Despite facing pressure to move its night race to later in the year, in order to avoid the cold conditions experienced at the inaugural March 9 event, Qatar is refusing to surrender its place as the season-opening event on the MotoGP calendar.
the tyre companies will know to make different tyres for that event to cope with the cold, thats it.
Posted by brendan - Unregistered (119 days ago)
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Here's a radical suggestion to get round the problem of it being cold at night. Let's install giant heaters around the track to heat the air and keep the riders and spectators warm!!! No?
Of course the right thing to do would be to scrap this UTTER RUBBISH and race it during the day like they do in WSBK! WTF is the point in racing at night and then complaining because now it's too cold? Wasn't the reason for doing this so they could race in a dustbowl and have cooler weather? (and better? times for racing fans in TV land) Didn't bother me watching 2 great WSBK races only a couple of weeks before...
I dont hear any of the michelin runners complaining.
Posted by nicholas from devon - Unregistered (119 days ago)
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Why 15 deg is so low/cold? Doesn't it never get as "cold" in Europe sometimes during the summer? can't it get as cold at Donington, specially if it is rain? The MtoGP guys should be happy they don't have to race up north here at Mo I Rana!! :-) Now we have -7 degrees and snow, now that is something that should affect the tyre performance!
Posted by Duke 21 (119 days ago)
Last Edited 119 days ago
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Brendan you got it spot on mate. Produce tyres that can cope with the conditions, you'd think they'd be happy developing tyres for that sort of temp, in the uk i'm constantly riding around at that or below that...as for the riders...scuse the pun but get a grip :P
Buelliful, nice idea but they just spent a huge amount of money on this, i know they are rolling in it out in the far east but can't see them ditching it just yet...seems they are water tight till 2016, long way off so looks like it's staying. Agree though re: WSBK, was on at a fine time....don't think Qatar is as good for the USA though?
Nobody goes to the Qatar race anyway. Why do they care when their race is. They should drop Qatar altogether anyway, it's a ridiculous track for motorcycles and there is zero audience.
Posted by Ditch Qatar Altogether - Unregistered (119 days ago)
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You can't just "ditch" them as you say it, they've got a contract till 2016.
i ve been noticing. motogp & formula 1 are giving too much importance to the gulf countries now-a-days. i absolutely understand that they have a lot of money and oil to be major sponsors.. they ll soon start dictating terms and then point at the signatures below insane clauses.
Posted by Sarang - Unregistered (118 days ago)
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Even more radical would be: Ditch the lights, go back to daylight, but now cool the track and the riders with rain machines. No dust, the riders are cool, the race will be spectacular and the owners can be happy because they can spent a couple of million on wasting fresh drinking water that their "brothers" next door in Africa miss. Everyone happy.
Without even remembering times when the organizers of the German and/or Austrian GPs were removing snow from the track so the GP races could take place, I find this statement about Qatari night being too cold ridiculous indeed. As posted above, the race was moved to nighttime precisely to avoid the heat of the day!
All European domestic championships are beginning at the moment, with much colder conditions, and noone complains ; that's racing anyway: heat, cold, rain, whatever...
Now if MotoGP riders cannot cope with the weather, lets have the races all held indoor or even better, on PS3... At least GP racing would be less polluting
Ridiculous!
Posted by Who Cares - Unregistered (118 days ago)
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Moto gp is now more boring than F1...It´s too hot in katar...it´s too cold...we need to ruin the sport for the sake of the enviroment and then put enough lights up to see all the way from the middle east to russia...WTF Another F1 style dumb ass gimic,even Dovi admited it´s a lot harder to ride a 250 than a 800 so what´s the point and where´s the logic?WSBK is far more entertaining...
Posted by roadhogg - Unregistered (118 days ago)
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they could ditch the bikes and do a foot race and maybe play a little hide and seek.
Posted by its over - Unregistered (118 days ago)
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They could use everybody here at crash.net and stand them around the track.....that should give them enough hot air
in my opinion it doesn't make much sense that Qatar hosts a night race considering that it's only 2 hours ahead of CET in the first place! I don't think it would be such a bad idea to start the MotoGP race in Qatar several hours before.
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Another F1 style dumb ass gimic,even Dovi admited it´s a lot harder to ride a 250 than a 800 so what´s the point and where´s the logic?WSBK is far more entertaining... 
