Motorcycle Forum / General / Racing / September 2008

A couple interesting items in the new Cycle News this week on the Repsol
Honda situation. First, this from the Hayden interview:
Q: How do you think Andrea Dovizioso will get along with Dani Pedrosa?
A: I mean, I'm sure it'll be the same situation I had. I think Dovizioso

July 3 - Aug 2 in Kansas?  I live in Kansas City and have to be
grateful that there's a national within an hour's drive now, but I
gotta say, what, are they crazy?  I don't even want to commute on a
motorcycle in August, let alone dress in leather and exert myself.

Not found on any of the usual download torrent sites and not on SpeedTV
(yet?).
Did any of you Euros see the race on the tube?

http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=34277
If one assumes where there is smoke there is fire, then we should hear
some sort of OEM-DMG compromise at Laguna or shortly thereafter. If
you throw in what the promoters have been saying as well, then I think

http://roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=34316
Heh, actually there was!
FIRST PERSON/OPINION
By John Ulrich

Mat's toast and congrats to Spies for winning the title..
http://www.cyclenews.com/ShowStory.asp?HeadlineID=12914
Evidently Suzuki wasn't able to find any production bikes with similar
cranks and I wonder why...

First impressions of Indy. First, it's wet. Not west coast style,
which would also mean it's cold, since it never rains in California...
in the summer..
Kind of surprised by the look of the place at first. when I saw one of

Short report
Ran over Thursday morning on my trusty GS750EC (1978)
with some buds.  Did the paddock walk which was OK
for what it was but paddock was nearly as tightly locked

Canepa and Kallio to Alice-Ducati. Announcement imminent.
Elias to Gresini.  Announcement imminent.
GSE to Yamaha and stay in BSB. Confirmed.
HM Plant to stay in BSB. Confirmed.

I've never seen a race conducted under such horrible weather conditions as this.
Wow. It wasn't just the rain - there were leaves and trash blowing all over the
place. I hope this is an anomaly for this year. I think it was a good call to end it
when they did.

The official PR finally went out http://www.elmundodeportivo.es/web/gen/20080916/noticia_53538993452.html
Now of course it'll be Ducati's job to conspire to hold Hayden
back :-)
Good luck to Hayden, that second Ducati spot looked rough this year,

Is it true that the AMA was bought and now controlled by NASCAR?  Is
that what this war is about?
   Ugh, I'm not the biggest motorcycle racing fan.  I do watch it
occasionally and even went to the U.S. MotoGP today at Indy.  But I do not

I haven't notice any discussion here of the latest rider moves. What
does the team think of the following:
Haga to Xerox Ducati.
Tom Sykes to Santander Yamaha.