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Who's going to SBK?
Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 11:00 am
by Nkwazi
Anyone going to World Superbikes? I'll be at Superpole today and full day tomorrow. Was there yesterday for practice, man these blokes have got huge kahonies. The speed at the end of the main straight and bottom of the mineshaft is just unbelievable, dont get that on TV.
Some photo's I took yesterday
Re: Who's going to SBK?
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 8:00 am
by Splinter
Nice pics Brett! Myself, Big Man, Lone Ranger, Ferdi and Robert Jnr were there yesteray! One thing is for sure, these okes can ride bikes! Oh yes and before I forget..................
GO HAGA SON
Re: Who's going to SBK?
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 8:47 am
by Slider
Yip, my buddies and me were sitting behind STAND 12/13 eating our breakfast and heard some guys next to us speaking about flying. I didn’t want to interrupt them, ONLY to find out they were "Sky gods" and not microlight pilots, so I left them alone. Racing and the GIRLS were GREAT
Re: Who's going to SBK?
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 4:07 pm
by Low Level
If you see these guys in action, you realise why there is only a handfull of them in the world. These guys are incredible. Personally I'm behind Haga, just because of his perseverance and bad luck the past - is it 70 years.
2009 is going to be Haga's year - but on track, that man Spies is in a class of his own.
When the going gets tough, Spies goes one better - beating Fabrizio in the last lap for superpole with 1/1000 of a second.
1'37.288" to 1'37.289" - that is racing.
Unfortunately seems like he got some of Haga's bad luck with the Yamaha.
Some of the pix I took on Friday and Saturday.
- Ben Spies doing 250 km/h in turn 2
- Spies entering turn 4
- Spies exiting turn 4
Re: Who's going to SBK?
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 4:26 pm
by Low Level
Some more pix for the uninformed.
Some of the SBK clan on Friday's qualifying practice. Haga - no 41 - didn't spend much time in the back of that pack.
That man Haga.
As I am a serious Kawasaki fan, it was a great bonus when local man Sheridan Morias got a ride on the factory Kawasaki. He did brilliantly racing against guys that are longer on the world stage than what he is racing. Good luck for the future.
Re: Who's going to SBK?
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 4:33 pm
by Low Level
The supersport - 600cc - class was as amazing.
- Fabian Foret
These guys exit a corner, doing 200 km/h on the edge of the racetrack, in fact, on the rumble strip, and not by accident, lap after lap. Their margin of error is almost zero.
- Cal Crutchlow doing 200 km/h in turn 5
Current world champion, but not for long.....
- Andrew Pitt
Re: Who's going to SBK?
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 4:39 pm
by Low Level
Just to keep it aviation related.
The camera chopper for the aerials.
......taking some nice pictures of the pits.
Unfortunately Regis Laconi had to be airlifted to Sunninghill with a broken neck and puntured lung, due to a high speed crash on his first lap Friday.
Re: Who's going to SBK?
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 4:43 pm
by Low Level
And someone from Wagtail visited on Friday.
............and Saturday.