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6-10-02
More
on our wretched ex-PM
Paul Sheehan has exposed
more of Malcolm Fraser's staggering
hypocrisy.
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Two wheeled heaven
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One-time
mid-field waste of space and notorious choker Alex Barros achieved
a
stunning victory over the virtually unbeatable Valentino Rossi
in the MotoGP race in Japan today. Even more remarkable, it was Barros'
first race on the Honda V-5. Great stuff. |
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Barros
celebrates
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Rossi
dukes it out with Barros
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race was of great interest for another reason: the return
of Kawasaki to the GP fold. Sadly, it ended early with Yanagawa
crashing his ZX-RR early in the race. The new bike is still way down
on horsepower and (inexplicably) is not running a slipper-clutch,
causing excessive engine braking and wild handling into corners. These
boys are in for a rough time methinks, and unfortunately, Yanagawa
is simply not a GP-grade racer. |
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Yanagawa
bins it
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And last, the
great news came thru today that newly crowned World Superbike champ
Colin Edwards will be riding in GPs next year, in a Castrol Honda
squad headed by legendary tuning genius Erv
Kanemoto. Thought to be defecting to the Ducati superbike squad
(with whom he signed a letter on intent for 2003) after Honda bascially
ignored him in favour of american superkid Nicky Hayden, Edwards
was given an 11th hour opportunity by Honda to chase his GP dream.
Now we can watch him to battle with Bayliss all over again.
Edwards still
has one potential bugbear to deal with: the as yet uncompetitive
Bridgestone tyres.
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Edwards
on his Honda SP2 superbike
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Blah
Jeez. I haven't been
able to find anything to really rant about recently. I'm rant-blocked
dammit. Help me out, oh mighty readers!!! Or at least give me some hate
mail to react to: tex {at} whackingday {dot}
com
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Victory
We
beat the wretched foreigners in the Rugby Grand Final tonight. Bwahahaha.
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OzBlogs
I've finally added
Brain Graze and Amax
to the links list.
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