Crutchlow: “We have better pace than guys around us”

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“My team has done a fantastic job over the weekend and worked very hard, I feel competitive, we can be on the podium tomorrow but starting seventh has made it very difficult through something that isn’t our fault. So now we have to look ahead to tomorrow, and see what we can do because again I feel competitive, another weekend where I feel competitive, and we have better pace than the other guys around us. Let’s see.” Source link

KTM find the positives from Losail

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“I mean Qatar is always a tricky one, it's one of those tracks where the conditions constantly change and you find yourself chasing setting. Then the track gets better and a setting works, and then it doesn't, and it's very confusing so I'm quite happy that we finished the race without any problems. But yeah, we can’t be overly happy with the performance. I was happy with my opening ten laps, I made a good start up into the points and was fighting with all the guys that finished there, which was looking promising. I had a little bit of a slower pace than some of the guys around me but you know 56.5 was kind of my maximum. Then

Marcus Smart Takes Blame For Celtics’ Recent Woes, Says Team Lacks ‘Effort’

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Marcus Smart can’t help the Boston Celtics on the court right now, but he’s doing his best to remain accountable off it. The Celtics guard, who’s been sidelined since Jan. 24 after injuring his hand in a losing battle with a picture frame, took part of the blame for Boston’s recent rough patch in his second public comments since the incident. “I’ve been on myself pretty bad,” Smart told The Boston Herald’s Steve Bulpett on Wednesday night, “especially when I have to just sit back there and watch those guys struggle, and there’s nothing I can do. But we’ve got the break coming up. We’ve got to come back and be ready.”

Racing Together: A season with a crew chief

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“They knew that riding over the edge could be spinning the tyre, because if you’re spinning the tyre then you’re not necessarily going forward at the pace of someone who’s not spinning the tyre. Again, you don’t want to be too much on the slow side and you don’t want to be too much on the spin side. This is where the clever rider comes in; he’s the guy who can maintain his concentration on corner entry, mid-corner and corner exit over 14 corners a lap for 30 laps, doing lap times within 0.2 seconds of each other, always just maintaining that pressure. A lot of other guys try to catch up or try to go fast, but they spin

Drew Brees Lit Into ‘Thursday Night Football’ After Slew Of Saints Injuries

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Drew Brees is not a fan of playing on Thursday night. The New Orleans Saints suffered a tough 20-17 loss to the Atlanta Falcons Thursday, but as concerning for the Saints was the loss of five players due to injury. Having played just four days prior against the Carolina Panthers, the Saints quarterback was irate about the quick turnaround. “It’s 100 percent a product of playing on Thursday night,” Brees told reporters after being asked if the injuries could be attributed to the short rest. “Do you understand what guys’ bodies go through, you know, in a game? And to have to turn around four days later and to play, look at the injury studies,

Can Öncu puts in Malaysian masterclass

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Hiroshi Aoyama, Asia Talent Scout: “I think we had a beautiful and clean Race 1 at Sepang, so congratulations to Can Öncü. He was fast from qualifying and we expected he might be able to go away – he made a good start and kept his rhythm. The other guys tried to follow him but Yamanaka, Anuar, Deniz and Salim were struggling to follow and started to fight – so they lost a few tenths per lap. But it was a really nice race from Can Öncü, and Anuar fought a lot to get away from the group. Salim almost crashed but then at the last corner passed them. Those riders did a great race and we’ll see how they