Eugene Laverty has confirmed that he has quit the Blusens Aprilia 250GP team in a bid to secure a World Supersport ride in 2009, a quest that will have been aided by his fine podium finish at Vallelunga.
I think this is a VERY smart move as the 600 four strokes will be in MotoGP in 2010 and WSS could be an excellent feeder series for this new format.
Posted by Macbeth - Unregistered (62 days ago)
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Good choice, better to be a font runner at WSS than a midfielder in 250's. He was on a roll at Vallelunga, very entertaining ride though It's a pity he got together with Pitt, not sure who hit who actually but anyway, Laverty kept it upright. Good luck to him, always great to see Northen Irishmen race
Yeah! What is with Jack's "You-jzane"? Terry Rymer got it right. Good to see he has got away from that crap 250 team and has finally proven himself at World level. (albeit in one race, but it's a start)
It was only a matter of time before he could have been seriously injured overiding a 10 year old bike trying to keep up with todays equipment. Best of luck to him.
Posted by yzfstu - Unregistered (61 days ago)
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Great race,What a good finish. It wasn't the best response from his garage to the crash, but when the guy sat down on the chair flicked the middle finger gave me the best laugh in ages
Our commentator made an interesting analogy with Anthony West switching to WSS and instantly winning races, proving that it is quite a 'fluent' switch between the two types of machines, allthough the regulars in the World Champions on 250 twostrokes probably have it much tougher and come well prepared. I will be curious to see what 'crossovers' there will be between WSS and the new 600 class that replaces 250's in 2011
morgue- i was thinking the same thing, however the 990's and the road 1000's were quite different from each other...
I wonder if the R6 had the right riders over the last years, seeing that West and Laverty seemed to adopt to it fairly easily...
Posted by thundercat - Unregistered (61 days ago)
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i agree, i think this is a very wise move for him! lets get ant west as his team mate and see how well that team goes!
just hope that yamaha let him continue for the last 2 races
Posted by gc91 - Unregistered (61 days ago)
Thundercat I agree, and ofcourse the 250 and 600 are hard to compare as well, the twostroke has less power and a different powerband, the bike is lighter and more nimble. You can see the chassis of the heavier 600's moving around more in a race compared to the 250's, it looks like the suspension is weaker but the mass of the bike is bigger, there's more to throw around but somehow the transition to 600's from 250's seems to work well.
Posted by The Morgue (61 days ago)
Last Edited 61 days ago
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Nice ride on Sunday Eugene. Good luck with a WSS ride for next year. But what was Andrew Pitt moaning about? The accident was his fault, clearly he was going in to hot through a non existent gap. He would not have made the corner even if Eugene had not been in the way to slow him down. And it was a pretty impressive save as well.
Posted by rockingrodders - Unregistered (61 days ago)
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