Well it's still 6 days away to the final race, but I'm getting excited already!
And just to muddy the waters Bayliss is riding a Ducati in replace of everybody's favourite cry baby Sete.....
From the Crash Net site
http://www.crash.net/home~cid~6.htm
Bayliss confirmed for Valencia.
Two years after riding what he thought was his last race for the Ducati Marlboro MotoGP team at Valencia, 2006 World Superbike champion Troy Bayliss will return next weekend in place of the injured Sete Gibernau.
Bayliss will rejoin former team-mate Loris Capirossi for the last ever 990cc MotoGP race after Gibernau was declared unfit to ride following treatment to the collarbone he broke at June's Catalan GP, then damaged again at the recent Portuguese GP.
Bayliss contested the 2003 and 2004 MotoGP championships with the Ducati Marlboro Team before being sacked and replaced by Carlos Checa. Bayliss moved to Camel Honda for 2005, only for his season - and MotoGP career - to be prematurely ended by a serious wrist injury, but the Australian bounced back in perfect style by returning to WSBK, with Ducati, for 2006 - and clinching his second world title.
In contesting the final 990cc MotoGP event, Bayliss will 'bookend' the public life of Ducati's 990cc Desmosedici because he also gave the V4 its first public outing at the 2002 Valencia GP, riding a few demo laps alongside Ducati test rider Vittoriano Guareschi. Both Bayliss and Capirossi have scored podium finishes on the Desmosedici at Valencia, Capirossi taking third in 2003, Bayliss third the following year - on what had looked like being his final Ducati GP ride.
Wimpy long time no see or hear mate, so if you are in town, please come and join the boys at the Downunder Pub on the cnr of Nimanhamein Soi 11. The giant projection screen there is brilliant for the bike racing (& even the F1 last night was great.)
Davidfl
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