Posted by Julian Bond on February 22, 2008, 12:15 pm
Well that was interesting.
- Corser. A beautiful lap from the master of superpole
- Xaus. Boy was he trying. Lets hope we get to see the spiderman riding
hard and loose and NOT losing the front every weekend.
- Biaggi. A bad 1st segment but then a lap that got faster and faster
Haga will be right up there tomorrow.
Bayliss blew it. He's been faster than that all weekend.
Where are the Hondas? Shot in the foot because they got the bikes so
late.
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Posted by T3 on February 22, 2008, 3:59 pm
> Where are the Hondas? Shot in the foot because they got the bikes so late.
Their showing doesn't bode well for Hodgy and Miggy either...
Posted by Bruce Hartweg on February 22, 2008, 4:31 pm
T3 wrote:
>
>> Where are the Hondas? Shot in the foot because they got the bikes so
>> late.
>
> Their showing doesn't bode well for Hodgy and Miggy either...
>
possibly true, but how much correlation has the WSB hondas and AMA hondas
had the past few years?
Bruce
Posted by T3 on February 22, 2008, 6:28 pm
> T3 wrote:
>>
>>> Where are the Hondas? Shot in the foot because they got the bikes so late.
>>
>> Their showing doesn't bode well for Hodgy and Miggy either...
>>
> possibly true, but how much correlation has the WSB hondas and AMA hondas
> had the past few years?
I thought TK had done pretty well with them and given how much
effort($) Duc makes in that series, that says something to me. So, if
he doesn't stack-up any better than that with riders that are
(arguably;-) not quite the caliber of Ben and Mat, then Hodgy and Miggy
could have a(nother) loooong season..
Remember, this is the new double secret Fireblade and I just was hoping
it would show better out of the box, or, at the very least, HRC
would've supplied something 1/2 way race ready. Guess not..
Beyond that there's not much more to see at this point, but given
they're up against a bigger, meaner and more than likely, sandbaggin'
Duc, not to mention a refined R-1, they and probably Honda US could be
sukin' hind teat this year. I hope not, but we'll see...
Posted by Bruce Hartweg on February 22, 2008, 6:31 pm
T3 wrote:
>
>> T3 wrote:
>>> said:
>>>
>>>> Where are the Hondas? Shot in the foot because they got the bikes so
>>>> late.
>>>
>>> Their showing doesn't bode well for Hodgy and Miggy either...
>>>
>> possibly true, but how much correlation has the WSB hondas and AMA hondas
>> had the past few years?
>
> I thought TK had done pretty well with them and given how much effort($)
> Duc makes in that series, that says something to me. So, if he doesn't
> stack-up any better than that with riders that are (arguably;-) not
> quite the caliber of Ben and Mat, then Hodgy and Miggy could have
> a(nother) loooong season..
> Remember, this is the new double secret Fireblade and I just was hoping
> it would show better out of the box, or, at the very least, HRC would've
> supplied something 1/2 way race ready. Guess not..
> Beyond that there's not much more to see at this point, but given
> they're up against a bigger, meaner and more than likely, sandbaggin'
> Duc, not to mention a refined R-1, they and probably Honda US could be
> sukin' hind teat this year. I hope not, but we'll see...
>
TK does great with the 600s, and did well on the lite bikes with
toseland (and vermulen) - with lesser riders like muggers and rolfo
they were back in the pack - a good package but not dominating on its'
own. so you are comparing the competitors to ben & mat, but there is
also the comparison of checa & sofoglu to miguel & hodgson. Sofoglu
looked good last year on the ssport, (but so did muggeridge back in the
day) but that was on a clearly superior bike for the most part, so
it is yet to be seen if he can run with the big boys - last years TK
wins were in a big part to JT riding like a demon. Then you have the
latest motogp senior - how will he adjust to different team, bikes.
So just because they aren't on top in WSB doesn't mean that HondaUS
and the experience of the riders might not fair better in AMA. Now
until we see something I'm afraid the 2 yosh boys are going to run
away again, but i hope not.
Bruce
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