MOTOGP » Jerez MotoGP test times - Wednesday.

@Niva

If you haven't noticed, Dani always cracks or Rossi breaks him.

Im not a Stoner fan, but give him a break (no pun intended!) he stayed on the bike every race all year I think a mistake from maybe trying to hard in tsting is acceptable. 2008 is going to be a Rossi,Stoner,Pedrosa year!

Jamaal...there is something about that what you just said: pedrosa's nature is non conflictatious and in the past he did crack or rossi did break him; something to do with experience - if i dare say life-experience.. still think that pedrosa has the right relationship to riding: he is not egoistic so he can focus on riding only and not mental challenges from other riders ( mainly rossi ), and in time as he gets stronger - he will battle rossi stronger as well.
meaning: stronger in ignoring the challenge - and rossi does challenge everybody - both with physical racing and mentally. rossi's strength is that he does it in a clean way but always waits for that kind of play.

comparing day 2 and day 3, the improvements in time that riders made, from highest to lowest ( improvements):
1. WEST improved 1.847 sec! 2. DOVI 1.680 sec 3. NAKANO 1.303 s 4. de ANGELIS 0.779 sec 5. TOSELAND 0.498 sec 6. DE PUNIET 0.493 sec 7. HOPKINS 0.475 sec 8. MARCO 0.465 sec 9. ROSSI 0.380 sec 10. PEDROSA 0.362 s 11. LORENZO 0.347 s and finally HAYDEN improved the least 0.231 s.
the rest of them didnt improve at all ( didnt count the unknown names on the list )

Day 3 test times

1 Pedrosa 1'38.562
2 Hayden 1'38.848
3 Lorenzo 1'39.464
4 Dovi 1'39.747
5 Nakano 1'40.121
6 Edwards 1'40.184
7 De Angelis 1'40.185
8 Toseland 1'40.213
9 De Puniet 1'40.398
10 Hopkins 1'40.984
11 Rossi 1'41.538
12 Melandri 1'41.619
13 Okada 1'41.715
14 Canepa 1'41.793
15 West 1'42.343
16 Gaureschi1'42.850
17 Ito 1'43.001

Rossi had problems with his hand going weak in the 3rd day apparently and sat out most of the latter part.

i guess Lorenzo was on a qualifier. Even so, pretty quick. If JT is on race rubber then he has managed to gap half the field. Some pretty impressive scalps and only a gnats behind Edwards. Go on JT. Does anyone know what is up with West?

JT was riding on race rubber as well as a full fuel tank the last two days, he didn't want to use 'artificial' means
to get higher up the sheets and just work on race pace, something I admire in the man.
He said on MCN that he may ty a qualifier today but I'm not sure if he did.

What the heck is West doing dangling at the bottom?