Stability control...is that something that is already being used secretly and is now being legalized for everybody? Forgive me, but I spent about 5 years covering World SBK in the 90s and that brings out the Spalding in me. (And he was very often right.)

I see many people still saying that Pecco should switch to the GP24. That train left the station when Ducati registered Marc, Pecco and Digia with the 25 and Alex, Franky and Fermin with the 24.

Roberts once said to Wayne Rainey after a win, "If you keep winning races on this pile of crap, Yamaha will never fix it."I think Pecco would like to say that is Marc. And, we now move from on of Marc´s worst tracks to one of his best. But data is making it clear that the GP24 is, well, pretty good.

Living in crazy times without going nuts is a survival skill. Unlike most of my fellow Americans, I have lived in several countries under democracy, monarchy, dictatorship and even rule by Dutchmen. But a Barcelona bartender told me, back in `69."Tener la razón no es pa´tanto."Seems truer in Spanish