@ progress. On the page it says Ducati, and I am pretty sure it was Marlboro - we were at the island that year. His first C'ship. Top weekend - I can't remember it!

They're calling for rain, rain, and more rain this week in Sepang. Why do they bother to go there.

If the test is rained out they should get a make up test.

It breaks my heart to see C.Edwards putting up with such a boring frustrating class.

Far out boys, let's put this into perspective a little, these guys are starting from scratch with a new ECU. The times for day 1 shouldn't be even close to what they should be by the time the official prototype test is complete. Whilst they can never be faster than the top rider's prototype times, I'd be expecting these times to be shaved dramatically in the coming days as they tune their new controllers to the riders preferences.

What bike was Stoner on in 2007 for still fastest race lap ever?
Does the smelly goat know about this?

yup, despite the lack of development and funds for those bikes to really mature, the motors are holding them back big time. If they were on a different schedule, something closer to WSBK, they would have a much better shot.

I cant see why they wont let teams rebuild their motors, its probably cheaper than trying to build a motor thats perfect and so expensive that it would cost more than 4-10 rebuilds.

Its like the whole people believing cause fuel tanks are 30% smaller in F1 that fuel efficiency will be that much as well, pure idiocy.

Get some decent engines for those CRTs or else they will be even more irrelevant than last year. Which doesn't make any sense when SBK are not that far off the real Motogps...

Get rid of them CRT bikes !!!

Waste of time, hope this isn't an omen for the season

sorry i didnt understand one word of that last post, the CRT's were out and they are about 4 seconds a lap slower???