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Checa slows down for a yellow flag, Hopkins tries to kick him in the side at speed. A dangerous and uncalled for move. Time to grove up?

The mighty HRC (Honda Racing Corporation) is back, beware all small players. but perhaps is to late in the year for little Dani to conquer to championship.

sachsenring: 1. Rossi 2. Pedrosa 3. Stoner 5, 6 or 7. Hopkins

It's a long trip, but if the weather is nice it will be a good one. We are thinking about going up there on Saturday if time and weather permits.

what? up north we had bad weather this weekend after a hot week (while it rained a lot down south) It is turning better again during the week, and finally I see the light.. my V11 will be out on the road RSN.

looks very bad, a long straight, some hairpins and worst of all most curves tightens at the end... typical car track not suited for flowing bike races... perhaps it should be run the other way around?

and in northern Sweden we have had blazing sunshine for a week, but with my vacation coming up in a weeks time it probably will not last.

The Honda seems to work for Nicky again with the new chassie The Doctor showed the other boys how to ride fast this weekend

hmm, James Toseland is first contender for the Superbike world championship on a ***** and a young turk and a frenchy with sideburns are dominating SuperSport on *****s but those bikes are refined in Holland.

I for one hope not since I'm planning to see the finale live in Valencia again. The coming tracks do not have long straights that favours the massive Ducati-power so I think Rossi and Pedrosa will take a couple of victorias each. Would be nice with a three-way battle for the title in Valencia.

blade and sport

Ironic how the Honda HRC outfit which pressed hard for the change to 800cc despite the best resources so far has failed to deliver.

"Trick Daddy" was almost slowest on race tyres, he managed to get a good lap on a qualifing tyre. I predict 10th place or worse for him. my tip: 1. Rossi 2. Pedrosa 3. Stoner

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only one problem with that piece: Pedrosa said that he didn't attempt to pass Nicky in that corner, and Randy Mamola said on the motogp.com podcast that: after studying the incident over and over again he had no reason to think otherwise.

nobody is claiming otherwise, BUT we still reserve the right to think that riding like a chipmunk collecting points instead of riding for the victory in the races is BORING, and it is bad for the sport when the fans that are the targets of the sponsors think it is boring. How many liters of Repsol oil did you buy in 2006? NH has almost no fan base in the countries where MotoGP is big business, and winning the championship with the least agressive riding ever by a champion will not help.

another take on things: MotoGP race report - Valencia

I fact I did, to honour the champ, a McRoyal menú but not at the Xàtiva one, at the one close to the cathedral didn't get more fun than that, all americans seems to gone home to sleep, if Vale would have won it would have been italian car horns honking all night for sure.

like James "Who" Toseland world superbike champion in 2004 with 3 race wins in 22 races, remembered as a champ by noone except hard core racing nerds. nr 2, 3 and 4 in the championship had more race wins not a good year for superbikes.

never in the history of the sport has the premium class been wun with so few race victories. Only one word for it BORING Great rid by Bayliss, great time in Valencia even though the wrong man became champion

yeah, Bayliss on the front row, and Valentino has the grip on the title now "fooor surre" / from an internet café in Valencia

wow, tyre warmers! now we're getting there.