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MotoGP Off-Season Thread

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From the above, Tom Houseworth:
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.
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.

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.
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.

(Rossi must be getting warmed-up, hey? I see 714s floating around.)
 
The 2 comments from the CN article that jumped out at me...

“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.

Neither one of those statements is good for Ducati....
 
Only a half-hour remaining in the final offseason test, the track seems to be getting dried out and the action is heating up as Lorenzo just leap-frogged Marquez into the top spot a minute ago...
 

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See how quickly things changed in only 15 minutes? :teeth
 

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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)
 
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. :laughing
 
Shit. Now we're really never going to hear the end of his not-on-a-factory/not-getting-factory-support tirades. :laughing

Naw, he and everyone else knows this whole test was wack, due to the reduced grip from the rain. Stupid weather, cooperate!
 
Colin says the bike is coming together well and he thinks he can win CRT at Qatar

well, me luvs Colin & really wants him to do well -
however, hasn't his teammate been ahead at most every test?
 

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No time for Spies? That does not sound good.
You want to know how much today meant? 26. That's how much.

Do you see a 26 on the time sheet? Without him out there, one of your two most important gauges of success is missing. The rest is now, who the f' knows what these times mean.

Gad, what a horrible testing season. There will probably be sand storms in Qatar, and we still won't know anything till Austin. :cry

:laughing
 
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)

cliffs: crutchlow might sit on pole this season, only to be passed by jorge, dani, marc and valentino within the first few laps.
 
Shit. Now we're really never going to hear the end of his not-on-a-factory/not-getting-factory-support tirades.

Crutchlow was fastest, and here's what he had to say:

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.
 
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