His win today does evoke this sort of hyperbole, doesn’t it? I pray the Aprilla is quick next year. Jorge is a great talent himself. Of course, Marc is a step ahead.
I wouldn’t call Bagnaia a full on ranch hand, he hasn’t really said anything about MM this season for instance. I don’t know whether he blames MM by association with AM for the incident in question though.
Sure, I take that point, to be focussing on a single incident in which the contest was for 4th is perhaps out of proportion, he had the option of being further up the field and has had several other setbacks which were unrelated to AM, including the incident with MM which took them both out, it was earlier in the season but the points count exactly the same whenever they are scored while the championship is in play.
I think the shoe is often on the other foot in that it's not Pecco who is a ranch hand to the extent that he is incapable of thinking for himself and formulating his own opinions/sentiments, more than us fans not getting over Rossi, i.e., not being able to see opinions/incidents etc. outside the yellow tint of Rossi's time in sport.
I guess its just a different mindset for a different generation of riders. Hard racing's always been a thing, but to my mind, if you literally push a rider past track limits, its not the same as merely forcing him off the line. It ends up being too much like wrestling or football - two sports (assuming you think wrestling is a sport) I've always thought of as for neanderthals.
At least (or so I'd like to believe) those here with negative opinions on Rossi maintain a reasonable degree of objectivity. Did anyone notice those two Rossi-fan twats in the podium crowd who were parading around with a huge banner that said, "That 93 will never be a 46"? This amounts to cult behavior on the lines of Shia Muslims who more than a thousand years on, are still beating their chests and literally flagellating themselves over what they believe was the dissing of Ali. Pathetic.
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I do like to hype myself up a lil bit.
Povol who was one of our most knowledgeable posters imo, and unfortunately is no longer involved put it best (also imo), at the end of 2009 Valentino looked like he was on his own pedestal above other great riders, after subsequent events he was still an all time great but not clearly above all other greats.
He both broke his own decade old fastest lap ever, sure track condition, tires etc were involved, but more remarkably rode faster than his qualifying lap in the race.
