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Since rumors that Casey Stoner had already signed a contract with Honda broke a few days after Jerez, the atmosphere in the motorcycle racing media has become positively frantic. The three-week delay between Jerez and Le Mans has certainly not helped, with a string of stories leaking out from Italy and Spain that Honda had signed Stoner, that Ducati had offered Valentino Rossi a contract, that Honda had targeted a "dream team" of Casey Stoner and Jorge Lorenzo for their 2011 line-up. Most of those stories probably bear some relation to reality, but that relationship is extraordinarily tenuous with some of them.

That fevered atmosphere spilled over into the pre-event press conferences and rider debriefs here at Le Mans. Normally, the talk is all of what new parts riders have, and what they expect of the weekend, but apart from the questions put at the official press conference by the host and TV commentator Nick Harris, the only thing that the assembled press wanted to talk about was the future of the Fantastic Four; Casey Stoner, Dani Pedrosa, Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi.

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