Ask dani pedrosa how easy it is to make your way through the field from the back of the grid even on a really fast bike. I suspect jorge would do it smarter, but even he can't control the quality of the riding of the back of the field guys.
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IF Spies had the talent to out perform Jorge then I could see Yamaha detuning his bike.....
....but since Spies is not as talented, fast, consistent or good as JLo, well it really cant be too much of a worry for Yamaha for them to detune his bike...
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Disagree, you are held for 10 seconds after the green light, then must maintain pit lane speed {60kph} until exiting pit lane. Then you must fight your way past the CRT's once you catch them, costing precious time. Then you catch the Ducati's, and they take a little more time to dispatch. Then you catch the so so customer bikes, which will take even longer to dispatch. At that point, you are 15-20 seconds behind the the front runners. I would be very very surprised if Lorenzo caught and passed the Tech 3 machines. Im guessing without someone in front of him crashing, 6th would be about as good as he would fiinsh.
What's even scarier is that he makes Mrs. Jumkie wear it!
There's a Mrs. Jumkie???
OK, I take back any thoughts I had that he might have a Hayden poster on the ceiling of the bedroom
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You do realize that on a few occasions, Spies has in fact beaten Lorenzo straight up, hence the quote "they will not risk him having one of those one off performances where he is actually faster than Lorenzo.
It was a light-hearted comment - hence the smilie...
I know how you feel - my heart was in my mouth when I saw the fence he was approaching had no air-fence... then his parallel-bars style dismount had my wife running to see what I had shouted about - she thought I'd been bitten by something
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There's a Mrs. Jumkie???
OK, I take back any thoughts I had that he might have a Hayden poster on the ceiling of the bedroom
He is still a ....... ...., the bride is a cover.
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The one off performances are luck, not skill or talent....
And team directions would ensure there are no one offs for rest of season, so they dont need to 'detune' the bike...
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Duh! I completely forgot about the 10 seconds deal. That would change the situation, no doubt. I agree with your assessment, he would struggle to even catch the Tech 3 guys. Lucky for him, he won't have to worry about that because the gods are making sure his current engine will last the season.
Well, in Dani's case, if not the win he would certainly take second at that race. I forgot about the 10 sec. wait in pitlane for engine penalty though.
But I see your point. There's a greater risk of being wiped out as Pedrosa found out.
PS: What did he (Dani) do wrong at Misano? I re-watched the incident about 10 times and I couldn't fault him for anything in that outcome. He did everything right until Barbera goes for a gap that was not there and hit him.
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If he has a grudge against someone at Yamaha, you think team orders mean anything to him.
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Very true....but i really doubt he is that 'independent' or 'strong headed' enough to screw JLo or Yamaha....
And like i said, he has more luck than talent, so the risk of beating JLo is really slim....
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Re-watch a few more times. But this time open your eyes.
He lunged ahead of Hector, disrupting his line, ran wide, over-corrected, physicals dictating it slowed him down, just enough for Hector to have nowhere to go. Dani's screw up on desperation. If you think, like many lames, that the poof for blame is in getting hit for behind, then you should read Dan's take on fault when he ran into the back of Simoncelli. If he doesn't win the title, it will be squarely his own fault.
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no...no...Jum's Spies has plenty of luck.....bad luck that is. So if Nicky Hayden is the luckiest man alive, Ben Spies must be the unluckiest(is that a word?) anyway most of the guys racing in MotoGP are lucky, that's the only reason they're there!
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And thats what Yamaha has, is doubt. The only way for them to know for sure what Spies may or may not do, is to control what he may or may not do.
Well, I suppose that if Ben was serious in his press release we will find out at the end of the season.
