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News 01/07/07
Round 7. Catalunya
: Montmeló
Seby shows his supremacy in
Catalunya, at the famous Montmeló circuit,
winning the race by over 5 seconds to the Dutch Devil SFW, with Thunder
third.
Seby became
the fourth rider to defeat MotoGP500online World Champion Skider this
season after a thrilling race at the Montmeló circuit in Catalunya. The
Romanian youngster clinched his first victory of the season with a
performance that reflected his dominance throughout free practice this
weekend, despite having conceded the hot lap to Skider in the race.
Seby snatched the lead from Vouks in the first corner and, after
briefly conceding his position on lap four, he was back in front just
two laps later as the Greek ran into the gravel and saw his chance of
winning his second race this season disappear. Whilst SFW recovered
from a bad start to pile on the pressure over the final few laps, Seby
held firm to take the chequered flag with a comfortable advantage of
5.980 seconds over the Dutch Devil.
Second place for SFW represented his only second podium finish this
season.
Whilst Skider returned to the track in fourth place after a light crash
he could do nothing to prevent his team mate Thunder from clinching his
first ever podium finish in MotoGP500online.
Max’s chances of beating his team mate were over after the Greek could
only muster seventh place in today’s race behind Vouks, who passed his
Yamaha colleague with a daring pass on the final lap. CrazyBoy managed
to bring the bike home in 6th place. Whilst Guishermo, Dolz and
Gaz&Slide completed the top ten, Jake capped an impressive display
by clinching eleventh place, his best ever result. The Britain’s
performance was made all the more remarkable by the fact that he
finished ahead of Yamaha colleague Bradders.
The fight for runner-up spot in the championship become a lot clearer
with youngsters Seby and Vouks now the only realistic challengers to
end the season as number two behind Skider.
Spanish rider Guishermo seems unlikely to challenge for the title as he
now sits fourth overall, 45 points adrift of Skider.
Seby Lords Of Shadow (winner,
16:09.498):
"Thanks guys! I dedicate this victory to Ayrton Senna, I've watched
many races and interviews with Ayrton each day before our race and it
gave me more confidence. RIP
Congratulations SFW, great to have you back on the podium mate.
First podium for Thunder, gg mate, keep it up (I hope you won't kick my
ass in Brno).
Back to my favourite mofo from em all, Skider.
Skider 4th (FOURTH)??? after 21 podiums in a row? OMFG, keep up the
good pace NOT!
A win in Catalunya, at your home race Skider, is more important than 10
other victories!
Admit what you did in your home race Skid! BINGO! you were ass raped
hahahha.
How many points between us now? 19? holy number, you're doomed!
I say all of this while I can cuz I bet you'll kick my ass in the
future so dunno when I'll have another chance to make jokes. God i'm a
jerk but we all know Skid is the best rider so when we beat him we have
huge orgasms lol.
eh dont worry, I'm just messing with ya Skid, don't take it seriously.
Now go fetch daddy a beer and his slippers. PRONTO! PS hhahahaha
Back to my race lol, in practice I ass raped all guys but in the
official race (with Vouks and Guishermo) I didn't have the best start
and Vouks was right on my tail, we passed each other 4-5 laps until I
managed to escape a bit and when I was 1 second in front or so, he
fell. Then Guishermo fell when he was 2-3 seconds behind me. In the
last laps I saw the gap to Vouks was 12.3 seconds so I thought I should
take it easy so I won't make the same mistake as them. Then I
remembered there was another race going on (Skider, SFW and down) so I
pushed a bit harder but not hard enough for mistakes. I managed to
finish the race 13.9 seconds in front of Vouks but only 16:09 total
time. In practice I did 16:04 - 16:05 so I was a bit worried that
SFW/Skider could beat me. When SFW said that he did his worst race in
history of time I was worried, I thought Skid had won the race. But
then he said he managed to beat the Spanish armada and made me the most
happy man on the planet. Congratulations again SFW and thanks."
Skider Oasics
NoGrip Racing Team (4th, 16:18.175):
"Congratulations Seby, this time you had the chance, you were the
favourite and you didnt disappointed us, GG mate. Is nice to see SFW
doing better in this race lol, winner from last year and 2nd this time,
definively Cata is one of your best tracks, well done. I'm so glad to
see my team mate, Thunder, doing his first podium of his career, and
also to see 3 Suzukis in the top5, well done guys!
About my race... I can only say I messed up my race when it was almost
in my hands, raced with SFW and down. First, down stole the start and
he had DNF because of the black flag after few laps, at the beginning
SFW got the lead with down and me were right behind him but entering
the Wurth corner he went a little bit wide and lost his advantage, on
the next right handle it was an anticoll bug and I hit the dutch man
without meaning to, sorry mate, and he touched the kerb and the gravel
loosing some time. After the first lap I had down behind me at 1 sec
gap almost until he had the DSQ, he made a great pace during those
laps, pitty mate, it could have been interesting. Then I had SFW at 2
secs behind me, aprox until 2 laps to go when on the first braking
after the front straight I lost the front end and crashed. On the
previous lap I did 36.7 when usually was doing low 36 so I wanted to
recover the time, just half a second lol but I braked too late, damn!
then I did 36.4 in the last 2 laps. I'm very disappointed because I
wanted to win specially because it was my home race and also because it
finished a string of 21 consecutive podiums, however I hope it will
give me more motivation to do well in the next races.
See you this weekend at wet Donington Park, we'll see what will happen,
there aren't many days to practice in this difficult conditions."
Vouks MotoGP
Greece Racing Team (6th, 16:23.465):
"GG Seby!
GG SFW you find the way to podium again.
GG Thunder well done.
GG GrazyBoy you nearly beat the champion.
GG Max next time better.
GG Dolz for top 10 and for: Yvos-Dolz 2-5.
Yvos maybe if we stop train we go better??? lol
This Cata race did change alot of things (riders standings,
constructors standings, podium guys, crashes hehe).
I can't even think what will be in next race wich is wet.
See you all there"
Guishermo
Hurricane Miu Racing Team (8th, 16:24.889):
"Well done Seby! Fantastic result, despite the fact that you said at
the end of the race that Skider or SFW would beat easily that time.
GG to SFW, it's good to see you again on the podium, also to Thunder, a
very fast guy who deserved this result, and to everybody who took part
in the race.
I raced with Seby and Vouks and i'm very dissapointed, I did a very bad
start and lost 1 - 1.5 seconds in the first lap... Then I was able to
follow Seby and Vouks and I was hoping to catch them because our pace
was not so strong compared to practice. A few laps later Vouks crashed
when he was right behind Seby and I tried to catch Seby, but it was
impossible, the gap was around 2 seconds with 4 laps to the end and I
was still hoping the reduce the gap (because I thought I was using
harder tyres as I did in Mugello, but that wasn't true, Seby was using
the same tyres as me) and I had a silly and frustrating crash at the
chicane after the long corners of the beginning of the track, I touched
a little bit the curb while leaning (only a bit) and crashed, I knew
that point was difficult but I didn't expected to crash with so little
contact... I lost 13 seconds in that crash, so I would have finished
second, but this is online racing and the mistakes you do have massive
importance, and Seby is the only guy who hasn't done a big mistake
yet... I suppose Skider crashed, so it could have been a good chance to
take from him 5-10 points.
Next race, wet race, omg"
Jake Yamaha
England MotoGP (11th, 16:28.956):
"Wow, my best finish yet, 11th and my first B win!
My race went really well, I got a good start and passed Atman on the
run down to the first turn, then I started pulling away as I found a
good rhythm, but I made a mistake in T3, I lost about 2 seconds and
then Bradders was right with me again, the next lap he also made a
mistake which gave me enough room to settle down into the rhythm again,
then Brad put a fast lap in so I had to push harder, which wore my
tyres out and in my last lap I had a few mistakes and Brad caught up
but I managed to hold my lead to the line, Matt was unlucky because he
was going really well but crashed on the last lap.
So I'm happy, I've got my first win, moved up 5 places in the
championship and had my best finish yet. GG all."
Bradders
Yamaha England MotoGP (12th, 16:29.302):
I was so close to Jake by the end of my race! I had a better drive out
of the last corner and slipstream! Another 100m and I'd have got him!
Ahh well, Jake's already told the story of my race, so I'll just say
well done to him. And I'm glad to get my best ever position! We'll be
challenging Dolz for #1 Yamaha England rider soon!
I'm enjoying wet Donington alot more than I expected, hopefully I can
get win number 3.
Yvos Arkos
Froggy's Connection (16th, 16:36.401):
"GG Seby, good one!
Also SFW and Thunder, very good race.
I raced on a very good room, with Transalp, Thunder, Crazyboy, Kaiser7K
and Dolz.
I wish we could have the same room all the time.
I was second in qualifying and had a pretty good start, fighting with
CrazyBoy and Dolz, but I had an unlucky crash in lap 3 and lost all my
chances then.
I hope to do better in Dony wet, but I'm not very confident for that
race....
Cya all then, some surprises again I guess with wet..."
TT98-XL VLT
Racing TT98 Design (18th, 16:36.918):
"Well I had a good race after mugello where I stuffed it. But I just
missed out on the podium by 0.2s which is such a pitty, I had the
feeling I'd done a good race! but I guess Bradders and Jake were going
like crazy :-) Congrats to Jake on his first win and to Bradders for
opening up a bigger gap in the championship. The pressure is off now
for me, as I don't think I will win the championship this year.
I did get 3pts for the overall standings though! which is marvellous!
I'm happy with that, and sorry for my team mate who had a crash on the
last lap...
Well Matt will appear on a special bike in Donington! So hope he will
kick ass in the wett! Ciao"
rezist Rezist
Racing Yamaha Team (22nd, 16:41.399):
"WELL DONE SEBY!!! Bravo!
Slaughtered em! it's about time you won another one too!
Congratulations to the podium!
Jeez, you need to almost finish in the top ten to win the B-class!!
22nd (7th) for me, I had a good race but I was never totally happy with
the setup, I feel like I could've done some faster laps with a better
balanced setup... anyway it's much better than Mugello lol"
With this victory, Seby moved back to 2nd place in the Rider Standings,
only 19 points behind Skider who was a total of 170 points. Vouks is
3rd with 138 points, Guishermo 4th with 125 points and 5th is SFW with
110 points.
Oasics NoGrip Racing stays at the top of the Team Standings with a
total of 260 points, 11 points in front of Lords Of Shadow and 83
points in front of MotoGP Greece Racing Team. Hurricane Miu Racing and
Nitram Racing complete the top 5.
Thanks to Seby's victory, Yamaha moved to the top of the Constructors'
Standings with 178 points, 5 points ahead of Suzuki which slipped back
to second place for the first time this season. Moriwaki lies 3rd with
125 points with Kawasaki and Honda 4th and 5th.
In the Qualifying Award, Seby is leader thanks to another pole
position, his fifth of the season. Skider is half a second behind Seby
with Vouks 3rd, less than a second behind the Romanian.
In the Hot Lap Award Skider still leads, 1.147 in front of Guishermo,
1.586 in front of Vouks and 1.633 in front of Seby.
Skider is also the leader of the Total Time Award, less than 5 seconds
in front of Seby, 34 seconds in front of Vouks and 54 in front of
Guishermo.
Join us in one week's time for the MotoGP500online Grand Prix of
Britain
at wet Donington Park.
Report by Seby
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