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28 agree. 61 disagree.

Please lets not get carried away people. yes he has shown that he can win on a superbike. but look what happens when he is put under pressure. he seems not to like riders close to him. when he gets away in superbikes he can go, but put him in a dog fight and he's not so good. the added pressure and all the expectation on his young shoulders will be a big test. lets wait and see what happens when he starts to use his aggressive style in the motogp paddock. when toseland started out using the superbike aggression, he was critisised by the other riders which i think knocked his confidence big time.
say what you like about JT but he was the most successful british motogp rider (modern era)

Posted by bazzab - Unregistered (43 days ago)

Tech 3 boss Herve Poncharal has reassured Ben Spies fans that the American will get strong support from Yamaha in MotoGP next season.

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25 agree. 13 disagree.

He deserves that strong support as I said a bit earlier back I think he'll be a success in MotoGP.

Posted by Yamaha-M1 Fan. - Unregistered (43 days ago)

10 agree. 12 disagree.

even he was succesfully grab ama or even wsb champions this year well don't put a high hopes with this guy too much.remember motogp's bike and atmosphere has a very very different compare ama or wsb which he could handle so far so let him show what he got first then we'll see

Posted by zack - Unregistered (43 days ago)

5 agree. 7 disagree.

he said 'no, we have four factory riders and four factory bikes'.
So what happened to adhering to the new rules, about no new riders not joining a factory team,
Good job Ducati did not make that statement.

Posted by Rules go out of the window - Unregistered (43 days ago)

2 agree. 32 disagree.

If I was Yamaha, I'd play with this a bit.

Tell all the riders they have the same machinery.

However, this would be a lie, as I'd give Ben a *slightly* less optimum package that Valentino and Jorge for the first couple of races, and see how he copes. He'll push damn hard, and I'm pretty sure he'll do well and get close.

Then give him the same bike, but don't tell him. I reckon he'll then at least match or even beat them (as he'll still be pushing harder), and we'll see the other two raise their game so we have all three operating at the highest possible level.

Posted by The Player - Unregistered (43 days ago)

28 agree. 61 disagree.

Please lets not get carried away people. yes he has shown that he can win on a superbike. but look what happens when he is put under pressure. he seems not to like riders close to him. when he gets away in superbikes he can go, but put him in a dog fight and he's not so good. the added pressure and all the expectation on his young shoulders will be a big test. lets wait and see what happens when he starts to use his aggressive style in the motogp paddock. when toseland started out using the superbike aggression, he was critisised by the other riders which i think knocked his confidence big time.
say what you like about JT but he was the most successful british motogp rider (modern era)

Posted by bazzab - Unregistered (43 days ago)

18 agree. 9 disagree.

Spies is no average rider bazzab. JT is a great chap, and a good rider, but as you say, if he doesn't have confidence, forget it.

Spies appears to have supreme confidence in his ability, its only the bike that matters.

Number one, his fight this year is with an on song Haga, whose also on a great bike, and who is certainly no mug (and who i hope wins the championship).

Number two, his previous fights were with Mladlin, who played with his head as well as being a brilliant rider.

It's only his size that could be a question mark, if he loses some weight but retains strength then I reckon spies is a match for Rossi and Lorenzo.

Posted by The Player - Unregistered (43 days ago)

3 agree. 11 disagree.

BAZZAB

well said.

id like to see hows hes going to manage a dog fight with rossi,lorenzo,stoner and pedrosa lets face it there the best in the world end of ... and fo the doubters ..

laguna 08 stoner vs rossi

barcelona o9 lorenzo vs rossi

gargantuan scraps.

however im glad that herve has said hell get the same support as james and colin.

obviously ben will be looking to give colin a drubbing next year cos rule 1 is Beat your team mate

im soo looking forward to next year

Posted by stars and stripes - Unregistered (43 days ago)

13 agree. 2 disagree.

Rossi and Spies are of a similar height i think so no worries on that. I'd love to see Ben do well and it's nice to hear he is going to get some good support.
As for the comment re: factory bikes and it not being fair. There is a factory team and there is a satellite team and he has to go to the satellite one...there are no rules on what support that team get's. I'm not at all surprised to see that Yamaha will do their utmost to give him a decent bike as he has the potential to be very very good, even at GP level.
Hope it works out for Ben. JT didn't do well enough, thats a fact..let's see if Ben can do better. I'll miss him in WSB though..he is class

Posted by Cubikrube - Unregistered (43 days ago)

10 agree. 10 disagree.

Not sure if Spies will shine in MotoGP. When he comes to GP at 26 next year, he'll be like a johnny-come-lately, and it will hard for him to adapt to the series. Stoner and Lorenzo had already tasted success at a much younger age than that.

Posted by Max - Unregistered (43 days ago)

1 agrees. 2 disagree.

In Motogp, a rider only had a single race to make the different and the pressure are high. It is not like in superbike race, there still a 2nd chance in race 2 to correct any mistakes if a rider had a bad result in race 1.

Posted by some1 - Unregistered (43 days ago)

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