WSB - Races are this Saturday 23/2 (contains spoilers)

Dickie · Post by **Dickie** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 5:40 pm

Don't forget, the races are on Saturday rather than the usual Sunday. Coverage starts on Eurosport at 08:30.

steve · Post by **steve** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 5:54 pm

COOL , cheers for the reminder dude

Bydand · Post by **Bydand** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 5:57 pm

All ready set in sky +

steve · Post by **steve** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 6:00 pm

just caught the end o the superpole prog an Corser is on pole

Dickie · Post by **Dickie** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 6:10 pm

Bayliss struggled a bit too. He'll have his work cut out tomorrow.

glynmitch · Post by **glynmitch** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 8:49 pm

Bydand wrote:All ready set in sky +

Ditto

Sherpa · Post by **Sherpa** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:14 pm

Dickie wrote:Bayliss struggled a bit too. He'll have his work cut out tomorrow.

Yeah but he has an extra 200cc - I'm sure that'll come in handy at some point.

Dickie · Post by **Dickie** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:23 pm

True. I dare say there's plenty of potential in that bike. Someone more cynical than I might say that there was a bit of sandbagging going on.

Sherpa · Post by **Sherpa** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:34 pm

Well he was 2nd quickest in regular qualifying and just messed up a bit in the last sector. Think he'll go ok in the race - he's still on row 2 anyway.

For those of you without Eurosport you can watch the races on http://www.worldsbk.com/pubb_EN/sbkTV.php#

Not sure if they're live but just watched superpole on it and the quality was good.

Gismo · Post by **Gismo** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 10:47 am

Sherpa wrote:For those of you without Eurosport you can watch the races on http://www.worldsbk.com/pubb_EN/sbkTV.php#

Not sure if they're live

Thanks for the link, am overseas working and having already paid for the MotoGP subscription i didn't fancy having to pay for another site, the WSB is a free feed.
Just watched the first rce, bayliss, is a complete nutter :I can't believe it's not butter!

Post by **Gazza** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 10:58 am

Sherpa wrote:Well he was 2nd quickest in regular qualifying and just messed up a bit in the last sector. Think he'll go ok in the race - he's still on row 2 anyway.

For those of you without Eurosport you can watch the races on http://www.worldsbk.com/pubb_EN/sbkTV.php#

Not sure if they're live but just watched superpole on it and the quality was good.

Would be fine if the band speed was better than shizzle. It was a bit like Jim Davidson's dodgy microphone sketch at best.

That's the one thing that really costs out here. 500k bandwidth is over Â£30 per month and to be honest it's nowhere near that. No better than dial up really. I've typically measured it at less than 50K!

If you want 1Mb then it'll cost Â£100 per month.

Somehow I don't think they want the locals to have Internet access.

From what I can gather, a stirling effort by Troy Bayliss.

steve · Post by **steve** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 11:03 am

twas a good race , pity haga lost it after biaggi nearly took him out , the dukes looked good , hopefully corser an haga will be stronger in race 2

Dickie · Post by **Dickie** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:21 pm

Agreed, good effort by Bayliss. Thought his tyre had delaminated or chunked when he kept running wide in the middle of the race, but he got his act together and did the business. The GSX-R looked good too.

Haga will be pretty fired-up for the 2nd race, he probably knows it was his own fault for losing the rag.

missile · Post by **missile** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:23 pm

Sherpa wrote:For those of you without Eurosport you can watch the races on http://www.worldsbk.com/pubb_EN/sbkTV.php#
.

Thanks for the link, is there a similar for MotoGP?

Sherpa · Post by **Sherpa** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:54 pm

Missile wrote:
Thanks for the link, is there a similar for MotoGP?

Yes it's http://www.motogp.com/en/motogp/motogp_pay.htm?menu=pay

But you have to pay, either by the race or for the season. 99 eur for hi-res season pass or 59 for normal.

Gazza you're a tight-arse. Get your wallet out, blow off all the dust and let out all the moths. You pay sod all for anything else over there so stump up the cash and get broadband.

How much does an OIM make these days?

kamikazee · Post by **kamikazee** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:56 pm

Gazza wrote:
Sherpa wrote:Well he was 2nd quickest in regular qualifying and just messed up a bit in the last sector. Think he'll go ok in the race - he's still on row 2 anyway.

For those of you without Eurosport you can watch the races on http://www.worldsbk.com/pubb_EN/sbkTV.php#

Not s
ure if they're live but just watched superpole on it and the quality was good.
Would be fine if the band speed was better than shizzle. It was a bit like Jim Davidson's dodgy microphone sketch at best.

That's the one thing that really costs out here. 500k bandwidth is over Â£30 per month and to be honest it's nowhere near that. No better than dial up really. I've typically measured it at less than 50K!

If you want 1Mb then it'll cost Â£100 per month.

Somehow I don't think they want the locals to have Internet access.

From what I can gather, a stirling effort by Troy Bayliss.

norman collier not jim davidson

Gismo · Post by **Gismo** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 2:14 pm

Sherpa wrote:But you have to pay, either by the race or for the season. 99 eur for hi-res season pass or 59 for normal.

Cause i subscribe every year i get a 10 euro reduction

The hi res 1mb option for MotoGP is excellent.

The second WSB race wasn't as exciting as the first, but still, worth watching

Sherpa · Post by **Sherpa** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 2:14 pm

Good 2nd race too

Nieto did well to hold off all those Dukes. How hard was Xaus trying on that last lap?

Felt a bit sorry for Foret in the WSS - running out of gas with half a lap to go when comfortably leading. Still, Jones got on the podium as a result.

dale123 · Post by **dale123** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 3:37 pm

Sherpa wrote:Well he was 2nd quickest in regular qualifying and just messed up a bit in the last sector. Think he'll go ok in the race - he's still on row 2 anyway.

For those of you without Eurosport you can watch the races on http://www.worldsbk.com/pubb_EN/sbkTV.php#

Not sure if they're live but just watched superpole on it and the quality was good.

Excellent thanks, Been looking for that. I guess its free this year.

Felt physically sick watching the start and hearing the bikes though, knowing Im not racing this year.

fe

missile · Post by **missile** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 4:22 pm

Sherpa wrote:
Missile wrote:Yes it's http://www.motogp.com/en/motogp/motogp_pay.htm?menu=pay

But you have to pay, either by the race or for the season. 99 eur for hi-res season pass or 59 for normal.

Many thanks again. Have you tried, is the quality good?

Sherpa · Post by **Sherpa** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 11:05 pm

Quality is very good on hi-res BUT dependent on the consistent speed of your net connection.

Gismo · Post by **Gismo** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 5:10 am

Missile wrote:Many thanks again. Have you tried, is the quality good?

It's a 1mb stream, so, if you're connection is up to it then it's easily viewable on a 40" lcd tv

Post by **Gazza** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:29 pm

Sherpa wrote:Gazza you're a tight-arse. Get your wallet out, blow off all the dust and let out all the moths. You pay sod all for anything else over there so stump up the cash and get broadband.

I already pay Â£30 a month for so called broadband. It's supposed to be 500k but when I test I usually get about 30 to 50k! I'm fcuked if I'm gonna fork out Â£100 a month for a so called 1 Mb which will inevitably be just 60K.

Sherpa · Post by **Sherpa** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 8:54 pm

Gazza wrote:
I already pay Â£30 a month for so called broadband. It's supposed to be 500k but when I test I usually get about 30 to 50k! I'm fcuked if I'm gonna fork out Â£100 a month for a so called 1 Mb which will inevitably be just 60K.

Well that'll be double the speed then!

Try http://www.speedguide.net/tcpoptimizer. ... tion_speed

to speed up your connection. Mine went up from an average of 2.5-3meg to around 6.5 after running this.

Don't you get ESPN/Star over there? They show WSB and MotoGP or are you too miserly to stump up for satellite too?

Post by **Gazza** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:39 pm

Sherpa wrote:Don't you get ESPN/Star over there? They show WSB and MotoGP or are you too miserly to stump up for satellite too?

ESPN only cover MotoGP. No WSB as far as I can see in the menu.

Will try the speedup link. Cheers.