Edwards Tops Day 1 In Sepang!

Thats right.... here's the top 7:


Edwards
Rossi
De Puniet
Tamada
Jacque
Guintoli
Pitt


Had to face off some tough competition there


The Ilmor bike is absolutely shte isn't it? Even Guintoli, who looks like being the new Crashey went faster than Pitt, who's a damn good rider from what I've heard!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (IsraeliRacer @ Feb 5 2007, 07:34 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Thats right.... here's the top 7:
Edwards
Rossi
De Puniet
Tamada
Jacque
Guintoli
Pitt
Had to face off some tough competition there
The Ilmor bike is absolutely shte isn't it? Even Guintoli, who looks like being the new Crashey went faster than Pitt, who's a damn good rider from what I've heard!

May be this is why McCoy didn't sign.

I hope Ilmor can pull off some good standings and finish off the season with SOME points.

Look out for DePunygay. He is showing himself to be pretty fast, and putting in loads of laps too. I reckon he is going places in the next few years.

I'd like to hope so, it'd make up on his utter lack of forward motion (or any motion after he hit the gravel nearly every race) during the last season.

GO ON COLIN!!!!!!!!

(.......not that it really means a toss at this time!)

Go Edwards! I really wish he does well this season. He's getting a little older now but has tremendous talent and is very "down to earth". He did a demo at a track I go to and everybody rode with him in a real trackday! WOO HOO!!

Hmm, I have less respect for Colin. He's one of the only riders on the grid I actually don't like. I appreciate that he's a good rider, but the guy has absolutely no ambition and has publically admitted such. Always just wanting to help Rossi, I've never seen him race for himself yet. Last time he did was Assen, and even that was because Rossi DNF.
Down to earth is good, humility is good, but he takes it overboard.... he knows his only chance of staying with Yamaha is doing whatever Rossi tells him to. Thats still not a good enough reason to do it, maybe if he fought for himself as opposed to for Rossi, they'd sign him again next season on his own merit.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (IsraeliRacer @ Feb 5 2007, 02:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Thats right.... here's the top 7:
Edwards
Rossi
De Puniet
Tamada
Jacque
Guintoli
Pitt
Had to face off some tough competition there
The Ilmor bike is absolutely shte isn't it? Even Guintoli, who looks like being the new Crashey went faster than Pitt, who's a damn good rider from what I've heard!
Now that can't be right, this guy is the new Jose Luis Cardoso, he should be top! Seriously though, great news for us Yamaha fans seeing our boys 1st and 2nd. Keep it up and see what they can do before the testings out!

not going to read to much into that, fair enough he was ahead of rossi but that was about all the class there.

Alex, if Yamaha hadn't finished 1 and 2 against Guintoli, Ilmor and Tamada on Bridgestones for the first time, something would have been seriously wrong!

Being that its only a test its good to see him adapting well to the new bikes.
Ill give 2 C onsidering most of the squads were else where.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (IsraeliRacer @ Feb 5 2007, 01:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Hmm, I have less respect for Colin. He's one of the only riders on the grid I actually don't like. I appreciate that he's a good rider, but the guy has absolutely no ambition and has publically admitted such. Always just wanting to help Rossi, I've never seen him race for himself yet. Last time he did was Assen, and even that was because Rossi DNF.
Down to earth is good, humility is good, but he takes it overboard.... he knows his only chance of staying with Yamaha is doing whatever Rossi tells him to. Thats still not a good enough reason to do it, maybe if he fought for himself as opposed to for Rossi, they'd sign him again next season on his own merit.

I agree with you, it does seem as though his plight with the Aprillia "cube" and his lack of respect from honda has made him the perfect teamate for Valentino. Then again there can be something to be said about knowing your role. He understands that his place is to help develop the bike and while on the track stay out of Rossi's way unless otherwise directed.

Lets just call him Colin Barrichello

the ilmor is heading for a split, from what i read in MCN. reading between the lines it seems there might be a bit of friction between the engine designer who thinks he has the powerplant right and is waiting on mods to the frame. but lets face it, its a mountain to climb against the might of the big 4 and ducati.

as far as hoffman go's i dont think he is the right man to be developing a bike, he has shown no promise when at kwak of improving the bike so to try and get good feed back from him on a brand new projest is maybe a bit hopefull. mcwilliams will be a better tester and give a lot more valuable data back to the engineers, unfortunatley the surgeons cocked up his leg injury while pinning it and it needed to be re-done when he returned to belfast, so now its a race against time to get fit for the start of the season. but if any one can do it he can, a tough cookie

glad to see colin do well, i would love to see him get a good shot at the title this year

jumkie might not believe this but this is one american i do like lol

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (sb248 @ Feb 5 2007, 10:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>as far as hoffman go's i dont think he is the right man to be developing a bike, he has shown no promise when at kwak of improving the bike so to try and get good feed back from him on a brand new projest is maybe a bit hopefull. mcwilliams will be a better tester and give a lot more valuable data back to the engineers, unfortunatley the surgeons cocked up his leg injury while pinning it and it needed to be re-done when he returned to belfast, so now its a race against time to get fit for the start of the season. but if any one can do it he can, a tough cookie

I think you mean Pitt, but i agree with you, its gonna be tough for them to improve without high quality riders and its gonna take time anyway, so they need commited guys on board. A split this soon would be terrible news and a real shame.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Tom @ Feb 5 2007, 10:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Lets just call him Colin Barrichello


Nice one Tom!

Pete

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Tom @ Feb 5 2007, 10:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>I think you mean Pitt, but i agree with you, its gonna be tough for them to improve without high quality riders and its gonna take time anyway, so they need commited guys on board. A split this soon would be terrible news and a real shame.
ooppps those large image files amke me sqwint somethin shocking must stop looking at bad pictures there melting the brain

well the story was in the back off the mcn a couple off weeks ago, and its only me speculating, but with two big names like sutter(chassis) and mario ilien(engine) it could be a bit of an ego clash when a few flies start to stick in the ointment. but i would still like to see them doin well. but as anyone knows getting the bike on the line is only the start off it. getting it to the front is like trying to eat an apple thru a tennis racket.

very tricky

^ it is MCN after all .... i wouldn't beleive a word of it until its printed elsewhere.

Kathlean to the rescue ... Pitt is a good development rider. He has been called left right and centre to help devlop and test bikes. He has had experience on a range of motorcycles and knows what he's doing rather than just going insanely fast. Ilmor is a nail atm .... just give it time... they have to start somewhere.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (IsraeliRacer @ Feb 6 2007, 05:57 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Hmm, I have less respect for Colin. He's one of the only riders on the grid I actually don't like. I appreciate that he's a good rider, but the guy has absolutely no ambition and has publically admitted such. Always just wanting to help Rossi, I've never seen him race for himself yet. Last time he did was Assen, and even that was because Rossi DNF.
Down to earth is good, humility is good, but he takes it overboard.... he knows his only chance of staying with Yamaha is doing whatever Rossi tells him to. Thats still not a good enough reason to do it, maybe if he fought for himself as opposed to for Rossi, they'd sign him again next season on his own merit.

totally agree.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (roger-m @ Feb 5 2007, 12:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>not going to read to much into that, fair enough he was ahead of rossi but that was about all the class there.

That's funny. I distinctly remember the tone of the thread when Rossi was at the top as being so much more important. Hell it even seemed some were ready to crown him the 07 champ. But Colin at the top, and we are "not going read too much into" it. uhm?

The thing is I agree with you, but I also agree this should have been the tone in the other thread where people were saying Rossi “dominated” the test.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (IsraeliRacer @ Feb 5 2007, 10:57 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Hmm, I have less respect for Colin. He's one of the only riders on the grid I actually don't like. I appreciate that he's a good rider, but the guy has absolutely no ambition and has publically admitted such. Always just wanting to help Rossi, I've never seen him race for himself yet. Last time he did was Assen, and even that was because Rossi DNF.
Down to earth is good, humility is good, but he takes it overboard.... he knows his only chance of staying with Yamaha is doing whatever Rossi tells him to. Thats still not a good enough reason to do it, maybe if he fought for himself as opposed to for Rossi, they'd sign him again next season on his own merit.
Well I have to disagree with 99.99%. Except for you not liking him (which is your opinion and your right) it seems everything else you said was off. No ambition??? You must be misreading his comments as humble, and frankly, being humble is not really his thing. Uhm, I fail to see how Rossi's DNF had anything to do with the final moments of the Assen race. Are you saying that if Rossi had not DNFed then he would have won, leaving Colin to fight it out with Hayden for 2nd? Sounds like a monumental “what if”.

Did you ever see Colin race in WSBK? Did he look shy, humble, and lack of ambitious there?

I see where you are coming from, and I must admit, it has frustrated me too for him to “seem” to be Rossi’s lap dog. But I don’t think he’s really doing it out of lack of “ambition”, perhaps in the final races, he realized the best was to win a championship for Yamaha and help his teammate in doing so (something that the diminutive Honda teammate wasn’t willing to do) and for that, I have more respect for Colin. Keep in mind, it takes certain characteristics to become a champ and it took a lot for him to swallow his pride and put himself out there for his teammate. But I’m not ready to count him out.