<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (AP67 @ Mar 2 2009, 02:30 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>how can you know that they are on the same test program...
That's not at all the point I was making, I was merely making an observation that those three were the fastest Michelin men of 2008 and all three seem to be struggling a little bit this season. What's the connection? All three are on new tires. Simple as. Nothing to read into here.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (AP67 @ Mar 2 2009, 02:58 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>he is incapable to set up a bike. puig had it right.
Puig has never gotten anything right. Puig always seemed to confuse setup and development. First the 212 was a disaster because according to Puig and Pedrosa, Hayden did the development work for it. Then Hayden couldn't setup a bike and stole Pedrosa's data, all the while Pedrosa's data was never available to Hayden at the request of Puig and Pedrosa. The real issue is not Hayden's development skills, as the 212 was a Pedrobot component 2.0 from the word go, nor his ability to setup a bike as I'm quite certain he wasn't basing his setup off Pedrosa's in 2006. The truth at the center of it all is Puig will do anything to make Pedrosa's teammate look bad. The 212 is the work of Honda and Pedrosa, judging by this season's test results so far I'd say Hayden did a fair job developing a bike for Pedrosa as this season's testing has indicated he can't do it himself.
Colin and Guy Colon must be having a right laugh tonight. Both get cast aside for their counterpart, end up together and suddenly they're putting up times close to Valentino. I can only picture the .... eating grins on one half of the Tech 3 garage.
