Moto GP official test

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

The Official Moto gp test starts tommorow at 1pm Zulu, so to get your first fix of the season, tune in

Lets just hope Yamaha put a decent bike under rossi and toseland this year

[Benner]

Awesome!

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Awesome!

I didn't know you were a fan mate

[Benner]

Awesome!

I didn't know you were a fan mate

I am not an avid fan and to be honest I can pretty much take it or leave it, but TV has been soooooo dull recently it will be good to have something half decent on.

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Awesome!

I didn't know you were a fan mate

I am not an avid fan and to be honest I can pretty much take it or leave it, but TV has been soooooo dull recently it will be good to have something half decent on.

Well it'll only be like a qualifying session, but to total bike geeks like me it'll be a good chance to see how all the rival bikes stack up against one another

[hawkchucker]

Well Nascar also starts officialy tommorrow. Go Clint Bowyer! and team Jack Daniels.

[Sea Monster]

Ah Nascar.


I go for the Sponser Girls.

I stay for the crashes.

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Well, the Yammie's still not looking to be the race bike off choice

The Duke was predictably awesome though

[cryptrick]

I didn't catch it all Mike but I seen the last half hour or so. Looks like the Yamaha is going to be quite a bit of the pace for a second year running   I also think this will be the last season we see Rossi in MotoGP but thats just my opinion. It will be interesting to see how Lorenzo does on the Yamaha. I believe he could be a future world champion in the years to come. As far as Toselands concerned it will probably be an achievement if he finishes in the top 10 each race    Me thinks this year could be another disapointing one, I do hope I'm wrong

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

I didn't catch it all Mike but I seen the last half hour or so. Looks like the Yamaha is going to be quite a bit of the pace for a second year running   I also think this will be the last season we see Rossi in MotoGP but thats just my opinion. It will be interesting to see how Lorenzo does on the Yamaha. I believe he could be a future world champion in the years to come. As far as Toselands concerned it will probably be an achievement if he finishes in the top 10 each race    Me thinks this year could be another disapointing one, I do hope I'm wrong

I don't think Rossi will leave at the end of the year, but he'll definatley ditch yamaha if they don't provide a bike that he can compete on , I think it's be nimble on a dry track, but the truth is the yammie has never been any good in the 4stroke era, and has only won championships because it was good enough to win but only if you had a motorcycling god on the back

Lorenzo's definatly a tallent, and if he get's dialled into the weight and power well, he should do well, he certainly has the capacity to be a champ in a few years (assuming he can keep his mouth shut), He's another max biaggi in the making if you ask me , it'll be interesting to see what he can do on the same bike (if different tyres) to rossi

Toseland, well I've enourmous respect for his riding abillities and he's mental toughness, but the bike will let him down I think , but hopefully he'll get a few good results to impress upon the factory teams that they need him in motogp

I don't think it'll be a dull year as the Honda is really strong this year (and there a bloody lot of them) and as long as the Dukes aren't aloud to run away with it, it should be close.

Speaking of duke's, casey is obviously a huge talent, but melandri's bloody good too so at least it';; be a 2 horse race

[cryptrick]

Rossi should have already ditched Yamaha. The bike this year hardly looked much better than the last.

I never really watched much of the last few seasons in 250cc but I always used to see Lorenzo at or very near the front of the pack. Although Pedrosa was destined to be brilliant when he moved up but he's never really reached his full potential yet.

I would love Rossi to stay on and go to another team next season, he is by far the best rider to watch, and his attitude towards the whole thing is superb. Stoners OK as a person but I don't see him having too many friends in the pits. He's a good rider but a tad boring. I still think if you put Rossi on the same bike as Stoner, Rossi would beat Stoner most of the time. I would like to see Melandri win, he can be superb sometimes but other times he seems nowhere in the field, bit of a strange rider but I think the talents there. He is another rider thats good to watch.

Not long till the season starts, just hope it gets off to a good start

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Rossi should have already ditched Yamaha. The bike this year hardly looked much better than the last.

I never really watched much of the last few seasons in 250cc but I always used to see Lorenzo at or very near the front of the pack. Although Pedrosa was destined to be brilliant when he moved up but he's never really reached his full potential yet.

I would love Rossi to stay on and go to another team next season, he is by far the best rider to watch, and his attitude towards the whole thing is superb. Stoners OK as a person but I don't see him having too many friends in the pits. He's a good rider but a tad boring. I still think if you put Rossi on the same bike as Stoner, Rossi would beat Stoner most of the time. I would like to see Melandri win, he can be superb sometimes but other times he seems nowhere in the field, bit of a strange rider but I think the talents there. He is another rider thats good to watch.

Not long till the season starts, just hope it gets off to a good start

Melandri's career has been a funny one, he can go like stink one week, then be no where the next , having said that, he is very injury prone, but will ride in conditions of pain that would floor lesser rider's

If rossi was on a Ducati, the other riders would not see which way he went , but then it would be reminicent of Doohans strangle hold on racing , should he have left yamaha , with the benifit of hindsight yes, but at the time (2006) Ducati, suzuki and kawasaki were not in a position to tackle honda either, so staying with yamaha probably seemed the best bet (no way honda would take him back, or visa versa).

Pedrossa, well I think last year could well have been his year if Honda had been nearer the pace, earlier in the year, but his still very much a force to be reckoned with