<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (mylexicon @ Jan 10 2008, 01:30 AM)
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Yes, we are ultimately in control because DORNA has made it known they only care about money and they are willing to disobey the bylaws to engineer the sport we want. How do you think Rossi walked off with the Stones after the second tire meeting? The fans said he could and Ezy agreed! The only thing stopping fanboyism is the FIM procedural rules---they are being ignored. Now you understand why these debates run long and get relatively heated.
The poll motogp.com put up resulted in a 50/50 schism. I know this maybe hard to believe for someone who walks around wearing yellow spectacles, but the control tire issue is far bigger than "should Rossi get Bridgestones". Personally, I am for a control tire. I didn't vote for a control tire because I want Rossi to win every year, I want to find out which riders are the most talented.
I don't hate Rossi I hate the game. I don't think Rossi should be thrown out or punished, I think DORNA should be censured by the FIM (yeah right). However, if Rossi's wants to act like a fool, I'll treat him that way.
I'll always marvel at Rossi's riding ability but I can't appreciate his achievements anymore because it's obvious he doesn't have the wherewithal to see troubled times through to the end.
He is not like the champions of old who bled all over the track to win. Perhaps his talent puts him above all of that, but it certainly doesn't put him above working through his own problems. I'll always admire his riding ability, but I can't really enjoy his achievements anymore. He's not what he was made out to be.That's the most profound post in this whole thread lexicon, especially the very first sentence. It's also a sound observation about the motogp.com poll. I heard one of the guys a motogpod podcast make the very same point, and it's a damn good one, how unprofessional it was for Ezy to almost 'drip feed' the public his intentions, as if to guage our reactions before making any decisions, the tyre debacle being the perfect example. Unprofessional isn't perhaps how I would describe it but it is a sign of the times. Ezy announces to the world that Dorna are considering moving to a control tyre, and all over the world the sporting press, bloggers and forums like this go into overdrive. It just proved in this case that Dorna call the shots, as long as they're sure the average yellow-shirt wearing, camel-smoking, wudy-munching, tv watching fan on the street thinks it's ok. Like it or not, that's the way it is I suppose.
I don't hate Rossi either, but he's getting harder and harder to like isn't he. It'll be hard to take anything he says now completely at face value, but I do believe him when he says he's staying for another five years. Why would he walk out on such a good thing? I hope he gets stuffed this year too, not for one minute because it's him personally, I've never met the guy, it's because I'm inherently anti-establishment and he's quite obviously in bed with the establishmment.
I'm not and never was for a control tyre, In my view it's a knee-jerk reaction to a short term blip. 2008 wil prove me wrong or right, if Bridgestone make fools out of Michelin again this year then I'd say a control tyre is the way forward but I do not believe it fair to exclude any tyre company from a series they all want to participate in because the traditional dominant maker has a duff season or the traditional dominant rider is unable to win, that would be foolish and short sighted.
I love that last paragraph too.
