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Old 07-18-2006, 2:17 PM
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Who's your pick??
Who do you think has the best chance on Sunday to win at Laguna?? AMA, GP. Like Spies and Nicky.
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GP

Rossi
Edwards
Hayden


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hayden???
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Re: Who's your pick??
Zemke does seem to have the honda setup alot better. I would love to see him win.
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Re: Who's your pick??
GP:

Hayden
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Re: Who's your pick??
Rossi will win laguna.
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Old 07-18-2006, 2:58 PM
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Re: Who's your pick??
Rossie does not like Laguna which is going to be a mental block for him I would say Hayden or Edwards has the best chance in GP. In the AMA I would vote Miladin or Spies.
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Re: Who's your pick??
Check out the caption on this pic....then look at the pic..

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Old 07-18-2006, 3:06 PM
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Rossie does not like Laguna which is going to be a mental block for him I would say Hayden or Edwards has the best chance in GP. In the AMA I would vote Miladin or Spies.
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“Even though I didn’t know the track last year I was able to follow Nicky for many laps and then Colin too, so I learnt a lot from both of them,” explains Rossi. “By the end of the race I was getting stronger and I actually set my best time on the last lap so I hope that this year we can be strong from the start and this time beat the Americans!" Rossi Looks Forward To MotoGP At Laguna Seca Now That He’s More Familiar With The Track News Article // RoadracingWorld.com
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Re: Who's your pick??
yea, considering he is in 3rd at the time. With the way he has been riding and the fact he loves Laguna, he is my pick.
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According to my sources (BDA), Edwards will win in GP.
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Old 07-18-2006, 3:23 PM
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Mladin
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Re: Who's your pick??
With the other factories now running what Suzuki has the last two years, I wouldn't be surprised to see Bostrom, Zemke and DuHamel taking the fight to Spies and Mladin.
In fact, this may be the best opportunity to have Mladin finish off the podium.
I'd go with Zemke, Bostrom then Spies - that being the order I'd like to see it, but I'm going with that being the podium in some order or another.

Junior is starting to get that bike set up really well. Hayden did some watching and learning last week and if he would have been a touch more aggressive could have run it up the inside of Rossi when Melandri went on the outside that last lap. He'll be ready to win another one this weekend, but Rossi, Melandri, Roberts and Pedrosa will be strong as well. Edwards will talk the talk, then take someone out in turn four trying to walk the walk and over-riding the bike.
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yea, considering he is in 3rd at the time. With the way he has been riding and the fact he loves Laguna, he is my pick.

Umm...I think you missed my gist...

Pedrosas leading in the pic but they caption Hayden leading the way....think it was a bit of a mistake...whoever captioned it seen the repsol in the lead and voila..
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....except for the little fact that he is leading in the points, numbnutz.
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Re: Who's your pick??
What was his margin of victory last year? Wasn't like 8 sec or something like that??
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....except for the little fact that he is leading in the points, numbnutz.

No shyte numbnutz...so why not use a pic where Hayden is actually in the lead, to actually fit that caption, like maybe this one...
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Re: Who's your pick??
Why don;t you ask the grand master Dean Adams himself?
No wait, don't do that. If you question his journalism or anything about him he'll just email you mercilessly and demand your phone number to talk to you in person.
Or so at least that's what I heard.
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Pedrosa's going out in the corkscrew.
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Pedrosa's going out in the corkscrew.
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No Bostrom in the top 3?
Ben has been in good form, and on a Ducati he's very good around Laguna. But the season being what it is. There are three better riders out there.


Oh and Pedrosa losing it in the corkscrew, nobody can top Christan Sarian (sp) flying through the air in that corner. He had some good times up in that section.
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Hayden
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Anyone what Nicky won by last year??
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I am going with a bold Prediction

Hayden
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What I'd like to see...

Hayden
Melandri
Tamada

What I think will happen...

Rossi
Hayden
Podrosa
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What I'd like to see...

Hayden
Melandri
Tamada

What I think will happen...

Rossi
Hayden
Podrosa
Pedrosa will have too much trouble with the corkscrew