After day 1 it's looking like the Stones are working better than the Lins and the Hondas aren't working very well. Hoppers is doing his usual great practice times but whether he can replicate the performance over race distance we will have to wait and see. It certainly looks like the factory Duc's are on the pace and will be the bikes to beat. Capx was on a very fast lap in session 2 but got stuck behind another much slower bike, he may have got the fastest time had that not happened. At this stage it's looking like a Duc white wash and slowly sealing the championship, but tomorrow is another day. Paul