Bob Barnard Track Engineering

Nice to see another Aussie doing well in motorsport last weekend. Well Monday actually as the NASCAR race was rained out and run Monday morning, so by the time I remembered it was over. Marcus Ambrose had a break through win at the Watkins Glen road course, now we need an oval win. Confirms what I always thought, the V8Supercar drivers are as good as any tin top drivers in the world. Just look at how drivers from other series struggle when they come to Bathurst, very few have been successful.

That other winning Aussie Casey Stoner tested next year's MotoGP bike along with most of the others and was still fastest. They all enjoyed the extra grunt from the 1000cc engine. Casey and Lorenzo seem to be waivering about not going to Japan, you can imagine the pressure from their teams, while Rossi now says he probably will not go. Riding for an Italian team lets him make up his own mind presumably. Interesting to know how many Ducatis are sold in Japan though. Just maybe Ducati won't mind one GP where they are runnning around out of contention?

Over at Mercedes Michael says he will definitely be back next year, and Haug says they cannot expect to win for a while. Are the two related? Norbert says it took Red Bull 5 years to get there, but this was a team that won the Championship two years ago, so how does that work?