Speaking of Ducati, now that Rossi has broken the number of allowable engines rule will he be starting 10 seconds behind everyone else from the pit lane or is that a 1 off? Goes to show how desperate they're getting to prove that Stoner wasn't trying last year like certain people reckoned
Race time this year 42'16.530, last year 42'17.427; Casey's race time was just less than a second faster than same race last year,
Rossi's race time was 42'56.362 (+39.832) slower than Casey this year and 38.935 seconds slower than Casey's race time last year.
Allow 10 seconds for the pit start, allow 10 seconds for changes in track surface, allow 10 seconds for dealing with traffic and Rossi is still more than 10 seconds off Casey's last year pace despite the beck and call of the Ducati Factory, with new chassis, buckets of development etc.,etc.
The world is going to come to the conclusion Casey must have known what he was talking about last year and he must have ridden the wheels off the thing to get the results he did
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