Sepang Yam 1st day

And remember that the fastest Hondas on Sepang day one - Biaggi 03.47,
Gibernau 03.51 - were just .3 better than Rossi's time. Of course Checa's
only .3 off Rossi, so it may be the bike as much as Rossi, although being
fastest Yammy first day out is impressive. It will be interesting to see if
he takes a run at Max's day 3 02.59, just for psychological reasons, even if
it takes a Q. It will get very interesting when they get to the
head-to-head...


"S Frank" wrote in message

 > I think this is pretty impressive. This is Rossi's first day
 > on a new bike and he is only 1 second off of Biagai
 > (who is very familiar with his bike).



  > > It's only testing...
  > > Rossi 2.03.80 (58 laps)
  > > Checa 2.04.10 (53 laps)
  > > Abe 2.05.84 (50 laps)
  > > Melandri 2.05.40 (48 laps)
  > > I think the best Honda was in something like 2.02.50 with Biaggi.
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OK here are the times for the 2nd day
Valentino Rossi - 2'03"17 - 66 tours
Carlos Checa - 2'03"57 - 58 tours
Norick Abe - 2'04"90 - 61 tours
Marco Melandri - 2'04"90 - 36 tours

"Mark N" a écrit dans le message de
GrCdncn2AaiVL4_dRVn2hg.RemoveThis@giganews.com...
 > And remember that the fastest Hondas on Sepang day one - Biaggi 03.47,
 > Gibernau 03.51 - were just .3 better than Rossi's time. Of course Checa's
 > only .3 off Rossi, so it may be the bike as much as Rossi, although being
 > fastest Yammy first day out is impressive. It will be interesting to see
if
 > he takes a run at Max's day 3 02.59, just for psychological reasons, even
if
 > it takes a Q. It will get very interesting when they get to the
 > head-to-head...
 >
 >


  > > I think this is pretty impressive. This is Rossi's first day
  > > on a new bike and he is only 1 second off of Biagai
  > > (who is very familiar with his bike).
 >


   > > > It's only testing...
   > > > Rossi 2.03.80 (58 laps)
   > > > Checa 2.04.10 (53 laps)
   > > > Abe 2.05.84 (50 laps)
   > > > Melandri 2.05.40 (48 laps)
   > > > I think the best Honda was in something like 2.02.50 with Biaggi.
 >
 >
 >
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"pierre-bonneau" wrote in message

 > OK here are the times for the 2nd day
 > Valentino Rossi - 2'03"17 - 66 tours
 > Carlos Checa - 2'03"57 - 58 tours
 > Norick Abe - 2'04"90 - 61 tours
 > Marco Melandri - 2'04"90 - 36 tours

Now it's getting interesting. Rossi's now only .2 seconds behind Biaggi's
day 2 time. Checa's just about where Edwards and Hayden were on day 2, so
the bike is clicking as much as Rossi. Or is it really much faster than last
year? Checa qualified 2nd at Sepang last October, with a 02.89, and in
Saturday practice he did a 04.17, a hair quicker than Nicky (and Melandri
qualified at 04.83). Don't know what a Q contributed, but they might not be
that much faster than 3 months ago, and the Yamaha has already shown that
it's very competitive at Sepang. So the jury's still way out...
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pierre-bonneau wrote:

 > OK here are the times for the 2nd day
 > Valentino Rossi - 2'03"17 - 66 tours
 > Carlos Checa - 2'03"57 - 58 tours
 > Norick Abe - 2'04"90 - 61 tours
 > Marco Melandri - 2'04"90 - 36 tours
 >

Wow, Checa is keeping up pretty well, better than I expected.
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