Sachsenring day 1 spoiler

bsr3997.TakeThisOut@my-deja.com wrote:
> Julian Bond wrote:

>> Which is all a bit serious for Honda and Hayden. Embarrassing for Honda
>> and not exactly good for Hayden's confidence.
>
> Must have had "an electrical problem". (At one time Honda's answer any
> time an engine broke

That was quick - one good result, beats Pedrosa, and he starts getting
the "Sete motors"! I guess it's better than the remote tire oiler that
they activated on him at LeMans and Donington, though...
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Paul B Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:13:07
>Not so good is Hayden who was only 17th fastest during FP2 and failed
>to improve on his FP1 time, don't know whats going on there, he likes
>the track and the bike seemed to be working for him prior to this
>meeting.

Best bit of live TV I've seen in ages. Hayden blows the engine good and
proper on the start straight. The session ends 2 minutes later. Toby and
Julian are talking to Randy live on the air and pointing out where the
metal bits are they can see from the commentary box. As the session ends
Randy jumps the fence and is retrieving bits of crankcase. Then he goes
"Hey Dudes, I've got a valve head! I'll tell you what, we'll auction the
bits for Riders for Health." Then Julian says "Valve head? Oh, right.
It's 'Hello Rodney' then."

Which is all a bit serious for Honda and Hayden. Embarrassing for Honda
and not exactly good for Hayden's confidence.

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"Julian Bond" wrote in message

> Paul B Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:13:07
>>Not so good is Hayden who was only 17th fastest during FP2 and failed
>>to improve on his FP1 time, don't know whats going on there, he likes
>>the track and the bike seemed to be working for him prior to this
>>meeting.
>
> Best bit of live TV I've seen in ages. Hayden blows the engine good and
> proper on the start straight. The session ends 2 minutes later. Toby and
> Julian are talking to Randy live on the air and pointing out where the
> metal bits are they can see from the commentary box. As the session ends
> Randy jumps the fence and is retrieving bits of crankcase. Then he goes
> "Hey Dudes, I've got a valve head! I'll tell you what, we'll auction the
> bits for Riders for Health." Then Julian says "Valve head? Oh, right. It's
> 'Hello Rodney' then."

Wow, a major grenade job, huh? You're right, that wouldn't be a huge
confidence building moment!
>
> Which is all a bit serious for Honda and Hayden. Embarrassing for Honda
> and not exactly good for Hayden's confidence.
>
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Julian Bond has better teevee coverage than me:

> As the session ends
> Randy jumps the fence and is retrieving bits of crankcase. Then he goes
> "Hey Dudes, I've got a valve head! I'll tell you what, we'll auction the
> bits for Riders for Health."

I gotta go to Donington next year. I'd pay for that.


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"bsr3997@my-deja.com" Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:15:17
>Must have had "an electrical problem". (At one time Honda's answer any
>time an engine broke

Yup. The conrod went through the spark plug and then took out the ECU.

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T3 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:12:44
>Wow, a major grenade job, huh? You're right, that wouldn't be a huge
>confidence building moment!

I was also checking out the Honda exhausts. Checa has the original oval
holes in the bellypan. Melandri has the same exhausts as Pedrosa and
Hayden are now running. Looks like Honda are not just playing the usual
games with the two Repsol riders but with all the satellite teams as
well. Odd rumours that Pedrosa is using the engine settings that Hayden
was using at Assen. Hayden was into the pits half way through for a
front spring rate change. But Randy Mamola reported it initially as
undoing the triple clamps as though they were also changing the offset.
Whatever, the front end confidence problems seem to have returned.

So it goes. No change there then.

There's a corner at Sachsenring where they come over a left hand brow,
off camber and sort of surf off to the right under power before tipping
in again for the next left. Last year Hayden (and others) was
spectacular though there as he had both ends drifting with the tail
hanging out. This year everyone was much more inline and it looked like
the front and rear were taking a series of small steps. Elsewhere as
well, the 800s seem to have changed the game with noticeably different
lines to last year. The bottom of the waterfall looks nasty. There's
quite a bump just where they get off the brakes and really tip it in. As
that's a major passing point, somebody's going to lose it big time
there.

This time last year Melandri was on 1m23.145. Today Stoner did 1m22.737
I reckon a 1m21.5 is on for final qualifying. Maybe lower.

Little story about Stoner. He had one crash in practice this year. He
was running with the sun at his back reflecting off the instruments and
didn't see the light that says the traction control system had borked.
He went for the big handful on the exit of the corner and it spat him
off because there was no traction limiting.

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On Jul 14, 1:15 am, "bsr3...@my-deja.com" wrote:
> On Jul 13, 10:21 am, Julian Bond wrote:
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> > Paul B Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:13:07
>
> > >Not so good is Hayden who was only 17th fastest during FP2 and failed
> > >to improve on his FP1 time, don't know whats going on there, he likes
> > >the track and the bike seemed to be working for him prior to this
> > >meeting.
>
> > Best bit of live TV I've seen in ages. Hayden blows the engine good and
> > proper on the start straight. The session ends 2 minutes later. Toby and
> > Julian are talking to Randy live on the air and pointing out where the
> > metal bits are they can see from the commentary box. As the session ends
> > Randy jumps the fence and is retrieving bits of crankcase. Then he goes
> > "Hey Dudes, I've got a valve head! I'll tell you what, we'll auction the
> > bits for Riders for Health." Then Julian says "Valve head? Oh, right.
> > It's 'Hello Rodney' then."
>
> > Which is all a bit serious for Honda and Hayden. Embarrassing for Honda
> > and not exactly good for Hayden's confidence.
>
> Must have had "an electrical problem". (At one time Honda's answer any
> time an engine broke
>
> Bruce- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -

LOL....GOLD!

"POWER OF DREAMING"

Could/nt happen to a nicer company

Go Ducati, spank them MORE!
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On Jul 14, 2:21 am, AUS wrote:
> On Jul 14, 1:15 am, "bsr3...@my-deja.com" wrote:
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> > On Jul 13, 10:21 am, Julian Bond wrote:
>
> > > Paul B Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:13:07
>
> > > >Not so good is Hayden who was only 17th fastest during FP2 and failed
> > > >to improve on his FP1 time, don't know whats going on there, he likes
> > > >the track and the bike seemed to be working for him prior to this
> > > >meeting.
>
> > > Best bit of live TV I've seen in ages. Hayden blows the engine good and
> > > proper on the start straight. The session ends 2 minutes later. Toby and
> > > Julian are talking to Randy live on the air and pointing out where the
> > > metal bits are they can see from the commentary box. As the session ends
> > > Randy jumps the fence and is retrieving bits of crankcase. Then he goes
> > > "Hey Dudes, I've got a valve head! I'll tell you what, we'll auction the
> > > bits for Riders for Health." Then Julian says "Valve head? Oh, right.
> > > It's 'Hello Rodney' then."
>
> > > Which is all a bit serious for Honda and Hayden. Embarrassing for Honda
> > > and not exactly good for Hayden's confidence.
>
> > Must have had "an electrical problem". (At one time Honda's answer any
> > time an engine broke
>
> > Bruce- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -
>
> LOL....GOLD!
>
> "POWER OF DREAMING"
>
> Could/nt happen to a nicer company
>
> Go Ducati, spank them MORE!- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

http://www.motogp.com/en/motogp/motogp_news.htm?menu=news&news_id=20360

Yup, electrical problems
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"AUS" wrote in message

> On Jul 14, 1:15 am, "bsr3...@my-deja.com" wrote:
>> On Jul 13, 10:21 am, Julian Bond wrote:
>>
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>> > Paul B Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:13:07
>>
>> > >Not so good is Hayden who was only 17th fastest during FP2 and failed
>> > >to improve on his FP1 time, don't know whats going on there, he likes
>> > >the track and the bike seemed to be working for him prior to this
>> > >meeting.
>>
>> > Best bit of live TV I've seen in ages. Hayden blows the engine good and
>> > proper on the start straight. The session ends 2 minutes later. Toby
>> > and
>> > Julian are talking to Randy live on the air and pointing out where the
>> > metal bits are they can see from the commentary box. As the session
>> > ends
>> > Randy jumps the fence and is retrieving bits of crankcase. Then he goes
>> > "Hey Dudes, I've got a valve head! I'll tell you what, we'll auction
>> > the
>> > bits for Riders for Health." Then Julian says "Valve head? Oh, right.
>> > It's 'Hello Rodney' then."
>>
>> > Which is all a bit serious for Honda and Hayden. Embarrassing for Honda
>> > and not exactly good for Hayden's confidence.
>>
>> Must have had "an electrical problem". (At one time Honda's answer any
>> time an engine broke
>>
>> Bruce- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> LOL....GOLD!
>
> "POWER OF DREAMING"
>
> Could/nt happen to a nicer company
>
> Go Ducati, spank them MORE!

Without Casey, Ducati couldn't even get on the podium
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Tex wrote:
> "ASS" cheerleads like a little girl:
>> Go Ducati, spank them MORE!

> Without Casey, Ducati couldn't even get on the podium

And without Bridgestone neither would be on the podium. Look at Ducati
relative to Suzuki and Kawasaki - they have made less progress since
last year than either of those two. So all the progress is relative to
Michelin-shod Yamaha and Honda. And that's only Stoner - Capirossi can't
make the damned thing work for him at all.

So really another case of European failure all around...
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"Tex" wrote in message

>
>> Go Ducati, spank them MORE!
>
> Without Casey, Ducati couldn't even get on the podium

So even Nicky couldn't get on the podium with the Ducati? Is that what
you're trying to say?
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On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:45:57 -0500, Carl Sundquist
wrote in :
> "Tex" wrote in message
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>> Without Casey, Ducati couldn't even get on the podium

> So even Nicky couldn't get on the podium with the Ducati? Is that what
> you're trying to say?

You've lost me. When did Nicky ride a Duke?

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