Who will win The 2008 MotoGP Series? Version 2:

**denill** · 4th March 2008, 10:54

Last year we had a poll - Who will win The 2008 MotoGP Series?
And it resulted in:
Stoner - 43.75%
Rossi - 37.50%
Someone Else - 18.75%

Wonder what it will be now?

Money up or shut up.

**MIXONE** · 4th March 2008, 10:56

Rossi for me.

**Ivan** · 4th March 2008, 17:14

Hayden for

If not Hayden then Andrea Divvi
Or Stoner

But most likely Hayden

**MIXONE** · 4th March 2008, 17:38

I like to see it not dominated by one rider or one bike type though.
SPK = ducati cup?

**BarryG** · 5th March 2008, 02:36

For some reason, Stoner is picking up where he left off.

Could be he's a brilliant talent, honed over a few years of GP's, now completely confident in his abilities and given a bike that is developed and suited to him.

Remind you of someone..........?

Cheers
Barry

**slowpoke** · 5th March 2008, 05:28

I'd like to see Rossi come back and win it narrowly after a titanic battle, have everything decided on the last corner of the last race....
....but that kid on the red rocket with ice water in his veins is surely gonna be harder to beat than ever. Not that he seemed to feel any pressure last year, but with the first championship pressure off his shoulders he could very well run away with it again.

**Wingnut** · 5th March 2008, 05:46

I just hope its not Lorenzo!!!!!!

**BarryG** · 6th March 2008, 08:49

Or Pedrosa !!!

Cheers
Barry

**Nicksta** · 6th March 2008, 08:57

I voted Rossi.....
but then I do really like Nickey!!

**gav** · 6th March 2008, 23:32

James Toseland!!
No?

OK, Casey Stoner .....
But Colin Edwards will win a race, finally .......

**denill** · 7th March 2008, 06:57

Why I voted for Stoner to win in 2008.

"So why is Casey Stoner so much faster than everyone else? It all seems to come down to confidence. Stoner is a very confident young man, as anyone who's ever seen him interviewed will agree. But that confidence needs to be rewarded and reciprocated for Stoner to shine, and that's exactly what happened in 2007. He came to a new team, who treated him like family, and he now trusts them implicitly, knowing that his feedback will be listened to, but perhaps more importantly, that they'll listen to him. He got married to his childhood sweetheart, removing another complication from the equation. He found tires he understood and could trust, so that he could stand the bike on his nose on the brakes, then pitch it into a turn, knowing that he would come out the other side without any nasty surprises. He knows and understands both the power of the bike and the electronics package, so that he is capable of dialing in exactly the right amount of throttle exiting a turn, and then holding the throttle there while the traction control smoothes out the bumps, and not backing off and confusing the electronics, as every instinct in his body is crying out to do.

These factors all came together in 2007 for Casey Stoner, to deliver him an almost perfect season. And so far throughout testing, Mr Perfect has been even better than last year, if anything. At the official IRTA qualifying session in Jerez, Stoner laid out the yardstick, the benchmark the others must measure themselves against, by winning the BMW Z4 on offer in just six laps. Of those six, five were faster than anyone else on track. Casey Stoner really is the man to beat in 2008.

It's Not The Bike

Anyone left doubting that Stoner is the major part of the equation need only take a look at where the other Ducatis are. Throughout the pre-season testing, the phrase most often used to describe the Ducatis was "bookending the timesheets." For while Casey Stoner was consistently the fastest man on the track, the Alice Ducati team of Toni Elias and Sylvain Guintoli were invariably the slowest, with Stoner's team mate Marco Melandri faring not much better."