MOTOGP » Hayden gets pneumatic for Donington!

Just as the story said, Nicky has nothing to lose, he has been out paced by his team mate and has little chance of winning the championship, I wonder what will happen if he wins, maybe honda will take the bike off him and give it to Dani who has a far better chance of winning the championship

wll they have enough engines for both ...

Looks like heavy rain this weekend so maybe pneumatics won't make much difference in this case. Nicky may need the electron just to stay on the thing

ok, so is it Donnington or Donington? Always thought the first

No Chu its the latter

thank you Prolific

@ Chu Chu
"but where would yamaha be, or the others, if they were still running springers?"

Toseland and Edwards began the year with a valve-spring engine, but were handed Yamaha's powerful pneumatic-valve design - as used by the factory team - from round three at Estoril.

IMO they would not have all 4 Yamaha Bikes in the Top 7 positions. The factory teams could have been 1st and 2nd.

1. Valentino Rossi Fiat Yamaha Team 142
2. Dani Pedrosa Repsol Honda Team 135
3. Jorge Lorenzo Fiat Yamaha Team 94
4. Casey Stoner Ducati Marlboro Team 92
5. Colin Edwards Tech 3 Yamaha 69
6. Andrea Dovizioso JiR Team Scot MotoGP 57
7. James Toseland Tech 3 Yamaha 53

Its amazing that Honda got it so wrong from such an early stage,they havn't had such an uninspiring engineering developement in racing since the 80's probably,when they experimented with oval pistons,underslung fuel tanks and over-engine exhausts,Nicky really has nothing to lose,Honda too if they thought about it but any public failing would be of great embarrassment to them

edward:
The engine is different, haven't seen it, but the shape of the heads and the way it mounts to the frame is likely different... think about what it would take to mount a new engine in the frame of your street bike. That's why it matters.

The rain would *wash out* much difference any 1k rpm, or hp increase might provide to the bike since the tyres couldn't get the power to the track.

Good luck Honda, you'll need it.

It would seem Honda have BIG problems as the F1 teams is frankly a joke, they are behind in development (something I thought I would NEVER say about Honda) in MotoGP, in WSBK they are all but struggling with the bikes.

Not really like them.

Is this a case of too many fingers in too many pies ?