There is a little thing called a race to go this week-end till an assessment can be made about whether stoner's riding has been significantly affected.
You also make my point for me; the fact that it was rossi who took stoner out rather than elias is rather the point, even we incredibly biased stoner fans think rossi is a little better than tony elias, and nicky was not in contention for the world championship; my powers of observation obviously don't approach yours, but he looked a little annoyed in a more analogous situation when he was taken out by pedrosa in 2006 but heroically restrained himself. I also don't think anyone would claim that stoner is as calm or as nice a bloke as nicky, but that is rather beside the point. I don't recall rossi being all that serene about being taken out by elias either. I do recall rossi engaging in feuds with biaggi and gibernau, who never took him out, which lasted for years but I guess that's different.
Just as an aside, how do you think lorenzo, the only other rider who has been consistently competitive against rossi, which might make some (obviously very biased) observers think he is not entirely in the category of being unworthy to touch the hem of rossi's garment, would have reacted to being taken out like stoner?
Rossi has for some time now been trying to work out how Casey rode the Duc. Following him ( even on the Honda ) is all just part of that. Stoners just making more mileage out of mentioning it.
More like Stoner is still trying to take credit for any speed the Ducati may show
Hmm.. could be true.. But why would Doohan want to get on wrong terms with Rossi by siding with Stoner? Is it Honda or is it Aussie thing? or a combination of both?
Hopefully for you guys this may be the case, and its not something worse, as is with delusional incidents like the towing thing (which I note being brushed aside) it could be a precursor to more serious problems for him in the mind.......As it stands currently Rossi is back at the sharp end again in tricky conditions in morning warm-up, something which even Rossi fans including myself, didn't really expect so soon after the pre-season......must be hard when someone else is riding the bike, very well, that only 'you' could ride.......Rossi also knows how this feels.
Stop dodging and weaving Mick
Explain the invented towing crap, explain how Rossi could have possibly benefited from being so far behind Stoner? At least if Stoner is going to continue to stir the pot about Jerez make it relevant and not delusional. This was a ....... act.
Yes Rossi was pissed with Elias but not for a month. Yes Rossi engaged in feuds with Biaggi and Gibernau, and won the battles, Biaggi deliberately tried to run Rossi off track which started that, hardly an accident and none of it invented! Gibernau's team was responsible for a very harsh penalty against Rossi, for something that most teams did, which cost Rossi a race he would have probably won in 2004-and it was no accident.
This History makes Stoner's behavior even less acceptable and more ridiculous! Creating false accusations against Rossi isn't really going to do much for Stoner now is it, Casey hasn't proven to be too good at the mind games, and this just confirms his very fragile mental state.
But continue to enlighten us on how its ok for Stoner to carry on inventing incidents like this.
Jorge wouldn't have liked it too much either, but I seriously doubt he would have acted like Stoner currently is. Kropo has a good article on this, Rossi and Stoner have history, most of it bad, Stoner hasn't gotten over Laguna 2008 and 2008-09 in general. He spent most of his time defending himself in 2007, only to fail ever since. It is yet to be seen whether or not he will factor this year, I have my doubts now.
