Stoner seizes Brickyard pole with new lap record

I dont think anyone can deny Casey this one today. Blistering performance.

http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2011/moto ... dianapolis

The on track section isn't broken mate.

Times should get better as the new track picks up more rubber.

I would say that tyre wear will play heavy on this GP track as ALL riders had something to say about the new surface being agressive on tyres and aslo that it was slippery.

Spies is starting to show some good results.

Not bad for a guy whos stated its his most unfavourite track of the season!!!

Stoner is the most amazing talent. What he is doing with that bike makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck.
How can he be 3/4 of a second faster than everyone else?
I must confess to feeling a bit disappointed in a way: if Rossi was on a bike that worked for him and the Yam was a bit better we would stand a chance of having the 4 or 5 best talents in the world battling it out wheel to wheel like in the Schwantz/Rainey/Doohan era which would be something to tell the grandkids.

BTW: its pretty clear that Rossi needs a bike that suits him and his riding style in order to go fast isn't it? Stoner molds himself to whatever the bike needs while the Doctor changes his bike to suit what he needs. This doesn't make one better than the other it is just different and fascinating to watch. Having said that i do hope the 2012 Ducati is a bike that Rossi can ride.

Both Nicky H and Stoner had asked for a "softer" bike on numerous occasions.
Stoner was very vocal over the biggest symptom of the problem, a lack of front end feel.

Of course, this was labeled as whinging by internet fanboys, and when asked about it in a interview last year Rossi said "I think it is in Casey's head" with his trademark smile.

Suffice to say the smiling stopped when he had to ride the Ducati.

As Ash points out Ducati had decided which way the project would go, and all the time Stoner could pull out the odd race win they obviously didn't see fit to make dramatic changes.

This year Rossi won't stick his neck out like Casey, and they can't be seen to have the one of the best riders in the world to be going nowhere on their bike, especially as Philip Morris have raped their petty cash box to have Rossi in there.

You'd have thought Marco Melandri's woes on the Ducati would have set alarm bells ringing, but instead they sent him to a shrink!

Another dominant race win for the wizard of Oz.

I liike his consistancy, he didn't sound super happy post race!

Yep, fantastic ride by Stoner, Pedbot and especially Spies, but what a fookin boring race!!!

After the 1st 5 turns it just more and more boring!

Ducati must be crying into thier empty petty ca$h tins by now!!!

That really was a boring race. Great ride by Stoner and Spies made an incredible come back. WTH happened with Rossi? Went backwards, then looked like he was coming in and then stormed back up the field Very odd.

I have been blessed with crossing the bricks at the start finish line and I did three laps. It appears to me rhat it is tyme to let the bike move under you at a far greater amount than was needed just last year. They may have loosened the bike up or let the frames flex a bit more than last year. To be sure you could really notice it on Mr. Edwards bike. I see great things coming from Casey in the years to come.
What a great rider and I found the race very exciting to watch. Just watching a racer at his craft is a great pleasure for me. They had Harley XR1200 races televised and our buddy Mr. Fillmore from the KTM AMA Superbike series and he managed to crash that bike also. Enter Jake Zemke.
Sadly, I have given up on Cal Crutchlow. He got punted during qualifying by non other than Casey's new punch toy DePuniet. He is not up to Colin's fine coaching techniques. Ben Spies showed that it takes more than circling a World Superbike track well to get the extra lessons to take effect from number 5. Good to see fiftyeight slide down the same mountain sixtynine did I need SBK back soon too.