MotoGP results - race 2 Spain Spoiler

[mountainmotor]

Man was I surprised considering the track layout . Looks like Yamaha found some hidden HP since last week . It appeared to have had some HP on Pedrosa's Honda .

Pedrosa went into turn 1 in the lead . Rossi passed and then lead the race to the finish .

Hopkins was cooking ... cooking was his downfall . Whats new there ?

Stoner , well he got passed by a couple from the home country there . Was not quite right in how it was done IMO but he finally got around them and placed 5th coming from way back in the field .

Rossi is still the man *

The points are tight ..... Going to be a great season


1 - 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA Fiat Yamaha Team YAMAHA 45'53.340 156.143
2 - 26 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team HONDA 45'54.586 156.072 1.246
3 - 5 Colin EDWARDS USA Fiat Yamaha Team YAMAHA 45'56.041 155.990 2.701
4 - 24 Toni ELIAS SPA Honda Gresini HONDA 45'57.691 155.896 4.351
5 - 27 Casey STONER AUS Ducati Marlboro Team DUCATI 45'58.333 155.860 4.993
6 - 7 Carlos CHECA SPA Honda LCR HONDA 46'03.340 155.578 10.000
7 - 1 Nicky HAYDEN USA Repsol Honda Team HONDA 46'07.486 155.345 14.146
8 - 33 Marco MELANDRI ITA Honda Gresini HONDA 46'13.309 155.019 19.969
9 - 71 Chris VERMEULEN AUS Rizla Suzuki MotoGP SUZUKI 46'18.126 154.750 24.786
10 - 56 Shinya NAKANO JPN Konica Minolta Honda HONDA 46'18.295 154.740 24.955
11 - 4 Alex BARROS BRA Pramac d'Antin DUCATI 46'18.348 154.737 25.008
12 - 65 Loris CAPIROSSI ITA Ducati Marlboro Team DUCATI 46'19.192 154.690 25.852
13 - 14 Randy DE PUNIET FRA Kawasaki Racing Team KAWASAKI 46'19.785 154.657 26.445
14 - 6 Makoto TAMADA JPN Dunlop Yamaha Tech 3 YAMAHA 46'29.993 154.091 36.653
15 - 50 Sylvain GUINTOLI FRA Dunlop Yamaha Tech 3 YAMAHA 46'30.084 154.086 36.744
16 - 10 Kenny ROBERTS JR USA Team Roberts KR212V 46'42.251 153.417 48.911
17 - 64 Kousuke AKIYOSHI JPN Rizla Suzuki MotoGP SUZUKI 46'44.124 153.315 50.784
18 - 19 Olivier JACQUE FRA Kawasaki Racing Team KAWASAKI 46'54.241 152.764 1'00.901
19- 21 John HOPKINS USA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP SUZUKI 46'56.711 152.630 1'03.371

Go #71 *!!!!!!!

[Charlesbusa]

Hayden is just warming up *

Rossi ran a great race!!

[MC MUSTANG]

[05 Busa LE]

Looks like it is going to be an interesting season! Wonder how Yamaha "found" more top speed? In the opener in Australia, it looked like Rossi's brakes were stuck on all the way down the front straight.

[mountainmotor]

Maybe cams , maybe cam timing .

Maybe they could just use a better fuel map @ Jerez without running out of fuel . Who knows , on the long drag race straight #26 Honda was only one close enough to make this guess and light weight Dani could not get it done today .

I am more than a little surprised at Capriossi's first two results since he's a Ducati old timer .

[BA BUSA]

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(Charlesbusa @ Mar. 25 2007,06:47)</div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">Hayden is just warming up *

Rossi ran a great race!!</div>
How would you know

[BA BUSA]

Jerez has a .6 of a kilometer straight vs. a 1 km straight @ Qatar...plus the track surface has less grip...so no Ducati or Honda HP advantage.

[BA BUSA]

At Qatar the speed advantage for the Duc's was 10-25KPH...at Jerez the top speeds were within 5-10KPH

[Charlesbusa]

Even with the smaller straight, the Yamahas were way down in the standings when it comes to Top Speed on the straights.
They were just that much faster in the corners and on the brakes.