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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (roger-m @ Jul 3 2009, 11:10 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>only free practice, so hopefully he can get it sorted
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i think this race will be a rossi/lorenzo fight. jumkie asked casey how he felt. casey said better but not 100%. i think he will need to be 110% to keep the pace over race distance.


Did he give out to him for not making the press conference last week?
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (SackWack @ Jul 3 2009, 11:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Rossi and Stoner were in the 21's during the race last year, so I expect that the times are gonig to go a lot lower tomorrow.
But don't forget that we are on controlled tyre's now.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (inam @ Jul 3 2009, 11:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>But don't forget that we are on controlled tyre's now.
good point. so if the race times are slower than last year which i doubt, we can say control tyre rule does slow development.
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As we saw sign of last year the spell or code if you like over LS is over. All the riders know it well enough and with new surface it's become easy enough for first timers to do well.
No more will we see track specialists dominate like Hayden, Vermulen and Edwards. They might end up a few positions higher than what they normally do by not much more.

This race will be about usual top 4.
 
The podium is likely to be filled with the regulars but...anything can happen.
 
Nicky is complaining of power delivery out of the corners, which is where the Ducati's strength is. He is kind of surprised at what is going on because on this track usually the front wheele comes off the ground out of corners and his didn't come off at all

From SuperBikePlanet

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE <div class='quotemain'>NICKY HAYDEN - (Ducati MotoGP Team) (14th; 1'23.747)
"We're near the back again so that's not cool and not what I was hoping for. In some places the bike feels quite good but in other places, coming out of the corners, it feels pretty flat and I don't have enough acceleration. Usually this is a strong point of the Ducati so it's a little strange so we'll have a look at the mapping and see if we can figure out the problem tonight. Normally around here you have a lot of wheelies and I don't have any so it's obviously something we need to put right. I've got a new helmet design here for the 4th July. It is tradition to let off fireworks here so that is the basis of the design, although on the track we haven't let anything go yet! Hopefully we can get a better direction with the engine tomorrow and find some spark!"
 
Kinda bummed for Hayden at this stage ..... I had mentally set Laguna as the race by which we would know if he was up and running, or the race at which "something clicks", as I feel it did for Stoner at Qatar 07.

SO for me this is the decider for the Hayden/Ducati combo ..... there's still the actual race yet I suppose.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (undeadprincess @ Jul 3 2009, 11:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'> honestly didn't think Lorenzo would do that well but he seems to have proved me wrong.
Keep in mind he Qualified 4th on the grid last year at Laguna.....and he is bloody good!


<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (SackWack @ Jul 4 2009, 05:20 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Nicky is complaining of power delivery out of the corners, which is where the Ducati's strength is. He is kind of surprised at what is going on because on this track usually the front wheele comes off the ground out of corners and his didn't come off at all
From SuperBikePlanet

A home track at which he should be able to ride any bike well at....the fact he is struggling at it is very telling about his troubles with the Ducati and the 800s in general...he needs to go back to SBKs...
 
At the last test Stoner followed Hayden and said he could have run right over him coming out of corners. Hayden was complaining about a flat motor even then. Are both bikes the same spec?
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (gsfan @ Jul 4 2009, 02:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>At the last test Stoner followed Hayden and said he could have run right over him coming out of corners. Hayden was complaining about a flat motor even then.
This was painfully apparent yesterday when Colin was following him too.

Also, I couldn't believe it when Toby and Julian said the reason that he dropped back last Weekend at Assen, was because of his clip on coming loose!!! - ie: someone on that side of the garage had neglected to tighten it properly. Sorry if this has already been picked up on.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (gsfan @ Jul 4 2009, 02:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>At the last test Stoner followed Hayden and said he could have run right over him coming out of corners. Hayden was complaining about a flat motor even then. Are both bikes the same spec?

i said this before i dont believe they are or have been the same spec
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pigeon @ Jul 4 2009, 02:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>i said this before i dont believe they are or have been the same spec

I agree, but Hayden did look like he'd made a step or two forward with the bike in Assen, or was that my imagination.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (xx CURVE xx @ Jul 4 2009, 05:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>so i guess no live vid feed for FP2?
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i know man wtf... where is the video? any other feeds about?
 
Have I missed something, it reads NC next to Stoner's name on the live timing!!
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EDIT: Nah ignore that I've obviously never been this early to login to live timing
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stoner 5 mins late out of the pits by the looks of it

n search laguna on justin for the feed they keep getting taken down though ffs
 
I got the feed to work on my PS3, I'd forgotten what ad's were like.....oh the Boris Becker poker ad in German...
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