Thanks Jackie for your healing pack.
I feel better now.
Catty's tactic failed.

Damn you Jackie, what are you, Batman? I feel like The Penguin, foiled at the end!

Back to the drawing board...(again, insert evil laugh and me patting a bald cat.)

Again, the question, what if Valentino had never tried Bridgestone?

He may have been wallowing in 3rd or 4th place. Dani may have taken him out, hell, even KC may have beaten him. Bottom line is, his tyres got it done beautifully. They matched his riding style, they didn't get chewed. Oh, Valentino, you are a genius, aren't you?

He adapted very well to the bridgestones in a little time


I think their performance will improve even more during the season,...well hopefully

I was one of the few who thought Vale took the wrong decision....especially after being with Michelins for so long...how could he do that...and s@#$ like that.... glad Vale proved me wrong....

Mmmm, well, it does still stand that we can only really know at the end of the season, or at least, towards the end of it... but it's a great shot of confidence that he's been able to put away a win on them now.

I still maintain that if Vale had not tried Bridgestones their rival Michelin would still be trailing well behind ...and the racing would be Bridgestone dominated like last year.

That one man has changed so much.

That may be the best definition for "genius".

This must be the first race where I did not hear anyone say "Valentino must really be wondering if he made the right decision..."

I heard someone saying that Vale didn't dominated on these track. When he was with Michellines he would get away with runawy victory.

That's stupid, even with Michelline he had a hard time batles with Max and Sete. All i cared about is that he can ride like he wants to on those tyres. And to see some best lap times, and couple of records. And he made it.
That proves that Bridgestones has tyre that can not only just endure the race in the same pace, but also make a competitive times, and best times.
Thats important really cuz in Jerez and Estoril we didn't see competitive times from any Bridgestone rider.

Now i think he made the right choice. First track which suits Bridgestone and already he is on top. He kept the same pace thru whole race. Now Le Man is next and it will be wet race, which means that suits better to Bridgestones.

And then Mugello, I don't think that anyone belives Vale could posibly lose that race

Assen is good for both of tyres. So we can already see that the choice Vale made was crucial.