On a day when Honda officially confirmed that its pneumatic-valve engine will not be ready for the opening rounds of the 2008 MotoGP season, Nicky Hayden provided the factory with a welcome boast by taking last season's spring-valve design - inside a modified chassis, featuring revised stiffness behaviour - to the top of the Saturday timesheets, with a qualifying tyre, at the official Jerez test.
So the pneumatic engine problems weren't hype, sandbagging or bull****:
For the second year running honda has messed up big time and will have to start the year playing catchup to the other teams, then switch to the new engine mid-season, which will probably mess the team up as it keeps switching back and forth.
Incredible! And Honda finished 2007 so strongly! Will Honda ever learn!!!
So often since Rossi left they seem to have caught themselves out by trying to be too smart - they introduce totally new designs that don;t work (not stright away anyway)!
Posted by Team Green (195 days ago)
Last Edited 195 days ago
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HRC is famous for taking a perfectly good machine and making it into a complete pig...
It's just as importamt to work out what doesn't work as what does... but when it does, it needs someone like Doohan to tell them to leave well alone!
Posted by Al - Unregistered (195 days ago)
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...Then it takes somrone to listen.
Be nice if Rossi is right about Nicky winning that car! - Go Nicky!
Posted by JJ - Unregistered (195 days ago)
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Start to wonder if Honda's problem isen't deeper in their R&D or organization structure as a whole... I mean... look at them in F-1 and now MotoGP... it's just "amazing"...
Nicky will be the lead rider in 2008 I'm sure. Dani is out the picture.
Nicky will finish 3rd in the championship, behind Vale and Casey. Damn good job effort I say by Hayden. Dani will fall off and come 5th, with Edwards 4th in his last year of Moto GP.
All we need now is for Casey to sleep in late a few morning and we have a hell of a season on our hands.
Posted by Grumpy_Doctor - Unregistered (195 days ago)
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At least they are good at making lawnmower engines...
Posted by Harryx - Unregistered (195 days ago)
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Good one Nicky, impressive! I'm also impressed by Randy de Puniet's performance... Very quick on race rubber, 40"223, and second quickest on qualifiers: no doubt some ppl at Kawasaki are still wondering who let the Frenchman go away instead of signing him right away...
Posted by Who Cares - Unregistered (195 days ago)
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LOL Harryx......don't forget the Honda's electric generators!
SoCal
Posted by SoCal - Unregistered (193 days ago)
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