MOTOGP » Ducati boss talks Canepa, Kallio, Hayden...

If the Alice team don''t get any updates throughout the season, it''s harsh to criticise the way Guintoli and Elias are riding

They won't want Fliukey Hayden, thats just talk to create media interest and divert the media away from who they are truely chasing, why put a has been (a very fortunate has been) on the bike when they can have a young hungry Italian

with this GP8 construction idea it looks like only dirt track riders like Hayden or Hopkins are able to ride it in natural way. But there's a small problem which Suppo knows: there're nomany riders who wants to try it after Melandri history. GP8is like leper machine, couse now if you're going to any Ducati you have 20% chance find it on the track and 80% to go away from motogp after it with depression. Casey & Ducati finded each other fenomenal but where're the others? any alternative after Stoner?

Nobody can ride the duke except stoner so what do ducati do develop it around stoner so that even after 2 years still nobody else can ride it..It's a risky policy which I reckon will bite Ducati in the 4ss...probably at the end of this season when nobody will want to ride unless they are already an also ran.....

'An also ran' sounds like Hayden to me

I really don't want Mika Kallio to take a ride with Ducati. Like many other people have said, (bratface) Stoner is the only person able to ride the Duke fast, I have lots of faith in Marco, Sylvain, and Toni as riders and believe that their problems are definitely not down to a lack of ability/talent (although I can't decide exactly what it is which is making them struggle :rolleyes. Ducati have a little bit of a history of being ruthless with their seats and if anyone is under-performing they are off, no second chances. Obviously, as Mika would be a rookie he would need some time to adjust to the bike and at 5'4" and 8st I worry about his physical strength too. To be continued.......

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I think Honda would be a better team for Mika, a smaller and more manageable bike coupled with a highly tolerant team (how long have they had Hayden? :blush mean that I think Mika would feel more comfortable with them. Of course, if it wasn't for the fact that Ezpeleta is determined to fix what isn't broken by changing the 250s to 600s Mika would have a place on the KTM team for as long as he wanted as they are truly like a family and understand each other perfectly. But all good things must come to an end, I just hope he finds somewhere better than Ducati to continue his wonderful career .

Kallio and Canepa for the Alice team, and put Ben Spies on the Marlboro Ducati team alongside Stoner. He's mentally tough and he's American, and he's on his way to his third AMA Superbike Championship, in face of TOUGH competition from Mat Mladin, his team-mate. So the American thing gets them the publicity they want (need?) in the big US market so no need for a never-was-been like Hayden. He must be the luckiest man in motorcycle racing. Factory rider for SEVEN years and just three (3) paltry wins!

Kallio and Canepa for the Alice team, and put Ben Spies on the Marlboro Ducati team alongside Stoner. He's mentally tough and he's American, and he's on his way to his third AMA Superbike Championship, in face of TOUGH competition from Mat Mladin, his team-mate. So the American thing gets them the publicity they want (need?) in the big US market so no need for a never-was-been like Hayden. He must be the luckiest man in motorcycle racing. Factory rider for SEVEN years and just three (3) paltry wins!

I think you put nicky on the ducati he has a better shot then marco. kallio is to small for the duc. and ben spies common the guy will never last at ducati. i am a fan of the sport but to call hayden a never was bee hayden is just plain ignorant and stupid. he won the championhip in an era that on one i repreat no one has won other then rossi. so I guess that Melandri or Biaggi or Barros or Gibernau and any Capirossi and any other great riders that this sport has who have never won a motogp modern era chapionchip are all never-was-been- has beens