<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (povol @ Oct 24 2009, 07:33 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Their race pace is about even, IF someone isnt bagging.No way Haga wanted to start this far back unless he wanted to be as far away from team orders and avoid the carnage upfront.The rider with the best race pace was Rea,hopefully he is an ally against the Ducati brigade.
I just found this,
The American rider had a clear strategy for the three Superpole heats, coming out for just one lap in the first to qualify fifth for the second session with a 1’43.532. He then switched to a qualifier for the second heat and immediately dropped below the 1.43 mark to put in an astonishing 1’42.568, nearly eight tenths of a second faster than the previous lap record held by Troy Bayliss in 2008. Having moved through to the final heat, Spies then made it clear he was here to win this weekend, using his second qualifier to smash his own record, setting pole with an incredible 1’42.412. Spies had spent the earlier qualifying and free practice sessions working quietly on the set up of his race bike, holding out for the Superpole to reveal the Yamaha’s balance and turn of speed.
“Getting the Superpole record is cool, it’s one of those things that one day I’ll look back on and enjoy, however right now I just see it as track position for me. I’ve got no other goals but to gain further help for my race tomorrow. We saw Haga struggle a little bit today but I’m sure Ducati will work it out quickly. We’re just going to put it together tomorrow and see what happens.
We’ve not wanted to show our pace until Superpole, then we pinned it and got some good laps in. We’ve got some other things to work on for race day and hopefully we can tie it down some more.”
Mind games or sandbagging, he learned the mind games from one of the masters
lol
