De Puniet To Remain At LCR Honda For 2009

Submitted by Kropotkin on Sun, 2008-09-14 23:10.

Indianapolis turned out to be the place to make contract announcements, and for Randy de Puniet, things were no different. After Kawasaki confirmed that they had signed Marco Melandri, LCR Honda also announced that they have extended their contract with HRC and Randy de Puniet for another year. The Frenchman will be riding for the team again in 2009, after showing that he can be incredibly fast on his day.

That doesn't solve the problem of his tendency to crash, however. De Puniet is the most crash-happy of the MotoGP field by a significant margin, and this record is holding him back from much better results. If de Puniet can learn to stay on, then it will both save LCR Honda a lot of money, and show just what he is capable of. De Puniet is currently 16th in the title race, but with 6 DNFs, he should have been well within the top 10.

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You might want to check out the next pre-show on Dutch RTL 7

Submitted by synnae on Mon, 2008-09-15 18:01.

I normally don't bother with RTL 7 but as they had the Indy preshow while Eurosport was still showing boxing yesterday it actually got interesting.

In each rider interview, all riders are asked to ask one question to the next interviewee. This week it was Jorge Lorenzo who had to ask a question to Randy, and it was no surprise:

Randy, you are very very fast so why do you keep on crashing?

Nice to know it doesn't just puzzle us regular viewers!

Anyway, RdP will have to answer that pre-Motegi so if I remember I will put the answer up on probably a whole bunch of sites/boards coz honestly... 6 DNFs, 5 of which by his own doing. The 6th wasn't his mistake, that was the Doctor's