Sepang D3

getting the feal a bit more now,with his new taylored bike !
must say this bike looks pretty cool in black ?and compact,i want one !


MotoGP newcomer Dani Pedrosa was the fastest in the third and last day of testing at Sepang in Malaysia. The Repsol Honda rider explained to motogp.com that he was pleased with the work done over the past few days as he continued his adaptation to the RC211V.

"I believe we have made a big step forward in terms of knowledge of this bike," said the young Spaniard. "We still have to work and improve in various areas, but I'm satisfied as we could also test a bit on the wet - even if it wasn't much, it's always good to get that kind of experience before coming back to this track for the Grand Prix."

"Those three days of testing were pretty tough, because it was the first that I had to test three days in a row with such a demanding bike. I'm really exhausted now, but I'm pretty happy, all in all it was pretty positive."

Even if the Spaniard always remained cautious when speaking about his debut in the premier class, his pace confirmed his status as one of the most anticipated rider to take the rookie of the year award in recent times. He will be back on track with the Repsol Honda team in late January, when the testing ban is lifted.

Yeah i love it when the bikes are all in black, tons of carbon fibre!!!! im getting wet just thinking of it all!!! They look so smooth...

Wonder what number he will run next year?...

Think like most riders do he will keep the number he has been using in the 250's,but no 1 is never used anyway no ok i am going to go for 9,dont ask me why, nine lives i dont know ?but there's my guess !
he has even managed to get his sliders scuffed too !

i reckon he'l use 26 if no one else does. thats the no he used in 2004 i think

I'll be surprised if he uses anything but 26. It should be interesting having the two top contenders for Rookie of the Year running nos. 26 and 27. Dani had an unbelievable test, he surpasses my expectations every time he rides the bike. Good on him, look out the rest of the grid. And the rest of the forum for that matter, if Dani keeps up this pace 95% of our members are going to be eating crow thanks to Teo.

Thank god i am in the 5%,here is the link for the rider number's ! GO no9 !
motogp rider numbers

The link is for the 2005 rider numbers, unless I am missing something.

yes but they will be keeping the same numbers, but if Biaggi for eg does go[if kwak dont have him] pedrosa will not use the number 3,so the 2005 numbers will be relitively the same for 2006,and will give some scope,as to what number Danni will be using ? these numbers are just a guildline for now.

Pedrosa will use 26, back in 2000 the three 125cc movistar honda rookies in Puig's team were Elias, Olive and Pedrosa, they got assigned 24,25 and 26, and 6 years later Elias still uses 24 and Dani 26, Olive has will use num 6 next year.

will deffinatly be keeping an eye out for this illusive number ?

also noticed Danni has ditched his Nolan lid for an Arai,smart move,and big coup for Arai too !

Interesting fact-both Dani and Casey have admitted they need to put on some muscle and stamina for 06 which gives Elias a head start over them-just wondert if Elias might come out on top in the overall season,gonna watch progress closely.

I believe Dani has been wearing Arai helmets for most if not all of the 2005 season. I've read some things about Nolans being terrible in wet and cold weather and leading to lots of fogging and poor rider visibility. I'm a Suomy man myself but Arais are also very nice.

Yeah Dani used to have Nolan but last year in a wet race his helmet visor fogged and he had to open it in the straights, he was very pissed off but Nolan said they would solve the problem, when the next wet race came he had the problem so he swapped to Arai inmediatly, he had a contract with Nolan, so he had to paint it like a Nolan and cover the Arai name in the helmet.
This year he signed with Arai.