MotoGP 2014 News & Chat

Is MotoGP on RTE this season?

h3000 wrote: »

Nope. BT Sport is your only option to watch it live. ITV4 have highlights during the week.

Pity. I'm not a huge bike fan but it had better racing than F1 even if Marquez was quickly becoming MotoGP's Sebastian Vettel.

Wow Rossi has a girlfriend

Looked like Rossi's bike leaned out a lot in the last few laps. Prior to that he was right with Marquez, then all of a sudden he lost 3-4 bike lengths in the last few corners. Fuel management kicked in and cost him the chance of a win.
Also curious about Crutchlow just making it across the line, he said technical issue and seemed very prickly at Hodgson's assumption that it was fuel.

Fantastic race from Rossi! 10th to 2nd! I hope he's this competitive all season. Poor Smith, I felt sorry for him after having such a promising weekend.

Anyone else think races might be a little too short? Is there room for another 6-10 laps?

Stevo105 wrote: »

Great weekend of racing. Disappointed with the Video pass. it stopped working even in the nospoiler area and live feed of Moto3 plus Motogp FP4. My guess is that can't take the amount of user looking to use the system since people are forced to use it this year in the Uk and Ireland.

Cal said after 5 laps his bike did know where it was on the trace. so on a straight traction control was on and he had full power at corners... sounds scary

Not the first time Ducati had this problem.
Nicky Hayden had this exact problem at Mugello.

I emailed MotoGP.com about the outage on the 22nd during PF4. this is what i got back. i cant believe they aren't going to acknowledge it was unavailable on the 22nd

We recommend you select the resolution manually in the video player instead of staying in autoquality.

Select HD and if the video freezes, try a lower res.

We suggest you close other applications and programs in your system whilst viewing a video, such as p2p programs, Outlook or other automatic downloading mail. And make sure that no other PC is connected on the same connection.
Please check that you do not have any firewall, anti-popup software or router security that might cause blocks on the video or any program that might be using bandwidth.

Please also make sure that your line is not being relied on by any third parties and that there is no interference being caused by any device on your connection.

Kind Regards,

--
Customer Support
support@motogp.com

exercise is the antidote wrote: »

What night and time are the highlights on?

Tonight 8-9pm ITV4

ninja900 wrote: »

That's just a bog-standard email and in fairness the vast majority of the complaints they'd get would probably be due to the user's PC / broadband.

The problem on Saturday was with secure.motogp.com not responding, not the servers that actually play out the video but the ones that authenticate you. Sounds like a genuine tech issue not just demand. Highest demand would be during the race anyway and there were no problems then.

Anyway, it's a subscription service and they know exactly from the number of subscribers what demand they need to be able to cater for. It seems to use Amazon's cloud so it should be easy enough for them to scale it up as required.

Here is another reply i got from Motogp

We had 2 issues during the weekend : during the FP4 on Saturday and at the beginning of the Moto2 race on Sunday. It was fixed minutes later.

I don't agree. Live feed of Moto3 stopped working for me after just a few laps. i tried chrome and IE same issue couldn't get it started again. My PC is cabled not wifi and my speed test at the time was saying 85MB download. Then when i tried to watch Moto3 again from nospoiler (during the time the live motogp race was on) its froze with 7 laps remaining. had to do a refresh then guess were i left off. the same thing happened with Moto2. When i played MotoGP from nospoiler it played the entire video with out stopping.

Did anyone actually watch the high lights on ITV 4 last night? ,got a blank screen and a notice about unable to show due to licence agreements


Absolutely gutted first time in 20+ years I missed a a race weekend

CJhaughey wrote: »

I watched it on my Skybox, it was fine.

Just rang UPC ( UPC specific) nothing they can do all other programs are available to watch on itv 4 except touring cars and motogp,

Absolutely ridiculous ,

h3000 wrote: »

Are you a UPC customer? I believe this happens a lot on UPC with sports on ITV.

UPC block all ITV4 sports - not just BTCC & MotoGP

EB_2013 wrote: »

Marquez is something else, I can't see anyone getting close to him this season.

Agreed. and thats him injured. He has yet to finish off the podium in MotoGP. We the fans need closer racing just like the rossi marquez fight. lets hope the open class and ducati start to become a threat, just like Aleix Espargaro is doing now.

bladebrew wrote: »

I have UPC so I cannot watch the race on ITV4, and to buy setanta to get BT sport is €16 a month! Looks like I have to buy the video pass and watch it on the iPad,

Finally got to watch in a mates ,

Fantastic GP glad to see Vale actually racing again ,

As for UPC Bahhhhh Humbug ,

Sorry sir ,its not our fault we have to block some programs readily viewed in the uk,
And no sir you can't remove ITV 4 from your package


**Apologies for the off topicness**

Having fewer restrictions on development should help Ducati close up the gap. It should make life a bit easier for Suzuki next year too and possibly a factory Aprilia in 2016.

The open bikes will probably fall back a bit as the season goes on (just watched a Colin Edwards interview on motogp.com, they have basically a 2014 Tech3 frame/swingarm but will get no new Yamaha parts for the rest of the season) but might still be competitive at certain circuits where the soft tyre or fuel allowance helps, or in the rain.

chaps - how does the commentary on BT or Videopass compare to Toby & Julian (I for one enjoyed them). If its anything like former BBC commentary I'd be disappointed ..

legrand wrote: »

chaps - how does the commentary on BT or Videopass compare to Toby & Julian (I for one enjoyed them). If its anything like former BBC commentary I'd be disappointed ..

Videopass commentary is the same as the BBC had on Moto2/3 last year, much better than Pox'n'Carrish...

Good opening day here at COTA, really impressed by the facility. If anyone is sitting on the fence about coming here you should just book the tickets!

Good news, dislocated finger not a broken hand for Cal following the crash.

And to make things worse Dovi goes and gets a podium. I always feel he's underrated and doesn't get talked out much. He was consistent at Honda and was mixing it with Cal when they were at Tech3 together. Good solid rider.

Just getting everything finished up after COTA. Have to say I was hugely impressed by the facility, if anyone is thinking of going to a race there in the future I can't say enough positives about it. Great track for viewing from, lots of very interesting corners and the stands and general admission areas all seemed top notch.

Over the weekend I was lucky enough to talk to a hero of mine, Wayne Rainey. My first memory is seeing Ayrton Senna crashing out of the 88 Monaco GP but Rainey is the first biker that I can remember seeing. It was his fights with Kevin Schwantz that first got me somewhat interested in MotoGP (it took another few years for me to fully commit!) but meeting both Wayne and Schwantz was a personal highlight of my time covering MotoGP. It was only for five mins but here's a link to the interview

I also spent a morning with Ben Spies in Dallas before travelling to Austin and that interview should be online later in the week. Was talking to Spies for about 90 mins and got loads of interesting bits and pieces from him.

I'll try and post up some pics from the weekend as well soon