WSBK » Haga close to '09 Ducati Xerox deal

Wow, not a possibility I'd ever considered! Having the full force of the Ducati squad behind Nori should give him a good shot at the title.

I'm not understanding the comments stating Haga isn't championship material. While this year he certainly fell out of the title chase early on, last year he came incredibly close: only 2 points behind Toseland! That folks, is championship material.

I also view the Ducati as a better all around tool for winning races over the entire season than the R1, which has proven to be a basket case at a few rounds this (and last) year.

This has got me excited, 1st Japanese WSBK champion in 2009?!

Wow, not a possibility I'd ever considered! Having the full force of the Ducati squad behind Nori should give him a good shot at the title.

I'm not understanding the comments stating Haga isn't championship material. While this year he certainly fell out of the title chase early on, last year he came incredibly close: only 2 points behind Toseland! That folks, is championship material.

I also view the Ducati as a better all around tool for winning races over the entire season than the R1, which has proven to be a basket case a t a few rounds this (and last) year.

This has got me excited, 1st Japanese WSBK champion in 2009?!

Cemo, that just shows you mentality mate.....childish. A Rossi fan no doubt?

Nicko!

This has got me excited, 1st Japanese WSBK champion in 2009?!

Oh yes, Kiyo. Will wipe the floor with Haga.

Millemart......

Everyone in the UK loves Rossi and hates Biaggi, unsurprisingly.

The place went mental when Sykes stepped onto the podium....I wonder why eh, maybe because he is British?!

I wonder if Sykes would get cheered at an Italian round, say at Vallelunga........wonder whether Biaggi would be cheered?

well Gaz, " Biaggi will beat Haga on a customer 1098, just wait and see. "


He finished behind Nori in 07 so he couldn't do it last year, and as he is two places and 38 points behind Haga this year,( even following our "Dogs Borrocks" hero's lamentable oil spewing and vision imparement giving 2 DNFs yesterday), Biaggi isn't doing it this year ! so even the most entrenched Biaggi-ista must concede that Haga on a Ducati 1098R factory prepared bike would,on past evidence, continue to be year on year a better superbike proposition than Million Dollar Max -

perhaps Tardozzi has a point after all

@ Gaz

"Nicko!

This has got me excited, 1st Japanese WSBK champion in 2009?!

Oh yes, Kiyo. Will wipe the floor with Haga."

I don't doubt Kiyonari is going to be a serious force (maybe even surpass Haga's accomplishments eventually) in WSBK in the coming years, but it takes more than one season of lapping the huge variety of tracks the series visits to put together a solid title run. He's got tons of laps on the UK tracks, so I'm not surprised of his success there, but at other times this season he was nowhere.

Gaz

"Cemo, that just shows you mentality mate.....childish. A Rossi fan no doubt?"

Erm, no. Toni Elias actually. Childish? That would be a nil point again - just not devoid of a sense of humour, that's all. It would appear the same can't be said for you, the Bearded Lady or all the other morose, arrogant Biaggi fans out there...
You lot take yourselves way too seriously

200cc extra in the World Superbike Championship's most successful team sounds like an offer too good to refuse .

I just can't believe that there are lowlifes on here bashing Haga and worshipping Biaggi

Must be some Italians on here wanting the Roman to ride the Italian bike, oh how wonderful that would be, maybe as wonderful as Melandri on Ducati's Motogp bike HA HA HA

Biaggi doesn't even know how to ride except when the end of the race comes, maybe a full tank of petrol is too much for him, perhaps one of his few fans can tell us why?

Just a pity the weather at Donington was so bad and drainage at the track was poor. Hopefully better in Rome next round.

"perhaps Tardozzi has a point after all"

And unless I'm mistaken, didn't Tardozzi publicly declare his admiration of Haga after the Y2K season on the R7 in the wsb press? I'm sure I saw something written in Motorcycle Racer magazine...