I agree and we should be slow lucky to have that be possible. My wife and I were talking about this very thing at the dinner table tonight. Funny Honda should pay Stoner to test a bike. The way I see it is he would blast out lap after lap of confidence in the engineers creating perfection and hand the keys to lessor jockies only to reveal it was his prowess shining through a pile of titanium crap.
Back to the drawing bored and out with a tester that could make a piece of Ducati look like shit in all thumbed hands.
Its sinister how dextrous that man is.

I don't think his wife will let him do it,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,testing is one thing but handlebar slapping another,,,,,,won't happen until they get a divorce,,,,,,

I don't think he'll come back for some time.

Here's the official press release in to the office this morning

http://newsroom.honda.co.uk/content/det ... 06,718,674

I think he would come back except for the media. He never coped with the spot light particularly well. He is too raw and honest.

But, the testing deal makes me think it may be more likely I thought.

Particularly the last paragraph http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2013/Jul/130722a.htm but read the whole thing.

For heave ins ache. Does every Stoner thread have to end in whine and geeeze?
It seems if there is red white and or blue in your birth nations banner your more likely to be trying to piss on another banner with very similar characteristics. Its just that the fast guys all have stars of some type or arrangement.

I think you all are giving up on Lorenzo too soon. He is injured and once healthy will be giving Marquez all he can handle.