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The season is here at last! WSB Round 1 - Phillip Island

Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2025 1:19 pm
by Tricky
Seems to have been a long winter, for me anyway, not helped by my temporary forced lack of exercise and housebound-ness :(

Anyway- Good to see Toprak got away with what looked as though it could have been a nasty one from the pics, unfortunately, Jonny didn't, which is a great shame as he did seem to have found some more and was pretty upbeat- will be interesting to see who gets his seat while he's away.

As for the rest of it, the highlight for me so far is seeing Ryan Vickers going what well on a completely new bike to him, straight out of the gate- WSB needs some new British blood in it so am hoping he has a decent week-end, which would basically mean top 10 in my book

As for the sharp end, much as I would like to see Scotty do well, I don't currently see him up there, and reckon it's most likely going to be Bulega and Toprak fighting it out again, perhaps with Alvaro and Loca up there too, and Alex as the dark horse for a win.

Final practice times here

https://www.crash.net/wsbk/results/1063 ... -2-tuesday

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WSP is not quite as interesting for me at the moment, but I'll be watching and rooting for TBA 🀞🏻

Re: The season is here at last! WSB Round 1 - Phillip Island

Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2025 1:48 pm
by Skub
Rock and Roll. 8-)

Lots of sub plots on the grid and I hope the racing stays interesting. I wonder how the Bimota will perform,Lowes and Bassini don't seem far off in testing,but now we'll see for real. Iannone needs to perform this year,as does Redding.

The Sky box is set,so bring it. :thumbup:

Re: The season is here at last! WSB Round 1 - Phillip Island

Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2025 2:10 pm
by MrLongbeard
Will set up the multiple records on the Sky box and see which one fails, must get the most out of this season before it gets locked away on a pay channel

Scratch that, it looks like it's already left Eurosport, so I'll not be watching.

Re: The season is here at last! WSB Round 1 - Phillip Island

Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2025 3:04 am
by Nobby
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Re: The season is here at last! WSB Round 1 - Phillip Island

Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2025 8:28 pm
by Nobby
A Tenner on Amos.
Might be a bit of rain on Sunday, a pound each way on Vickers if it does.

Re: The season is here at last! WSB Round 1 - Phillip Island

Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2025 8:45 pm
by weeksy
I see Redding is still a backmarker πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

Saddened by the lack of new upcoming talent. Most sports have a youngster blast on the scene each year or at least every couple.

This seems to be the same bunch for the last 5 years

Re: The season is here at last! WSB Round 1 - Phillip Island

Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2025 4:56 am
by Nobby
weeksy wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2025 8:45 pm I see Redding is still a backmarker πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

Saddened by the lack of new upcoming talent. Most sports have a youngster blast on the scene each year or at least every couple.

This seems to be the same bunch for the last 5 years
Vickers is going quite well. A big jump for him but he’s showing promise….until I just Jinxed him.

Re: The season is here at last! WSB Round 1 - Phillip Island

Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2025 6:34 am
by 2xtwins
Some great racing here this morning, especially in WSS.

Well worth a watch.

Kev

Re: The season is here at last! WSB Round 1 - Phillip Island

Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2025 7:36 am
by Nobby
weeksy wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2025 8:45 pm I see Redding is still a backmarker πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

Saddened by the lack of new upcoming talent. Most sports have a youngster blast on the scene each year or at least every couple.

This seems to be the same bunch for the last 5 years
Would you like to write that again ?
I’ll post what I think once people have had a chance to watch it.

Re: The season is here at last! WSB Round 1 - Phillip Island

Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2025 7:37 am
by Nobby
2xtwins wrote: Sat Feb 22, 2025 6:34 am Some great racing here this morning, especially in WSS.

Well worth a watch.

Kev
Here ?
Are you here ?

Re: The season is here at last! WSB Round 1 - Phillip Island

Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2025 8:18 am
by weeksy
Nobby wrote: Sat Feb 22, 2025 7:36 am
weeksy wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2025 8:45 pm I see Redding is still a backmarker πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

Saddened by the lack of new upcoming talent. Most sports have a youngster blast on the scene each year or at least every couple.

This seems to be the same bunch for the last 5 years
Would you like to write that again ?
I’ll post what I think once people have had a chance to watch it.
Not massively. One part maybe wasn't nailed on. The other deffo still was.

Re: The season is here at last! WSB Round 1 - Phillip Island

Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2025 8:20 am
by 2xtwins
Nobby wrote: Sat Feb 22, 2025 7:37 am
2xtwins wrote: Sat Feb 22, 2025 6:34 am Some great racing here this morning, especially in WSS.

Well worth a watch.

Kev
Here ?
Are you here ?
I wish.....no,probably just a combination of my sleep-addled brain and poor command of the English language :roll: , also conscious of the need to not be a spoiler as to the results.

Kev

Re: The season is here at last! WSB Round 1 - Phillip Island

Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2025 8:33 am
by weeksy
2xtwins wrote: Sat Feb 22, 2025 8:20 am
Nobby wrote: Sat Feb 22, 2025 7:37 am
2xtwins wrote: Sat Feb 22, 2025 6:34 am Some great racing here this morning, especially in WSS.

Well worth a watch.

Kev
Here ?
Are you here ?
I wish.....no,probably just a combination of my sleep-addled brain and poor command of the English language :roll: , also conscious of the need to not be a spoiler as to the results.

Kev
If someone opens a thread titled "WSB round 1" and moans about spoilers I'll ban them πŸ‘

Re: The season is here at last! WSB Round 1 - Phillip Island

Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2025 8:26 pm
by Bigyin
MrLongbeard wrote: Thu Feb 20, 2025 2:10 pm Will set up the multiple records on the Sky box and see which one fails, must get the most out of this season before it gets locked away on a pay channel

Scratch that, it looks like it's already left Eurosport, so I'll not be watching.
Gone to TNT sport and also lost on the Discovery plus app unless you pay for TNT so all i saw of Race 1 coverage was a 5 minute you tube highlight video :thumbdown:

Re: The season is here at last! WSB Round 1 - Phillip Island

Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2025 9:23 pm
by weeksy
Get the wallets out fellas. Its Β£20 a month through my BT account

Re: The season is here at last! WSB Round 1 - Phillip Island

Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2025 9:38 pm
by MrLongbeard
weeksy wrote: Sat Feb 22, 2025 9:23 pm Get the wallets out fellas. Its Β£20 a month through my BT account
Nah, it's dead to me, as I suspect will MotoGP as it sounds like the highlights are going to be well trimmed down if any are shown at all.
It'd run me Β£29 through Sky, and then how do I not justify paying another Β£20 for the F1 which I enjoy just as much, all on top of Β£40 a month for the Sky package, it all adds up and isn't worth it to me

Re: The season is here at last! WSB Round 1 - Phillip Island

Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2025 9:40 pm
by KungFooBob
I'm off round Dodgy's gaff to watch it on his hooky firestick.

Re: The season is here at last! WSB Round 1 - Phillip Island

Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2025 4:24 am
by Nobby
Nobby wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2025 8:28 pm A Tenner on Amos.
Might be a bit of rain on Sunday, a pound each way on Vickers if it does.
:banana-dance:

Re: The season is here at last! WSB Round 1 - Phillip Island

Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2025 1:32 pm
by Skub
As in Motogp,we have a Ducati lock out.

Toprak wasn't too pleased with his bike in race 3,I bet there was some strong language behind those swiftly pulled down shutters.

Re: The season is here at last! WSB Round 1 - Phillip Island

Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2025 1:46 pm
by wull
Skub wrote: Sun Feb 23, 2025 1:32 pm As in Motogp,we have a Ducati lock out.

Toprak wasn't too pleased with his bike in race 3,I bet there was some strong language behind those swiftly pulled down shutters.
As they always say you should never take too much away from PI and tbh Toprak has came away with more points than he had at this stage last year so he needs to just breathe relax and see what happens at the other tracks, the ones where he knows he is strong.