Rossi and Burgess....it's over

The false teeth must be playing havoc with the blow jobs he gives Rossi...............................

 

Now Burgess has got a spare 15 minutes on his hands I wonder if he'll go back to Ducati to fix their bike.

 

That relationship died at the end of the first year at Ducati. Burgess will retire as he doesn't need the grief and has enough money to retire very comfortably to his farm in Australia :smile:

 

Good on him I say. Wasn't his wife badly ill last year?

lets face it, he's had the best run imaginable but as superbike planet points out he's competitive and rossi no longer is, why look to a different talent to nurture at his age when he can just retire.

it can't have been much fun this last couple of years, I bet VR hasn't been a barrel of laughs and JB's too old for this shit

 

Fair play, it's been a long and fruitful run, and nothing lasts forever. Good luck to both of them. Now, if Rossi could tempt Guy Coulon away from Tech 3 I reckon he'd be onto something...

 

Maybe gearing up for them both to retire... They had a good time over the years!...

 

I can see Rossi following suit if Burgess retires. But maybe it'll signal a last hoorah in superbikes...

 

Maybe Jerry Burgess will go and Rossi will spend more time working on his VR46 team, I was watching Italian domestic championship racing and he turned up once to support one of his riders.

 

Most of the same sites that were saying Rossi would retire at the end of 2012 or Burgess would retire when Rossi went to Ducati.
It ain't over till the man says it's over.

Rossi has 1 more year on his contract. I would question why Jerry would retire now with the end in sight and why anyone else of note would replace him for just 1 year. The end of 2014 would seem a logical time for Rossi to go to WSB and Burgess to go home but then WSB, a new challenge would be hard to resist. Especially as i think VR would be very quick, very quickly.

 

So, Rossi is saying he's splitting from JB to find 'something new' ?

I'm not overly convinced Rossi being off the pace is JB's fault really. Perhaps VR is struggling with that horrible fact of life which is we all get old, and when we do we slow down.

I'm not saying its disrespectful to JB as they clearly respect each other greatly, but it does feel a little 'clutching at straws' to me and smacks a bit of denial.

Im afraid even if Yamaha come to the 2014 party with a faster bike then my money would still be on JL to finish ahead of VR 9 times out of 10.

I don't particularly see who could come in to match JB's knowledge unless it's somebody that's not as honest with rossi and will simply stand there saying how great he is!

I get the feeling JB has simply stated some home truths and it's not gone down well.

 

so long as motogp has the no combined weight limit rule he will struggle.

 

there seems to be some sour grapes as apparantly Yam knew for a week and JB was only told 5 min before the press-do..
if this is the case, then that is not nice on my book... not with such a history together...

 

Real real shame I love J B's ethics great guy and I am a little shocked by the lack of respect shown by VR to him. You can't say it was JB,s fault the duke didn't work and blame him for VR,s lack of competitive results when JL is still running at the front. I get the basis of VR weight limiting his results but when he was beating Melandri, Biaggi, even pedrosa etc in his prime they were considerably smaller and lighter

 

Sorry but just read he needs a new motivation, now I have loved Rossi from 125 through the ranks but this is to me a real et tu brute moment ( still he is Italian ) no doubt I will be corrected on my use of Latin

 

well here is rossi in the off-season.


you cant blame burgess for that

 

Not from me you won't, mainly because I have no idea what that means