sidewazzz
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Bens pies???
Right there with you. I really thought he would be doing the best of the ducs but... Clearly that's not the case.
Bens pies???
Bens pies???
except rossi is faster on a wet/green track on the yamaha than a dry sunny track with the ducati
Seriously, it looks almost as if the Yamaha is a better bike than the Ducati...

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From the above, Tom Houseworth:Ben still isn't fully healed up.
http://www.cycleworld.com/2013/03/12/conversation-with-tom-houseworth-crew-chief-for-ben-spies/
Not to beat a horse that has run away, but it has always seemed that Rossi was as bad for Ducati as Ducati was bad for Rossi. The last couple of years has changed my view of Burgess, too.There’s a lot more to it. They bent over backward for Rossi. The parts they’re talking about are the hundreds of thousands of dollars worth that they built for him.
Oh great, so the team is bringing the "kill the Ben Pie" guy with them. They should have left him at Yamaha for Val, or something.We were putting on tires at 5 p.m. and had a fork leak. If Ben had gone out, I think he’d have equaled Dovi’s time. Or, he might have crashed.
“Okay,” said Houseworth. “Honda and Yamaha make very, very good frames. They are 100 percent made in-house, and they all behave the same. Ducati does almost nothing in-house.”
At Ducati, the job is testing until solutions appear. “He’s not the guy to go out and do a hundred laps,” said Houseworth. Spies is a combat ace, not a test pilot.
And that's that, fastest guy for the final test on a weather-affected track is Crutchlow (he did a 1:39.511 right after the above posted 1:39.6)

Shit. Now we're really never going to hear the end of his not-on-a-factory/not-getting-factory-support tirades.![]()
Colin says the bike is coming together well and he thinks he can win CRT at Qatar
You want to know how much today meant? 26. That's how much.No time for Spies? That does not sound good.


And that's that, fastest guy for the final test on a weather-affected track is Crutchlow (he did a 1:39.511 right after the above posted 1:39.6)
Shit. Now we're really never going to hear the end of his not-on-a-factory/not-getting-factory-support tirades.
I think it is very difficult to beat the Hondas of Dani (Pedrosa) and Marc (Márquez) at the moment. I think their package is stronger.