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Greatest Of All Texans?
Gotta think #34 has him covered ... for now.
Make up your mind, one of them can be the greatest, the other the Grandest ....... its when you guys start calling yourselves the goodest that I start to get a bit bothered. Theres alot of GOATs in Texas, thats for sure.
Matter of fact is it true that texas has the biggest Gay community in th world? They'd be GOATs of a sort
Great find McKnez! Thanks for the link. Krop is spot on VR looks like he is much more comfortable, appearance on track is scarily similar to the Yamaha days for both bike and rider, corner entry looks way different and he is picking it up off the turns much quicker and more aggressively. A yamahacati not quite moreso like a 1198 WSBK is full swing
Just wondering why Nicky Hayden doesn't seem to be in the list for the afternoon sessions
http://www.motogp.com/en/TestResults/MotoGP+Sepang+Test+2012
http://www.motogp.com/en/TestResults/MotoGP+Sepang+Test+2012
To answer my own question:
@AziFarni: if yr wondering what's going on with Hayden in timings, his transponder was taken out. stopped riding for pain, Battaini's got his bike now
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Alex__Briggs@Davide_Brivio we have problems to solve. But the good news is they are new problems. Not our old ones.
Rossi still 1 sec back from that bloody leapingbad back forward Honda . Ducati SOS Barry, need help whats wrong with it now?
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Rossi still 1 sec back from that bloody leaping
Only 0.3 seconds off pedrosa though. Very promising I would have thought unless honda are not showing their hand, not previously stoner's wont at least.
There is no way valentino's talent suddenly evaporated in the 2 days after the valencia 2010 race. What last year proved is that the ducati 800 was a very unusual bike, and I think it was anomalous that stoner did relatively well on it rather than so much reflecting badly on the other ducati riders. It was definitely not fixable in 80 seconds or a much larger number of seconds though without a major re-design, which (if I say so myself
If they now have a more conventional bike which fundamentally works I wouldn't necessarily be seeing too much in the way of limitation in the upside, particularly if ducati have done the change (whether or not barry machine inspired) in engine orientation. Rossi and jb are provably good at tweaking aluminium twin spar chassis.
Still slow times overall thus far though.
Spies' sub 2 minute lap looked like a timing glitch.
Pos Rider Team Fastest lap Prev. Gap Lead. Gap Laps 0 Casey Stoner 2:00.895 - - 29 1 Ben Spies 2:01.052 +0.157 +0.157 37 2 Jorge Lorenzo 2:01.068 +0.016 +0.173 40 3 Dani Pedrosa 2:01.508 +0.440 +0.613 35 4 Cal Crutchlow 2:01.565 +0.057 +0.670 42 5 Hector Barbera 2:01.788 +0.223 +0.893 50 6 Valentino Rossi 2:01.886 +0.098 +0.991 44 7 Alvaro Bautista 2:01.933 +0.047 +1.038 46 8 Andrea Dovizioso 2:02.160 +0.227 +1.265 42 9 Nicky Hayden 2:02.354 +0.194 +1.459 41 10 Stefan Bradl 2:02.414 +0.060 +1.519 41 11 Karel Abraham 2:02.598 +0.184 +1.703 66 12 Katsuyuki Nakasuga 2:02.941 +0.343 +2.046 40 13 Franco Battaini 2:04.311 +1.370 +3.416 38 14 Colin Edwards 2:05.603 +1.292 +4.708 37 15 Ivan Silva 2:10.297 +4.694 +9.402 16 16 Jordi Torres 2:11.893 +1.596 +10.998 2 17 Robertino Pietri 2:12.546 +0.653 +11.651 5
Pos Rider Team Fastest lap Prev. Gap Lead. Gap Laps 0 Casey Stoner 2:00.895 - - 29 1 Ben Spies 2:01.052 +0.157 +0.157 37 2 Jorge Lorenzo 2:01.068 +0.016 +0.173 40 3 Dani Pedrosa 2:01.508 +0.440 +0.613 35 4 Cal Crutchlow 2:01.565 +0.057 +0.670 42 5 Hector Barbera 2:01.788 +0.223 +0.893 50 6 Valentino Rossi 2:01.886 +0.098 +0.991 44 7 Alvaro Bautista 2:01.933 +0.047 +1.038 46 8 Andrea Dovizioso 2:02.160 +0.227 +1.265 42 9 Nicky Hayden 2:02.354 +0.194 +1.459 41 10 Stefan Bradl 2:02.414 +0.060 +1.519 41 11 Karel Abraham 2:02.598 +0.184 +1.703 66 12 Katsuyuki Nakasuga 2:02.941 +0.343 +2.046 40 13 Franco Battaini 2:04.311 +1.370 +3.416 38 14 Colin Edwards 2:05.603 +1.292 +4.708 37 15 Ivan Silva 2:10.297 +4.694 +9.402 16 16 Jordi Torres 2:11.893 +1.596 +10.998 2 17 Robertino Pietri 2:12.546 +0.653 +11.651 5
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Brand spanking new bike 1 second off pace ......... doesn't sound that bad to me actually.
Give them time on the machine and Rossi time to get himself back together ( after last year ..... I've already said, last year will need retraining for )
1 sec at this stage .... is not all that bad.
The real questions are ..... did the front let loose? did the front end feel good?
Also .... how close to you want Rossi to get to Stoner? ....... he's never going to match Stoner, but he may get close.
I think you guys have to accept that now with Stoner Lorenzo Pedro and maybe now even Spies Rossi has been surpassed. Sure he is still better than many others , but now there are these new guys.
Since Stoner has been in MGP he has won near 1.5 times the races Rossi has ...... and that was largely whilst Stoner was on the Duc. The fixed Ducati is just so he doesn't fall off anymore, and hence get back to a similar position he was on the Yamaha. ie, 4th or 5th.
Spies just did a 1:58.150 !?!?!?!?!?!?!
where did that come from?
He was probably using 2007 Ducati, but tweeked by JB & Rossi....the bike did it it's self, hence the removal of the time.
Dorna: that 2007 .... won't happen ever again!!!
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Talk about epic fail on Motogp website on the laptimes.
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Yammy @YamahaMotoGP and Honda @HRC_MotoGP are having a go at twitter. Quick!!!!!!!!Its freakin' awesome.
