The dynamics in the Yamaha team when MM made his attempt at apologising were mildly interesting and revealing, in that it wasn’t Lyn Jarvis or one of the other team management who intercepted MM. But rather they all appeared to just stand and watch whilst Rossi’s chum Uccio had his little rant. If I was Yamaha management I might have wanted to tell Uccio to shut the feck up and then listen to what MM actually wanted to say.
So if mm wins multiple gp titles on one make of bike he does not achieve legendary status in the bike racing world?
Why? Do you not enjoy a guy on a hrc contract not licking hrc arse? Or would you prefer a media corporate trained puppet saying the bike and everything is brilliant? Cal creeps round nobody personally I really like his honesty and love watching him ride a bike, he has a dry humour, he is also very young I'm 51 and still mess about, say things to get a reaction etc, but I'm also a reasonably nice person but if you don't know me you won't know...I'm sure cal is a nice bloke he certainly seems to be popular in the paddock and that is quite telling as a shithouse is usually outed in that.
Leave it out who cares what he sat on he flipping won over the course of a season i know you are jesting
I love Rossi but I equally love Marquez he’s really livened it up , I remember watching Moto 2 and I didn’t know anything about it and Marquez came from last place to win it and I thought nobody does that and this guys going to be big and it happened , he’s hungry it’s not a gentleman’s club it’s racing , I appreciated what Marquez did , he’s not innit to make friends or make up the number he’s in it to win Rossi was exactly the same
There is a strong misconception by connecting excitement to aggression and simply unsafe riding. Most of the fans haven't raced and get all excited by banging fairings - look at zarco, marques as 2 prime examples. For spectators, they see this as excitement, but for the racers on track, their lives are at stake. Coming from someone who has raced before, I do not want to race against people who don't give a damn about anyone's safety and believe banging fairings or hitting people is the norm. I remember being taken out on the outlap of qualifying when preparing for a lap by a young bsb hotshot who thought he was quicker than anyone else and that everyone else should get out of his way. A few years later, he died in racing. Marques has inspired a new generation of riders who believe they have a divine right to push anyone out of their way without regard for their fellow riders safety. In comparison Simoncelli was an angel. This is happening because race direction didn't take the appropriate action to ban this type of behaviour and commentators turned a blind eye and labelled this as exciting racing. If this is exciting, then why is the catalunya race between rossi and Lorenzo one of the best finishes - without hitting each other. As sad as it is, only will something be done when the next gp rider dies through this type of unsafe riding.
David Emmett of Motomatters.com As usual takes time to absorb and consider his views, well worth a read from my favourite MotoGP journalist https://motomatters.com/analysis/2018/04/12/2018_argentina_motogp_race_round_up_part.html And chiz, I believe he has merchandise, but this chaps is fireproof
Nothing wrong with a bit of honesty; I just think that he comes across as a prat most of the time when he is interviewed
He can sound one, I do think its tongue in cheek and dry a lot more than people think, I'm sure he's a good one, I liked the foreign twang he put on his interviews like steve mclaren when manager at fc twente in holland, now he sounded a proper prat ha.
It’s why Doohan can’t be in the club: one bike pony. There is more to be great than having talent to go fast: you need other stuff too
To do that, Zarco would have to win the MotoGP championship 6 times. He's 27 and hasn't won a race yet.
Looking at this, it has occurred to me that McLaren may have been doing this deliberately. That's because not only his accent is assumed, but so also is his entire way of speaking, the cadences which remind you of a foreign manager struggling with English. If this is the case, he has just risen about 1'000 points in my estimation. If it isn't, OK, he's a twat. While we are on the subject of language, it has also hit me how execrable Rossi's English is. I know he's a bike racer, but he's an intelligent bloke and has been speaking English for decades now on a daily basis. His grammar is non-existent. He can't even add an "s" to the third person singular. He is a caricature of an Italian speaking English. I wonder why no one ever tells him (they can't be doing so, or he'd have improved). Indeed, listen to "Mr 5 Languages" Arsène Wenger speak English and it is also appalling for a guy who has been living in London and communicating in English for decades. Ditto all other foreign managers unless they are German - Klopp and Wagner. It's just bone idleness.
I didn't like Senna. At all. I didn't like his interpretation of sportsmanship. I never wanted a Senna replica 916, and even less so when it appeared in grey with red wheels. Ugh! Quite appropriate, really.
VR's hatred of MM goes way beyond Márquez's dangerous riding. Rossi has always had a major problem with anyone who could beat him consistently, and although he has got used to not winning, he still has a huge problem with anyone who might end up being a bigger media draw than he is. No one is, but he intends to keep it that way. He is a megalomaniac in that respect. MM is a threat to his hegemony. He is perhaps even more talented (hard to say, it's easy to forget just how effortless Rossi made many of his victories look) and he may end up with even more titles. So Rossi is out dissing him at every opportunity. It is absurd, and demeans Rossi, to suggest that Márquez deliberately tries to get riders to crash. But it is also apparent that he has scant regard for anyone impeding his progress who may be on the line he'd like to take. I have a lot of time for Rossi, but his charm is only skin-deep when it comes to succeeding in his sport. Then he is utterly ruthless. I suspect he is in fact a lot more calculating that Márquez who, I think, lives more "in the moment". There is something vaguely sickening about Marc that I find hard to put my finger on, but I suspect he's a really nice person. I'm not quite so sure about Rossi. He gives the impression that you could be bezzie mates with him so long as it is understood that he is No. 1 in the relationship, but if you seek equality, you're doomed. Look what happened to Gibernau, who was clearly a bright bloke. It all makes for great sport.
You obviously don't know much about Mick Doohan then if you can't consider him to be part of 'the club'. He only ever rode in 500's in GP's and absolutley ground down the field. He came up through Australian Superbikes, not through the percieved route of the smaller classes learning the circuits and trade. He didn't arrive in GP's until he was almost 24 years old. If he hadn't broken his leg in Assen in '92 whilst leading the championship, he'd probably have won 7 top class titles. He's the best I've ever seen, prior to Marquez. The fact he only rode a Honda doesn't even come into it for me. He rode the 500cc bike, with no aids and wicked power delivery (the Honda was worse than most). Check his record from '92 where he was running away with the championship. He was so far ahead of the rest, he finished 2nd in the championship despite racing for 1/2 a season, as he was effecively crippled for the final 2 races. Through his rehabilitation and change to the thumb rear brake in '93 then onto his championships in '94 - '98 (just look at '97). He retired after 2 races of '99 after his accident in Spain. A legend of the sport.
