22-year-old Casey Stoner won the inaugural MotoGP night race ahead of 20-year-old rookie Jorge Lorenzo and 22-year-old Dani Pedrosa, resulting in an exact average age of just 21 years and 47 weeks.
It shows that in MotoGP that there is good young talent come through from the Junior Formulae in the series and they are settling in well in the top class in the series, and given competitive machinery which they all have they are going to challenge and beat the old guard (ie Rossi, Edwards, Capirossi, etc), and that these three young men are going to be the future legends within motorcycle racing.
Posted by Iain Langmaid - Unregistered (50 days ago)
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800's are fantastic and are only going to get better.The bigger slower bikes thankfully are gone forever.
Posted by its over - Unregistered (50 days ago)
2 people disagree.
Its over.....Well said, these guys are going around with their arms just about touching the track, they where coming on to Gardner straight and out of turn 11 smoking it, CS was backing it into corners at Sepang and they were 26 sec faster around Qatar and to top it all of not so many highsides......and it will get better ;)
"says a lot abouty how hard these bikes are to ride"
No it doesn't... Records are there to be broken. Riders start riding younger all the time, they are being developed from a younger age. Training for young riders is getting more sophisticated as the factory teams pick them at a young age and throw thousands of pounds at their development.
Just look at Scott Redding, youngest ever rider to be on the first row at just 15 years of age. 125's haven't changed much over the years. If he progresses quickly he could go on to break other age records in 250's and MotoGP's
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