World super bikes

[katscott]

Is anyone watching World Supers with the commentary off most of the time? James Whitham is ok but the other twonk who goes on and on about Johnny Rea and is obviously on bonus to see how many times he can say his name per race. He's also completely unbiased as even when Alvaro Bautista was trouncing Mr Rea he was going to regroup and catch him up. I Like Johnathan Rea and he is a bloody good rider but Alvaro has raised the bar in WSB but didn't get the break he needed in moto GP. Still WSB is looking a bit more exciting this year and hopefully it won't be a one horse race

[pookie]

Looks like it will be a one horse race but with Bautista the champion, still enjoy the racing but you're right that the commentary is cringeworthy, Jack Burnicle does a much better job with the British superbikes, one thing I've noticed (along with Mr Witham) is that the rule allowing homoglomation seems to be pushed to the limit by Ducati by releasing what is basically a detuned Moto gp bike for sale in limited numbers (to wealthy people who will never ride them) which means the World Superbike has full electronics and even winglets (just like a Katana!)

[stockcar]

agreed whilst Bautista is a decent rider i'm not sure he has the beating of Rea by the margins he has done.........

[spondonchris]

Bautista is a good rider but not great as was seen in MotoGP. The Ducati is a missile. If he was passing him in the corners etc fair play but most passing is mirror, signal, manoeuvre on the straights and use the 15 kmh advantage. The first two circuits don't always give an forecast of the rest. We shall see in a couple of races but if it carries on this way the viewers will just switch off. Jamie Whitham summarised it well when he said Ducati build a race bike first and then make a road bike to homologate it whereas the others build roadbikes and then try and bring them up to race bikes. True.

[katscott]

To be fair Ducati have made 1500 for sale and Kawasaki have only made 500. I want to see Alex Lowes able to kick some ass. Also moto GP refugees do seem to be a step above. Although when it was Biaggi playing field seemed to be a bit flatter