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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (xx CURVE xx @ Jun 26 2008, 07:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>GET SPIES ON THE PHONE NOW!!...Capi Down
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Poor Loris, though not a nasty one. This crash doesn't help him any good. They have closed the garage for now.. wonder whether they will open 2morrow!!!!?!?!?
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Duc999 @ Jun 26 2008, 06:57 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Damn!?Rossi off the pace by 7/10ths. Stoner is really fast here. While Pedrosa is down the order again.

off the pace he says
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he's where he needs to be
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Pedro SUCKS
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Spies should have been riding
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Another solid run from Nicky. This is looking promising. I have high hopes for him on Saturday. He really really needs a good result.

Who wants to bet that he finishes in front of Pedro and immediately afterward Pedro is on the pneumo engine?
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The Duc was incredible fast in second free practice
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I dont no what they have done with it but it works really good!
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. And off corse sad for capirex his crash!
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Hope is not to bad!

Iam ready for saturday and I'm there (in Assen ) off corse!
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE <div class='quotemain'>Practice crash leaves Capirossi with cut forearm

Thursday, 26 June 2008
Returning rider Loris Capirossi suffered another injury in a Thursday afternoon crash at Assen.



Rizla Suzuki rider Loris Capirossi, who missed the previous MotoGP round at Donington Park through injury, suffered a spectacular crash on Thursday afternoon during the second free practice session for the A-Style TT Assen.

The Italian suffered a cut to his right forearm but his hand on the same side -a breakage to which caused his absence from last week´s action- sustained no further damage. motogp.com will have a more detailed update soon on Capirossi´s condition.

motogp.com
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Duc999 @ Jun 26 2008, 08:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Also... Motogp covered Melandri for a while. The guy was riding hard but not making time. I don't think he is not trying...He just seems to not be able to make the speed.

To me, he looked a little clumsy on the bike. He would be looking good in one section, then look 'late' and just not right in the next section. Not the Melandri of old. But I would expect that he should be able to be in front of Guintoli, but he wasn't even able to beat Cappers time when he had only lasted 6 laps before his crash.

Good chance of rain for tomorrow and Saturday, so if Cappers is out, this would be good for a Spies replacement.
 
1. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati Marlboro Team (B) 1min 36.087 secs
2. Valentino Rossi ITA Fiat Yamaha Team (B) 1min 36.819 secs
3. Colin Edwards USA Tech 3 Yamaha (M) 1min 36.931 secs
4. Nicky Hayden USA Repsol Honda Team (M) 1min 37.012 secs
5. Alex de Angelis RSM San Carlo Honda Gresini (B) 1min 37.126 secs
6. Shinya Nakano JPN San Carlo Honda Gresini (B) 1min 37.137 secs
7. Randy de Puniet FRA LCR Honda MotoGP (M) 1min 37.187 secs
8. John Hopkins USA Kawasaki Racing Team (B) 1min 37.251 secs
9. Dani Pedrosa SPA Repsol Honda Team (M) 1min 37.280 secs
10. Chris Vermeulen AUS Rizla Suzuki MotoGP (B) 1min 37.282 secs
11. Andrea Dovizioso ITA JiR Team Scot MotoGP (M) 1min 37.326 secs
12. Sylvain Guintoli FRA Alice Team (B) 1min 37.357 secs
13. James Toseland GBR Tech 3 Yamaha (M) 1min 37.838 secs
14. Jorge Lorenzo SPA Fiat Yamaha Team (M) 1min 37.960 secs
15. Anthony West AUS Kawasaki Racing Team (B) 1min 38.413 secs
16. Toni Elias SPA Alice Team (B) 1min 38.656 secs
17. Loris Capirossi ITA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP (B) 1min 38.667 secs
18. Marco Melandri ITA Ducati Marlboro Team (B) 1min 39.214 secs
 
damn....Stoner is going to be tough to beat this weekend.

How much more can Melandri take, I know it has to be killing him to be that far back.
 
Discounting Stoner's time (thanks to KITT) everyone else is pretty close, good to see Gresini doing ok. Normal service resumed for Westy.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (vale4607 @ Jun 26 2008, 05:29 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>3. Colin Edwards USA Tech 3 Yamaha (M) 1min 36.931 secs
4. Nicky Hayden USA Repsol Honda Team (M) 1min 37.012 secs
Its just practice, so I hope Nicky can deliver in the race. He looked good in practice in Donny, but still finished mid-pack. Well maybe I should settle for baby steps.

Oh, Vale4607, I noticed you didn't mention anything about Colin's 4th place performance last race. He actually went forward through the field, any comment?
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jumkie @ Jun 26 2008, 11:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Oh, Vale4607, I noticed you didn't mention anything about Colin's 4th place performance last race. He actually went forward through the field, any comment?
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Maybe everyone else went backwards
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Capirossi has had flesh placed back in his forearm and stitched up but his hand is supposedly fine. Having a chunk taken out of your forearm with a preexisting hand injury enough to keep Cappers off the bike?
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (mjpartyboy @ Jun 26 2008, 02:12 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Whatever Ducati found at the Catalunya test and Donington, it's working!

Ducati didn't find jack, Ezy finally stopped messing with B-stone and the tire compounds they delivered to Stoner.

If I remember correctly (and I do), I said the obvious result of a season contaminated by engineered results in the early rounds is a season that suddenly reverts to 2007 all over again. Here we are. Stoner is once again .7 faster than everyone else.
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Good to see Nick at the pointy end.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Anders GUZZI @ Jun 26 2008, 01:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Stoner and his team is probarbly really relieved.The new system works!!

yes like i have been saying, all the other riders can now forget the championship they only had to get the ducati faster in the corners for stoner, honda and yamaha better repond soon or you will be seing a repeat of 07.

i still believe they are using the system of the gp9, the bikes were even now stoner has an advantage again but hey thats racing.

this is gonna make things way more exciting championship wise but it will be very boring racing.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (mylexicon @ Jun 26 2008, 02:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Ducati didn't find jack, Ezy finally stopped messing with B-stone and the tire compounds they delivered to Stoner.

If I remember correctly (and I do), I said the obvious result of a season contaminated by engineered results in the early rounds is a season that suddenly reverts to 2007 all over again. Here we are. Stoner is once again .7 faster than everyone else.
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Good to see Nick at the pointy end.
I was waiting for you to say this
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I am not having a go at you or saying that you are necessarily correct, but I remember what you said also.
I am also happy to see hayden doing well.
 
Looks like its going to be another boring race (i may not even watch this one). Stoner on pole. Stoner gets to the first corner miles ahead of anyone else (even if he's not off the line first) and then carries on to win by a mile. I refuse to believe that this is anything to do with ability ... quite clearly the difference between now and a few races ago is the bike, not the man (unless he's been going to secret bike racing lessons). Dorna had better start thinking about the future of MOTOGP longer term because if any rider/bike/team/tyres combination gets to be vastly superior to all others in practice & qualifying & offtheline & race in wet and dry and at all circuits then the series will lose it's appeal and the sponsors that go with it. I know we're not at that point yet but his season almost every race has been won easily by whoever got tyres/setup correct on the day.

skint
 
Capi's injury.

"The broken hand is still in place, but when your luck runs against you it really runs, and as the bike slipped over the top of him, something has gouged an oyster sized scallop out of his forearm, right down to the muscle."
 
No need to get Spies on the phone. He's already there along with Kevin Schwantz.

Denning:

Asked whether AMA Superbike champion Ben Spies would be called in to replace Capirossi again in Holland, Denning replied: "At the moment there hasn't even been a consideration, it's absolutely been about Loris's health and his condition.

"We'll see, we will speak to Loris when he is stitched up," he added. "I can't imagine it's a good idea for the rest of the weekend, it really does look bad."
 

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