motogp test sepang.

Nice shots. Anybody spotted a picture of Nicky on the Duc in red livery?

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Stoner still struggling with wrist pain

By Matt Beer Thursday, February 5th 2009, 12:44 GMT


Casey Stoner was frustrated by the amount of pain in his wrist as he made his first testing appearance since recent surgery at Sepang today.

The recurrent wrist problem hampered Stoner for much of the second half of 2008, but he waited until the off-season for the necessary operation and hoped he would be fully fit by the time preparations for 2009 began.

However while Stoner was second-fastest in Malaysia today, he was still in discomfort from the operation.

"This morning was really difficult, I really didn't feel comfortable on the bike," said Stoner.

"My wrist is still in a lot of pain and I honestly hoped it would be in better shape than this after three months since the operation.

"Even though the lap times were good from the start the wrist was still giving me a lot of problems - it is weak and painful under braking, especially in the first left-hand turn.

"I can't do more than four or five laps at a time and there's nothing I can do about that at the moment, other than hope that it improves over time. Sepang is a physically demanding circuit and probably not the best place to be riding for the first time after three months out.

"I preferred not to ride too much and tire myself out and hopefully it will already be a bit better tomorrow. Freddy, our physiotherapist, has a bit of work to do tonight."

Stoner was more positive about the 2009 Ducati, which features a radical carbon fibre frame.

"The chassis is completely different and we'll have to work on improving the set-up but we have a good starting point and we can use the GP8 as a reference," he said.

"The power delivery has improved and now we have more torque, which helps on the exit of the slower corners."

Ducati's second rider Nicky Hayden continued to struggle to get up to speed on the bike, and was only 11th quickest - two seconds adrift of Stoner. But he said the team were getting closer to a solution to his problems.

"We started out with the same set-up as Jerez, because after two months without riding it was better to go with something we knew," Hayden said.

"We haven't made massive changes over the course of the day, mainly because before we do that I need to pick up my own pace. The bike feels good on the brakes and it is stable and precise in the fast corners.

"I'm struggling a bit on corner exit though because it still tends to pump quite a lot and I'm not used to that yet. We're working to reduce it and we've got a couple of ideas that we'll check out over the next two days."

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (xx CURVE xx @ Feb 5 2009, 03:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Ducati's second rider Nicky Hayden continued to struggle to get up to speed on the bike, and was only 11th quickest - two seconds adrift of Stoner. But he said the team were getting closer to a solution to his problems.

"We started out with the same set-up as Jerez, because after two months without riding it was better to go with something we knew," Hayden said.

"We haven't made massive changes over the course of the day, mainly because before we do that I need to pick up my own pace. The bike feels good on the brakes and it is stable and precise in the fast corners.

"I'm struggling a bit on corner exit though because it still tends to pump quite a lot and I'm not used to that yet. We're working to reduce it and we've got a couple of ideas that we'll check out over the next two days."
sounds like he's goin to have two very very long days...

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ThePhorest @ Feb 5 2009, 02:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Nice shots. Anybody spotted a picture of Nicky on the Duc in red livery?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Slide @ Feb 5 2009, 09:15 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>

Thank you for my new wallpaper, sir.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ThePhorest @ Feb 5 2009, 03:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Thank you for my new wallpaper, sir.
call me god, i hate the sir thing

edit: nah, Slide sounds better

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Slide @ Feb 5 2009, 09:22 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>call me god, i hate the sir thing

edit: nah, Slide sounds better

Thanks for my new wallpaper, dawg.

How about that?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ThePhorest @ Feb 5 2009, 03:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Thanks for my new wallpaper, dawg.

How about that?
i dont bark

HA!

Just noticed Dovi over Pedro

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (xx CURVE xx @ Feb 5 2009, 03:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>HA!

Just noticed Dovi over Pedro
did you fell asleep or somethin?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Slide @ Feb 5 2009, 08:48 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>did you fell asleep or somethin?

no i just woke up

Woops sorry. Caught out by my browser loading the cached page, I think.

I will now go back and read all the pages to see where we are at.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Cankles @ Feb 5 2009, 12:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Fastest lap was his next to last. He knocked .6 off in the last hour. Looks like he will be just fine.

Kallio knocked 1.5 second from his Morning time to the afternoon...I think Mika is giong to be just fine!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ImAn @ Feb 5 2009, 05:15 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>some shot from day 1 at Sepang Circuit



Thanks.

Suzuki have chopped nearly 1 second off of their race pace in just a few short months.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (mylexicon @ Feb 5 2009, 04:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>

Thanks.

Suzuki have chopped nearly 1 second off of their race pace in just a few short months.
here you can see what a winter break can do for your race pace

I noticed no one has posted the official results here yet...

Glad to see Capirossi show up those two showboats. I hope our man Nicky can pull out some sweet numbers today!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Tremulant @ Feb 5 2009, 09:51 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>I noticed no one has posted the official results here yet...

Glad to see Capirossi show up those two showboats. I hope our man Nicky can pull out some sweet numbers today!

yeah you're only the 3rd guy

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (xx CURVE xx @ Feb 5 2009, 04:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>yeah you're only the 3rd guy
shhh!!! before he finds out al his hard work(scrnshot, paste in paint, save on pc, post it) has already been posted...

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (xx CURVE xx @ Feb 5 2009, 03:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>yeah you're only the 3rd guy

Yeah, well no one else stole the image from motogp.com like I did!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Slide @ Feb 5 2009, 04:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>shhh!!! before he finds out al his hard work(scrnshot, paste in paint, save on pc, post it) has already been posted...

Oh, just let me feel like I'm doing something for the forum!

who the hell needs paint? PC's sucks my balls. mac is king baby!