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Post by Seanus on May 27, 2012 9:23:04 GMT 10
From Crash. Attachments:
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Post by colinlinz on May 27, 2012 10:21:36 GMT 10
Anything is possible.
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Post by colinlinz on May 27, 2012 10:36:04 GMT 10
So, who is going to get Stoner's bike next year? Stoner has said that he thinks Marc Marquez would be the best option, but then one of those new rules that Stoner doesn't like, says that a rooky into the category can't go to a factory bike, so he is ruled out (a shame, he would have been good). Rossi? I can't see that happening, the same with Lorenzo. Maybe Cal, he is going well? I doubt Dovi would get Honda's nod just yet. Spies hasn't really done much, but he no doubt has a stack of talent and just needs to get a bike and team that can make the most of his talent. So who will get it? There are a few more that Honda might be prepared to look at as development potential.
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Post by smokey on May 27, 2012 17:43:33 GMT 10
Lorenzo to Repsol honda, Rossi back to yamaha.
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Post by snowcone on May 28, 2012 9:47:06 GMT 10
Lorenzo has already stated he will ride out his career at Yamaha and is grateful for the support they have given him. On another note Check this out for a laugh - it's about a year or 2 out of date but still hysterical uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/MotoGP
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Post by smokey on May 28, 2012 20:12:45 GMT 10
Yes before Stoner pulled the pin, also I remember Rossi saying the same thing, things change. He'll be on a Honda next year.
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Post by bigsnoopy on May 28, 2012 21:27:58 GMT 10
Stoner to Ferrari in around three years. Remember where you heard this
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Post by Seanus on May 28, 2012 23:23:41 GMT 10
If he can't handle the politics in MotoGP then he's going to love F1. I reckon he'll take a break for a year, try out V8s, get crushed and then go back to MotoGP. (if they'll take him back)
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Post by trezza on May 29, 2012 10:16:39 GMT 10
He won't make it in F1. Period. I am doubtful he will do any good in the supertaxi's. Those guys are much better drivers than you might think. Ambrose wasn't the very best, and he does very well in the NASCAR. Yes, alot of skills are transferable no doubt, but I don't think it's as easy as just jumping in a car and winning. Yes, the politics in F1 are pretty full-on, and in 2014, Stoner won't like the direction they're going with turbo 4cyl, and KERS-only in the pits. So situation no change there I just can't seeing it happen. Plus, he'd spend less time at home than he does now. I reckon he'll just retire properly, and live on his farm with his insanely perfect wife and 10 kids and his millions of dollars and private river for fishing and thousands of acres for hunting and..... He'll generally just disappear from the public radar, and make money in stocks or owning a company. Sounds like a pretty sweet deal to me
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Post by bigsnoopy on May 29, 2012 13:10:21 GMT 10
Just remember where you heard it
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Post by trezza on May 29, 2012 15:18:36 GMT 10
Bahaha Will do Snoop
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Post by philm on May 29, 2012 22:59:44 GMT 10
;D I reckon with ten kids and a wife HE will be the one to go insane!! Phil
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Post by Seanus on May 30, 2012 8:40:16 GMT 10
;D I reckon with ten kids and a wife HE will be the one to go insane!! Phil Yup will take a job racing bucket class any day! But there is no doubt that MotoGP is taking it's cues from F1. And with 6 different winners from 6 races so far this season. Who can blame them. Better to have a sport that the fans love than no sport at all.
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Post by colinlinz on Jun 1, 2012 10:58:30 GMT 10
At least with F1 they are still real racing cars, and still at the pinnacle of their sports performance. Entertainment is a more modern reality with sport as more and more people try to make the sport a cash cow. What we are starting to see now is that promoters are putting all sorts of rules and conditions in the racing to artificially create tension and interest. Things like mandatory pit stops, limiting full power usage time in races or allowing some competitors to use more fuel than others. While entertainment value must be addressed these days, it does need to be moderated. Wrestling was once a well respected sport, and competitors were highly skilled athletes. These days it is a joke, and the competitors main skills revolve around consuming steroids and yelling at TV camera's. But it does have millions of viewers. They aren't watching because of the wrestling though........
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Post by spitfire on Jun 1, 2012 17:49:54 GMT 10
Wrestling was once a well respected sport, and competitors were highly skilled athletes. These days it is a joke, and the competitors main skills revolve around consuming steroids and yelling at TV camera's. But it does have millions of viewers. They aren't watching because of the wrestling though........ What im shocked, I cant beleive it, are you telling me there fake Seriously though they have to sign an actors guilde when they start so that shows its just a circus & yet those Yanks get right into it. What am I saying they think its real
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Post by paulbassett on Jun 1, 2012 18:09:36 GMT 10
Wrestling was once a well respected sport, and competitors were highly skilled athletes. These days it is a joke, and the competitors main skills revolve around consuming steroids and yelling at TV camera's. But it does have millions of viewers. They aren't watching because of the wrestling though........ What im shocked, I cant beleive it, are you telling me there fake Seriously though they have to sign an actors guilde when they start so that shows its just a circus & yet those Yanks get right into it. What am I saying they think its real THAT must have been a looong time ago because its been a joke ever since I can remember, in the early 70s. killer Carl Cox..... Abdulla the butcher.......M.ario Milano (Da greasy Greek) etc etc
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Post by colinlinz on Jun 1, 2012 22:07:08 GMT 10
What im shocked, I cant beleive it, are you telling me there fake Seriously though they have to sign an actors guilde when they start so that shows its just a circus & yet those Yanks get right into it. What am I saying they think its real THAT must have been a looong time ago because its been a joke ever since I can remember, in the early 70s. killer Carl Cox..... Abdulla the butcher.......M.ario Milano (Da greasy Greek) etc etc Now they were the days! But as silly as they were, most of them had real wrestling backgrounds. I haven't watched it much these days, but I remember one of my sons watching it a while ago, and it just involved a lot of people yelling at the camera and bugger all ring work. At least the old guys put on a show in the ring. It might have been choreographed, but it did take precedence over trash talking. My analogy of wrestling is a bit of a stretch, but with the emphasis we now seem to place on the PR skills of sportspeople, I can see how wrestling got to its current state. We want a show from our riders when they are off track. We don't want to hear their genuine thoughts, we want to hear a sanitised media friendly comment on how everyone is working together, and a bit of trash talk on their opponents riding and development skills. We now see a lot more focus by the promotors and their PR machines in developing rider controversy, and trying to set up one rider against the other within media releases. Apart from his riding, I will really miss Stoners lack of guile and his straight shooting, tell it as he sees it interviews. They are much more interesting than the PR polished responses that we normally have to sit through.
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Post by colinlinz on Jun 2, 2012 10:20:36 GMT 10
AMCN headlines (a couple of years from now)
Rossi states he has found God, after Vatican intervention helps him ride the Ducati.
Pedrosa (The Jockey) – His diet secrets.
Real Estate crash – Lorenzo looses a fortune as Lorenzo Land suffers a hostile takeover by Marc Márquez.
Forma champion Casey Stoner comes clean on the real reasons behind his breakup with Carmelo Ezpeleta.
Rossi tells all – Why my Monster Energy drink hat is different to everyone elses.
Former World Champion, Mick Doohan gives a rare interview. "We used to race bikes, but all that changed when a cost cutting rule change saw Sony enter the sport".
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Post by colinlinz on Jun 3, 2012 10:33:51 GMT 10
Stoner on pole, but the practice sessions have been a bit odd. It is a tough one to call I reckon. I have the flu and feel rooted, but I'll have to try and stay up to watch it tonight.
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Post by smokey on Jun 3, 2012 11:06:46 GMT 10
I'll go out on a limb and say that either George, Casey or Dani will win this one...
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Post by rowanb on Jun 3, 2012 11:13:31 GMT 10
Casey followed by Cal. Hope so got 20 bucks on it.
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Post by colinlinz on Jun 3, 2012 11:55:43 GMT 10
I'll go out on a limb and say that either George, Casey or Dani will win this one... That's a brave prediction Chris What about Rossi, he had a good race last round?
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Post by Seanus on Jun 3, 2012 17:05:34 GMT 10
I'm interested to know. Has your interest in MotoGP been diminished because of Stoner's shock retirement announcement? It certainly has for me and and my friends. We all appreciate his reasons but no longer feel the need to back him. I find myself going for Crutchlow now.
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Post by colinlinz on Jun 3, 2012 18:39:01 GMT 10
I've been watching it for a long time, since before Gardner won his title. The only thing that will stop me watching it is if I have an alternative race series and if the bikes are no longer the challenging beasts that I have come to appreciate all these years. It has been great having Aussie riders at the top, but it is just icing on the cake and not overly important in the scheme of things. There are a few ridders I would like to see win, and I am enjoying Crutchlows success of late.
We do have a few riders that look promising coming through, but it will be tough for them to get a start these days with the amount of money teams expect the riders to bring with them. Many of the riders in the lower two classes don't even get paid. Here is a quote from Ant West, from earlier this year.
"I (ANTHONY WEST) will not race in moto gp this year or any other race because I can not find sponsorship to pay the SPEED MASTER team, Because all teams are asking for money from the riders only the rich can race in motogp / moto2 / moto3, I can not even afford to ride a year for free, As i have YET to be payed from my former team MZ Germany Moto2 team. I had my car mx bike and my house for sale trying to keep the ride and even gave the house as a guarantee if I did not find the money but was not enough. I will most likely not race any more and will retune back to australia to find a normal job. Sorry to my fans."
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Post by paulbassett on Jun 4, 2012 11:34:17 GMT 10
Well, I dunno, was Casey REALLY trying?
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Post by colinlinz on Jun 4, 2012 15:51:13 GMT 10
Stoners post race quote.
“I'm a little disappointed, we gave it everything at the end but we just didn't have the pace, especially in the beginning with the hard tyre. It seemed that only Dani could really make that tyre work today and he made it work better than us. With the performance we had during the weekend we expected to be a little stronger throughout the race, we knew the beginning was going to be tough but we believed that towards the end we would be able to run a higher pace.
“We weren't sure if the softer tyre was going to be a problem for us in the race so we took the safer option today. We thought we had a better bike and better pace, but it didn't come together. Still we came home with some points and we have the test here tomorrow to work on the chatter issues so I'm sure we'll be back fighting at the top again soon.”
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Post by colinlinz on Jun 5, 2012 20:46:02 GMT 10
A comment from Pedrosa on crashnet, as to why Honda are not testing at the next official test session.
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Post by colinlinz on Jun 10, 2012 10:40:57 GMT 10
I've just been reading a couple of stories on Spain's economy. It seems things are rapidly becoming critical. I'm wondering how this will translate to motogp. Spain seems to be a key driving force for motogp. For evidence of this look at how many spanish races there are, how many Spanish sponsors, and how many Spanish riders. After 40 years of austerity the Spanish government changed in 75. They have since then grown into one of Europe's major economies. However with personal dept levels of 115% of income, and a massive collapse of the property markets, things are rapidly becoming very ugly for them. They have just requested, and received a massive $125 billion dollar lifeline from Europe. www.theglobalmail.org/feature/the-pain-in-spain/260/www.abc.net.au/news/2012-06-10/spain-to-receive-126-billion-eurozone-lifeline/4062478
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Post by snowcone on Jun 10, 2012 16:54:29 GMT 10
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Post by colinlinz on Jun 11, 2012 9:43:16 GMT 10
Which story snowcone? I just get the home page.
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