VOL. 51 ISSUE 33 AUGUST 19, 2014 P73
NGM Yamaha's Alex de Ange-
lis - replacing the departed Colin
Edwards - finally won a long tussle
after Danilo Petrucci on the Octo
ART retired with two laps to go.
By then the Avintia bikes of Hec-
tor Barbera and Mike di Meglio
had lost touch. PBM ART's Broc
Parkes was another ten seconds
behind, the last finisher.
Marlboro Ducati's Cal
Crutchlow had another night-
Briefly...
speedway. I'll go back to Australia to
try to get back up to speed, then go
and race in Britain." He was a star
of junior speedway before getting
picked out for the Red Bull Rookies
series.
Bridgestone's new asymmetric
front tire was due to be tested for the
first time the day after the Brno race,
missing the first scheduled appear-
ance at Sachsenring tests after it
was delayed by freighting problems.
"It will be available for riders to try on
Monday," said spokesman Carmine
Moscaritolo. "This isn't a circuit that
requires asymmetric fronts. It's just
an initial trial to test the feeling.
"We will have asymmetric fronts as
part of the tire allocation at Phillip Is-
land and Valencia." Bridgestone had
initially rejected the notion of asym-
metric fronts because riders had
found they felt queasy under braking
in earlier tests – but hope that a new
construction method will solve the
problem.
Those expecting engineering adven-
ture in Moto2, tailor-made as a play-
ground for chassis designers, have
so far been disappointed with a strict
adherence to convention. No longer,
with the return for a third wild card
entry of the Transfiormers machine,
ridden by Frenchman Lucas Mahias.
Inspired by the radical Fior machines
of the late 1980s, the bike has a
tubular steel chassis to which is at-
tached double wishbone front sus-
pension, the handlebars attached to
the wheel via sliding splines.
Mahias qualified a respectable 23rd,
but was last in the race after falling
on the first lap and remounting.
