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 Well not a great race but interesting to watch. And a masterful race
from Ben's Pies. 2 out of 3 is a great start for him. It's beginning to
shape up like Edwards-Bayliss except this time it's Spies-Haga. It's
going to be a long old battle.

That Aprilia is *fast*. Really good to see them get their first podium.

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 Cracking WSS race again. Nothing much to choose between Laverty, Pitt,
Sofuoglu and Crutchlow. Amazing to see the Parkalgar Honda be faster
than the Ten Kate Hondas.  Perfect high corner speed in the last turn
and a drag past Pitt for Laverty's first win.
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 I see their serving rocket fuel over at Ben's Pies. Getting the full
house of Superpole, fastest lap and the double win is pretty damn
impressive. Perhaps more impressive is just how he got those wins.  Once
he hit the front with some safe and opportunistic passes and took off,
nobody had any answer.

Inevitably the Brit commentators were all saying "wait till we get to
the Euro circuits (that suit the Ducati more)" but I suspect Spies and
the Yamaha will be just as dominant there as well.

So is the Yamaha R1 as good as everyone is saying it is and Haga should
be kicking himself for switching just as they produce a bike that is a
real winner? And/or is Spies really as exceptional as promised? Or both?

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I suspect its a bit of both.  Ben is very, very good but if you look
at Sykes' results, I think that indicates Yamaha has produced one hell
of a bike.  I'm not trying to take anything away from Sykes, but when
you compare how he finished in BSB against Haslam, Byrn, etc who are
in WSB now, he seems to have jumped up a notch or two.

This week's MCN compares the R1, Blade, GSXR, ZX10 and 1098.  The
Yamaha ate the rest of them for breakfast in track testing despite
being the least powerful of the inline fours and having the least
amount of torque of all the bikes (I think.  I'm going from memory.).

-Dirt-

 

3 days after seeing the circuit for the first time? Pretty damn
impressive I'd say..


We've been seeing him do that for years now, though usually there was 2
of them that vaporized..

I dunno, the Yam looked a little down on the straight compared to the
V-4 and the Duc..

let's review, Haga dumps Yam and inherits The Bayliss throne, new guy
takes Haga's ride and rips the field. Remarkable, extraordinary,
exceptional, ayup, sounds about right and sounds familiar too...