brokenswiftie Posted April 8, 2012 Report Share Posted April 8, 2012 Hmmm. It will be interesting to see if Pedrosa can keep his rocket starts up. I'd like to see Spies doing well and a CRT on the podium. Probably not going to happen this season but one can hope. yeah 4rm 3rd row to 2nd ... that was an amazing start for pedrosa ... and yamaha 4 THE WIN !!!! but once honda solves casey bike problems ... i dont think yamaha can catch up ... but amazing 1st race .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devil_angel Posted April 9, 2012 Report Share Posted April 9, 2012 This is my kind racing Holy cow....he knows the track like the back of his hand. But kudos to other drivers for the clean racing too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarketTantrik Posted April 9, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2012 Last night's MotoGP served up two classic races. The MotoGP race was great but the Moto 2 race was spellbinding. I could not believe it when Marquez came back to win it. Shame on him for that move on Luthi though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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theneurotoxin Posted April 11, 2012 Report Share Posted April 11, 2012 (edited) Lotus's press release in response to the above joke: Never let the facts get in the way of a good story…. Take a little look at what we found online. Don’t you think it’s funny? We do. We had a good old giggle. After all, we love a bit of self irony, just as well really. Although it’s funny, this one’s not accurate but then again, why let the facts get in the way of a good story? The inconvenient truth is – surprise, surprise – we have never said that there are no problems at Lotus. So whilst lots of people obviously feel the need to comment on Lotus’ current situation in the absence of proper facts or evidence, we can’t ignore these particular mistruths any longer even if we would like to, so we have decided to turn a negative into a positive and use this hilarious piece of ‘art’ to set the record straight regarding the status quo at Group Lotus and try to return a little stability to a fast changing situation. False rumour #1: Dany Bahar is no longer CEO of Group Lotus. Fact: Rubbish – Dany Bahar still is. False rumour #2: Dato’ Sri Syed is no longer Managing Director of Proton. Fact: Again rubbish. He still is. You can thank good old Tony Fernandes for these two. Don’t take everything he tweets too seriously – perhaps he’s still frustrated about owning Caterham instead of Lotus and the fact that he fights HRT and Marussia instead of Mercedes and Ferrari in F1. And whilst we’re on the subject of jokes – do you know the latest F1 joke? Mike Gascoyne, Caterham Group’s Chief Technical Officer, has gone missing. Why? He’s looking for the 30 to 40 points he predicted for the last F1 season. Funny. Speaking of F1: It seems that one special so called ‘independent’ source is at the root of the lion’s share of damaging rumours and misleading stories. The delightful Joe Saward which leads us nicely to…. False rumour #3: Joe Saward is JUST an independent journalist. Fact: He is an active Director for the Caterham Group. And unlike some, we don’t want to get too personal, so we’ll leave it to you to judge how ‘independent’ his stories about Lotus are. False rumour #4: Group Lotus is no longer involved in F1. Fact: Lotus F1 Team and Group Lotus have reshaped their commercial relationship earlier this year. The new governance agreement signifies the continued commitment of Group Lotus to the team and the sport. Group Lotus’ branding and marketing rights and subsequent activities remain unaffected by the new agreement until at least 2017. Alongside continued branding and title partnership status, Group Lotus is also the exclusive master licensee for all Lotus F1 Team merchandise. The new agreement was reached following Group Lotus owners Proton providing team owners Genii with a £30m loan which is repayable within three years. In order to secure the loan Genii used 100% of the F1 team’s assets as collateral meaning that under the conditions of the loan agreement Proton have been given full title guarantee to all plant, machinery, show cars, computers, office and the Lotus F1 Team headquarters. In addition Proton retains the rights to purchase 10% of the F1 team. Another 10% share option will be activated if the team default on their loan obligations with Proton. Again we leave it to your judgement how ‘bad’ Lotus’ current situation in F1 is. And speaking of bad situations….. False rumour #5: Group Lotus is going into administration. Fact: Rubbish. The takeover of our parent company Proton by DRB-HICOM couldn’t have come at a worse time, but up until that point Proton was (and still remains) fully committed to our five year business plan to create jobs and to expand the factory and business. With the takeover process the funding has been restricted and DRB-HICOM is taking time to understand what to do with the business. DRB-HICOM is currently in the middle of due diligence of Group Lotus and there have been and continue to be positive discussions between Group Lotus senior management and senior management at DRB-HICOM both here in Hethel and in Malaysia. At no point has DRB-HICOM indicated to Group Lotus that it intends to put the company into administration. The over-active rumour mill is seriously damaging our business reputation, image and credibility but it is what it is. The simple fact is, and we haven’t denied this – Lotus is going through a very difficult phase at the moment but we are showing true fighting spirit every day in trying to keep this vision alive. This is also a fact – no matter what people outside of Lotus may say or tweet or blog. Fun times. Edited April 11, 2012 by Bob Sacamano Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarketTantrik Posted April 12, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2012 Hamilton's car's gearbox has been damaged in transit. Gearbox change for the Chinese GP. 5 place grid drop. He just cant get any luck. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piper Posted April 12, 2012 Report Share Posted April 12, 2012 Hamilton's car's gearbox has been damaged in transit. Gearbox change for the Chinese GP. 5 place grid drop. He just cant get any luck. This way he'll only crash into folks who qualified low down the order and leave pole sitter safely. Iit is a deliberate movie initiated by old man Bernie himself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theneurotoxin Posted April 12, 2012 Report Share Posted April 12, 2012 Brilliant news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devil_angel Posted April 13, 2012 Report Share Posted April 13, 2012 Damp FP1....pretty boring and not much learnt....the teams as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devil_angel Posted April 14, 2012 Report Share Posted April 14, 2012 Apparently Seb's starring a kung fu short film May be he can use some of the fighting skills tomorrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevie G Posted April 15, 2012 Report Share Posted April 15, 2012 2 Stopper for Rosberg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevie G Posted April 15, 2012 Report Share Posted April 15, 2012 What a Race Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake Posted April 15, 2012 Report Share Posted April 15, 2012 now thats what i call a race..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevie G Posted April 15, 2012 Report Share Posted April 15, 2012 Awesome Race Rosberg and Vettel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supersim Posted April 15, 2012 Report Share Posted April 15, 2012 rosberg deserves it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cash Posted April 15, 2012 Report Share Posted April 15, 2012 Top 5? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevie G Posted April 15, 2012 Report Share Posted April 15, 2012 Rosberg Button Hamilton Webber Vettel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cash Posted April 15, 2012 Report Share Posted April 15, 2012 What happened to kimi? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
achilles Posted April 15, 2012 Report Share Posted April 15, 2012 Best race I've seen in a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
achilles Posted April 15, 2012 Report Share Posted April 15, 2012 I give Ferrari a better chance than Mercedes. They have an absolutely sh*t car in race trim. We have some more crow to be served here.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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