Rossi, like I said, mid pack fodder.

All over for him, got slaughtered today (again), by the real championship hopefuls.

Contrarywise; it's blatently obvious that HRC have an edge on everyone else, then the 2 next quickest are Yam+Jorge and Duke+Vale in that order. At worst it makes Vale the slowest front runner, and looking at where the other Dukes are wrt the other Yams and Honda satellites it's blatently obvious to anyone who's not you that the Duke is the slowest bike of the 3.

Strange that, when Stoner was winning on the Ducati there was constant complaints that that was the fastest bike.

It might just be Rossi you know?

I have clear memories of that being in a different year, so all the motorbikes were different.

Strange that, when Stoner was winning on the Ducati there was constant complaints that that was the fastest bike.

To be fair, if Stoner could "hang on" it was very quick (pity everyone else couldn't hang onto it.

Stoner is a great rider (a little moany, but extremely quick). The Ducati was quick (maybe not the fastest around the whole track), Casey knew how to tame it.

I think when some Ducati testing and have some upgrades it should be interesting up front.

Btw thats some gearbox Honda have.