SPIES TO DUCATI !

[Ty Howard]

Winning and being on pole doesn't win championships. The guy with the most points afte the last race wins the championship. The record books will forever show him winning the 2006 title with no astericks. He did something Dani still hasn't done after being the Honda golden boy for longer than Rossi and Hayden were there.

Saying that it is time for Nicky to drop the hammer and start kicking butt again.

[John Black]

yes, nicky won the championship, but, that season will not be remembered as one where he was the dominant rider simply because he was not... i am not sure why that bothers so many people...

and championship or not, pedro will always be considered a better GP rider by anyone who does not have an agenda... it is not even a comparison...

[Troy Green]

Nicky Hayden 2006 MotoGP World Champion

Dani Pedrosa ZERO MotoGP world Championships, but always considered a better rider by at least one guy because he is fast and has more race wins! Everyone else just has an agenda.... whatever that means, you're right it's not even a comparison [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

If Dani never wins a MotoGP Championship, in 20 years there will be a footnote about how fast he was and that he never won a championship.
But Nicky will always be listed as a World Champion, no footnote required.

[Derek Thomas]

I dunno John,...MotoGP Champion sounds way better to me than &quot;pole sitter&quot; or most race winner but Championship loser

[John Black]

I must say, the flag waving is cute...

[Tad Murley]

Seriously? Stoner out with injuries. Pedrosa starts from the back and gets taken out. Rossi has Italian gods on his side and got on the box because of attrition. At the end of the day the whole MotoGP gig is a joke and the most boring racing around. Even NASCRAP is more exciting these days and I say that with blood running down my chin. CRT is a miserable failure that Esplezeta concocted in a drunken stupor. THE best racing was and will always be on the 500's. Cheaper to operate and far more enjoyable to watch....the very thing that MotoGP better find and real soon or the series will go away.

[Joe Rodriguez]

funny thing is ,is that when Rossi has dnone well on the Duc is when the teams have the least amount of data for the weekend.
IE. wet practices and dry race or dry practices and wet races, this speaks well for the rider IMHO...

[John Black]

the &quot;other&quot; teams had less data this weekend... rossi and ducati had a 2 day test there a couple of weeks ago...

[Tom Anderson]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tad Murley</div><div class="ubbcode-body">...the very thing that MotoGP better find and real soon or the series will go away. </div></div>Amen.

SBK and AMA DSB has been a lot more entertaining, and the CRT deal with MotoGP (if everyone was on one) would be great, but not when the prototypes still have the spotlight. I think CRT if done like Moto2 and Moto3 would work very well, the manufacturers will never let that happen though.

Still, the MotoGP riders are still the best in the sport, the machinery is the problem. I could agree with seeing the 500's back, unfortunately, this &quot;green&quot; world sees them as big time polluters. They're gone forever I believe.

As far as Hayden vs Pedrosa, I agree with John; but there is no disputing that a &quot;win is a win&quot; no matter how it happened. The only thing that matters is that Nicky was World Champion and Pedrosa hasn't been capable to make that happen. Personally, I'm not a Pedrobot fan and really not a Marquez fan, but for some reason Repsol and Dorna love those two...