[HR][/HR]If you came up from WSBK or whatever, you get the ride in motogp. Its great, more gltz and glamour than you'd imagine. You have the bike. T hings change. The team are underfunded. The team are not experienced enough. The bike is seriosuly underpowered. You've zero support from anyone. It goes on and on. Riders push so hard they get injured. Is it just down to the fact that unless you are of course talented, and more importantly (?) on a factory bike, what will you be doing on the motogpee grid...filling the gaps in, making up numbers ? Is it worhth the risk, really. Im sure some riders are chasing the big bucks which is fine but wouldnt WSBK pay enough and its a more fair race format than gpee ?
Some great riders 'failed' in MotoGP but were and are awesome in WSBK. Bayliss, Max Biaggi, Marco Melandri for example. Works the other way too. Ben Spies is the latest in a long line of people who were great in everything but MotoGP, you can put Toseland in there too. Can MotoGP kill your career? Nah, but a shity manager certainly will
I'd hrdly say Biaggi was a failure at GO level, and Melandri did ok on smaller capacity stuff...not everyone can win a GP title, hardly makes them a failure
Its a bit like going after the woman of your dreams. Putting in all the effort and finding out she is a crap shag ;-)
:tongue: No. I was referring to 500/MotoGP, not the 125, or 250 championships. I could put Pedrosa (upto the end of 2012) in there and to a lesser extend riders like Bautista, Elias and Aoyama. Great on the smaller stuff, just not good enough on the big stuff. I will say that Biaggi would have been the best in the world were it not for Vale, but he knew he couldnt beat him, so went to a championship where he could and indeed did win. That is the mark of a very clever racer. If only Cappy had realised that when he left Ducati. Saying that, Ive liked Cappy since I starting watching racing :biggrin:
motogp doesn't kill their career because most then go on/back to WSBK. it's subsequently being sh!te in WSBK that'd kill their career.
Im not trying to say they are failures, which is why I put it into inverted commas. Christ, anybody who sits on one of those grids is 1000 times the rider most of us could ever be, especially me. The record books dont lie and that is what history will regard. Rossi 9 times world champ, Stoner 2 times world champ, Cappy 3 times world champ. Was Cappy a better rider than Stoner, certainly not on the big bikes, which is what I thought the OP was about.....my head hurts now :frown: :tongue:
biaggi was awesome in wsbk almost won on the gsxr straight away and excellent on the rsv4 biaggi always had amazing corner entry speed. personally vale into wsbk would be a massive draw
bugger it stick all of them on a moto 2 bike and see who's the quickest i think out of all of the current series it is the most fair. until something like that happens people will argue till their blue in the face as to who are the better riders and who flopped because of gash move into a different series.
