ÜberDoober
05-06-2008, 11:49 PM
http://www.dooberville.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=6&pictureid=54 (http://www.worldsbk.com/pubb_EN/index.php)
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FIM World Superbike - Round 5 - Monza, Italy
US Broadcast Info:
SPEEDtv - RACE 1 -Sunday May 11, 6:00pm EASTERN, 3:00pm PACIFIC
SPEEDtv - RACE 2 - Tuesday May 13, 1:00pm EASTERN 10:00am PACIFIC
Check http://www.dooberville.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=6&pictureid=52 for full details
CIRCUITS: MONZA (AUTODROMO NAZIONALE)
© Inside F1, Inc. (LINK (http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/cir-050.html))
They call it La Pista Magica - the magic race track - and as soon as you arrive in the old royal park at Monza you know why. The ghosts are there in the woods. The buildings talk of legends and of heroes, of great races and shocking accidents. You can feel your spine tingle with the excitement that emanates from the thousands of tifosi, the Ferrari fans who flock to Monza every year to watch the red cars from Maranello. For them, nothing is impossible. There is always a little magic to help them. Of all the racing tracks in the world this is the one to visit for it the embodiment of the joy and thrill that is always in the background when racing people gather.
You have to forget the bad points - and there are many. The traffic is awful, the pickpockets are busy, the policemen are lazy or frenetic but rarely anything in between. Fans drool at the gates, they jeer at Ferrari's rivals. They have even been known to throw rocks.
But go out into the woods and see the tree trunks with nails hammered into them so that the fans can climb to a perfect viewing point, or stay up all night with them and watch them dance on the track the night before a race and you begin to understand. If you've ever watched John Frankenheimer's movie Grand Prix you will know Monza - it hasn't changed much. It is where Jean-Pierre Sarti's Ferrari goes out of control on the banking and smashes through the trees onto the track below. It is where James Garner stands on the main straight in the early morning on the day after the race, mulling over his victory. The camera pulls gradually and majestically away into the sky.
So what's the scoop Doobers? In 2007 Nori Haga won both races and took Superole. The chance exists this round for Troy Bayliss to tie Carl Fogarty's Superpole record of 21.
Roborto Rolfo will be out with an injury but the question is who is going to beat Bayliss? (there is an SBK RSS news feed on the related DooberVille web page here (http://www.dooberville.com/amasbk.htm). The SBK website itself sucks ass bad as MotoGP's new one)
http://www.dooberville.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=6&pictureid=55
FIM World Superbike - Round 5 - Monza, Italy
US Broadcast Info:
SPEEDtv - RACE 1 -Sunday May 11, 6:00pm EASTERN, 3:00pm PACIFIC
SPEEDtv - RACE 2 - Tuesday May 13, 1:00pm EASTERN 10:00am PACIFIC
Check http://www.dooberville.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=6&pictureid=52 for full details
CIRCUITS: MONZA (AUTODROMO NAZIONALE)
© Inside F1, Inc. (LINK (http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/cir-050.html))
They call it La Pista Magica - the magic race track - and as soon as you arrive in the old royal park at Monza you know why. The ghosts are there in the woods. The buildings talk of legends and of heroes, of great races and shocking accidents. You can feel your spine tingle with the excitement that emanates from the thousands of tifosi, the Ferrari fans who flock to Monza every year to watch the red cars from Maranello. For them, nothing is impossible. There is always a little magic to help them. Of all the racing tracks in the world this is the one to visit for it the embodiment of the joy and thrill that is always in the background when racing people gather.
You have to forget the bad points - and there are many. The traffic is awful, the pickpockets are busy, the policemen are lazy or frenetic but rarely anything in between. Fans drool at the gates, they jeer at Ferrari's rivals. They have even been known to throw rocks.
But go out into the woods and see the tree trunks with nails hammered into them so that the fans can climb to a perfect viewing point, or stay up all night with them and watch them dance on the track the night before a race and you begin to understand. If you've ever watched John Frankenheimer's movie Grand Prix you will know Monza - it hasn't changed much. It is where Jean-Pierre Sarti's Ferrari goes out of control on the banking and smashes through the trees onto the track below. It is where James Garner stands on the main straight in the early morning on the day after the race, mulling over his victory. The camera pulls gradually and majestically away into the sky.
So what's the scoop Doobers? In 2007 Nori Haga won both races and took Superole. The chance exists this round for Troy Bayliss to tie Carl Fogarty's Superpole record of 21.
Roborto Rolfo will be out with an injury but the question is who is going to beat Bayliss? (there is an SBK RSS news feed on the related DooberVille web page here (http://www.dooberville.com/amasbk.htm). The SBK website itself sucks ass bad as MotoGP's new one)