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Posted by Mike's Diary  on April 23, 2012, 5:12 pm, in reply to "Re: Bol Live Viedo Feed"
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1 Phillippe double stinted 1st 2 hours and jumped off at the pit lane entrance shortly into his 2nd hour, breaking his shoulder. He pushed back anyway and then skived off to hospital leaving the other 2 to finish the race. We kept waiting for them to tire and slow down.... A monumental effort and they nearly got the win!
2 TTL ABS had already failed and reverted to 'off' mode well before the crash - which it would have obviously prevented. Working on both the 'rolling when it hits the grass' and 'tank flies off' problems! Quite amazing to lose half an hour and still have 15mins in hand before losing a point in the championship!
3 Damo was also double stinted for the 1st 2 hours and also fell shortly into his second stint. I'm not aware of any other team doing this - seems like a really good idea on a drying track - but worked out really badly for both teams.
4 This was probably the most expensive race for years in terms of the amount and seriousness of the crashing that was done! Plenty of bikes were totalled in practice and qualifying as well as the race. One team (YART?) didn't qualify their 3rd rider till the 2nd session as they had run out of bikes!
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