[12er]

314.8km/h = 195mph = Dang!!! Looking into the magic television tube I forsee many a broken limb this season. Hopefully my vision is incorrect

 

[ColinL]

obviously Honda has good reason to feel confident about the coming season. unless they run into unforeseen engineering issues I think they stand a great chance.



were Suzuki and Aprilia present for the test?

 

[Joe_Momma]

Suz and Aprilia times.

Yeah, Suzuki was there. ROberts was in 10th the firs day, but I don't think he tested after that, because his time stayed the same and Gibernau went to like 11 and Ryo to 10th or something which put ROberts in 15th since he may have not ridden anymore. Regis was in 14th the first day but he wasn't even in the top 15 the second. I think he was like 17th or something, 2.5 seconds a lap back from Rossi.

1 Valentino Rossi Honda Racing Corporation 01:44.280

2 Loris Capirossi West Honda Pons 01:44.483

3 Tohru Ukawa Honda Racing Corporation 01:44.611

4 Carlos Checa Marlboro Yamaha Team 01:45.229

5 Alex Barros West Honda Pons 01:45.405

6 Daijiro Katoh Fortuna Honda Gresini 01:45.448

7 Max Biaggi Marlboro Yamaha Team 01:45.681

8 Shinya Nakano Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 01:45.870

9 Norick Abe Repsol-YPF Yamaha d'Antin 01:46.025

10 Akira Ryo Telefonica Movistar Suzuki 01:46.069

11 Sete Gibernau Telefonica Movistar Suzuki 01:46.243

12 Jeremy Mcwilliams Proton Team KR 01:46.319

13 John Hopkins Red Bull Yamaha WCM 01:46.366

14 Nobuatsu Aoki Proton Team KR 01:46.407

15 Kenny Roberts Telefonica Movistar Suzuki 01:46.625

 

[Joe_Momma]

Last Day Lap times

I don't think Roberts rode the 2nd day, was in tenth day one, ahead of Ryo and Gibernau. Regis was like in 17th the second day.

2nd day

1 Valentino Rossi Honda Racing Corporation 01:44.280

2 Loris Capirossi West Honda Pons 01:44.483

3 Tohru Ukawa Honda Racing Corporation 01:44.611

4 Carlos Checa Marlboro Yamaha Team 01:45.229

5 Alex Barros West Honda Pons 01:45.405

6 Daijiro Katoh Fortuna Honda Gresini 01:45.448

7 Max Biaggi Marlboro Yamaha Team 01:45.681

8 Shinya Nakano Gauloises Yamaha Tech 3 01:45.870

9 Norick Abe Repsol-YPF Yamaha d'Antin 01:46.025

10 Akira Ryo Telefonica Movistar Suzuki 01:46.069

11 Sete Gibernau Telefonica Movistar Suzuki 01:46.243

12 Jeremy Mcwilliams Proton Team KR 01:46.319

13 John Hopkins Red Bull Yamaha WCM 01:46.366

14 Nobuatsu Aoki Proton Team KR 01:46.407

15 Kenny Roberts Telefonica Movistar Suzuki 01:46.625

day 2

1. Valentino Rossi, ITA (Honda) 1:44.716

2. Loris Capirossi, ITA (Honda) 1:45.359

3. Carlos Checa, SPA (Yamaha) 1:45.533

4. Alex Barros, BRA (Honda) 1:45.547

5. Tohru Ukawa, JPN (Honda) 1:45.586

6. Max Biaggi, ITA (Yamaha) 1:45.658

7. Shinya Nakano, JPN (Yamaha) 1:46.360

8. Norick Abe, JPN (Yamaha) 1:46.366

9. Daijiro Katoh, JPN (Honda) 1:46.435

10. Kenny Roberts Jr., USA (Suzuki) 1:46.625

11. Olivier Jacque, FR (Yamaha) 1:46.807

12. John Kocinski, USA (Yamaha) 1:46.887

13. Sete Gibernau, SP (Suzuki) 1:46.973

14. John Hopkins, USA (Yamaha) 1:46.989

15. Jeremy McWilliams, GB (Proton) 1:47.040

16. Nobuastsu Aoki, JAP (Proton) 1:47.211

17. Akira Ryo, JAP (Suzuki) 1:47.327

18. Pere Riba, SP (Yamaha) 1:47.628

19. Regis Laconi, SP (Spain), 1:47.675

20. Jurgen van den Goorbergh, NED (Honda), 1:47.749

 

[floundericiousFL]

Looks like one of them will undoubtedly be Capirossi's middle finger when Valentino snaps it off as he drags by to LAP him.

 

[das]

Re: Suz and Aprilia times.

Hey, it's great to see John Hopkins doing so well. Sure, he's a couple seconds back from Rossi, but he's within 1 second or so of the other Yamahas. That's pretty good for a guy who's never raced at anything like this level before.