Honda aware of Yamaha and Ducati

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Honda appear very dominant throughout pre-season MotoGP tests 2011. Both the test twice at Sepang, Malaysia, until the last test at Losail, Qatar, this week, a team from Japan is unbreakable. However, Honda's vice president Shuhei Nakamoto, also considering its rivals, especially the Yamaha and Ducati.

"Two factory Yamaha rider is very strong," said Nakamoto. "They won a very nice and seemed very consistent. Jorge (Lorenzo) can maintain the lowest the same time throughout the test, both here (at Losail) and in Sepang, as well as with (Ben) Spies, who is stronger than last year - so, I think they will be very competitive.

"At Sepang, Ducati could not make a good time but here they can approach us. I think, they are also competitive. For Suzuki, with only one rider, I think it is difficult, although I think they've done a very good job so far."


Nakamoto rate, this year there will be a tight battle between four riders, that is Casey Stoner, Dani Pedrosa, Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi, who has become a rival since the last three seasons. Nevertheless, there is the possibility of another rider-rider who had the potential to make a surprise, such as Andrea Dovizioso, Marco Simoncelli and Spies.

"I think Dovi, Simoncelli and Spies was very fast now, so maybe they can win," said Nakamoto. "It's not easy when the top four levels are very high, but it seems there are quite a lot of opportunities before the other rider to win."

Different opinion come from Monster Tech 3 Yamaha's racer Colin Edwards which consider Casey Stoner as the strongest."I have a couple of times behind Casey in the (test) this winter and it is best to say no comment." He drove well and the bike certainly worked well so we have to work hard to beat him. He is more mature than last season and I could not see any driver who can stop him, "said Edwards.

Continuing racers from the United States that, since I was in Stoner's Ducati bike has shown that he is a fast racer. These capabilities can now be more leverage after he got the appropriate motor for the Honda is more easily controlled than the Ducati.

"It would be difficult for anyone to beat him, simple as that. He is very fast if we knew for a long time in terms of speed he was the fastest. Ducati certainly not easy to drive. He may think life is easier now and he can stop in the middle of the race for break to smoke if he wants to, "complete

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