FINALLY CONFIRMED!! Ducati Welcome Lorenzo

WVMotoGP99 said:

So, going for the slowest team? Different, I like it...

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povol said:

That would have broken their own written rules and would have become a publicity nightmare. You cant openly allow a rider to put off punishment to enhance his chances of winning. If that were the case, everyone would be running people off course and deferring punishment to when it suited them best. RD had to punish Rossi, and they chose the slightest punishment possible under the rules. He should have been disqualified or been given a ride through, when in reality, he was not punished at all. He finished where he would have finished without penalty and got to keep Sepang points, the only difference was 25 seconds behind instead of 5 seconds. All the penalty did was give him a built in excuse as to why he blew a huge point lead in the last 4 races of the year.

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michaelm said:

Absolutely correct of course.

I will give RD and Dorna the benefit of the doubt he would have been penalised anyway, but they had no choice but to penalise him after he admitted pulling a non-racing move.

If there was a conspiracy it was that he was penalised too lightly as you say; imo if this did occur it was to keep the championship theoretically alive for the last round rather than to hand Rossi the championship, which could only happen if one of the 3 faster riders crashed or both MM and DP beat Jorge regardless of where Rossi started, again as you say.

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tps7c said:

What you guys just said goes against everything you previously said. You said Rossi is the Emperor and they make the rules around him, or that he makes the rules. If that's true, how could they break their own written rules when they in fact make the rules to benefit one man and one man only. The Emperor...

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baturro said:

If you don't get it, you don't get it. But when you are the only one it dosen't make sense to, maybe you're the one that is having the comprehension issue.

Either that, or you like to continue to beat the dead horse or pull people's chain. Either way, you are getting tediously old.

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WVMotoGP99 said:

Honest question... You just won the World Lottery and with 800 Trillion Dollars you just purchased the new MotoGP Team for 2017, TPS Motosports. You have two bikes. Great bikes. You can have any two riders out there today. Who are your two riders?

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#22 said:

You're all amateurs. I'd have the M1 Yamaha and I'd hire BarryMachine and HarryJones05, they'd smoke everyone out there!

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Gaz said:

Barry would want the Hyosung

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#22 said:

But you could teach him how to back it in though...

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tps7c said:

Than simply ignore me, you little monkey.

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#22 said:

But you could teach him how to back it in though...

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MotoGP World Champion Jorge Lorenzo said he 'needed a new challenge' as the Movistar Yamaha rider reflected on his decision to join Ducati at the end of this season.

The three-time premier class champion has signed a two-year deal with the Italian manufacturer for 2017 and 2018, but for now Lorenzo remains totally focused on trying to retain his crown as he prepares for the fourth round of the championship this weekend at Jerez in Spain.

“As you all know next season I won't be with Yamaha. I felt I needed a change, a new challenge in my career, set new goals for me to try to achieve and keep my level of ambition at the maximum,” Lorenzo said.

“I have only words of gratitude to the Yamaha family because of all the moments we lived through together. I achieved much more than I'd ever dreamt.

“What will happen in the future is unpredictable but from here on I just want to enjoy these 15 races that I have left with Yamaha to try to ratify the World Championship. This is right now my only target.”

Lorenzo began a four-race winning streak at Jerez last year to ignite his title challenge and boasts an excellent record at the Spanish circuit, where he won twice in the 250cc class in 2006 and 2007 before chalking up three MotoGP successes in 2010, 2011 and 2015.

“Jerez is one of my favourite circuits in the world because of the special lay-out of the track and the atmosphere and the people hugging us from the grandstands,” he said.

“Last season we kicked off with a good set of four victories in Jerez after a difficult start so hopefully this year we can repeat such a great result.”

Lorenzo is currently second in the points standing, 21 points behind Repsol Honda's Marc Marquez.

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JPSLotus said:

Lorenzo is full of .... about new challenges.

Too bad he doesn't say what it really was...

"Hi guys, my teammate is a toxic ....... degenerate piece of .... who sucks the enjoyment out of life, see Sepang 2015 for a prime example. Rather than spend another 2 years with him whining about 'how-a I got-a screwed-a by Lorenzo and Marquez' I ...... off to Ducati where the people treat you like human beings unlike that snake Lin Jarvis who blows Rossi on command for fear of upsetting Yamaha marketing."

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