MOTOGP » Fit-again Lorenzo looks for home comforts.

I think that part about supporting Rossi is more of a crash.net speculation rather than a direct saying from Lorenzo. Anyway, I'll be glad to see him fighting at the front again.

MOTOGP » Stoner: We will keep fighting.

lol

MOTOGP » Stoner: We will keep fighting.

Talking about wives, I like Capirossi's: Emotional as hell, she lives the race as if she was on the handlebars herself. I love to see her expressions whenever her husband does something worth watching. Go Capi!

MOTOGP » Stoner: We will keep fighting.

I don't think Casey will fall again, but neither Rossi will jaopardize his championship chances by going "over the top". He knows he is going to win it even if he finishes second in all the remaining races. This doesn't mean that he won't try to win, it's just that he won't have the pressure to which he's proven isn't infallible. The greatest danger for Rossi from now on is either a mechanical failure or a first turn incident.

MOTOGP » Michelin out to redeem themselves.

Good input Oscar. Never saw Pedrosa's actions from this perspective and it only seems right that they are either paving their way to Bridgestone by themselves or to a single tyre rule for all of the grid.

MOTOGP » Same circuit, different story for Rossi.

Let's get some straight facts here, about Rossi always getting the best: 1. Motorcycle racing IS about having/being the best. So if you are yourself one of the best then surely someone will come along to give you the best of equipment. 2. In his 125/250 years Rossi only needed 2 years to conquer the series without the slightest hint of having equipment any better than the other guys. 3. In his Honda years yes, he might have tyres made overnight for him but why was it him and not his team-mate or anyone else? Pure luck perhaps? 4. About Rossi fans asking for a control tyre: Between Rossi and Stoner it's the same as if they had a control tyre, and... look who's ahead in the ch/p

MOTOGP » Same circuit, different story for Rossi.

I liked the following part of crash.net report: "Team manager Davide Brivio, meanwhile, has given Rossi the target of a podium finish..." Yeah, like Rossi needs Brivio to tell him that! hilarious stuff... In all seriousness I doubt Brivio is truly running the Rossi & Burgess part of the Yamaha team.

MOTOGP » Michelin out to redeem themselves.

Codger- thanks for the compliment. Remember though that if a rider is 0.5 secs slower per lap, he is considered to be in a different class of competitiveness! Given that, it is only natural that tyres are so crucial because they are the means through which a bike "communicates" with its environment, i.e. the racetrack. And the racetracks are so widely varying in surface, dirt, temperature, bumpiness, the tyres need to be spot-on in every event varying their properties each time. So it's no wonder there's such big talk about tyres. They are *very* important. Rossi himself has said it: "You can have a slower engine and still win.If your tyres are worse than the other guys, you are fakked!"

MOTOGP » Pedrosa determined to rediscover form.

Yeah, I agree with The Morgue here, Dani is much faster than Hayden. Hayden has to be the luckiest rider in GP history winnning a championship in a campaign where clearly faster riders regularly put themselves out of commission either by mechanical misfortunes, plain bad luck or mistakes, and a load of new talent being either in rookie status or still in 250s. Trick daddy indeed...

MOTOGP » Michelin out to redeem themselves.

Bridgestone's breakthrough in competitiveness goes as far back as the end of the 2006 season. Remember who won the last 990 race? Michelin have had plenty of time to up their game and Rossi's slap should make them come for blood. Despite all this though they didn't do anything spectacular. Maybe they just can't catch-up with Bridgestone. What's funny and unfortunate was that so many years Bridgestone was the underdog but noone was talking about a single tyre rule. Now they have repeatedly proposed it. Smells like something to you?