MotoGP Catalunya: SPOILER

[Guest24]

Yamaha must be thrilled to see their two factory bikes as bookends at Catalunya. First and LAST after FP1. Spies is getting more out of his B grade bike than Nicky. Yep. that rookie rule really makes sense. Any predictions????


Pos. Num. Rider Nation Team Bike Km/h Time Gap 1st/Prev.
1 99 Jorge LORENZO SPA Fiat Yamaha Team Yamaha 322.4 1'43.259
2 27 Casey STONER AUS Ducati Team Ducati 321.8 1'43.412 0.153 / 0.153
3 26 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 327.2 1'43.631 0.372 / 0.219
4 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Repsol Honda Team Honda 322.8 1'43.725 0.466 / 0.094
5 11 Ben SPIES USA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 321.1 1'43.854 0.595 / 0.129
6 41 Aleix ESPARGARO SPA Pramac Racing Team Ducati 319.1 1'44.136 0.877 / 0.282
7 14 Randy DE PUNIET FRA LCR Honda MotoGP Honda 321.2 1'44.196 0.937 / 0.060
8 69 Nicky HAYDEN USA Ducati Team Ducati 324.9 1'44.440 1.181 / 0.244
9 5 Colin EDWARDS USA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 318.2 1'44.551 1.292 / 0.111
10 58 Marco SIMONCELLI ITA San Carlo Honda Gresini Honda 321.5 1'44.634 1.375 / 0.083
11 65 Loris CAPIROSSI ITA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP Suzuki 323.2 1'44.641 1.382 / 0.007
12 19 Alvaro BAUTISTA SPA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP Suzuki 319.2 1'44.692 1.433 / 0.051
13 36 Mika KALLIO FIN Pramac Racing Team Ducati 318.6 1'44.745 1.486 / 0.053
14 33 Marco MELANDRI ITA San Carlo Honda Gresini Honda 324.0 1'44.806 1.547 / 0.061
15 40 Hector BARBERA SPA Paginas Amarillas Aspar Ducati 321.4 1'45.004 1.745 / 0.198
16 64 Kousuke AKIYOSHI JPN Interwetten Honda MotoGP Honda 313.7 1'47.757 4.498 / 2.753
17 8 Wataru YOSHIKAWA JPN Fiat Yamaha Team Yamaha 318.3 1'48.015 4.756 / 0.258

[shreddr]

Spies is knocking on the podium door with that time!

oh yeah, that was his first time on the track!

[cageyar]

Spies popped up to 5th at the end, Hayden is really struggling in 12th behind both Suzuki's and Lorenzo's fastest lap was his next to last!

[roger albert]

What the hell are they feeding DePuniet lately?
The rest look about what we've come to expect this season, except for Nicky obviously having his first bad weekend of the year.

[kiwi az]

Originally Posted by roger albert

What the hell are they feeding DePuniet lately?

Grit.

There is a big reshuffle coming and apparently he wants a factory seat. Obviously riding the wheels off that thing - I just hope he can keep keeping the machinery out of the scenery.

[Guest24]

DePuniet has the same problem as Spies. Getting "A" bike performance out of a "B" bike. He has looked very well of late. I'd like to see Nicky move to a different factory team if Ducati can't give him a bike with top end speed down the straights. That and drive out of the turns has held him back IMO.

[flatbutt]

+1 Bubba, I'm tired of seeing Nicky get run down by those Hondas. Stunning how muc faster they can be.

[Guest24]

Deja Vu Assen all over again. Spies flogging the "B" bike for 6th and Nicky an also ran on a can't get it together "A" bike. The Suzuki bikes looked a lot better today. Don't even take to me about that dumb a$% rookie rule that keeps an "A" team rider on a "B" bike and brings in a "has been" to exercise the bike and burn fuel and tyres. At this level you don't need a "pansy a$%" rule to handicap the field.

Tres Americanos Gringos should pull the plug on this farce and go back to WSBK

[TxCan01]

Watched the race this morning. Lorenzo ran away but ol Dovisiososoowososo kept him in sight until he lost the front! Too bad. Hayden apparently stuck with a tired engine due to the world economy saving (& MotoGP killing) engine rule. I wish they'd show the mid pack battles, that's where all the interesting stuff is after about 5 laps.
Stoner tried the short cut but couldn't make it work for him...
Looking forward to the MOto 2 race later today.... much more interesting stuff there.

Happy 4th to the board....

[Guest24]

Yup, Moto2 pits riders against each other rather than the factories inMotoGP.