I see Burgess has announced He's not packing in untill VR chucks his gloves in. Good to see that all the ducati racers will be at WDW 2012 (including VR)
Probably.... 1-lorenzo 2-stoner 3- pedders 4- Rossi or Cal 5 - dovi Although if it rains I reckon it's anybody's day
Cal on the Podium somewhere. WDW with Vale , especially if he has a good race result before hand is going to be like a coronation at that venue. He will be walking on flower petals all the way from his village just down the road to the circuit. The red serpent lot will be dragging the Pope up from Rome with them and making him sit at Vales side.
View attachment 2769 View attachment 2770 New swingarm New electronics Very good 2 day test and JB's got that look in his eye! (Matt Oxley)
I see Hayden's dumped the new engine and says that they probably won't use it/try it again. I'll have it
Saw all this on twitter also, seems odd that Rossi and Hayden's views are different on the changes??? Well we'll find out today I guess
Hmmm but fastest through the speed trap 209mph! It's a quick bike, the quickest by all accounts rumours suggest 225mph down the start-finish at Mugello last week, but no point in having a quick bike if you're hanging on the throttle coming out of the turns
Nicky Hayden “This morning was pretty encouraging. The position wasn’t great, but 0.471 from the top is about as close as we’ve been in a while. The track temperature was really hot this afternoon, and we struggled a bit getting traction, especially in the long corners that Barcelona is notorious for. If the conditions are the same on Sunday, tyre life could be more critical than we’ve seen in some time. The things we tried from the Mugello test definitely helped a bit, and we still have plenty of ideas to try tomorrow.” Valentino Rossi “Today obviously didn’t go great, but it wasn’t as bad as it seems because when everyone put on the soft tyre at the end, I preferred to continue working for the race and kept the hard. Sure, we still have to improve the setup because we’re having a hard time with acceleration. We can’t find enough grip, and none of the changes we’ve tried so far have worked. This track is always very difficult when it comes to rear traction, but anyway, the other riders were faster, so we also must improve. Tomorrow morning’s session will be very important for trying for a good qualifying position in the afternoon.”
We could be in for a close race going by the top 12 all within .7 of a sec of the fastest time set on hard tyres. Also Cal has announced he would sign for ducati in 2013 if offered a ride!
There's some fantastic camera work for the Qualifying! Brilliant slow-motion stuff, showing the sideways action
