Qual. times are in WOW Troy!

Go Vale Go Ducati!!

1. Valentino Rossi ITA Camel Yamaha Team 1min 31.002 secs
2. Troy Bayliss AUS Ducati Marlboro Team 1min 31.210 secs
3. Loris Capirossi ITA Ducati Marlboro Team 1min 31.307 secs
4. Shinya Nakano JPN Kawasaki Racing Team 1min 31.341 secs
5. Nicky Hayden USA Repsol Honda Team 1min 31.378 secs
6. Dani Pedrosa SPA Repsol Honda Team 1min 31.385 secs
7. Casey Stoner AUS Honda LCR 1min 31.470 secs
8. Chris Vermeulen AUS Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 1min 31.606 secs
9. John Hopkins USA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 1min 31.663 secs
10. Colin Edwards USA Camel Yamaha Team 1min 31.711 secs
11. Randy de Puniet FRA Kawasaki Racing Team 1min 31.892 secs
12. Marco Melandri ITA Fortuna Honda 1min 32.062 secs
13. Toni Elias SPA Fortuna Honda 1min 32.144 secs
14. Kenny Roberts Jr USA Team Roberts 1min 32.358 secs
15. Makoto Tamada JPN Konica Minolta Honda 1min 32.467 secs
16. Carlos Checa SPA Tech 3 Yamaha 1min 32.747 secs
17. Alex Hofmann GER Pramac d'Antin MotoGP 1min 33.289 secs
18. Jose Luis Cardoso SPA Pramac d'Antin MotoGP 1min 33.755 secs
19. James Ellison GBR Tech 3 Yamaha 1min 33.953 secs
20. Garry McCoy AUS Ilmor SRT (800cc) 1min 34.811 secs

 

put a fork in hayden.

i'd been hoping he could conjure up some magic, but unless rossi gets
knocked off or the M1 breaks he'll be WC again. yawn.

w

 

That's why they race and not just qualify...

 

Over here you can get 11/2 on Nicky winning the race, and the same for
the championship.

VR is 8/11 and 1/10.

Other race odds:

Capi 4/1
Dani 6/1
Troy 8/1

25/1 bar.
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If I was Hayden I'd be a bit worried by not only Pedrosa being near,
but Stoner too.

Very impressive work by Bayliss. Perhaps Honda should hire him.

 

LOL

I can't work out if that is irony or ignorance.

 

I think we will see Vale fly this race, he will want to win the championship
and win it with a race win too, I'll be very surprised if anyone is able to
wrench the victory from him. Nicky looks on form, if he had shown this form
throughout the season (as he did last meeting) then he may have already
clinched the championship but I don't think even his determination will put
him ahead of Vale tomorrow. I expected Melandri to be well up on the grid,
he may come through the pack and be a contender. If Nicky is able to pace
Vale then he may get support from the other Hondas (excluding Stoner who
won't care as he's moving to Duc) but if he if lacking pace and the others
are on it I think they will leave him to his own.

I'll predict,

Rossi,
Capirossi
Melandri
Hayden
Bayliss
Stoner

Paul

 

Mild irony. Even if Bayliss was fired from Pons, being a satellite team
I don't think the decision can be laid at Honda's feet. Or is there
more to the story that I'm not aware of? Mainly I was thinking of
Bayliss beating Honda (Toseland) in WSB, and now out-qualifying their
MotoGP riders.

I predict that once again today we will see Honda grab defeat from the
jaws of victory. Wouldn't it be even more ironic if Hayden was leading
home Rossi, with Bayliss between them, and Bayliss overtakes Hayden on
the last lap, reducing Hayden's race points advantage to Rossi to less
than 8.

 

You are predicting that Stoner will finish?

 

Nah! Just Go Ducati! And certainly Go Bayliss, it'd be so funny if he
came back onto the bike and skelped everyones arses.

Still, I have money on Rossi to win the Championship, put on when
Hayden was still miles ahead so I'll be happy if he wins.

It's going to be a bugger for Hayden to get up to the top if he has
one of his usual starts *and* has to get past the Bologna Bullets.

Hopefully more points for Ilmor though.

 

Have a look at this story (note the year):-

http://www.honda-racing.co.uk/twowheels/motogp/article.asp?a=1854

Then check the results

 

EXACTLY. Qualiy has meant little in most of the races this year.

 

Firefox can't find the server at www.honda-racing.co.uk.

????

 

Get a decent browser

Or more likely your ISP's DNS server is screwed.