<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Talpa @ Jul 27 2009, 12:38 AM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Not just JB-The whole field!
Wrong - you forgot Nicky and his crew chief (yes - it is a long bow and I am choosing to draw it).
Plus with two DNF's then the decision was smart enough to finish in front of those two as well
But credit where it is due, doing a full race that was effectively dry and remaining upright irrespective of any other factors - good luck to them. Just as credit to those that rode on slicks and stayed upright when the rain started - to finish first, first you must finish as they say.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Talpa @ Jul 27 2009, 12:38 AM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Are the reports true that Suppo called his team a bunch of idiots? I hope not, but if so that then should have been a little more narrowly directed from your info.....
Someone earlier posted a translated link - maybe Bikergirl - look back.
And as an FYI - it isn't my information but that of others posted earlier and direct quotes doing the round - CS accepts it from one of the interviews I have seen - I don't want credit where it isn't mine.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Talpa @ Jul 27 2009, 12:38 AM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Usually, you expect this kind of gamble from a sat team who doesn't expect to win anyway and throws it on the line.....even the sat teams didn't do this. Watching Gabor scoot past him was borderline sadistic!
Maybe CS thought this was the only way he could win it?
No real idea - possibly given his recent issues he wanted rain (as he had said) and with warm-up wet and clouds around - he punted - he lost.
But factory teams have made these type of gambles in the past (Cagiva/Lawson on slicks) - but not much that immediately springs to mind of late. From memory didn't CS/Ducati punt on sofy tyres last year a few times to try to make up teh points difference to VR - and wasn't these the races that they had falls?
Sometimes you have to punt - sometimes not (or as the song goes - you got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em)
Mind you, riders will go out on the soft when hard was required and vice versa - this was no real different but with greater ramifications if they got it wrong - they did.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Talpa @ Jul 27 2009, 12:38 AM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>There are some moments when Rossi Haters have very little Ammo to work with....and in these times when they try its beyond funny.
This is one of those times
To crash out while plowing the track for Dovi (who rode f'n great!), then crash, pick up the bike and re-join the race on the pace within 2 laps. Then push his crashed bike to the limit to pass JT on the second last corner for 5th place, for a 2 point gain. (correct if I'm wrong) GOAT behaviour
Just as Stoner did last year at Laguna - correct me if I am wrong.
And just as Rossi has done time and again - correct me again.
How can or why would some diss any rider, be it CS/VR/CE(who has done it) etc for crashing, remounting and continuing to pick up points, whether it be one point or more as a championship is about points accumulation. But, to be able to pickup your bike after a fall, any fall and have it still rideable with no race ending damage does require a level of luck (although I read the word skill and crash in the same sentence earlier - to crash does not require skill as I can prove
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Talpa @ Jul 27 2009, 12:38 AM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Colin and Randy, however, get my vote for this one. Both of them managed to get a '....' in post race interviews which was so refreshing, as was, and always is, the way Colin sums things up...
Both rode like demons! thank you British Weather patterns
Credit to CE but he has been around a long time and has regularly slipped the word '....' into interviews, Randy is a relative newcomer (but damn good to see him on the podium) so as a rookie he did extra well - wonder if he practiced it.
Interesting interview what I saw of CE's actually as he seemed to allude to the circumstances being very strange in terms of the race unfolding. Found his comments about the track temp and left side of the tyre interesting as being that cold (as he described it) woudl mean the ambient was cool and probably played a part in CS' decision (why not use radar?).
Fish all ye want but CS farked up - simple, no arguments, no excuses. For me I cannot say if the risk of full wets was deserved (would need to have physically been at the track and know the likelihood of rain).
But as Jumkie has alluded - CS is behind and he needs to take risks to catch up (JL in same boat) just as he had to last year - whether Donnington was the place to take the risk and whether wets were the right option is debatable (in terms only of the risk - prior to result). See, I always hark back to that magic ride by Lawson - everyone questions him lining up at the start of a wet race on slicks - the result is folklore and history. It remains for me one of the greatest individual rides that and inspired gambling decisions I have seen in motorcycle racing.
Garry
