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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Anders GUZZI @ Apr 9 2009, 12:52 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Rossi says he is not expecting to win,but i wonder if he is saying what he is thinking,as usual.
Rossi is sandbagging.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (clarkjw @ Apr 9 2009, 12:18 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Rossi is sandbagging.


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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Wander @ Apr 8 2009, 04:42 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>^Why do you think De Puniet would be faster than Elias?
More like 'why do you think depuntit will still be on the bike'?
 
Is anybody else going Fing bonkers for the season to start? I've waited months semi-patiently but now I can't wait for the last one day! Kick this damn thing off already!!!
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I'm having a viewing at my pad. BBQ & Beer will be flowing.
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Anybody anywhere is invited, PM me for directions (even you Tom have a limited time offer). Hell, I even want to see Peders on a bike.

.... Soccer, MotoGP--the new nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize!

Anda le, Anda le, Anda le... GO HAYDEN!!!








(BTW was kidding about Peders, FU to that guy style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/.....gif ...hahahaha)


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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jumkie @ Apr 9 2009, 05:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Is anybody else going Fing bonkers for the season to start? I've waited months semi-patiently but now I can't wait for the last one day! Kick this damn thing off already!!!
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I'm having a viewing at my pad. BBQ & Beer will be flowing.
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Anybody anywhere is invited, PM me for directions (even you Tom have a limited time offer). Hell, I even want to see Peders on a bike.

.... Soccer, MotoGP--the new nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize!

Anda le, Anda le, Anda le... GO HAYDEN!!!








(BTW was kidding about Peders, FU to that guy style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/.....gif ...hahahaha)


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I definitely share your excitement, i'm beside myself and already can't wait to get live timing up for 125cc FP1.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BigAl @ Apr 9 2009, 09:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>"good things come to those who wait"

lets hope that's true this season eh?
Yeah but I'm can't help feeling the single tyre rule will not fix the lack........, you already know that Al.
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Really hoping Redding can be as impressive here as he was a year ago in his debut GP. During that race, his unorthodox wide sweeping lines reminded me of watching one very fast young Italian back in '96 then also in 125's, also on an aprila, and also in his first season of GP. - Difference was, said Italian didn't manage to bag his home race in his first year, becoming the youngest ever GP winner in history in the process!!
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He did however go on to win eight World Titles and become widely accepted as the greatest rider that this sport has ever seen...er no rush then Scott, in your own time son.
 
anyone know weather forecasts for qatar or where i can get them cos if it rains we have no gp.
 
From the press conference - the bits with Vale & Gibbers.....

Old rivals Valentino Rossi and Sete Gibernau smiled and shook hands for the photographers after a news conference where they both claimed to have put the past behind.
The pair were fierce rivals in the early half of the decade, with Gibernau finishing runner-up to Rossi for the MotoGP title in 2003 and 2004. But the race that will forever define their rivalry is the MotoGP season-opener at Jerez de la Frontera in 2005. It was there that Rossi famously bumped Gibernau out of the lead in the final corner on his way to victory.
Gibernau never won another race for the Gresini Honda team. He moved to Marlboro Ducati for one season before he retired. Officially, it was because of a lingering collarbone injury, but there were contract difficulties as well.
Meanwhile, Rossi continued to re-write the record books, winning the MotoGP World Championship in 2008 and breaking Giacomo Agostini's record for most premier class wins.
Gibernau, 36, is back on a Ducati this year riding for the Grupo Francisco Hernando team. He finished the Official MotoGP Test session at Jerez late last month eighth fastest out of 18 riders and 1.58 secs. behind pace-setter Casey Stoner.
The pre-race press conference for the season-opening Qatar GP was the first time Rossi and Gibernau have appeared in public since Gibernau announced his return late last year and they were cordial when asked about the old rivalry.
"Sincerely, I am very happy that Sete (Gibernau) is back, because I look at him here in the press conference it is something familiar," Rossi said. "I remember a lot of great and hard battles.
"Our sport has changed a lot from 2003, 2004 and 2005 when I fight very, very hard with Sete and I think I make my toughest battle of my career - sometimes with Loris (Capirossi) - but especially with Sete, so I'm happy and I say to him good luck. I hope to see him in front. Not in front of me," he joked, "but in a good position."
Earlier, Gibernau had repeatedly said he was just happy to be back in racing and he continued the thread while addressing the rivalry.
"Like I said, the best years in my life have been in MotoGP, inside racing and outside of racing," he said. "I am very proud of what I did in the past and I think I had very great races and I enjoyed the races that I won and also the races that Valentino beat me, because he is still winning. Maybe all of us say he is the best rider ever and I have been able to fight with him and that is a big honor for me.
"I comeback to enjoy again. I don't know if I will be able to fight again with Valentino or the other guys, having stopped for two years. But I comeback to enjoy again and if I can enjoy it on the track or outside the track-like with Valentino in the past after things happened then and we didn't enjoy so much-then this is good. But at the end of the day the reason why I come back is because I want to keep feeling happy. I'm happy to be here, I'm proud to be here with all these guys and I just want to try to enjoy.
"I don't know if I'll be able to come back fight again with Dovi (Andrea Dovizioso) or Casey (Stoner) or Chris (Vermeulen)," the other three riders at the pre-race conference, "I don't know. Already to be here sitting down with them is great. I thought I would never do this again so I'm happy to be here and if I'm not with them guys I'll still try to enjoy my best."
Finally, Rossi was asked if it was possible he and Gibernau could become friends.
"Yes, I think it is possible," he said, "And anyway, Sete was already very fast in Jerez so now we try to calm, to be quiet, but he's here for try to win or for arrive on the podium like all the other guys."
That was the end of the press conference. Along with Vermeulen, Stoner, and Dovizioso, they posed for a group photo, after which Gibernau and Rossi started to talk. As the cameras clicked away, they were asked, in Spanish and English, to shake hands, which they did, happily.
 
GMT Times..live timing on motogp.

Friday, 10 April 2009
125 FP1 18:30 - 19:10
250 FP1 19:30 - 20:15
MotoGP FP1 20:30 - 21:15

Saturday, 11 April 2009
125 FP2 16:05 - 16:45
MotoGP FP2 17:05 - 17:50
250 FP2 18:05 - 18:50

125 QP 20:05 - 20:45

MotoGP QP 21:05 - 21:50.
>2000-2300, BBC Red Button/SKY/CABLE.etc - online or(From 20.35 on Freeview 301)

250 QP Sat-22:05 - 22:50

Sunday, 12 April 2009
125 WUP Sun-16:00 - 16:20
250 WUP 16:30 - 16:50
MotoGP WUP 17:00 - 17:20

125 RAC 18:00
250 RAC 19:15
MotoGP RAC 21:00
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pinky @ Apr 10 2009, 06:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>rossi and toseland to crash out of the race.


Do you have an ounce of class in that thick head of yours?
 
It's Pinky! Our favorite FISHMAAAAASTERRRRRR!

Hey, cut Pinks some slack! It's not entirely his fault that he's so messed up. His buddy, the fellow on the left, says he's been hitting the Fishmaster suds pretty hard lately. As you can see in the video, the effects are gruesome!

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lol.Fishy^^^^

Pinky and the Brain, Tongue Twister
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (jazkat @ Apr 10 2009, 01:59 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>anyone know weather forecasts for qatar or where i can get them cos if it rains we have no gp.

FRIDAY 10/04/2009..QATAR.DOHA

unstable conditions of thunderstorms expected associated with dust causing the visibility to be decreased at places,

23°C - 73.4°F
Weather: DUSTY AND PARTLY CLOUDY TO CLOUDY AT TIMES WITH CHANCE OF SCATTERED RAIN MAY BE THUNDERY AT PLACES.
Wind: SE-E'LY 06-12 KTS INSHORE REACHING 25 KTS NEAR THUNDERY AND 10-20 KTS OFFSHORE REACHING 30 KTS NEAR THUNDERY.
Visibility: 05-10 KM DECREASING TO 3000 M AT TIMES.
Sea State:
Inshore: 1 - 2 ft
Offshore: 2 - 4 FT RAISING 4-6 FT near thundery.
Maximum Temperature Expected: 30°C.
Minimum Temperature Expected: 23°C.
Yesterday Maximum Temperature: 31°C.

Qatar Civil Aviation Authority Department of Meteorology

http://www.qatarweather.net/index1.php


Weather underground says
Friday
Scattered Clouds
29° C | 22° C


Saturday
Chance of Rain
32° C | 21° C
Scattered Clouds
20% chance of
precipitation


Sunday
Chance of a Thunderstorm
28° C | 20° C
30% chance of precipitation
 
A HEADS UP FOR YOU IN USA/Cali

Dainese's D-Stores In California Hosting MotoGP Viewing Parties On April 12

Apr 09, 2009, ©Copyright 2009, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc.

From a press release issued by Dainese:

The Dainese D-Store Orange County and San Francisco will be hosting Moto GP opener parties this Sunday, April 12th, starting at 11am. They will show the 250's at 11:15am, and the 800's at 1pm, followed by the 125's at 3pm.

Snack and refreshments will be served. Leo Vince guys will be on hand at the D-Store SF with demo's and answers to all your exhaust questions.

do these times mean there LIVE viewing California time.?

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