posted Jul 5, 2009

I just have a feeling that Tiger Toni will take someone off in the first couple of laps and he usually takes out Rossi but hopefully my feeling will be wrong as I want good racing. Rossi hasn't been going that well on race rubber compared to Stoner and Lorenzo although with their injuries and illnesses it could either be a leveller or a Rossi triumph, hopefully it's a leveller though and good racing will occur.

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posted Jul 5, 2009

Article well written, although you got the starting 3 positions wrong - Vale starts second, before Stoner. Any chance of editing your article?

The race should be an interesting one. How badly are the injuries going to help Rossi? Are they at all? I reckon the two crashees will fight Rossi, with Lorenzo coming close second. I also expect Hayden to do something special. Good luck to them all.

Another factor to consider is the hard tire compound, as seen in quali, if the tires are too cold, people crash. We may see a lot of that today. I expect the more experienced drivers will take it easy for the first few laps.

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posted Jul 5, 2009

For those wondering why I have deleted several comments. It is because they were spam relating to an off topic argument re BBC scheduling. All the other comments are debating the subject well and are most welcome whether or not they agree with my views. I think Dani will do well this race and be the only one to challenge Rossi. If Jorge dislocated his shoulder then I doubt he will be able to maintain the pace to stay with the front runners.

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posted Jul 5, 2009

I'm hoping that both JL and CS can at least start. We need someone to race Vale, perhaps Dovi can up his game

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posted Jul 5, 2009

I Tip Dovi for a podium finish. Hopefully i'm right.

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posted Jul 5, 2009

Have those injuries been confirmed yet?
There was some talk about the bridgestone rear tyre..

Maybe this is a daft question but shouldn't both riders have been managing their tyres?
It's a risky sport but those were 2 scary high siders, off the throttle too

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posted Jul 5, 2009

I think that Stoner got slowed up by other riders and effected the right hand side of the tyre.

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posted Jul 5, 2009

Jorge didn't look too happy coming out of the ambulance. I think the slight injury and that strange illness for Casey makes Rossi the favourite, but hopefully it will be a good contest. It will certainly have to go some to match last year's race.

Rossi was not happy with his qualifying, and will make some changes for the race. I think Vale will make it 101 tonight. I wonder if he's got any dalmatian themed celebrations planned.

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posted Jul 5, 2009

"Jorge didn't look too happy coming out of the ambulance".

Thats got to be one of the daftest comments ever. Does anyone ever look happy after a high speed high side and being carted off in an ambulance. Maybe he should have been doing cartwheels???

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posted Jul 5, 2009

You're right. It was daft. Of course Jorge never looks happy.

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