Melandri Doubts Persist...

Marco Melandri's prospects of actually racing in 09 on the Kawasaki, sorry Hayate, remain clouded in uncertainty.

After making it clear to the media before the Qatar test that he hadn't in fact agreed to race the bike, and would make that decision based on the Qatar testing performance, his public judgement was a rather uncommitted "too soon to judge".

So what does this mean?

Well given all the circumstances it was totally predictable that the testing would show that there is a lot to do to be competitive. So no bombshells on the result.

Surely what it all really means is one or all of:

1. Melandri is in protracted negotiations with Dorna over money. He must realise he can hold them to ransom after Carmelo so publicly over played his hand on the deal.

2. Melandri really doesn't fancy racing the bike under the circumstances and making up the numbers, but worries that it could well be his last chance. There are not many recent examples of riders coming back into MotoGP after a year out.

3. The grid girls aren't hot enough.

I'd love to ask him.

What do you think?