Max takes lap record at PI

hank · #1 (**permalink**) 01-21-2008, 04:02 PM

Say what you will about the guy's personality, but he can still ride - not a bad showing for a satellite team...

2008 Testing - Biaggi lowers Phillip Island record - Yahoo! Eurosport UK

ddnuts · #2 (**permalink**) 01-21-2008, 05:52 PM

Hooray for Max. Should be an interesting season.

bafflebrain · #3 (**permalink**) 01-21-2008, 06:34 PM

Gooooo Max! Should keep Bayliss on his toes this season.

Camel Jockey · #4 (**permalink**) 01-21-2008, 09:35 PM

For me this is my most anticipated series of '08.. MotoGP will be good too, but WSB is where the fights are going to occur....

TXRC51fatboy · #5 (**permalink**) 01-21-2008, 10:51 PM

i still put money on him finishing higher in the points than baliss

**mrgrn** · #6 (**permalink**) 01-21-2008, 11:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Camel Jockey

For me this is my most anticipated series of '08.. MotoGP will be good too, but WSB is where the fights are going to occur....

be nicewr when I4's get 1100cc's

mtmansl · #7 (**permalink**) 01-21-2008, 11:23 PM

If Bayliss is healthy, he will grind Max into the ground over the course of the season. Max is weak, Bayliss is not! Xaus will also be a major thorn in Max's side! It is shaping up to be a very interesting year!

Matthew

hardway · #8 (**permalink**) 01-21-2008, 11:34 PM

[quote=hank;448535]Say what you will about the guy's personality, but he can still ride - not a bad showing for a satellite team...

You'd think it would have taken him a while to get used to the twin after being on the I4. To be so fast this early is impressive.

duckdawg · #9 (**permalink**) 01-22-2008, 12:47 AM

Max is a wimp, Troy will own him after turn one...

TXRC51fatboy · #10 (**permalink**) 01-22-2008, 12:49 AM

i smell some kind of wager, maybe?

mtmansl · #11 (**permalink**) 01-22-2008, 05:30 AM

I'm down!

Matthew

racer46 · #12 (**permalink**) 01-22-2008, 05:36 AM

That what I'm talkin about!!!! I picked him ahead of bayliss as well. In fact, I picked him to win it all.

bafflebrain · #13 (**permalink**) 01-22-2008, 05:44 AM

Before the start of last WSB season, every journalist predicted that Max would be chewed up and spat out by the other riders and wouldn't last.

He was mere few point from taking the crown..who knew? (okay, I knew).

Gooo Max!

TXRC51fatboy · #14 (**permalink**) 01-22-2008, 07:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mtmansl

I'm down!

Matthew

what should we wager?

mtmansl · #15 (**permalink**) 01-22-2008, 10:28 PM

What were you thinking?

Matthew

hank · #16 (**permalink**) 01-23-2008, 12:18 AM

A video of Max at PI

YouTube Video

Old Baldy · #17 (**permalink**) 01-23-2008, 01:51 AM

not bad for a slow, lumbering v-twin that can't handle.

While I'm not a Max fan, and Bayliss is much tougher mentally, I'm all behind the thundering twins again. Wish Honda, BMW, Aprilia and KTM would join the fray though, with their versions, but it seems that even BMW feel that a 1200 twin can't compete against the 1000cc fours. Damn!.

TrickLidz · #18 (**permalink**) 01-23-2008, 06:47 PM

quote from cycle news;
Lynn was not the team's first choice. German Alex Hofmann had a number of discussions with the team, but opted to sign a two-year contract with Aprilia's World Superbike team. Hofmann, who was let go by the Pramac d'Antin Ducati team late in the 2007 season, will spend 2008 testing the Aprilia in anticipation of a 2009 WSB debut.

RCJAY · #19 (**permalink**) 01-23-2008, 07:06 PM

I am not familiar with Max's new ride this year. Is it a competitive package, it looks like a satellite Duc team.

roadkill · #20 (**permalink**) 01-24-2008, 04:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TrickLidz

quote from cycle news;
Hofmann, who was let go by the Pramac d'Antin Ducati team late in the 2007 season

I don't think that the team let him go, they just "forgot" to fix a bike for him to ride after he "forgot" to ride one in a race. Life is funny like that.