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  Ryder Notes: Seventh Heaven
  Sunday, June 01, 2008

  I said last night that the Italian fans would be happy if Rossi won again. He did and they were. Ninety-six thousand Italians had already sung their national anthem twice before Rossi appeared on the rostrum to accept the adulation of a track full of his delirious fans thanks to wins from Corsi and Simoncelli. It was an exhibition of total control over his strongest championship rivals, Pedrosa and Stoner, and takes his run of wins at the fabulous Tuscan track to seven; he has never been beaten here on a MotoGP bike.

  There was encouragement too for Casey Stoner and Ducati after a couple of unhappy races, he was able to recover from a mistake and repass Pedrosa for second. Dani's Honda looked a little bit unstable—it looked like he had the wide front rim which would trade off a bit of stability in a straight line for the ability to get into Mugello's plethora of ess-bends, especially the downhill ones, with increased certainty. Of the four men who have dominated proceedings so far this year, only Jorge Lorenzo missed out: he lost the front on lap seven. Jorge had a simple explanation: pilot error. There were three other crashers. De Puniet's took Melandri with him—when your luck's out, it's really out, and Hopkins.

  John's exit was caused by the quickshifter refusing to allow him to change down approaching turn one. This is on the quickest section of track we go to all year. Hopper was lucky to walk away from a big crash and made it very clear that he was not amused to be eliminated from consecutive GPs by mechanical failure. Just to add to Kawasaki's gloom, Anthony West was the final finisher, beaten by 41-year old Honda test rider Tady Okada who got the pneumatic-valve engined Honda to the flag safely and collected a couple of points as well. There is a distinct feeling of desperation surrounding Team Green.

  Nicky Hayden wanted to use the new motor, but Honda wanted to race test it first. This is so far from the normal HRC way of doing things—the only other example anyone can bring to mind is Shinichi Itoh and the alleged fuel- injected 500 back in 1995. He was reckoned to have ridden that for the whole year not just one race, but it was a third factory Honda rider acting as a tester at the races. However, it is difficult to understand why Nicky wasn't allowed to race it. He isn't within a shout of the championship and is clearly demoralised. For once, HRC could give him something he wants.

  On the other side of the garage, Dani Pedrosa clearly doesn't want to change things. A meeting is taking place right now at which the team manager will decide who rides what next weekend, although it is possible that each rider will start the Catalunya weekend with one conventional and one pneumatic engine. It is difficult to understand why Honda won't just give Nicky the new motor and hope it gives him the extra power he so obviously needs and switch off as many electronic controls as possible while they're at it. Today it looked like tyres were the problem, although they aren't mentioned in the official press release. There is also the unspoken assumption that if Pedrosa had wanted the new engine, he would have got it.

  Colin Edwards led team-mate Toseland home in fifth and six to put the Tech 3 squad third in the Team Championship - a remarkable achievement for a satellite outfit. Colin was happier with fifth at Mugello than he was with third at Le Mans where he thought he should have won. Previously, he has had a best of ninth here.

  If you are looking for a ride of the day—Rossi excluded—then it has to be Alex de Angelis, last coming out of the first corner and fourth at the flag.

  Valentino Rossi now leads the championship by twelve points, he's won three in a row and is heading for a run of tracks that he loves and has a great record at. The bookies aren't taking a lot of bets against him.

  ENDS

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