WSBK » Haslam: Podium bodes well for 2009

Danum, they probably thought that neukirchner would retake Haslam

i guess they were just underestimated the Pocket Sprocket! (i know it's rocket, i just think Sprocket is better)

My suspicion is that Schumacher changed them when noone was looking

Good ride by Leon
did anyone notice the flags above the rostrum
Italian, Australian, and German ???
since when was Leon Haslam German
someone made a big boo boo.

Twit, they've done very well 3 times when Bayliss was present! last Sunday in Portugal, Brands and Donington. It's gonna be a quality season in 2009

Agree with the tyres, they all learnt from their race 1 tyre blunders in race 2 though! Definitely a good start!

I've always thought that Leon got moved up the chain into GP's before he was ready, could be he's ready now.
Great for us British next year, can't wait....I just hope the knockers don't say they only do well cos Troy the Boy has gone.

DBL - I also heard that during the superpole commentary and was amazed as it had already been reported by Dennis Noyes on 24th Oct and confirmed later by Crash.Net. I beleive Nakano will be testing with Biaggi on Tuesday (Valencia).

The one note I would make is that if Haslam/Rea/Sykes and Crutchlow can make their tyres last a race (as so often hasn't been the case in BSB) then they all could be in with a chance of regular podiums in WSBK. All too often they have started well but haven't "managed" their tyres and used them up early only to fade in the latter stages.

Good luck to them all next year though, they certainly have the talent and bikes to do well as we saw this weekend!

Haslam and Crutchlow did have WSBK engines for this race. Remember this was Burnicle and Whitham who didn't even know that Nakano had signed for Aprilia until Sunday (they said they didn't know on Saturday who was riding) when the deal had already been done and reported at the end of last week.

Sick,

Eurosport kept saying that they both had BSB specs, i figured that as they usually go round the paddocks and ask these sorts of questions that they'd be right.

If i'm wrong, then fair enough, still a quality ride though

Ben - what makes you think it was a BSB spec bike? HM Plant have had WSB spec motors available from their road race programme and used them in their previous wild card outing.

Still an outstanding ride from Haslam - I hope the Stiggy bikes are as fast!

Just imagine how much faster Leon could be if he grew the Haslam family sideburns like his dad?