and the Texas Tornado grabbed the pole and finished second on the same bike tire combo as Rossi

MotoGP World Championship leader Casey Stoner topped the timesheets on the first day of practice for Saturday’s race, his time of 1’37.828 making him the only rider to break the 1’38 marker in the afternoon session.

With track temperatures rising on a pleasant day at Assen, all riders in the MotoGP class showed a consistent improvement over the course of the day. The top four overall was made up of as many different factories, with Randy de Puniet continuing his recent run of good form to finish with the closest time to the storming Stoner; just over two tenths of a second slower on his Kawasaki Ninja ZX-RR800.

I think, 2. place was best to Stoner, what he can get from Assen, cause Rossi drove very, very good race... thinking, from where Rossi started race and he win.... :laugh:

Strong race for Stoner just like the rest of the season. Rossi's grid position reflected how badly his tires suck in the wet. Good race though I will be surprised if he or Yamaha can pull off a championship this year :neener: :neener:

Where shall usa texas tornado drive next year???? :confused: :laugh:

seems like you have to come from Aus these days, but you can't find a nicer guy than Edwards

I am very sorry, but i dont want to "come from Aus these days", like You wrote! I want to spend hole of my rest life in north Europe and i am very proud of that.... :laugh: This is very nice place to live; Our nature is one of cleanest in hole world... and plenty of very clean lakes here! Btw, here can drink direct from lake..hahahahahah.... :laugh: Anyway, one part of my heart belong to Slovakia (sorry, but cant tell more about it...), so I "accept" Stoners very cute wife(who is from Slovakia...) and also then Casey Stoner, who is winning Moto GP this year... Anyway many greetings to Australia, what is JUST in other side of world, than Finland; here is just mid summer and in Australia is "wintertime", so aussies maybe maintain they Pasos just now....? Any Aussie here? SURELY some! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Btw, seems, that Edwards is going out very soon from Moto GP. OR to some "small team", what cant win races....

actually what I meant by that Aus remark is that while Stoner is showing them the way in Moto GP, there are also the Troys...Bayliss and Corser, I could go on to list all the great riders past and present who have come from there but I think you get the point.
Glad you like it where you are sounds like a great place but then again I think I live in the best place of all. :funny:
Guess you wouldn't like Edwards cause he's American. :screwy:

I am an aussie & I reckon I live in the best place in the world!!! I actually live about 20km from Troy Bayliss farm near Taree. Casey Stoner owns a farm about 3 hours away. In addition to Stoner & the 2 troys don't forget Chris Vehumulan & Anthony West, 3 Aussies in the Top 7 @ Laguna!!! broc Parkes & Kevin Curtian, Andrew Pitt Etc, we are pretty well represented in the top classes of world racing. We are not really into racing the small stuff here though so it is why we are not strong in the smaller classes unless like stoner you relocated to Europe at an early age.
Interestingly though a few years back Colin Edwards did try & get dual US/Aus citizenship as he has strong family connections with Australia but from memory he did not get it. Maybe if he did he would have won a GP race by now, I wish he would, he is a great racer.

Finnpaso, thanks for the greetings, sure it is Winter here but in almost all of the country we ride all year round so maintainance is something you have to fit in during the week late at night in teh shed so you can ride every weekend. It gets cold but is not very often that you could not ride, I was out on the weekend & apart from a thicker shirt under my leathers it was riding as normal. That is why I live in the best place in the world!!
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