jacfan wrote:I thought Rossi had already done that.needs screwing, does he ?
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Last year......he is the first to say that he cannot get comfortable with the Motogp techno bits....so he went n rode a Ducati Superbike this year and kinda nonchantly popped the World Ch'ship in his pcket with a couple of rounds to gomlittle wrote:Bayliss to fill in for Gibernau at Valencia
According to the above article, 2006 World Superbike champion Troy Bayliss will replace Sete Gibernau for the upcoming 2006 MotoGP season finale at Valencia. If I'm not mistaken, didn't Bayliss ride for Ducati a few years back in MotoGP before going to Superbike?
Last year meaning the 2004/05 season.....heh hehJulian Mayo wrote:Last year......he is the first to say that he cannot get comfortable with the Motogp techno bits....so he went n rode a Ducati Superbike this year and kinda nonchantly popped the World Ch'ship in his pcket with a couple of rounds to gomlittle wrote:Bayliss to fill in for Gibernau at Valencia
According to the above article, 2006 World Superbike champion Troy Bayliss will replace Sete Gibernau for the upcoming 2006 MotoGP season finale at Valencia. If I'm not mistaken, didn't Bayliss ride for Ducati a few years back in MotoGP before going to Superbike?
crash.netThe test was great fun, The AMG-Mercedes C-Class is an impressive race car which can almost be driven like a formula car. I don't know yet if I will ever race on four wheels; however, it is good to know that I wouldn't look so bad doing so, and I thank Mercedes-Benz for this opportunity.
Crash.net wrote:Valentino Rossi has revealed that he will use his outing on the Rally New Zealand this weekend in order to gauge whether or not he has 'good potential' to do rallying full-time in the future.
Speaking prior to the start of the penultimate round of the 2006 FIA World Rally Championship, only his second outing in the WRC, the Italian added that his main aim is to enjoy himself and to get to the finish in his privately entered 2005-spec Subaru Impreza - something he failed to do on the Rally GB back in 2002, when he crashed out after just 17 kilometres.
Rossi:I already have some small experience with the Subaru and last year I raced at Monza, but it was not a real rally," he said. "I had a test in Wales last week to understand the car but the real test is tomorrow [Friday] to cover some kilometres in the car and understand it. The first target is to have fun and reach the end.
My initial impression was pretty good; in fact the bike feels great for this stage of its development, Obviously power-wise it feels different, but other than that it just feels like it's rounded-off a bit; not such a knife-edge and a little bit more forgiving.
The bike is slower than the 990cc RCV but it is more agile than the old bike - it changes direction very fast and I also like the riding position, its more like the riding position of a 250cc bike.
Today we got in a full day of testing and I realised the power is not the strong point of an 800cc bike. We worked on the front end to try and find a better feeling going into the corners. We tried different off-sets because the front felt a little heavy. With those changes we needed to test tyres to check the character of this bike using these tyres.