But also we have to start a new weekend here, and we’d love to do the same thing. But there will be no effects on me on the bike this weekend. Mugello is a very flowing track, just like Assen. Do you think the Yamaha will perform well that, and you’ll have a good shot at finishing really well?SPIES: Yeah, definitely. And we’re still enjoying it. Then I thought: “I can’t make mistakes.

Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Is it something you can work around? It should be good. Champion Men's Closed Bottom Light Weight Jersey Sweatpant. A Yamaha factory rider in only his second season in MotoGP in 2011, Ben Spies’ swift adaptation to the World Championship served a very clear notice of the Texan’s talent. But now every track affects every manufacturer differently. The team has got really good confidence and morale, and I guess we’ve got one more day to enjoy it. It’s the first MotoGP win for me, but we’ve led races before. And were you one of the riders who agreed to take on the softer tires if they were made available at Assen?SPIES: I was for the softer tire, which would have been fun. But we haven’t been doing a lot of work, even with the 800, just with different chassis setups and trying different things that will move over to the 1000. Previous page of related Sponsored Products. ; Pre-curved sleeves for proper riding position. Ben Spies was rookie of the year in 2010!!!! For those 45 minutes on Sunday, I’m pushing the absolute most I can out of me and the bike. There’s many things. There’s such a fine line in so many departments that add up to what the bike does coming off the corner. So it’s more of a comfortable feeling. We nailed it that day and had the pace right off the bat, and that made the race a lot easier.Q: Professional athletes are confident. It’s nice to know. But at least I know in my head that when the bike is right and I’m riding well, I can win a MotoGP race and I can race with the fastest guys out there. Please try your search again later. It came together at Assen. I would have raced on the same tire that I raced on in the race, in any case. So it’s good for the confidence, for sure.Q: Ben, you took a pretty good whack at Silverstone. It was a great race.

Ben Spies Yamaha YZR-M1 MOTO GP 2011 Bike 3 answered questions Price: $117.40 + $15.82 shipping Quality model motorcycle in 1:12 Scale Manufactured by Minichamps A great gift to display in your home or office. But I would say I’m definitely 90 percent full fitness, for sure.Q: Now that you’ve taken your first win at Assen. Were you able to somehow work around that, keeping that in mind, knowing how the Bridgestone behaves? We have a lot of good tracks that they’re going to work, and some tracks some bikes will work better than other on certain days. All rights reserved. Is this something you guys are going to try to work on in the future?SPIES: It’s always a combination. So I’m confident that we have a bike that can fight for the top again. I race for Yamaha to help them sell motorcycles, and they give me motorcycles that we can win. On factory machinery in 2011 his potential will be given even more of a chance to flourish, and a first MotoGP victory seems to be only a matter of time away.

Features include a fully detailed engine, working suspension, accurate brake discs, correct graphics, beautiful finish, and much more. But if I can help that and be of any assistance basically to build the MotoGP reputation in the U.S., that’s the goal. It’s the same. I’ve just got to stay in the same rhythm I’ve been in the whole race and continue to churn out the laps, and that’s what we did. And that’s just how racing is, with and sport.Q: You’ve got that first win under your belt at Assen, and it’s huge. We do need to work on the heating up of them in the first couple laps. The win marked another milestone in a meteoric racing career, one that began nearly two decades earlier.

It’s a complete package that we are working on, and we’ve made it better. It has actually more faster corners, which suits the bike better. Or if I do, when is it going to happen?” Now that it’s happened, it takes a whole lot of relief off your shoulders. It’s not just one thing. But is there an extra sense of knowing that you have now because you have won now?SPIES: Always. But it’s the same for everybody.

We’ve got to take the positives from Assen, and like I said, the confidence. Is this due to electronics that are preventing you from getting all the power that you need? Was it a situation because you were so far in front that, you hear sometimes guy say they hear every squeak, they hear every rattle, any sort of change in the engine. But like I said, today we’re still enjoying it, and it’s still sinking in.