comparisons

What do they hope to accomplish by testing the 800 Monday at Brno. Its a lost season, why piss away valuable testing time on a 6-7th place bike that has 8 races left before its retired. Are they afraid they may be so off pace to Honda and Ymaha it would be embarrassing .

Thought it would be interesting to compare the laptimes from 2010 Qatar GP to this year, and it seems to prompt some interesting discussion points, particularly given the factory changes for Rossi & Stoner. Qatar GP 2010 2011 FP1: Stoner 1:55:500 1:55:752 Hayden...