Casey Stoner back in action this weekend

[mx250]

What odds will you give me for PI?

I think he'll be the wild card in the outcome for the WC, I think he'll take points of Rossi and Lazano.

[JohnnyO]

What's Lazano..is that italian food?

[Mick22]

Lazano is an Italian Porn Star

[mx250]

He's baaaaack



I haven't got full understanding but apparently he broke a foot peg (or the mounting bracket). I don't know how extensive it was or how he surmounted the problem, but to ride a bike at this level with anything less than prefect is exceptional. To run a credible second is, well, incredible . Allowing for the foot peg I think Casey's claim that he could have run with Lorzeno is believable. Bring on P.I.

That should stick it up those whinging Poms .

[Lozza]

I doubt his detractors can see much past their keyboards History shows Stoner/Ducati/PI a strong combination..............to say the least. Where Lorenzo finishes in relation to Rossi will add some spice to the championship

[VMX247]

Its on the box right now ...Go Casey
Believe the guys from WA who are attending are having a hoot   

[mainline]

and he does it with style, although the little shimmy half a lap from the end had me cringing (he probably didn't even notice it )

[VMX247]

little shimmy---we all stopped breathing 
and those bloody seagulls too 
What a pearlier love the White Aussie   

[ba-02-xr]

Was there anyone else racing besides Stoner & Rossy. I think everyone alse was out there to have the best view of the race. 22 secs to third is Bulls**t at this level.

[Lozza]

Pity about Lorenzo and even more so Nicky Hayden who doesn'y seem to be able to take a trick.
Pedrosa was still sore and sorry after his get off, no doubt there is a lot of daylight between the Fab 4  and the rest of the pack.
Although according to UK based keyboard experts 'Rossi let Stoner win'

[ba-02-xr]

Although according to UK based keyboard experts 'Rossi let Stoner win'

What bull. Vale would of seen it as a chance to get as many points between him & Lorenzo.

[firko]

I don't normally watch the GPs any more, don't know why, I just seem to have lost interest. I sat with some mates to watch Philip Island on Sunday and really tried to get into it but found to be as boring as batshit. And it wasn't just me, we all found ourselves chatting away, not taking much notice of the action at all.

The death of the 500cc 2 strokers marked the beginning of the end of my interest .......Nothing against Stoner, Vale, Pederosa and a couple more, they're good riders, but the rest of the pack are pretty bloody ordinary. Wouldn't it be great if we could replicate those great GP battles from the 80's and 90's where any of five or six riders were capable of winning at any time. 

[ba-02-xr]

To me a race is a race. I will watch any motor racing. Even been involved in chainsaw racing. That race wasnt the most excing though.

[VMX247]

We are happy to get any racing show on the TV...
Might not have been to exciting at your place, but they sure where at the front of the podium...
Took me back to Wayne Gardner days when the whole straight was packed...
Good times and Good racing 
cheers

[firko]

Maybe it's me....I used to travel to the GPs at PI and the odd overseas race, especially Laguna Seca, went to F1 races as late as last years Singapore F1GP, rarely missed Bathurst, loved the Indycar GP but this year I'm finding find it all such a yawn.
Parity has turned the V8s into slot cars, traction control and drive by wire has taken the spark out of the F1/MotoGP circuses and when a third division racer like Mark Webber can win a GP it says a lot about the talent available in that driver gene pool. When these events became "products" as opposed to a "sport" and the snake oil salesmen (Ecelstone, Cochrane et al) started running things it all turned pear shape. Now I hear that that ridiculous A1GP circus has now gone bellyup owing millions a week or two away from it's debut at the Gold Coast. After watching the first A1GP at Eastern Ck a couple of years ago I predicted it'd last two years before the Sultan of Brunei pulled the financial plug. It was, in a word....crap.

I get more enjoyment at the drags these days. Simple, no bullshit motorsport at it's most basic and raw.