Taken the $$$ No real surprise he wouldn't have any better offer on the table, either customer Honda and we know how good they are or possible Suzuki ride on a completely untested (and probably uncompetitive) ride
I've seriously gone off him. The man is just a bloody great whinger and when he looked like getting the boot he's starting kissing arse.
Cmon lads, he'll be alright if the bikes sorted Let's be fair, it was only last season Mr crutchlow was troubling the top 4 on full fat factory bikes in qualifying, that's without a super soft (qually tyre) Ok he's moaned a lot, but we still have a brit at the helm, it's a Damn site more than our other options. Poor Scott Redding deserves a decent ride but as he's no Spanish he aint gonna get the mm treatment I'm glad cals still in there
Yes but the problem with cal is he doesn't have the ability to keep his mouth shut. Even when vale realised he had made a mistake he wasn't as vocal as cal is now . From a 9 x world champion to a 1 x wss champ.
Hes had a baptism of fire wide the Ducati team but he's tough enough to take it . Who cares if he moans a bit hes by far the best brit for years . All he needs is a bike that is as good as the Honda and the weight issue sorted so that all the riders and bikes are a similar weight and he'll win it . Maybe .
Yeah Rossi couldn`t ride it either . suppose hes finished as well . Stoner couldn`t get a win on it after he had developed it for a couple of years turning from a winner to a pile of shite but once he got off it, onto a bike he hadn`t developed, he was back to his winning ways .
Fooking hell I thought I was the only drunken ranter at this time of night Let's get a couple of things straight though gents, first off Casey Stoner is a legend....end of! He's the only bloke people aren't sure whether MM would beat and for good reason, I'm just gutted he pissed off when he was still hardcore enough to power slider round Lukey heights and hammer the field in to submission before qualifying even started, he only needed free practice and he'd already beaten the field. Casey stoner was , and still is, widely regarded as one of THE BEST motorcycle riders ever to have graced the track. Hate him as much as you want but he's the only dude capable of pushing Marquez to the limit. As for Cal you're right to an extent, he has moaned like fook and perhaps too much. But put yourself in his shoes. He was and still is (Barr redding) the best hope us Brits have had at podiums and even race wins for a loooong time. He deserved a factory backed ride but got squeezed out by yet another Spanish target of yamahas, so he took the ducati....... He's gone from mixing it up with the Aliens to scrapping about in CRT land. It's bound to piss you off. Look at redding for an example of how hard it is to get a decent ride. Redding was winning moto2 and realistically only missed out on being champion due to injury, so he comes up to Motogp and what do they give him? A funking fireblade......with bells n whistles. They changed the rules for MM just so he could get a full fat repsol but if your face & passport dont fit you get what you're given. Anyway, I digress. Cal might have moaned but if you put him on a bike even 90% of Vales or Lorenzos then you'll get a result...... It stands to reason if ducati give him something half decent then he'll be there or there abouts. Me personally I'm just happy he's factory, if he was Spanish or Italian he'd of been factory ages ago. We've got to back our own gents, whether you like it or not
Ducati are paying him millions of pounds a year to ride it . They dont want him to ride around safely they want him to push it . If its ridden beyond its capabilities then its going to go down . Ducati also had the opportunity to to go else where and sign a different rider but guess what they didnt . At least someone must be happy enough for him to carry on falling off whilst trying to push it harder than it is capable of . After all Stoner walked away half way through the season when he was falling , or not , if he didnt push it .
Just for clarity... Fact is Cal needs to trap it and start knuckling down. He's being significantly out-qualified and out-raced by his teammate(s), and if that goes on much longer he won't have a factory ride to moan about.
