Cang! Thanks for taking the time to type it out man, I so enjoyed that interview. Good to see Burgess eating a bit of humble pie. (And just as Burgess said the gearbox thing is not the silver bullet Boppers are hanging their hat on to discount the Hondas, I'm sure they will find some other way of rational-lies their boy looking as good as other "ordinary" Ducati riders). I have no doubt Casey is more special than Valentino Rossi, who up until now has been touted the undisputed standard,( or should I say, the unexposed supposed standard.) Stoner could have been easily considered the GOAT by now if he'd been on a decent Japanese machine. He still has time though, and if Honda keep him happy, he should win them several titles. I can't wait for MotoGP to return to order, a man's sport, rather than the clown circus its become thanks to look-at-me productions typical of the riders more interested in their brand than the sportsmanship the sport deserves. But hey, when you have an element of people swallowing teen-band theatrics, Dorna was more than happy to cash in and keep the good times rolling for them to the point of compromising the intergrity of the competition. This may be a thing of the past, as we have Stoner & Spies, who are serious riders and title contenders. Even when Pedro wins, he hasn't been programmed to make these freakish shows (I suppose its enough he is a freak). Sure, Lorenzo is still a contender, but I think much of his productions were spawned by an element of mocking Rossi. If I'm wrong, I hope those that accuse him of being a copy cat will have him now copy catting riders like Casey & Spies. Simonchelli is also another showboater, hopefully he won't win anything for us to stomach the hair-brand he's so desperate to shove down the spectator's throats.
Another element I'm looking forward to is straight talk. We've become accustomed to listening to some riders double speak, with ulterior motives for what they put out in the media, especially Rossi. We can't read anything he says and accept it at face value, but you can when you hear riders like Nicky, Spies, Casey, Aoyama, Pedro, ect. If this season goes as I'm hoping, Rossi will not stand to look the ordinary above average rider I've always know he is, and will retire after 2012; I say this with the caveat that Ducati, if smart, will immediately drop the 800 experiment and start working on a 2012 rocketship allowing VR to go out in glory. We are certainly watching a special time in MotoGP, truly a great riders like Valentino, Pedro, Lorenzo, Spies, Nicky, Dovi, Simoch, Aoyama, etc, and one that we can really see is a cut above the them all, Casey. As I've said before, there is only ONE alien in MotoGP. The rest have been as good as VR but without the overwhelming advantage. Casey may not win as many titles (for stated reasons) but he clearly is the fast rider in roadracing by a long shot.
The anti-bopper movement continues, not only in forums, but thankfully on the race track. Eventually way may return to the sport where racing was the show.
). I think these articles answer alot of pre-season questions (some of which have been answered already by many people posting here) but now we have some confirmation.
