JMU R1

Well the World Superbike season opener at Qatar is only 17 days and I figured we needed to give SBK racing some love with its own thread.

Right now I'd have to say it looks like the only Honda teams that will be starting the season with the 08 1000RR's will be Ten Kate, American Honda, and HM Plant Honda. To be honest it looks like all of them will be a little behind when they start the year because they got their bikes so late. Ten Kate is going to have its hands full with Bayliss, Biaggi, and Xaus on the Ducatis and American Honda is going to have to try to catch Spies and Mladin. I think HM Plant Honda might not do too badly against Airwaves Ducati's 1098's but we'll see. I think Airwaves might have a slightly better rider lineup (Shakey Byrne and Leon Camier).

Anyway, at least the 08 1000RR looks mo' better in race trim.

***WSBK Honda Teams***



Ten Kate Honda
Kenan Sofuoglu
Carlos Checa
Ryuichi Kiyonari

Stobart Honda
Gregorio Lavilla

Alto Evolution Honda
Luca Morelli
Shuhei Aoyama

Althea Honda
Roberto Rolfo

DFXtreme Honda
Karl Muggeridge
Russell Holland

***AMASBK Honda Teams***

American Honda
Neil Hodgson
Miguel Duhamel

Corona Honda
Matt Lynn

***British Superbike Honda Teams***

HM Plant Honda
Leon Haslam
Cal Crutchlow

Hydrex Honda
Karl Harris
James Ellison


Modified by JMU R1 at 3:02 PM 3/4/2008

LSintegra

it will be def. fun for the new ama season, the yosh suzukies won every race last year, kinda boring to see that imo. i hope yamaha can step up too. what happened to zemke, did he find a ride?

JMU R1

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by LSintegra &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">it will be def. fun for the new ama season, the yosh suzukies won every race last year, kinda boring to see that imo. i hope yamaha can step up too. what happened to zemke, did he find a ride?</TD></TR></TABLE>
Yeah Zemke is back on Erion Honda riding FX and Supersport.

Check out the Fontana test lap times. Not looking good for anyone not wearing the number 1 Superbike plate...

http://roadracingworld.com/new...31231

LSintegra

good for him i guess, it would have been cool to see him on the new 08 rr's in the superbike class. last year he was trailing duhamel, after he got injured, zake ended up getting third in the championships.

JMU R1

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by LSintegra &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">good for him i guess, it would have been cool to see him on the new 08 rr's in the superbike class. last year he was trailing duhamel, after he got injured, zake ended up getting third in the championships.</TD></TR></TABLE>
That's why he lost his ride IMO. Every year he has been on the team Duhamel has beaten him and he was beating him this year until he got hurt. If it hadn't be Hodgson replacing him it probably would've been Josh Hayes.

What I don't understand though is why Jake didn't go to Corona Honda or even Jordan Suzuki. I think he would've been a good score for either of those teams.

LSintegra

for jordan suzuki, yates and holden seems promising imo...i kinda wanted zake to replace bostrom in the graves yamaha team. bostrom was alright a few years ago, but didnt seem solid at all last year...kept losing his positions and choked a lot

marmaladedad

Definitely interested to see Kiyonari and Chucka in WSBK. Sofaglue kicked some tail in WSS, but that was probably more due to the machine than rider.

sup gurl

Speaking of SBK, it will be interesting to see how Spies does in MotoGP.

88_DX

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by sup gurl &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Speaking of SBK, it will be interesting to see how Spies does in MotoGP.</TD></TR></TABLE>Is their any official word when/if he is going to moto GP?

sup gurl

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 88_DX &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Is their any official word when/if he is going to moto GP?</TD></TR></TABLE>

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Two-time AMA Superbike Champion Ben Spies says he will race a factory Suzuki GSV-R800 in the two American rounds of the 2008 MotoGP World Championship.

“We pretty much know we’re gonna be doing Indy and Laguna,” Spies told Roadracingworld.com February 6, referring to the MotoGP rounds at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in September and at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in July. “It looks like we get to test it [GSV-R800] once for sure before then and hopefully twice. It should all be good, but definitely both American rounds, from what I understand. But it’s obviously not in the contract, so it’s not 100%. But that’s what they say, and I’ll be ready to do it.”

Spies, whose current contract with American Suzuki expires at the end of 2008, said he has not yet made any deals for 2009.</TD></TR></TABLE>

88_DX

Thanks

LSintegra

do know if roger hayden will be in a few moto gp races this coming season?

ScareyH22A

That RR is sick! Ben Spies in MotoGP ftw! He's gonna do what Troy Bayliss did in Valencia in 2006. Walk-in as a sub.. walk out with a win.

Seriously, I think it's possible. I know MotoGP is hot **** but it's been done before. And rookies straight out of 250 are fighting for 1st.

Spies walks on AMA guys and I know he'd be more than competitive in MotoGP.

marmaladedad

I dunno. Didn't Mladin get his *** handed to him when he went to the GPs? MM and Spies seem to be closely matched, too.

ScareyH22A

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by marmaladedad &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I dunno. Didn't Mladin get his *** handed to him when he went to the GPs? MM and Spies seem to be closely matched, too.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Sophomore year of high school Michael Jordan was cut from the varsity basketball team.

unusual71

expletiveing Honda......Wish I could play with every toy they make!!!

marmaladedad

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ScareyH22A &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Sophomore year of high school Michael Jordan was cut from the varsity basketball team. </TD></TR></TABLE>
I can't wait to see Spies Motorsport win AMA Superstock.

.paul

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by marmaladedad &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I dunno. Didn't Mladin get his *** handed to him when he went to the GPs? MM and Spies seem to be closely matched, too.</TD></TR></TABLE>

mladin also got bitched in GP becuase of the **** he had to go through, travling by car, no money, no nothing, even KRJR had it better. mladin got shafted, not his fault IMO

marmaladedad

Ah. Did not know that.

rainmanEK

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by LSintegra &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">do know if roger hayden will be in a few moto gp races this coming season?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Prolly a good chance he may start in the American rounds!

I would like to see him make the switch to Motogp though!

Is anyone else excited to see Makota Tamada in WSBK on a Kawasaki?? I sure am!

Eric

JMU R1

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by rainmanEK &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">
Is anyone else excited to see Makota Tamada in WSBK on a Kawasaki?? I sure am!

Eric
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I'd love to see Tamada do well but I don't know if he'll be able to deliver. He just hasn't shown his 2004 form at all since he switched to Michelins. I hope he does start doing well again though but the PSG-1 Kawasaki team hasn't done much of late.

I'm really interested in seeing how well Kiyo does though.

Starscream

WSBK promo vid:

http://www.millermotorsportspa....html

ScareyH22A

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Race 1 (and Race 2 avail. at http://www.racing-underground.com)
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Bayliss

Race 2
downloading right now.

Brian*

The races are on Speed this evening, no spoilers! Though I already read the results, haha

ScareyH22A

watching rd 2 right now...