The '08 MotoGP Rider Lineup

[saltysurprise]

Marlboro Ducati
27/1 Casey Stoner
33 Marco Melandri

Pramac d'Antin Ducati
50 Sylvain Guintoli
24 Toni Elias

Fiat Yamaha
46 Valentino Rossi
48 Jorge Lorenzo

Tech 3 Yamaha
5 Colin Edwards
52 James Toseland

Repsol Honda
26 Dani Pedrosa
69 Nicky Hayden

Gresini Honda
3 (?) Alex de'Angelis
56 Shinya Nakano

LCR Honda
14 Randy de Puniet

JIR / Team Scot Honda
34 Andrea Dovizioso

Rizla Suzuki
65 Loris Capirossi
71/7(?) Chris Vermeulen

Kawasaki Racing
21 John Hopkins
13 Anthony West

Team KR..
Well, no one seems to know for sure:wonder: At this point, I don't think they've even decided on a powerplant yet. There was talk of Ducati motors for team KR.

Toseland with Edwards, and particularly Lorenzo with Vale. In my mind, are very nice team pairings. Now if only the Yamaha could be a little more competitive in 08.

[Harakimi]

I believe The Doctor is going to bounce back and DOMINATE 08 season! :thumbsup:

[JoelManiac]

I hope stoner wins back to back

[EIR Loe.307]

I hope stoner wins back to back

I second that. I just don't like Yamaha. Nothing against Rossi. I'm a Suzuki / Ducati guy.

[saltysurprise]

I hope stoner wins back to back

I second that. I just don't like Yamaha. Nothing against Rossi. I'm a Suzuki / Ducati guy.

That's not an impossibility. And would be VERY impressive. Stoner just happened to 'get' how to ride that Ducati, and I don't mean to sully Casey's incredible riding skills. Loris had virturally the exact same bike. But because of his style (and it's really true, it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks;)) he IMO wasn't able to adapt to the incredible amount of TC used to harness this bike.

If we removed Traction Control out of the Ducati situation, we would have seen very different results this year.

The lap times in Sepang in testing have Dani Pedrosa at the very top, and he's been very competitive in the past couple of years. Personally, as much as I'd love to see Vale take '08, unless Yamaha can help him out a bit, tyre issue aside (because he's won on inferior equipment before), I fear we'll see another Ducati blowout:wonder:.

[EIR Loe.307]

Man what I wouldn't do to see an 8min MotoGP 2008 vid.......:p

[saltysurprise]

Man what I wouldn't do to see an 8min MotoGP 2008 vid.......:p

Well now that you mention it! I found this little doozy on the tube:D The guy who did it, did a great job:thumbsup:

It's a little recap of last season, with some footage of the previous seasons doings from the guys now entering GP. It's a nice fix considering we have a little less than 40 days to go until NIGHT TIME in Qatar:D

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[Ryan]

I'm considering buying online coverage from MotoGP.com as I will miss many of this seasons races because I won't have SPEED, and when do I have SPEED I find thier coverage very unreliable.