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Postby Mushroom_Farmer » Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:31 pm

For anybody that cares, MotoGP will be at Indy this weekend. There's already a lot of hubaloo happening, mostly because this will mark the return of motorcycles racing on the Indy Speedway in about 100 years.
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Re: MotoGP/Indy

Postby The Ruptured Duck » Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:09 pm

99 years to be exact
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Re: MotoGP/Indy

Postby TSC. » Thu Sep 11, 2008 2:42 am

Rumour has it that the FIA have got Massa penciled in for the win.

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Re: MotoGP/Indy

Postby Mushroom_Farmer » Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:28 pm

Rumour has it that the FIA have got Massa penciled in for the win.

;) ;D ;D

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;D ;D ;D  But...But...This is FIM :-?
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Re: MotoGP/Indy

Postby TSC. » Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:43 pm

But...But...This is FIM :-?

My point exactly.  ;)

I don't think the FIA really cares about that - lets just get some more points offloaded to Ferrari.  8-)

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Re: MotoGP/Indy

Postby todayshorse » Thu Sep 11, 2008 5:08 pm

Im not really a fan of motorbikes in general, so i dont really know a lot of what goes on, catch a bit on the telly, although i think bikes need to be seen live to really appreciate whats going on....watched quite a lot at cadwell over the years..but what track at indy are they using? The oval???? Or the F1 track thing?

On a side note, the company i work for also has a british superbike team, their workshops are literaly in the office so to speak, they appeared to be loading the transporter thing with bikes and so on. Is there some british superbikes this weekend also?
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Re: MotoGP/Indy

Postby Mushroom_Farmer » Thu Sep 11, 2008 9:49 pm

Im not really a fan of motorbikes in general, so i dont really know a lot of what goes on, catch a bit on the telly, although i think bikes need to be seen live to really appreciate whats going on....watched quite a lot at cadwell over the years..but what track at indy are they using? The oval???? Or the F1 track thing?

On a side note, the company i work for also has a british superbike team, their workshops are literaly in the office so to speak, they appeared to be loading the transporter thing with bikes and so on. Is there some british superbikes this weekend also?

They're using both the part of the Speedway track and F-1 track. Here's the layout:Image
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Re: MotoGP/Indy

Postby Craig. » Sun Sep 14, 2008 10:20 am

It's not the F1 track. It's been change to suit the bikes. Turn 1 of the oval was the final turn of the F1 track, that is no more. Also turns 7 and 8 are differant and no longer hairpins.
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