Rd. 11 MXGP of Russia - Semigorje

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7/20/2012 10:51am Edited Date/Time 7/22/2012 7:08am



Saturday and Sunday:
MX-Life TV Live Timing and Scoring

Results and Points


Pay-Perview Live Race Coverage:
MX-Life TV


Track Map:


Saturday:
EMX2 Free + Qualifying Time Practice Group A 7:55
EMX2 Free + Qualifying Time Practice Group B 8:35
MX2 Free Practice 9:30
MX1 Free Practice 10:15
EMX2 Qualifying Race Group A 11:10
EMX2 Qualifying Race Group B 12:00
MX2 Pre-Qualifying Practice 13:15
MX1-Pre Qualifying Practice 14:00
EMX2 Last Chance Qualifying Practice 15:00
MX2 Qualifying Race 16:10
MX1 Qualifying Race 17:00
EMX2 B-Final 17:50
EMX2 Race 1 18:40

Sunday:
EMX2 Warm up 8:30
MX2 Warm up 9:00
MX1 Warm up 9:30
EMX2 Race 2 10:15
MX2 Grand Prix Race 1 12:10
MX1 Grand Prix Race 1 13:10
MX2 Grand Prix Race 2 15:03
MX1 Grand Prix race 2 16:03
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7/20/2012 10:59am
Almost every rider is sleeping in a tent at the track because the nearest hotel is 100 kilometres away (about 60 miles) and Pourcel just posted on Facebook that there is a huge rainstorm at the moment ...

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7/20/2012 11:00am Edited Date/Time 7/20/2012 11:06am
This is Osbourne's hotel



Nice! The pool is probally outside

Russian private riders entering the track



That's a world championship right here! Even I have better equipment Dizzy
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7/20/2012 11:45am
Hopefully, this one goes better than Mexico... Whistling
7/20/2012 12:49pm
Definitely wonder if the big man himself is out there campin tonight. This makes it intresting taking into count all the must have´s that most tracks needs to have to get on the calendar of the GP´s these days. Wonder what made them land a GP there when its at least 1 hr to a hotel. Just thinkin loud am i......

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7/20/2012 5:19pm Edited Date/Time 7/20/2012 5:19pm
I loved Russia when I went there for a holiday, best country I have been to yet. A must for anyone wanting to see the world. Oh and check out club Metro in St Petersberg, never in my life would I have thought that I would be bombarded & chatted up by 6' models all night ! Cool
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7/21/2012 1:36am
2013 1 round will be held in CUBA
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7/21/2012 4:15am Edited Date/Time 7/21/2012 4:45am
I disagree with a lot of the things Youthstream does, but I think having GP's in different continents/far away countries is kind of cool. It has got to be an expensive exercise for the teams though.

I thought most of the riders usually travelled to the GP's in their motor homes? Is the Russian round too far away for that? Sleeping in a tent for a weekend is not exactly 3rd world anyway.

You might have better equipment KlootZak, but I would expect those guys are still pretty damn fast. That is the only thing that should matter.
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7/21/2012 8:10am
sam111 wrote:
I disagree with a lot of the things Youthstream does, but I think having GP's in different continents/far away countries is kind of cool. It has...
I disagree with a lot of the things Youthstream does, but I think having GP's in different continents/far away countries is kind of cool. It has got to be an expensive exercise for the teams though.

I thought most of the riders usually travelled to the GP's in their motor homes? Is the Russian round too far away for that? Sleeping in a tent for a weekend is not exactly 3rd world anyway.

You might have better equipment KlootZak, but I would expect those guys are still pretty damn fast. That is the only thing that should matter.
According the google maps using Lommel Belgium (home base for many riders) as a starting point and the GPS coordinates of the track it is 2889 KM (1795 miles) and 34 hours drive. The track is northeast of Moscow.

But if they took their motorhomes to last weeks GP in Latvia the drive would be 1317 KM (818 miles) to the Russian GP. For reference Lommel to Latvia is 1879 KM (1167 miles).

Looking at the mileage I would guess that the Latvia and Russia rounds would be fly away races for the riders due to the distance from their home bases.
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7/21/2012 8:29am Edited Date/Time 7/21/2012 8:30am
sam111 wrote:
I disagree with a lot of the things Youthstream does, but I think having GP's in different continents/far away countries is kind of cool. It has...
I disagree with a lot of the things Youthstream does, but I think having GP's in different continents/far away countries is kind of cool. It has got to be an expensive exercise for the teams though.

I thought most of the riders usually travelled to the GP's in their motor homes? Is the Russian round too far away for that? Sleeping in a tent for a weekend is not exactly 3rd world anyway.

You might have better equipment KlootZak, but I would expect those guys are still pretty damn fast. That is the only thing that should matter.
fastest russian rider finished 15 in the qualification race and was 15 seconds slower than the leader except bobby of course who is a gp regular
7/21/2012 10:33am Edited Date/Time 7/21/2012 11:40am
First MX2 qualifier is now available on MX life tv. Dirt looks a little like Sweden from a tv point of view at least, nice and loamy in some corners but then very hard pack and slippery in other places. Definitely tricky that's for sure. Edit: After watching MX1, track seems a lot more loamy. Respectable crowd size apparently, hopefully even more on Sunday.

Seems like we've had an extra amount of mud races this year.
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7/21/2012 5:55pm Edited Date/Time 7/21/2012 6:16pm
DownSouth wrote:
According the google maps using Lommel Belgium (home base for many riders) as a starting point and the GPS coordinates of the track it is 2889...
According the google maps using Lommel Belgium (home base for many riders) as a starting point and the GPS coordinates of the track it is 2889 KM (1795 miles) and 34 hours drive. The track is northeast of Moscow.

But if they took their motorhomes to last weeks GP in Latvia the drive would be 1317 KM (818 miles) to the Russian GP. For reference Lommel to Latvia is 1879 KM (1167 miles).

Looking at the mileage I would guess that the Latvia and Russia rounds would be fly away races for the riders due to the distance from their home bases.
Ok, thanks for the info. Please excuse my ignorance. New Zealand is only 1600km long from top to bottom, so it is hard for me to have any sort of perspective on those kind of distances.
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7/21/2012 6:14pm
tns wrote:
fastest russian rider finished 15 in the qualification race and was 15 seconds slower than the leader except bobby of course who is a gp regular
Ok. 15 seconds a lap is a lot. Riders that far off the pace could be a hazard. In the NZ nationals, if you are more than 110% slower than the average lap time of the top ten, you do not qualify. Perhaps they could implement a rule along those lines in the GP's. It could make the field pretty small when there are only 19 entries though.

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