Moto GP Teams

Like the Calendar, I'll up date this as we get more information....

Team Rider Nationality # Dunlop Yamaha Sylvain Guintoli France 50 Dunlop Yamaha Makato Tomada Japan 10 Fiat Yamaha Valentino Rossi Italy 46 Fiat Yamaha Colin Edwards USA 5 Gresini Honda Marco Melandri Italy 33 Gresini Honda Toni Elias Spain 24 Kawasaki Racing Olivier Jacque France 19 Kawasaki Racing Randy De Puniet France 14 Konica Minolta Shinya Nakano Japan 56 LCR Honda Carlos Checa Spain 7 Marlboro Ducati Loris Capirossi Italy 65 Marlboro Ducati Casey Stoner Australia 27 Pramac d'Antin Ducati Alex Hoffmann Germany 66 Pramac d'Antin Ducati Alex Barros Brazil 4 Repsol Honda Nicky Hayden USA 1 Repsol Honda Dani Pedrosa Spain 26 Rizla Suzuki Hohn Hopkins USA 21 Rizla Suzuki Chris Vermulen Australia 71 Team Roberts Kenny Roberts Jnr USA 10 Ilmor SRT Jeremy McWilliams Ulster Ilmor SRT Andrew Pitt Australia

[Supervox]

Originally Posted by Jelster

Like the Calendar, I'll up date this as we get more information....

• [list:1a4129d52c]Camel Yamaha: Valentino Rossi, Colin Edwards
  Marlboro Ducati: Loris Capirossi, Casey Stoner
  Repsol Honda: Nicky Hayden, Dani Pedrosa
  Rizla Suzuki: John Hopkins, Chris Vermeulen
  Gresini Honda: Marco Melandri, Toni Elias
  Pramac d'Antin Ducati: Alex Barros, Alex Hoffman
  Tech 3 Yamaha: Makoto Tamada, Sylvian Guintoli
  Kawasaki Racing: Randy De Puniet, Olivier Jacque
  LCR Honda: Carlos Checa
  Konica Minolta: Shinya Nakano
  Ilmoor: Looks like McCoy plus one other vacant spot

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The weekly 'rag' reckons that it's gonna be Andrew Pitt & Jeremy McWilliams.

Hmmmm, difficult decision if it is these 3 riders in the frame. Personally if it were my decision I'd definitely have Pitt - an investment for the future - but who to choose between Jezza or McCoy ?

I know that Dorna are very keen on a British rider being in the series. So if they go for Pitt that could efectively rule out McCoy. Jezza's gettin' a bit old for it know, he'l be the only post 40 year old in the championship.

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Me thinks we will all be waiting for young Bradley Smith to continue his excellent progress before we have a Brit featuring in the blue riband class. Only problem is he's so young my eye sight might have gone completely by the time he graduates!

Originally Posted by Supervox

The weekly 'rag' reckons that it's gonna be Andrew Pitt & Jeremy McWilliams.

Hmmmm, difficult decision if it is these 3 riders in the frame. Personally if it were my decision I'd definitely have Pitt - an investment for the future - but who to choose between Jezza or McCoy ?

McWilliams- isn't he 40-something?....

Thought this was going to be updated. Looks like someone is slipping.

Or working.....

Obviously something I MUST do this weekend....

Any chance of an update for 08, now that silly season is in full swing?

So far:

Marlboro Ducati
Casey Stoner
Marco Melandri

Rizla Suzuki
Loris Capirossi
Chris Vermulen

Kawasaki
John Hopkins
Anthony West

Yamaha Tech 3
Colin Edwards
James Toseland

Fiat Yamaha
Valentino Rossi
Jorge Lorenzo

LCR Honda
Randy de Puniet

Pramac d'Antin Ducati
Sylvan Guintoli
Tony Elias

Gresini Honda
Alex de Angelis
Shinya Nakano

Konica Minolta Honda
Possibly Andrea Dovizioso???

Feel free to add/amend!

And as a spare rider for Ducati, you have:

Michael Schumacher shocks - on a MotoGP bike!
Tuesday, 6th November 2007
Former seven-times Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher made a dramatic return to the racetrack at Valencia on Monday - riding a MotoGP bike!
The German legend had previously made a cautious MotoGPdebut on a 990cc Ducati during a secret test at Mugello in October of 2005, but the now retired F1 ace picked a much more public 'press and guest' day for his second appearance - and didn't disappoint.
Just one day after the season-ending Valencian Grand Prix, Schumacher took to the same twisty Spanish circuit on board Casey Stoner's 800cc Desmosedici, which won the 2007 MotoGP World Championship and finished second behind Honda's Dani Pedrosa in the season finale.
And, while 'Schumi' had been a distant 16 seconds a lap off MotoGP pace at Mugello 2005, he put in an incredible performance during his 800cc debut at Valencia - charging around the Spanish track in a best lap time just five seconds behind Pedrosa's race record of 1min 32.748secs!
Schumacher's 1min 37.9secs also put the former Ferraridriver three seconds a lap from the back of the MotoGP field. Michael was 'coached' by former 500GP star Randy Mamola during his extended session, which lasted for most of the afternoon.
Also sampling 2007 MotoGP power at Valencia on Monday was another F1 legend, Gerhard Berger, together with former 500cc world champions Wayne Gardner, Kevin Schwantz and Alex Criville, reigning double AMA Superbike champion Ben Spies, BSBstars Michael Rutter and Tom Sykes, plus Trial riders Toni Bou and Laia Sanz.

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