Everyone but ducati is using ama-spec oxygenated jet fuel; ducati is >> giving away 7-8hp using race gas. They say Shell is working on the >> fuel for ducati, so I hope it comes around pretty soon, or Neil will >> be hanging it out for 2nd or 3rd.

Shell is working on it? Makes one wonder what Eric was using last year,> > huh?>

T3 wrote:>>

That Soup article seems a bit lame to me - the 999 lacks off-corner>>grunt? Whe he was racing with Spies on Saturday and Yates on Sunday,>>Hodgson sure didn't look like he had power problems compared to the>>Suzukis, either off the corners or on top (such as that is at Barber).>>What got those guys by and away seemed to be better handling, turning>>much better.>>

When they say "The machines manned by Carl Fogarty and Troy Corser in>>the late 1990s had a ferocity exiting the corner that these factory>>Ducatis do not" they are really talking about a relative measure ->>relative to 750-4 SBs, that is. Under those rules the 750s might not>>have given up much peak horsepower to the current 1000-4s, but big cubes>>spread out over four cylinders means a lot of low end and a broad>>powerband. What these people are missing is the ol' pasta-eater's>>adva­ntage...>