Pulling for Spies to win it but not betting on it. Voted for Lorenzo to take it just because nobody else has. Come to think of it...I don't even like Jorge but as long as I ride a Yammi I'll pull for em' :lol:

Hopkins almost got to start this weekend as well. Alvaro attempted a low earth orbit but came down ok.

Rossi may be playing games with his shoulder, not having pushed on soft tires for a lap time yet, so I am not counting him out. Still if the Honda's are that fast, especially the sat teams, it will make pulling up to the front from a bad Q or start almost impossible.

I'll watch P2 before I call my podium!

Hondas may be fast, but it takes a true artist to win.

Hondas were fast too when Rossie went to Yamaha and proceeded to wipe everybody off the map with an "inferior" bike.

Ducati ain't yamaha and rossi ain't stoner

LOL. He's not as wounded as he wants us to think...At least until that Desmo can't place on the podium, then he'll be injured still. Knowing how Lorenzo and Spies will push each other this year, and how fast the Honda's have gotten over the winter, even the satellites, Rossi has his work cut out. If he and Burgess pull it off, it will take some great sorcery and probably everything they can muster.

I'm REALLY curious to see if Rossi is sand bagging in testing....my shoulder...my shoulder....to try to some kind of weird mind effect on the opposition....lull them into thinking he is wounded and slow and then pouncing on them in the first race to "shock" them.....but....

I think the truth is he is older...his aura of invincibility battered by the broken leg and shoulder....and he's on a bike that is NOTORIOUS for being difficult to ride FAST. I honestly think he made a big mistake by falling for the "dream team, Italian rider on an Italian bike!!!" hype.

First race is coming up....and we'll get our first indication as to where the truth REALLY lies.

There's only one sattelite honda this year. Everyone else is on full factory equipment. You are also assuming ducati listens to their input and effectively develops new parts.

If his shoulder is so bad why'd he race at vroom? Why'd he do stand up wheelies at the superbike test? Why hasn't he acted impared anywhere besides the back of the gp11?

I don't disagree with you....read the second paragraph of what I wrote initially.

I did, it wasn't really pointed at you, just adding to it