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Apparently his bike cut out going up the face of a big triple at the Thai GP, wrecking his bike and wrist.
They had to use race fuel supplied by Thailand due to import rules, lot of teams had problems today due to fuel boiling apparently?
Anyone know anymore yet?
They had to use race fuel supplied by Thailand due to import rules, lot of teams had problems today due to fuel boiling apparently?
Anyone know anymore yet?
Fly halfway round the world , with your kit , and then we might manage to hurt your rider by giving you shit fuel..... totally beyond belief.
Paulin and Frossard had bad results as well.
KTM didn't seem to have any problems though.
If it is the fuels fault for Searles wrist , they shouldn't race there again until someone sorts it out, the sport is dangerous enough already!!
The Shop
Not cool!
Shame on you and your system, mister Luongo !
That's like going to a Nascar race and having a certain state say " Hey....you can only use pump gas in the cars when you race here "............basically it makes little sense. And in Searles case......it just ruined his season. Ridiculous.
Anyone with some fuel knowledge?
Why so negative ?
Lets go over the positives. 10 X more Spectators than Qatar 10 last week 100 this week
race wasn't at night and YS share holders looking for big gains.
One other point, if KTM were running better We can all assume KTM found a way to bring their own fuel aka Cheated.
for the gp guys to complain, hey, it's part of GP game.
the gp's, they run anywhere, all conditions, all weather
the guy that embraced the problem, dealt with it, half a world away from home, more so the man, more so the winner.
I love watching all the former GP guys ride(Ken rocks), great talent that shouldn't be wasted riding in the middle of BFE.
Pit Row
Major sponsor of the Thai MXGP is PTT the huge Thai petro/chem company
Lay the blame at them aswell, cause it would have been what they consider race fuel.
I couldn't work it out it smelled like plastic burning, many were insulating the tanks in the pits
Impossible for me to say how it affected the riders, but there were some big jumps
and as I said in the other thread herlings bike sounded different to others.
i lived and raced there for years and never had an issue with fuel , you can get good fuel there .
And FWIW shane........you are riding a production bike , bought from a show room floor.......in no way , shape or form is your stock bike anything like what the works GP bikes are like. Those factory bike "Require " a high grade race fuel to run correctly. Everyone that follows this sport knows that......so i don't understand what you are saying here.
There were other teams who had issues with the fuel as well....not just kawi.
Dean Wilson was seriously injured during off season training when his engine died on the face of a jump.
As far as what types of bikes Shanes has rode or owned in the past~ I'd bet everything I own that most of them were not stock production bikes. Just like in AMA/FIM racing they might have started as stock production bikes, but they didn't stay that way for very long.
very stock don't you think
and 186 hp at the rear wheel ex factory honda , you can't even buy most of the parts in this engine
And Shane.....yes , those are stock bikes you have with some hop-up parts. Nice looking bikes for sure.....but far from a $100,000 factory bike.
Luongo has such a death grip on this series that if its proven that the fuel was shit and caused Searle's crash, nothing will happen anyway.
First rate series and racers, 3rd rate promoter. GP riders need to be treated better than this.
Brent- I don't think that is an accurate statement nothing will happen anyway.
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