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    Quote Originally Posted by speights_bud View Post
    It wouldn't. Because Safety.
    Dunno. If they could find a piece of road surrounded by football sized runoff areas. if...
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    Quote Originally Posted by pritch View Post
    Dunno. If they could find a piece of road surrounded by football sized runoff areas. if...
    I wish they'd go back to the original Assen layout.. It's the closest we got in recent memory. A lot of off camber corners, bumpy surface, looong laps (for GPs, at least).. Twas grand! Never going to happen but ah well

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    Quote Originally Posted by pritch View Post
    Dunno. If they could find a piece of road surrounded by football sized runoff areas. if...
    Like Qatar without the fences?

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    From what I saw it was just an idea where part of the circuit will use a public road in a city then back to a real track. Basically saying build a circuit and we will race there

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    Quote Originally Posted by pritch View Post
    Yeah it's all very specialised now, but just as the GP riders would blow him away on a GP track, they'd shit themselves on his turf.

    There have been a couple of recent mentions of a GP on a road circuit, but neither item I saw contained enough info to indicate what they were talking about. Hard to see how that could work.
    Yeah, but as good as the road racers are, they're nowhere near as fast as the aliens in Moto GP. So whilst they'd blow the Aliens away on road tracks, that's because they know the roads, and are prepared to take risks on them, the Aliens wouldn't be prepared to take. They're not in the same league.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crasherfromwayback View Post
    Yeah, but as good as the road racers are, they're nowhere near as fast as the aliens in Moto GP. So whilst they'd blow the Aliens away on road tracks, that's because they know the roads, and are prepared to take risks on them, the Aliens wouldn't be prepared to take. They're not in the same league.
    Nah, you're being too tough. McPint and Rossi seem to get on - mutual respect and all that. They're all "not in the same league" on the other guy's patch.

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    http://www.crash.net/motogp/news/888...ki-motogp-test

    You guys were saying?

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    Quote Originally Posted by pritch View Post
    Nah, you're being too tough. McPint and Rossi seem to get on - mutual respect and all that. They're all "not in the same league" on the other guy's patch.

    Cheers.
    Nah, I'm just being realistic. Rossi and McPint getting on doesn't mean McPint could get anywhere near Rossi on a race track. Example... I've beaten a man that's beaten McPint. And I know for a FACT I'd struggle to get withing 10 secs a lap of the big boys.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crasherfromwayback View Post
    Nah, I'm just being realistic. Rossi and McPint getting on doesn't mean McPint could get anywhere near Rossi on a race track. Example...

    I didn't say that. To be clear, just as Rossi would own McPint on a track, McPint would cream Rossi around the Island or Dundrod or...

    Anyhoo, Stoner has impressed on a damp track at the Ducati private test at Sepang, .2 off last years pole time on a damp track. He's still got it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pritch View Post
    Anyhoo, Stoner has impressed on a damp track at the Ducati private test at Sepang, .2 off last years pole time on a damp track. He's still got it.
    Yep. Such a shame he still doesn't feel like a comeback.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crasherfromwayback View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by pritch View Post
    Anyhoo, Stoner has impressed on a damp track at the Ducati private test at Sepang, .2 off last years pole time on a damp track. He's still got it.
    Yep. Such a shame he still doesn't feel like a comeback.
    You never know. If he is impressed enough with a bike he tests it might be tempting enough to put in the work to do a wildcard. Certainly a possibility now they've got a bike, team and factory set up that isn't all shut up and ride the bike.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mental Trousers View Post
    You never know. If he is impressed enough with a bike he tests it might be tempting enough to put in the work to do a wildcard. Certainly a possibility now they've got a bike, team and factory set up that isn't all shut up and ride the bike.
    We can certainly dream of a Stoner/MM showdown at PI!

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    I liked Casey when he was racing for LCR in the 250's and his first year in the Prem' Class on the RC211V.. But despite being an Australian with a massive Ducati fixation, after he got on the Ducati GP7 and absolutely owned, I went off him a bit, I just got kinda bored I guess? In the same way that I'm bored by Marquez.. They're both incredibly talented and maybe putting them up against each other would be a good combination, but yeah.. I'm not hugely fussed about him making a comeback or not..

    However, Troy Bayliss is coming out of retirement this year to race in the ASBK championship.. Not nearly as glamourous as MotoGP or WSBK but I am all over that!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by pritch View Post
    Anyhoo, Stoner has impressed on a damp track at the Ducati private test at Sepang, .2 off last years pole time on a damp track. He's still got it.
    Where can we find this lap time information on the test?
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    2018 Yamaha.

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    Haven't heard much about it yet or maybe it's a secret ?

    MotoGP
    Neil Morrison25 Jan 2018
    Valentino Rossi is ‘positive’ about upcoming contract talks; will evaluate performance during preseason and “maybe” first three races before deciding whether to race beyond 2018.

    MotoGP: Rossi ‘optimistic’ about negotiations - but ‘in no rush’
    Valentino Rossi has insisted he is “not in a rush” to confirm whether he will continue as a MotoGP rider beyond 2018, but added that he feels “positive” and “optimistic” about upcoming negotiations with Yamaha.

    A great deal of speculation has surrounded the future of the 38-year old Italian in recent months, who is preparing for a near unprecedented 23rd year in grand prix racing, and 19th in the premier class.

    Toward the end of last year Rossi had insisted that he would use the first six races of '18 to gauge his competitiveness against opponents some 15 years his junior. Should he remain a regular podium challenger, Rossi said, he would extend.

    At Movistar Yamaha team’s launch in Madrid, Rossi revealed he had recently spoken to factory managing director Lin Jarvis, and relayed his hopes of evaluating his performance at the three preseason tests - and “maybe the first three races” of the year - before coming to a decision.

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