Jumkie
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I keep saying .... like this and people keep trying to call me out as some conspiracy theorist....
You'll be telling us they never went to the moon next...
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On the contrary, as you know I lend a great deal of credence to your thoughts my good friend. That Moto GP is not a meritocracy, that vested interests artificially skew and sully the series is beyond doubt and generally accepted by anyone with more than a cursory interest in the sport. I am the first to advocate filtering 'facts' through a degree of sceptical reserve but find some of the more fanciful forum shoehorning tiresome.
Sure, over the last decade in particular, there are those bandwagon jumpers (largely attired in yellow - many of whom appear to have jumped off as quickly as they jumped on), who have no understanding of the sport, no appreciation of the pedigree and the history of the championship and take it purely at face value oblivious to the machiavellian machinations burrowing, contorting and twisting beneath the surface...but sometimes you really don't have to dig too deep to unearth this. On the other hand, the armchair conjecture amongst some lurches from the comical to the absurd. Throughout the last five years the level of unfounded speculation and exploration abounding on this board has been verging on ludicrous and so way off the 'Marc' (sic). As ever, when you pick the brain of someone significant, informed and on the coal face instead of superficially and blindly scratching away at the surface - (as Wilski was able to do flying from Austin to Chicago), you mine for the real gems and nuggets as opposed to the fools gold panning on Powerslide - and the truth is often wierder than the rumour mongering. Similarly - as Jum himself will attest to - some members on here once shared a few beers over an evening with some Ducati personnel in an airport hotel bar..what they learnt rendered all those 'what's up with the Ducati' threads postulated and populated by the resident Powerslide 'engineer' fraternity embarrassingly superfluous.
Ironically some of the worst conspiracy culprits on here seem to be the ones who themselves were intent on denigrating Stoner for speaking his mind and exposing some of the dirt. In many ways Stoner is quite unprecedented in this modern era of 'Goebbels-esque' paddock propagenda carefully fed through obedient P/R programmed puppets and orchestrated media schooled clones. Alberto's vision of The Dorna Academy/Rookies Cup (of which Casey himself is ironically a graduate of) is more akin to the Hitler Youth. I can think of no other rider that could stir up the .... storm that he did and yet still be welcomed back with a blank cheque signed by HRC. That's how good he was - and HRC run the circus and the MSMA remember? The Japs don't forget - they ...... up Sheene for good and they never forgot this either....
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Which lead many to speculate last season before the revelation of the Yam deal, that even with a move brokered by a forked tongue and lubricated by a slippery Dorna subsidy the door at Honda would remain shut - at best a satellite deal bankrolled by the series and Coca-Cola money. It's like allowing your ex back having formerly been cheated on, only to find that they're impotent...Yamaha clearly have no pride!
Stoner never openly slurred Honda true, but behind the scenes his recalcitrant behaviour, rejection of PR and dislike of testing obligations was almost Biaggi like at times. I've always got the impression that his team probably heaved a huge collective sigh of relief when he announced his retirement. They absolutely adore working with Marquez but like Freddie before him - Stoner is always going to be the main man.
Anyway - I digress, back to the point...and whilst on the subject of Marquez, did you know that the chassis of his Moto 2 bike which was supposedly developed by Suter, although protected from scrutineering by bending the rules, was found by an investigative journalist to contain composites of an extra terrestrial source. The entire frame and motorcycle was actually fabricated in a hangar deep in Area 51 the electronics and internals were of similarly unearthly origins. In spite of his unfeasible speed all season, the plasma drive was only used once out of necessity when relegated to the back of the grid at Valencia. Dorna are part of the worldwide illuminati New World Order and thus highly affiliated on Capitol Hill - (hence the existence of three U.S. GP's). Carmello Ezpeleta is actually a large reptilian shapeshifting species of hermaphrodite from the planet Kalex.
