Casey Stoner WILL...

I think you may be right. Stoner amazed me last year and he seems to be the real deal.

Nicky won't be champ but he'll have a better year.

Nicky wont be champ again til the hp of these 800s get close to what the 1liters were. When the hp starts to overwhelm the traction control...the old school riders will rise to the top again.

[quote="mxav8r":1mfj10a0]make Rossi his BITCH again in 2008. Rossi is no Ricky... (go HAYDEN!!!) [/quote:1mfj10a0]

more power + better tires than your competition = championships in MotoGP. If those things hold true again in 2008, of course Stoner will repeat. I'd love to see Hayden win it again but I think Rossi has more talent than the rest of the field combined.

[quote="DDub8":2jtje76a][quote="mxav8r":2jtje76a]make Rossi his BITCH again in 2008. Rossi is no Ricky... (go HAYDEN!!!) [/quote:2jtje76a]

more power + better tires than your competition = championships in MotoGP. If those things hold true again in 2008, of course Stoner will repeat. I'd love to see Hayden win it again but I think Rossi has more talent than the rest of the field combined.[/quote:2jtje76a]

I agree. But Rossi will be on the same tires as Stoner this year. Of course we have to hope that the Duck isnt 10 mph faster this year again. I used to road race and theres no worse feeling (well other than crashing " title="Wink">) than out racing someone in the tight stuff just to have them twist the throttle and pass you on power down the straights.

Now watch Michelin come out with the best tire LOL.

all things being equal stoner would suck rossis dick i'm afraid

suck Rossi's flatulance from behind.

Anybody know if they changed the stupid tire rule this year? That ruined last year's racing more than anything. Nicky's still too big for that bike. It was built for Pedrosa. I want to see what Hopkins can do with the Kawasaki. Toseland will be good too.

I've followed MotoGP for the past couple years and I still don't have a handle on all the rules - you really need to keep up with the websites daily (which I only do for MX) to know what's what. I'm thinking they have a spec tire rule for either World Superbike or AMA Superbike but nixed the idea for MotoGP. Traction control's become an issue but it seems like they are headed towards minimizing that. Rossi made the tire change, but reportedly they won't have the big advantage they had last year there. There's talk of setting a 19,000 rev limit, which supposedly would only effect the Ducati and bring it back down to the rest of the field.
Just from what I've been reading sporadically, while Honda doesn't have their act together yet, Nicky has been real impressive throughout the testing season. I don't think Nicky will ever dominate like Stoner did last year or Rossi in years past, but he won the title in '06 with consistency and podiums - not race wins. Sort of the Chad Reed (when RC and Bubba were around) of MotoGP.
This year I really plan on following the AMA stuff on tv, which I've never done before. The best racing around was in the Supersport and Superbike classes. MotoGP wasn't as exciting last year as it was the year Nicky won it. Also planning on making it over to Barber for the AMA Superbike doubleheader.
The AMA Superbike title was decided by 1 point, Supersport by 3 points, and World Superbike by 3 points. That's just incredible racing when compared to the boredom we've seen in too many SX seasons.

Traction control, wheelie control. Get rid of this shit and bring the rider back into it. Guys with true bike handling skills (like Hayden) will then be back in the equation. These are supposed to be racing motorcycles, not cruiser bikes.

[quote="TerryK":1oo5xuxx]Traction control, wheelie control. Get rid of this shit and bring the rider back into it. Guys with true bike handling skills (like Hayden) will then be back in the equation. These are supposed to be racing motorcycles, not cruiser bikes.[/quote:1oo5xuxx]


+1

Stoner is great, no doubt. But that Duck was just way, way faster than anything out there last year. In the high-speed stuff, he just left the other guys.

Crusier bikes? Thats funny.

Looks like Lorenzo has been on his "A" game all pre season. Maybe the rookie will be the one we'll be talking about all season. A few races into the season and we will have some sort of idea of who is looking good and who isnt.

Dont know about the tire rule this year, and for those of you that were not aware, last year they would only allow the teams a certain number of tires for the entire weekend. The number of tires was small enough that you could easily get caught out and have used the best compounds during set up and practice and bummed and slow on race day.

GO NICKY!!! I really wish he had told Honda to get stuffed a few years ago.

Bring back 500 2T's !!!