 Spies B. (USA) Yamaha YZF R1 1'30.695
4 65 Rea J. (GBR) Honda CBR1000RR 1'30.782
5 91 Haslam L. (GBR) Honda CBR1000RR 1'30.803
6 66 Sykes T. (GBR) Yamaha YZF R1 1'30.957
7 57 Lanzi L. (ITA) Ducati 1098R 1'30.961
8 36 Lavilla G. (ESP) Ducati 1098R 1'31.028
9 3 Biaggi M. (ITA) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1'31.243
10 67 Byrne S. (GBR) Ducati 1098R 1'31.311
11 111 Xaus R. (ESP) BMW S1000 RR 1'31.352
12 121 Hopkins J. (USA) Honda CBR1000RR 1'31.382
13 22 Camier L. (GBR) Yamaha YZF R1 1'31.454
14 56 Nakano S. (JPN) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1'31.457
15 27 Ellison J. (GBR) Yamaha YZF R1 1'31.476

dude... aprilia on the front row.... QUICK hiten throw in some bottles of beer and wine here.. your treating us.

talk about putting your bets at Donigton. elbows does it again. looks like its going to be a hell of a GOOD race.

31 riders qualify. i hope it rains

1. Ben Spies USA Yamaha WSB YZF R1 1min 29.846s
2. Max Biaggi ITA Aprilia Racing RSV-4 1min 30.080s
3. Shane Byrne GBR Sterilgarda Ducati 1098R 1min 30.535s
4. Shinya Nakano JPN Aprilia Racing RSV-4 1min 30.671s
5. Michel Fabrizio ITA Ducati Xerox 1098R 1min 30.734s
6. Noriyuki Haga JPN Ducati Xerox 1098R 1min 31.023s
7. Carlos Checa ESP HANNspree Ten Kate Honda CBR1000RR 1min 31.342s
8. Jakub Smrz CZE Guandalini Racing Ducati 1098R 1min 34.797s

9. Leon Haslam GBR Stiggy Motorsport Honda CBR1000RR 1min 30.159s
10. Tom Sykes GBR Yamaha WSB YZF R1 1min 30.229s
11. John Hopkins USA Stiggy Motorsport Honda CBR1000RR 1min 30.272s
12. Jonathan Rea GBR HANNspree Ten Kate Honda CBR1000RR 1min 30.387s
13. Gregorio Lavilla ESP Guandalini Racing Ducati 1098R 1min 30.612s
14. James Ellison GBR Airwaves Yamaha YZF-R1 1min 0.816s
15. Troy Corser AUS BMW Motorrad S1000RR 1min 30.916s
16. Ruben Xaus ESP BMW Motorrad S1000RR 1min 31.120s

17. Leon Camier GBR Airwaves Yamaha YZF-R1 1min 31.176s
18. Yukio Kagayama JPN Alstare Suzuki GSX-R 1000K9 1min 31.215s
19. Lorenzo Lanzi ITA DFX Corse Ducati 1098R 1min 31.260s
20. Ryuichi Kiyonari JPN Ten Kate Honda CBR1000RR 1min 31.217s

Positions 21 to 31 decided in Q2

21. Luca Scassa ITA Team Pedercini Kawasaki ZX-10R 1min 31.874s
22. Broc Parkes AUS Kawasaki SRT ZX-0R 1min 31.887s
23. David Salom ESP Team Pedercini Kawasaki ZX-10R 1min 32.183s
24. Matthieu Lagrive FRA HANNspree Althea Honda CBR1000RR 1min
32.243s
25. Jamie Hacking USA Kawasaki SRT ZX-10R 1min 32.245s
26. Simon Andrews GBR MSS Colchester Kawasaki ZX-10R 1min 32.343s
27. Alessandro Polita ITA Celani Suzuki GSX-R1000 1min 32.584s
28. Blake Young USA Alstare Suzuki GSX-R 1000K9 1min 32.735s
29. David Checa ESP Yamaha France GMT 94 1min 32.811s
30. Roland Resch AUT TKR Switzerland Suzuki GSX-R 1000K9 1min 33.384s
31. Vittorio Iannuzzo ITA SCI Honda CBR1000RR 1min 33.408s

Now lets hope the Yamah team doesn't fcuk it up and last the race properly !!
Speis can't keep giving away points like that !!

Biaggi was soooooooooooo close.... oh my gosh. had me on the edge of my seat... i was hoping the aprilia would stick out its nose on the last lap. good race 1. bring on WSS and Race 2.

phew

And a veryyy good Superstock race ! Corti was amazing ! And here there seems to be loads of R1s this time !