<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (SackWack @ Jun 5 2008, 09:51 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Migs I see Pinky's posts and then I look at yours and I can't tell them apart.
I am going to try and make this sound as unbiased as possible. Taken in all that has happened this last weekend Honda and HRC are all full of .....
1. Okada ran a pretty good race on the bike considering the circumstances and his first GP in what 8 years. The Honda came accross the line in 14th. Not too bad for having no data and a pretty generic setup.
2. Nicky had the shittiest race ever and was lucky to finish in front of Okada. His lap times were dropping like a fly. One more lap an Okada would have had him. I wonder if ther was orders to not finish in fron t of Nicky
3. Nicky obvioulsy wants to run the pneumo, and I think that he has been in the game long enough to know the consequences of this decision. His season looks pretty dismal and its pretty obvious that he can't ride what has been given to him.
4. Looking at Mugellos race results what does Nicky have to lose. If he can come in 14th place like Okada (I know people crashed, DNF's) that wouldn't be much worse. Let em give it his best shot and see what happens.
5. If his career is really over at HRC then why the hell would they let Okada ride it and not Nicky? If Honda don't give a rats ... about Hayden let him ride the bike. So Honda care just enough not to embarass themselves??
6. What the .... is really going on? I could go on and on about how stupid all this looks. All this would make sense had Okada not come out a made a half way decent showing.
MyLex, I know you have some inside scoop. I beginning to take you a bit more seriously. Okada got off the bike and mumbled some crap about the bike not being ready and then went home. Scripted??
Remember people this is Honda that we are talking about. The ones that are supposed to be all this and that, and who are the last bike on the grid to run their pneumo.
Maybe Honda is really trying to save face,i mean ,this new engine has been hyped alot,and maybe it isn't that big improvement Honda hoped for.Perhaps Honda is afraid the competition/viewers/journalists are going to say:-is this all it can do?
If Nicky would run it this weekend they probarbly wasn't 100% sure it would be an improvement.
It probarbly has more HP on top,but maybe they are afraid that Nicky's laptimes would be even worse caused by the lack of driveabillity,and it is the laptimes that counts,and also the thing to go by when the public is comparing preformance.So it doens't look good.
Nicky seemed to like the new engine in the wintertesting,as it was built to fit the new chassi he and Pedrosa are now using.He said it made the chassi/bike better.
Or,it maybe is too much work in only 3 practice hours with not all of them on dry track,to make a new engine work.(New gearing,tractioncontrol setting,mapping for this circuit,what chassi setting/tires to use and so on.)
So,maybe the late decision was because they were checking the weather forecast,-oh,it's going to be some rain after all,OK there is too little time then,we have to go with what we know well.
