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Acanada

A lot of f1 fans are switching off in droves, as the drivers are being told to conserve tyres as early as lap 2. It's not racing and if it comes to moto gp I'll be switching off too. What moto gp needs to learn from f1 is how to make money and attract big sponsors

I think that 2013 will be last year for Rossi in  Ducati if he can not deliver to Rossi finally a balanced and full competitive bike, but again I was deeply convinced that what Valentino is in Moto GP in F1 was Ayrton, Ayrton driving power and skill is not only flowing from the drive, but from Ayrton ability to "deliver" to engineers the such information about the behavior of the car, what they no computer is not given (it is talked about a Honda engineer, he had better "sensor" for the lost tenth of seconds in each corner individually, and he knew to tell them exactly why it is losing time, what in the car must be corrected to Ayrton arrived at yet another pole position, like said a British F1 driver ... "the average driver, the last day of training is able to" find the two or three tenths " , Phenomenal driver was able to "find" half a second , while Ayrton finding the second and more a second, which is for 99% percent of drivers was unreal thing, beside of "best car".he was doing same thing in the Lotus (yes the black one JPS) whou..sorry for off...but that is my point, i really was hope that Rossi is bringing to Ducati his knowledge to recognize the technical aspect of why Ducati is not in the competitive range, and together with the designers and engineers make an bike that he will "sit" as nicely tailored glove hand under his bottom but obviously that is not case(y) whit Rossi.:)

best bike

i think it`s quite funny that everytime casey wins he`s on the best bike......funny though cos nobody else won a solitary race on the bike when he was with ducati and nobody has since........honda had not won the motogo crown since 2003(hayden getting lucky doesn`t count  with 1 win in a season and winning the crown was the biggest fluke in history) and never looked like doing till stoner threw his leg over it..........

points of view

acanada......i`ve said this over and over if the ducati in 2007 was the best package and had such an advantage why is it that the nearest ducati was 7th in the championship??? when a bike is the best package u normally see lots of 1/2 finishes as with the yamaha and honda(although until stoner stepped on the honda it wasn`t winning much...3/4 races max a year).....ducati has never had one and nobody has come close on the duke.......by the way about having the most points....nicky won in 2006 with 1 win in the whole season (his usual laguna seca)which has never happened before or since,it was a fluke of momumental proportions,winning a title to me means winning races and beating the other guy on the track,no winning by the other guys bike breaking down.rossi retired from 3 races which basically cost him an easy title win

Mark my words

If the Engine change at Laguna Seca does not show significant improvements then Rossi will leave Ducati but he won't be on a Honda.

My guess is that he will be on ben's old factory Yamaha.

Yamaha will sign Rossi. They will also get the sponsorship they so dearly need.

They will tell Jorge and Vale, get on with the job, build a wall as high as you like but come 1st and 2nd in the 2013 championship, winning the constructors championship in the process.