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The officicial time gives the second race to Edwards by .005 of a second
but the officials with the best eyes in the world give it to Foggy
because it looked like he was ahead at the line! (perhaps they can only
see Ducati's)

Stop and Go for Slight when he didn't jump the start according to the
rules (the rear axle has to pass where the front axle started from).

Perhaps they can include some of these as cheats in Superbike 2000!

How can you move the finish line? Huh?

BTW, Colin Edwards was not looking very happy about his podium finish, he
behaved like the spoiled brat he is at the interview...

Remember, the world superbike championship is not run by Ducati, they just
dominate it :-)

/Bj.O.rn, 900SuperSport ie, SDK #1225

Well, good thinking because that was his point, because in the last couple
of years the faster Honda's just drove past them on the last run to the
finish. Now they couldn't so it was done in favor of the Ducati's.

 How interesting is it to se a

VERY Interesting!! The Monza races have always been one of the highlights of
the season (as was this one)

Errrr, Italian organizers, Italian track, Italian bikes???. Yeah sure, it
was just done for the sake of a fair race;-)
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big Fogarty/Ducati fan but I really had to laugh
when I saw the finish of the 1st race.

Cheers,

Harald

dominate it :-)

I suspect your smiley is not sarcasm !

FIM is run by an Italian, Ducati have had favourable engine size for too
long. Cut them back to 750cc
and see where they finish then ! Or add weight penalties. But, something
needs to be done to rebalance
the sport. Ducati have sold lots of road bikes on their performance in
superbikes, friends who have driven them and others do *NOT* rate the Dukes
!!

dominate it :-)

I suspect your smiley is not sarcasm !

FIM is run by an Italian, Ducati have had favourable engine size for too
long. Cut them back to 750cc
and see where they finish then ! Or add weight penalties. But, something
needs to be done to rebalance
the sport. Ducati have sold lots of road bikes on their performance in
superbikes, friends who have driven them and others do *NOT* rate the Dukes
!!

dominate it :-)

I suspect your smiley is not sarcasm !

FIM is run by an Italian, Ducati have had favourable engine size for too
long. Cut them back to 750cc
and see where they finish then ! Or add weight penalties. But, something
needs to be done to rebalance
the sport. Ducati have sold lots of road bikes on their performance in
superbikes, friends who have driven them and others do *NOT* rate the Dukes
!!

FIM is the International federation of motorcyclists, same thing as FIA is
for cars... ... "run by an Italian"?

So... Ducati has had favorable engine sizes.... It has been free for all to
use 1000cc twins since the series started back in the late 80's. So why did
not Honda or any other of the big 4 do this? In fact they have tried lately
with not much in the way of results...

Add weight to the Ducati? you have to add weight to the Aprillia to in such
case... I don't think Goddard would be very pleased with that...

lets see what Honda might come up with next year, the RC45 has allready
passed its homologation date (they race it on dispence this year). A twin
maybe?

True... but there is more, the looks, the sound, the soul, the passion, the
myth, the red (sometimes yellow) paint....

So, they rather ride Hardleys then.... ;-)

/Bj.O.rn, SwedishDucatiClub membro#1225

for cars... ... "run by an Italian"?

Francesco Zerbi, President FIM
...also...
Mr. Maurizio Flammini, President of Superbike International
...and don't forget....
Paolo Flammini, vice-President of Superbike International

Am I incorrect in thinking all three are Italian ??

Where are you getting these 'results'. Yes, they have them "in the wings"
and
what's the betting that when/if they bring them out, the rules would be
changed
to favour Ducati ??

Simpler, why didn't Ducati build a 750/4 ?

SO.

Hmmm. The sound is nice, but in Scotland it is usually confined to sunny
days. On
our more typical wet and cold weather they are buggars to start and keep
running.

You can tell a Duc in Scotland, it's the one sitting at the side of the road
waiting for
the AA to dry out the electrics :-)

No. Hondas, some Blackbirds and Kawazakis.

On above electrics a funny story. A Blackbird owning friend always makes
most of
Ducati/Aprillia/Laverda etc electrics difficulties in our weather. Points
out that his
Honda *always* starts first time and never misses regardless of weather. One
day,
his bike will not start. After much searching he opens the immobiliser to
find it full of
water. After drying it out, the bike starts fine. We all had a good laugh
when we found
out the immobiliser was ITALIAN - so continuing our belief that in nice
weather they
are undoubtedly superb electronics and bikes. BUT in the *real* world :-)
:-)

Off tonight to the Isle of Man TT for a week to see *real* riders doing
*REAL* racing !!

Ciao !!

  Hans-

A 4-cylinder Ducati? Won't happen again.... They made a couple of disastruos
prototypes in the 50's and 60's (the inline 4 125GP and the1250cc V4
Apollo). They never looked back since...

Oh... well...hrmm... Them voltage regulator/rectifier is known for it's
notorious Tjernobyl behaviour, but they are made by Nippon-Denso, Says it
all really... ;-)

Simple, the immobiliser got sick of being stuck to a japanese bike, it
really, really wanted to leave... :-)

Have a nice trip, don't smash yerself to pieces....

/Bj.O.rn, SDK #1225

Sorry can't understand your reasoning here? both races Edwards had a chance
to beat Foggy, 1st race Foggy out smarted him and passed Edwards earlier
then Edwards thought he would, then Edwards got on the gas to early coming
out of a corner thus blowing chance for race 1. Second race wasn't Edwards
in front at the last corner and again stuffed it up half way round thus
allowing Foggy the win. What I'm saying is Edwards would have won both races
without thes two mistakes he made (rider error not Italian officials).

I'm not 100% sure but didn't they change the rules for the start, you are
now not allowed any movement on the line?

Regards Phil.

"They" were in their home country so "they" had the advantage of a home track
decision.

I don't think there is anything wrong witht he formula. .120 and .005 second
gaps between the Duke and Honda at the end of the races is not much!