Jerez Tests - 27th 29th November

These teams and riders will take part to the tests starting tomorrow in Jerez:

Daniel Pedrosa (Repsol Honda Team)
Nicky Hayden (Repsol Honda Team)

Andrea Dovizioso (Honda Jir Team Scot)

Randy de Puniet (Honda) (Honda LCR)

Shinya Nakano (Honda Gresini)
Alex de Angelis (Honda Gresini)

Colin Edwards (Yamaha Tech 3)
James Toseland (Yamaha Tech 3)

Valentino Rossi (Fiat Yamaha Team)
Jorge Lorenzo (Fiat Yamaha Team)

John Hopkins (Kawasaki Racing Team)
Anthony West (Kawasaki Racing Team)

Casey Stoner (Ducati Marlboro Team)
Marco Melandri (Ducati Marlboro Team)

Vittoriano Guareschi (Ducati test team)
Shinichi Itoh (Ducati test team)
Niccolò Canepa (Ducati test team)

Let's see the first results... Nice weather is expected.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(J4rn0 @ Nov 27 2007, 09:46 AM) [snapback]102336[/snapback]<div class='quotemain'>
These teams and riders will take part to the tests starting tomorrow in Jerez:

Daniel Pedrosa (Repsol Honda Team)
Nicky Hayden (Repsol Honda Team)

Andrea Dovizioso (Honda Jir Team Scot)

Randy de Puniet (Honda) (Honda LCR)

Shinya Nakano (Honda Gresini)
Alex de Angelis (Honda Gresini)

Colin Edwards (Yamaha Tech 3)
James Toseland (Yamaha Tech 3)

Valentino Rossi (Fiat Yamaha Team)
Jorge Lorenzo (Fiat Yamaha Team)

John Hopkins (Kawasaki Racing Team)
Anthony West (Kawasaki Racing Team)

Casey Stoner (Ducati Marlboro Team)
Marco Melandri (Ducati Marlboro Team)

Vittoriano Guareschi (Ducati test team)
Shinichi Itoh (Ducati test team)
Niccolò Canepa (Ducati test team)

Let's see the first results... Nice weather is expected.




Thanks for the info J4rn0.
Are Ducati rolling out the GP8?
Vale's first stint on Bridgestones?

Should be an interesting few days

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Frizzle @ Nov 27 2007, 03:20 PM) [snapback]102358[/snapback]<div class='quotemain'>
Are Ducati rolling out the GP8?


I think they were supposed to be but I also read somewhere that Valencia tests were all about testing 08 electronics.

so if the 08 electronics tests were fairly valid on the 07 parts ... then I am thinking the 08 is not a huge change anyway.

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/sport/sp...t/?&R=EPI-96901

No D'Antin?

Can't understand why they wouldn't want to be there.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Haga @ Nov 27 2007, 09:35 PM) [snapback]102377[/snapback]<div class='quotemain'>
No D'Antin?

Can't understand why they wouldn't want to be there.


Yeah I was wondering if Duc. doesn't have their bikes ready yet? or maybe they will get them after Stoner and Melandri have sorted them a bit??

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(BarryMachine @ Nov 27 2007, 10:54 AM) [snapback]102380[/snapback]<div class='quotemain'>
Yeah I was wondering if Duc. doesn't have their bikes ready yet? or maybe they will get them after Stoner and Melandri have sorted them a bit??


Also No Roberts Team...so the deal is not done for them yet either...

Wish there was live timing, I could do with a fix

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Goatboy @ Nov 27 2007, 12:06 PM) [snapback]102386[/snapback]<div class='quotemain'>
Wish there was live timing, I could do with a fix



Same here, hate the thought of waiting till the end of the day!

MotoGP Jerez Test: Valentino Rossi makes Bridgestone debut


Valentino Rossi has just completed his first stint on Bridgestone tyres on the opening day of testing at the Jerez circuit in Spain.

The Italian waited until shortly after midday before making his much-hyped debut on Bridgestone tyres, which followed his controversial split from rivals Michelin at the end of last season.

Rossi’s opening stint saw the 28-year-old complete seven laps with a best time of 1.42.577.
The seven-times world champion then pulled into the pits to be swamped in his Fiat Yamaha garage. At least 15 people surrounded the seven-times world champion, including Yamaha race boss Masao Furusawa and Tohru Ubukata, Bridgestone’s manager of Motorcycle Race Tyre Development.
Several other key Yamaha personnel huddled around Rossi to listen to his first impressions of Bridgestone rubber as he got to work with new tyre technician Peter Baumgartner.

Rossi has just exited the pitlane for his second run, though he is still using the 2007 factory YZR-M1 machine, with Yamaha not rolling out a new bike until January. He immediately dropped his best time to a 1.42.156, which was fifth quickest after just 12 laps.

Not surprisingly, world champion Casey Stoner is top of the early timesheets with a best of 1.40.932. It appears he is still riding his 2007 MotoGP world championship-winning factory GP7, before he begins to evaluate the new 2008 machine.

British rider James Toseland is currently 10th in the standings, posting a best of 1.43.120.

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Lap times as of 1.30 PM local time:

1. Stoner (Ducati) 1.40 932 (22 laps)
2. Rossi (Yamaha) 1.41.472 (21)
3. Pedrosa (Honda) 1.41.610 (23)
4. Edwards (Yamaha) 1.41.714 (18)
5. Hayden (Honda) 1.41.991 (25)
6. Lorenzo (Yamaha) 1.42.093 (38)
7. Nakano (Honda) 1.42.121 (33)
8. De Puniet (Honda) 1.42.178 (25)
9. Hopkins (Kawasaki) 1.42.269 (22)
10. Toseland (Yamaha) 1.42.634 (32)
11. Dovizioso (Honda) 1.42.677 (27)
12. De Angelis (Honda) 1.43.670 (16)
13. Melandri (Ducati) 1.44.029 (29)
14. West (Kawasaki) 1.44.722(32)
15. Okada (Honda) 1.44.895 (16)
16. Canepa (Ducati) 1.45.130 (30)
17. Guareschi (Ducati) 1.45.527 (20)
18. Itoh (Ducati) 1.46.329 (20)

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Haga @ Nov 27 2007, 10:35 AM) [snapback]102377[/snapback]<div class='quotemain'>
No D'Antin?

Can't understand why they wouldn't want to be there.


D'Antin no longer exist, apparently. They're being replaced by a new team called Team Alice, which is quite frankly the worst name for a piece of technology since Nintendo decided to name their console after a euphemism for urination.

Not a bad show by Lorenzo then.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(BarryMachine @ Nov 27 2007, 01:23 PM) [snapback]102395[/snapback]<div class='quotemain'>
Not a bad show by Lorenzo then.
Yeah, & not bad from Toseland in extended company

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Goatboy @ Nov 27 2007, 01:34 PM) [snapback]102396[/snapback]<div class='quotemain'>
Yeah, & not bad from Toseland in extended company



good on him its a pretty interesting test


really glad to see nakano making headway hope it lasts

Melandri in 13th not bad but tought he might have been a bit higher up

Nice show by JT.

Was it canepa who won the world superstock championship?

Is an interesting test! Long couple of days still to go...

Why did West bother? He's hurt isn't he?

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Why did West bother? He's .... isn't he?


yes

Lap times as of 3.30 PM

1. Stoner (Ducati) 1.40.221 (29 laps)
2. Edwards (Yamaha) 1.40.790 (35)
3. Hayden (Honda) 1.41.326 (40)
4. Hopkins (Kawasaki) 1.41.414 (32)
5. Pedrosa (Honda) 1.41.432 (24)
6. Rossi (Yamaha) 1.41.472 (29)
7. De Puniet (Honda) 1.41.620 (44)
8. Toseland (Yamaha) 1.41.776 (42)
9. Lorenzo (Yamaha) 1.41.831 (60)
10. Nakano (Honda) 1.41.925 (51)
11. Dovizioso (Hopnda) 1.42-178 (45)
12. De Angelis (Honda) 1.42-909 (45)
13. Melandri (Ducati) 1.43.154 (36)
14. Canepa (Ducati) 1.43.473 (52)
15. West (Kawasaki) 1.43.576 (47)
16. Guareschi (Ducati) 1.44.588 (36)
17. Okada (Honda) 1.44.895 (31)
18. Itoh (Ducati) 1.46.297 (29

YAY!