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WTF? Rossi beat Nicky to 1st Star of the Year? Outrageous! Outrageous! This .... is as legit as North Korean elections. I thought Rossi would NOT make the top ten given fans clearly say they chose integrity over whining and sore loserness. I don't believe it. I demand a recount. Surely the guy who threw the sport in disrepute wouldn't be rewarded with popularity.
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Interestingly Rossi wasn't the most popular rider on Crash.net during the Ducati years. Evidently he needs to be competing at the top to remain the most popular rider in the world.
This is the vote recap on Crash.net:
"Valentino Rossi may have missed out on a tenth world title at the very final round, but the Italian is voted as your 2015 MotoGP Star of the Year!
Of MotoGP's big three - Rossi, Marc Marquez and Jorge Lorenzo - Rossi is arguably the only one who exceeded expectations this year.
Reigning double champion Marquez once again began as title favourite, only for frequent DNFs to put him out of the championship hunt. Lorenzo scored more points than any other rider in the second half of last season and few would therefore be surprised that he fought for - and ultimately won - the 2015 crown.
But not many would have predicted that Rossi, the oldest rider on the grid and five years after his last title challenge, would hold the points lead for an amazing 17 of the 18 rounds.
As Herve Poncharal recently stated, all things considered it may actually have been Rossi's best ever season, even if the record books show the Italian losing out to Lorenzo by just five points.
The highlights of Rossi's year naturally include his race wins in Qatar, Argentina, Holland and Great Britain. Incredible consistency saw the Italian megastar stand on the podium an unparalleled 15 times and finish every race, as his exploits helped pack grandstands around the world.
Two of Rossi's wins came after a clash with Marquez, the old master finally turning the tables on the young apprentice, but a third incident - at Sepang - would prove the talking point of the season.
Rossi's fearsome ability to disrupt rivals through carefully chosen comments in the media is well known. But the decision to publicly attack Marquez, rather than try and destabilise Lorenzo, left many puzzled - and the outcome could barely have been worse for Rossi.
Perhaps the most shocking part of their Sepang showdown was that Rossi - the king of hard racing and brilliant overtakes - resorted to such an extreme move to end the kind of battle he usually revels in.
Of course, unlike Marquez, Rossi had a title to think about and had spent the second half of the season unable to match Lorenzo's dry pace, then became convinced Marquez was plotting to help his fellow Spaniard.
Throw in some uncharacteristic late defeats in battles with Dani Pedrosa (Aragon) and Andrea Iannone (Phillip Island) and it's easy to understand the amount of pressure Rossi was under to save his world championship dream.
Ultimately it didn't happen, and - regardless of who was to blame - fans were denied a fitting title showdown by Rossi's back of the grid start at Valencia.
Nevertheless, Rossi's performances were the main reason why 2015 was such a standout season - until Sepang anyway.
This is the second year running that Rossi has won the fan vote, having dropped as low as eleventh during the Ducati years.
However Rossi's average score of 8.4 is relatively low for the poll winner (it would only have been good enough for third last year) no doubt due to the end of year controversy, which also tainted the fan scores of Lorenzo and Marquez.
About the vote:
Rather than repeat the Riders' World Championship standings, the MotoGP Star of the Year poll expects viewers to take into account factors such as machinery, performance relative to a team-mate, riding style, experience, injuries, progress and personality just as much as race results.
Over 100,000 votes were cast for the 2015 Crash.net MotoGP Star of the Year poll, where viewers awarding each of this year's participants with a mark out of ten. "
This is the vote recap on Crash.net:
"Valentino Rossi may have missed out on a tenth world title at the very final round, but the Italian is voted as your 2015 MotoGP Star of the Year!
Of MotoGP's big three - Rossi, Marc Marquez and Jorge Lorenzo - Rossi is arguably the only one who exceeded expectations this year.
Reigning double champion Marquez once again began as title favourite, only for frequent DNFs to put him out of the championship hunt. Lorenzo scored more points than any other rider in the second half of last season and few would therefore be surprised that he fought for - and ultimately won - the 2015 crown.
But not many would have predicted that Rossi, the oldest rider on the grid and five years after his last title challenge, would hold the points lead for an amazing 17 of the 18 rounds.
As Herve Poncharal recently stated, all things considered it may actually have been Rossi's best ever season, even if the record books show the Italian losing out to Lorenzo by just five points.
The highlights of Rossi's year naturally include his race wins in Qatar, Argentina, Holland and Great Britain. Incredible consistency saw the Italian megastar stand on the podium an unparalleled 15 times and finish every race, as his exploits helped pack grandstands around the world.
Two of Rossi's wins came after a clash with Marquez, the old master finally turning the tables on the young apprentice, but a third incident - at Sepang - would prove the talking point of the season.
Rossi's fearsome ability to disrupt rivals through carefully chosen comments in the media is well known. But the decision to publicly attack Marquez, rather than try and destabilise Lorenzo, left many puzzled - and the outcome could barely have been worse for Rossi.
Perhaps the most shocking part of their Sepang showdown was that Rossi - the king of hard racing and brilliant overtakes - resorted to such an extreme move to end the kind of battle he usually revels in.
Of course, unlike Marquez, Rossi had a title to think about and had spent the second half of the season unable to match Lorenzo's dry pace, then became convinced Marquez was plotting to help his fellow Spaniard.
Throw in some uncharacteristic late defeats in battles with Dani Pedrosa (Aragon) and Andrea Iannone (Phillip Island) and it's easy to understand the amount of pressure Rossi was under to save his world championship dream.
Ultimately it didn't happen, and - regardless of who was to blame - fans were denied a fitting title showdown by Rossi's back of the grid start at Valencia.
Nevertheless, Rossi's performances were the main reason why 2015 was such a standout season - until Sepang anyway.
This is the second year running that Rossi has won the fan vote, having dropped as low as eleventh during the Ducati years.
However Rossi's average score of 8.4 is relatively low for the poll winner (it would only have been good enough for third last year) no doubt due to the end of year controversy, which also tainted the fan scores of Lorenzo and Marquez.
About the vote:
Rather than repeat the Riders' World Championship standings, the MotoGP Star of the Year poll expects viewers to take into account factors such as machinery, performance relative to a team-mate, riding style, experience, injuries, progress and personality just as much as race results.
Over 100,000 votes were cast for the 2015 Crash.net MotoGP Star of the Year poll, where viewers awarding each of this year's participants with a mark out of ten. "
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"...the MotoGP Star of the Year poll expects viewers to take into account factors such as machinery..."
J4rn0, can you provide your assessment where Rossi would have finished in points on an RCV-RS (like Nicky). Crash.vr missed the bit that none of these results would have been possible without Carmelo brokering a deal for Rossi to ride an M1. Otherwise as you say, his popularity might have been more like when he rode a Ducati. Perhaps you should write Crash a letter having them include these facts in their summary.
J4rn0, can you provide your assessment where Rossi would have finished in points on an RCV-RS (like Nicky). Crash.vr missed the bit that none of these results would have been possible without Carmelo brokering a deal for Rossi to ride an M1. Otherwise as you say, his popularity might have been more like when he rode a Ducati. Perhaps you should write Crash a letter having them include these facts in their summary.
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Holy ...., I just got the joke! Hahaha damn!
I saw a little blip about Steve Harvey on the 5th Year Award Show, so i figured i was missing something. Just Googled it. This is hilarious. What a major .... up!
They hired this guy to read the card and he did NOT read the card. "the first runner up is miss Colombia". That means she is in 2nd place genius! Dont hire a game show host to MC a pageant contest, they like to show off their "skills" and go off script.
Can somebody tell me why this dude says "don't hold this against the ladies"? We are not, it was HIS epic .... up! Why would he even say that?
Watch "Steve Harvey Announces The WRONG Winner of Miss Universe 2015" on YouTube
Btw, may I say, I still think the mistake was a mistake, miss Columbia was way hotter.
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My theory is no mistake at all, as after all, the publicity generated has the Miss Universe pageant now being mentioned on all news shows, other media, general forums and has now for a few days.
When you look in the past and it get minor league attention I suspect that the 'accident' may not have been so accidental after all
Call me Lex.
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Well Lex, you might be on to something given the fact this dude is being rewarded with a bunch of job offers after this .... up. He just catapulted his withering popularity to host more award shows. Maybe he can MC the Academy Awards, after all isn't that the show that recognizes the craft of acting for the camera? Wait, maybe Steve Harvey has a career in GP--acting for the camera despite screw ups has been a windfall of publicity for MotoGP.
All Harvey had to do was read the card and he failed. Then he says he takes full responsibility? Uhm, yeah ......, nobody else was hired to read the card. Only in 'show business' is an epic .... up rewarded. No wonder why the "star of GP" is rewarded with popularity too despite his epic .... up, ya gotta love show business.
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