Sepang GP - Results

[Cruser]

1. Loris Capirossi ITA Ducati Marlboro Team 43min 27.523 secs
2. Valentino Rossi ITA Gauloises Yamaha Team 43min 29.522 secs
3. Carlos Checa ITA Ducati Marlboro Team 43min 29.592 secs
4. Nicky Hayden USA Repsol Honda Team 43min 36.75 secs
5. Marco Melandri ITA Team Movistar Honda 43min 43.409 secs
6. Max Biaggi ITA Repsol Honda Team 43min 44.349 secs
7. Kenny Roberts USA Team Suzuki MotoGP 43min 44.772 secs
8. Alex Barros BRA Camel Honda 43min 45.744 secs
9. John Hopkins USA Team Suzuki MotoGP 43min 47.648 secs
10. Colin Edwards USA Gauloises Yamaha Team 43min 49.798 secs
11. Toni Elias SPA Fortuna Yamaha Team 43min 57.379 secs
12. Makoto Tamada JPN Konica Minolta Honda 44min 19.195 secs
13. Roberto Rolfo ITA D'Antin Ducati Pramac 44min 32.888 secs
14. Shane Byrne GBR Camel Honda 44min 46.629 secs
15. Ruben Xaus SPA Fortuna Yamaha Team 44min 46.879 secs
16. Franco Battaini ITA Blata WCM 45min 23.405 secs

DNF:
James Ellison GBR Blata WCM 36min 38.849 secs
Olivier Jacque FRA Kawasaki Racing Team 8min 47.858 secs
Shinya Nakano JPN Kawasaki Racing Team 2min 9.64 secs
Sete Gibernau SPA Team Movistar Honda 2min 10.1 secs

Well done to Valentino :beer: Not a good result for Edwards though, the 1/2 for Yamaha is slipping away from his grasp... :bang:

So what do we reckon about Shakey's ride then? Completely new bike, with limited constructive tracktime over the weekend due to the weather and on a track he's not raced on before, did he do well - or could've done better??

14th place means a couple of points, he didn't crash all weekend and progressed each and every session. Difficult one to call, but I think he did ok, not great or bad but ok. Wonder how he and the team feel about it? Also wonder how he'll do in the next race.... R#?

 

[Lebowski]

Shakey?

I think he was (and still is) in a difficult situation. He wants a ride for next year, so he needs to show he can do well on the bike, but equally he musn't go for it too much and end up binning it.

I suppose it's down to what his team manager asked of him. Personally, I would have loved to have seen him go for it, by finishing 14th, what has he proved?

I appreciate it was a Bridgestone track (or at least they seem to have the best tyres at the moment) and I doubt Camel Honda get the same tyres as the Repsol or Gauloise teams, but I think he needed to do better than, or at least close to what Bayliss would've done. Otherwise, he's no better than what they've got.

Hopefully he will go for it at the next round, he's proved he can get it to the end, now he needs to show he's worth a contract.

As for Gibernau, how can the guy ask for top money from Ducati, when he simply hasn't performed this year?