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Posted by pablo on February 20, 2008, 12:18 am
My gutfeel from the going ons is that Stoner still holds a significant edge
over the rest of the field. At this point in time it's familiarity and
confidence at a time when everybody else is feeling a tad insecure about
Stoner's utter and total dominance last year. Stoner was consistent and
strong - and that is what it boils down to come race day.
It will be an interesting year. Rossi is showing more dedication with no
bullcrap F1 or other car racing distractions, and Hayden and Pedrosa are
putting hard work in, both of them declaring only a title is an acceptable
result in the season to come. And you have newbies putting on the aggressive
lap times here and there, and making look established riders that aren't
even that old look... old. Melandri and several others suddenly look old
guard....
...p
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>> As always it's quite hard to judge much of anything from the tests. it
>> was a bit cold, windy, damp. Some people threw a qualifier in and went
>> for it. Others had a half hearted attempt with a qualifier. Good for all
>> those who got great times on qualifiers. But congrats also to all those
>> who put in solid fast laps on race tyres on an awkward surface.
>>
>> I watched the BMW Car session and it looked pretty nasty out there.
>> Mixed wet and dry and not that hot.
>>
>> I do think qualifying is going to be really important this year, and
>> really tight.
>>
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> Agreed! There seemed to be several different agendas over the 3 days,
> Rossi appeared to be focusing on a good race setup, perhaps sussing
> out tyre durability etc rather than out and out speed.
> There were some good times from the newbies but one or a few quick
> laps doesn't necassarily mean good race pace on Sunday so we will have
> to wait and see.
>
> From what I could tell Stoner had good pace on race tyres in the dry,
> he may not have had the fastest lap but he was putting in realitively
> consistant fast times compared to the others and this isn't his
> favourite track. He was the only Duc doing anything too, Melandri and
> Elias are really struggling and if this a sign of things to come for
> them it doesn't look good.
>
> Credit goes to Hayden for his exhaustive marathon sessions each day,
> he's really trying to get on top of things and the results may be
> showing, no doubt he's very inspired to make progress while Danny has
> been out or recovering.
>
> Toseland is doing better thann I expected at this stage, I thought
> Melandri and him would have been the other way around w.r.t. results.
>
> Anyway roll on March and the first race.
>
> Paul
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