Great 2nd place finishes

[Yoong Montoya]

Today we saw a great 2nd place finish by Kenny Roberts on the Suzuki at Donington. Of course the greatest 2nd place finish ever may well be Olivier Jacque on the Kawasaki at Shanghai earlier this year.

What races can you remember where the 2nd place finisher had a more memorable race than the winner?

[hobophobic]

I think this mabe to little to late for Kenny but Jerez this year no-one will forget Sete! or Xaus in 2002 in Assen WSB could have beaten Bayliss easily and made it quite well known by pulling along side him at every oportuinity

[Hazza]

Does Anthony West debuting a new bike, only do be balked AMA style by the lapped traffic only to finish second count?

[racer69]

I'd say that was more notable than Roberts at last nights race.

If it wasn't for a machine fault, Fogarty would have finished 2nd at Donnington in 1993 on the Cagiva replacing Mat Mladin, he wound up 4th so that almost counts....

[mac]

What about Troy Bayliss in the final round of the 2002 World Superbike Championship at Imola?

Bayliss throwing everything he and his ill-handling Ducati could muster at Colin Edwards' flawless Honda.

That round still ranks as probably the best motor racing I've ever seen.

[Hazza]

For Colin it wasn't a cake walk, I do agree that definatly the VTR/RC51 was a better bike than the Ducati by then, but he didn't cruise round either

Okay, I've found a ripper, Ralf Waldamann/Olivier Jacque from Donnington 2000 - Olivier sticks with the dry tyres at the start of the race and Ralf goes for the wet setup, the race begins and Ralf slides down the field to 20th while olivier rockets off into the distance, it then begins to rain heavily about halfway through the race and Ralf starts tearing his way back through the field, on the start of the final lap, Olivier is TWELVE seconds in front of Waldamann but ralf catches him and overtakes him on the final corner.

Pure Gold.

[mac]

Originally Posted by Hazza

For Colin it wasn't a cake walk, I do agree that definatly the VTR/RC51 was a better bike than the Ducati by then, but he didn't cruise round either

Certainly not, they were both going hard at it and it was spectacular, clean hard racing.

Troy's bike just looked more of a handful - he was certainly doing it a bit tougher than Colin.

[marcus]

I would say Westy's ride at donington was one of the best things I have ever seen , in fact that whole race was just simply superb

[gomick]

too true marcus - i would say that west'ys ride was as good if not better than kenny jnrs ..... so there

[Dani Filth]

i missed the second part of the 125 .. but the 250 and MotoGP races .. almost gave me heart attacks ..
hope the KTM can delive in the dry too

[Hazza]

About the 125s, I've sorted how to predict Gabor Talmasci's victorys, firstly, I have to NOT pick him in the picks, and then i've got to NOT watch the race, you see, I didn't pick him in the weekend, so he was leading, but then I watched the 125 race and he crashed, same with the Highside/neck crunch in one of the earlier rounds, I'm sorry Schumi, I don't think I can put in any 125cc picks for the rest of the season :P

[chunder]

I tell you what aswell, did anyone else hear the Eurosport stuff with Randy.
Apparently at a very early time on race day morning Kenny was a 400 to 1 shot for the win.
Jules apparently put a few on him later on when the odds died for a podium but I am sure Randy put a few quid on for a win as he kept going on about it!!

Great ride, just a shame that yet again Vale did his Mick bit at the end! "I had a second a lap in reserve you know"

[djb]

Originally Posted by Hazza

Okay, I've found a ripper, Ralf Waldamann/Olivier Jacque from Donnington 2000 - Olivier sticks with the dry tyres at the start of the race and Ralf goes for the wet setup, the race begins and Ralf slides down the field to 20th while olivier rockets off into the distance, it then begins to rain heavily about halfway through the race and Ralf starts tearing his way back through the field, on the start of the final lap, Olivier is TWELVE seconds in front of Waldamann but ralf catches him and overtakes him on the final corner.

Pure Gold.

was that the race weekend when Rossi got his first 500 win? In any case, those wet/dry toss ups are always great fun aren't they?

[asha]

Originally Posted by Hazza

Okay, I've found a ripper, Ralf Waldamann/Olivier Jacque from Donnington 2000 - Olivier sticks with the dry tyres at the start of the race and Ralf goes for the wet setup, the race begins and Ralf slides down the field to 20th while olivier rockets off into the distance, it then begins to rain heavily about halfway through the race and Ralf starts tearing his way back through the field, on the start of the final lap, Olivier is TWELVE seconds in front of Waldamann but ralf catches him and overtakes him on the final corner.

Pure Gold.

Yeah that was fantastic! But I got a good one,

Spain 2002 (Jerez?) Kato on the 500cc hunting down Rossi on the unbeatable honda 4-stroke. Going from 5seconds down to 1second in 3 laps. Probably the last great ride on a 500cc machine.

KATO RIP