Shinya Nakano 3rd on the grid in spain 022 Go Kawasaki go.... 711

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It's a shame he did not turn it into a top three result.... 111

Patience, Kawasaki's just getting going.
The Hayden boys get their Kawis moving pretty fast in the AMA...

I sure hope so.... 711

Just come across this Kawasaki moto GP 2006 423

Turkish MotoGP results:
1. Marco Melandri (Ita) Honda 41min 54.065secs
2. Casey Stoner (Aus) Honda 41:54.265
3. Nicky Hayden (US) Honda 41:59.523
4. Valentino Rossi (Ita) Yamaha 42:00.274
5. Toni Elias (Spa) Honda 42:00.652
6. Loris Capirossi (Ita) Ducati 42:10.747
7. Chris Vermeulen (Aus) Suzuki 42:10.842
8. Shinya Nakano (Jap) Kawasaki 42:15.602
9. Colin Edwards (US) Yamaha 42:16.912
10. Makoto Tamada (Jpn) Honda 42:24.548

Nikano on the front grid again In France!!!!
Looks like things are picking up for Kawasaki... It would be nice to see a kwak rider on the podium. :423

Ye good pole setting, they just don't seem to last the distance yet..... :unsure:

Results from MotoGP qualifying:

1. Dani Pedrosa (Spain) Honda 1:33.990
2. Shinya Nakano (Japan) Kawasaki 1:34.201
3. John Hopkins (U.S.) Suzuki 1:34.636
4. Randy de Puniet (France) Kawasaki 1:34.780
5. Marco Melandri (Italy) Honda 1:34.795
6. Loris Capirossi (Italy) Ducati 1:34.802
7. Valentino Rossi (Italy) Yamaha 1:34.840
8. Sete Gibernau (Spain) Ducati 1:34.870
9. Colin Edwards (U.S.) Yamaha 1:34.970
10. Nicky Hayden (U.S.) Honda 1:34.988

Yo kawasaki :441 Go for it.....

Randy de Puniet punted off on one of the first corners by Rossi, and Shinya Nakano
taking a ride thru, looks like a bad race for the team
:256

Shinya Nakano ends up in 12th, looks like Rossi a bit of poetic justice as his M1 yammie had a problem and didn't finish the race.
Could have been worse.

what happened to rossi's bike?

O well better luck next time.... :423

I cant believe the lick that Kawasaki are having..Le Mans was a disaster...!!
But at least they are improving....

Gaaawaaaan those Kwakas..

Yes I agree, I know they are not the biggest bike company and I don't mean to be cynical but they seem to eat tyres in wsb and don't seem to keep the pace in moto GP..... but I'm all for them....

It was looking good but then came the first corner.... :gzs kicked the dog and went to the pub :532 :hzs

Moto GP Cataunya
Grid positions for the Kawasakis...
Shinya Nakano 5th.
Randy de Puniet is going to start someway back even though he had put in some good times with about 15min. to go.

Rossi on pole again. and he broke the track record to that.
Hopper got 2nd.
Kenny Roberts got 3rd, which amazing. Still it's good to see as they the KR3 team is based in Banbury, Oxfordshire where near I live.

1. Valentino Rossi (Italy) Yamaha 1:41.855
2. John Hopkins (U.S.) Suzuki 1:41.984
3. Kenny Roberts Jr. (U.S.) KR211V 1:42.055
4. Chris Vermeulen (Australia) Suzuki 1:42.211
5. Shinya Nakano (Japan) Kawasaki 1:42.216 :pjy
6. Loris Capirossi (Italy) Ducati 1:42.247
7. Nicky Hayden (U.S.) Honda 1:42.305
8. Casey Stoner (Australia) Honda 1:42.344
9. Marco Melandri (Italy) Honda 1:42.492
10. Randy de Puniet (France) Kawasaki 1:42.620 :pjy

Was it raining by any chance :444

First corner, six riders go down, including de Puniet who got a face of Ducati.
Sete's bike clashed with his team mate and hit caused Setes front brake grab and set his Duke flying like it had just been set off by trabuchet. The race was red flagged
At least Shinya was in second at the time so he wasn't involved
De Puniet was be able to restart The re start went badly, Shinyas bike overheated and he went to change machines, as he did it, was supposed to restart at the back of the grid, but he took his origional place in 5th, so he got a ride through. He missed the 3 lap warning and got black flagged, and just to make things worse, de Puniet, crashed.
:gzs

Shinya Nakano second on the grid for Assen, pipped at the last second by hopkins, edwards is third
Rossi props up the rest of the grid in 18th! and only 18 bikes
Capirossi isn't lookin good after last weeks crash, he's still in a lot of pain and it showed in the qualifiers, Rossi's nursing an injured wrist and ankle after crashing thursday, Alex hoffmann replaces the slightly broken sete

woodz.. news at 0.51am.. good night :P

:022 2nd

Dutch GP result:
1 Nicky Hayden (US) Honda 42 minutes, 27.404 seconds
2 Shinya Nakano (Jpn) :022 Kawasaki :022 42:32.288 :022
3 Dani Pedrosa (Sp) Honda 42:34.929
4 Casey Stoner (Aus) Honda 42:34.959
5 Kenny Roberts Jr (US) KR211V 42:35.482
6 John Hopkins (US) Suzuki 42:44.469
7 Marco Melandri (It) Honda 42:45.494
8 Valentino Rossi (It) Yamaha 42:51.355
9 Carlos Checa (Sp) Yamaha 42:56.431
10 Chris Vermeulen (Aus) Suzuki 42:59.031
11 Makoto Tamada (Jpn) Honda 43:00.245
12 Alex Hofmann (Ger) Ducati 43:01.547
13 Colin Edwards (US) Yamaha 43:07.816
14 Randy de Puniet (Fr) Kawasaki 43:31.052
15 Loris Capirossi (It) Ducati 43:44.707

Yeah the Dutch TT (Tourist Trophy) was cool, Shinya san had luck on his side today, he was 3rd for most of the race untill the second but last corner on the last lap when Edwards fell off.
Nice to see that Bridgestones held up for the whole race too.
:qzq

MotoGP German qualifying

1 Dani Pedrosa (Spa) Honda 1min 21.815secs
2 Kenny Roberts (USA) Honda 1:21.907
3 Nicky Hayden (USA) Honda 1:22.083
4 Shinya Nakano (Jpn) Kawasaki 1:22.273 :dex
5 Loris Capirossi (Ita) Ducati 1:22.329
6 Marco Melandri (Ita) Honda 1:22.420
7 Sete Gibernau (Spa) Ducati 1:22.469
8 Casey Stoner (Aus) Honda 1:22.577
9 John Hopkins (USA) Suzuki 1:22.701
10 Makoto Tamada (Jpn) Honda 1:22.866

Czech MotoGP result:

1. Loris Capirossi (Italy) Ducati 43:40.145
2. Valentino Rossi (Italy) Yamaha 43:45.047
3. Dani Pedrosa (Spain) Honda 43:48.157
4. Kenny Roberts Jr. (US) KR211V 43:54.945
5. Marco Melandri (Italy) Honda 43:55.170
6. Casey Stoner (Australia) Honda 43:55.844
7. John Hopkins (US) Suzuki 43:56.920
8. Shinya Nakano (Japan) Kawasaki 43:57.087 :423
9. Nicky Hayden (US) Honda 43:57.206
10. Colin Edwards (US) Yamaha 43:59.580

Whatched qualifying yesterday on the Tv and Nakano was going really well was on top spot for most of the time but ended up 0n the front row anyways. Front row is Hayden - nakano then Rossi.
Chris vermulen said in interveiw that hte Suz spins up so much that the qualifying tyres only lasted 3 corners!!!! Bugger. So they had to qualify on race rubber.

qualifying times for Valencia MotoGP:

1 V Rossi (It) Yamaha 1:31.002
2 T Bayliss (Aus) Ducati 1:31.210
3 L Capirossi (It) Ducati 1:31.307
:pjy 4 S Nakano (Jpn) Kawasaki 1:31.341 :pjy
5 N Hayden (US) Honda 1:31.378
6 D Pedrosa (Spn) Honda 1:31.385
7 C Stoner (Aus) Honda 1:31.470
8 C Vermeulen (Aus) Suzuki 1:31.606
9 J Hopkins (US) Suzuki 1:31.663
10 C Edwards (US) Yamaha 1:31.711

Rossi on pole....

Valencia MotoGP results:
1. Troy Bayliss (Aus) Ducati 46:55.415
2. Loris Capirossi (Ita) Ducati 46:56.734
3. Nicky Hayden (US) Honda 47:04.645
4. Dani Pedrosa (Spa) Honda 47:07.480
5. Marco Melandri (Ita) Honda 47:11.721
6. Toni Elias (Spa) Honda 47:12.805
7. Shinya Nakano (Jpn) Kawasaki 47:14.744 :tthu
8. Kenny Roberts Jr (US) KR211V 47:18.589
9. Colin Edwards (US) Yamaha 47:21.487
10. Carlos Checa (Spa) Yamaha 47:23.609
11. John Hopkins (US) Suzuki 47:24.779
12. Makoto Tamada (Jpn) Honda 47:25.122
13. Valentino Rossi (Ita) Yamaha 47:33.961
14. James Ellison (GB) Yamaha 48:15.428
15. Garry McCoy (Aus) Ilmor X3 +7 Laps



Final MotoGP standings:
1. Nicky Hayden (US) Honda 252pts
2. Valentino Rossi (Ita) Yamaha 247
3. Loris Capirossi (Ita) Ducati 229
4. Marco Melandri (Ita) Honda 228
5. Dani Pedrosa (Spa) Honda 215
6. Kenny Roberts Jr (US) KR211V 134
7. Colin Edwards (US) Yamaha 124
8. Casey Stoner (Aus) Honda 119
9. Toni Elias (ESP) Honda 116
10. John Hopkins (US) Suzuki 116


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Any idea who will be taking over from Nakano next year? ...any idea how the '07 Kawasaki ZX-RR 800cc GP bike will look like?

I know its over but I just got here and want to say hooray for NIKKI finally an american MotoGP champ again. we should all email the doctor and thank him.