Mirror mirror…
on the wall, who is the fairest of them all? The question necessitated the reply: YOU are Valentino, our king. I’ve so far marveled at the symmetry offered by this latest GP debacle, just about every contended detail there is a symmetrical inverse counter detail we can point to, much like a ‘mirror’, the irony of it all is quite remarkable:
1v1, Rossi crashes out Stoner (no penalty) in sketchy conditions and makes a media mockery of his helmet drawn insincere apology VERSUS Marc clashes with Rossi (effectively disqualified penalty) in sketchy conditions, helmet stand Uccio makes a media mockery out of the apology.
2v2, Rossi ‘deliberately’ crashes out Marc at Sepang, he cowardly slips out the back instead of attending the press conference VERSUS Marc ‘unintentionally’ clashes with Rossi, he not only attends the press conference to face the scrutiny, but Rossi convenes one to fire off outlandish accusations.
3v3, Rossi crashes out Marc ‘deliberately’, the media ..... foots around the subject (even still today) restraining themselves from asking the hard questions and worse, restrained themselves from calling on race bans, formulated justifications against black flags, agreeing with Mike Webb that a decision to penalize ‘during a race’ is too rash VERSUS Marc ‘unintentionally’ clashes with Rossi, media figures issues calls for black flags through social media ‘during the race’, Mike Webb follows suits, issues a penalty ‘during the race’ (something that was too rash in the context of a rider who had suffered a mental breakdown and in a heat of red mist deliberately aimed to eliminate a rival) with a complimentary reaction of who can dog pile the most scathing criticism of Evil Doer Marc.
4v4, Rossi ‘deliberately’ crashes out Marc, Carmelo Clause caves into public pressure, distances himself from Race Direction’s decision to issue 2 points on Rossi’s license (at the time constituted no actual penalty for the on track assault) which was done after much deliberation and well after the race, resulting in Carmelo Clause taking the extraordinary reactionary decision to fend off the public relations nightmare from accusations of a Spanish Conspiracy by moving Race Directions under Dorna to the FIM. The supposed message: hey we didn’t have anything to do with it guys, so don’t blame us VERSUS Marc ‘unintentionally’ clashes with Rossi, Carmelo Clause immediately issues a press release designed only to remind us that Dorna are no longer technically involved with Race Directions decision, ignoring the fact it was lead by Dorna’s man Mike Webb in both instances.
5v5, you can add yours here as there are many symmetrical parallels: ___VS ___ the contrast.
I’m compelled to repeat the point, the reaction by “reporters” has been a stunning reflection of contrast, for the Sepang debacle, the game was: how can I make myself invisible to Rossi’s wrath, for the Argentine debacle, the game seems to be: how can I make myself the most visible to Rossi’s plight. Like the Snow White folk tale, there seems to be a snow job going on, the Evil Queen simply couldn’t accept any other rivals, Snow Mite had to be eliminated, one way or another. Any challengers to Rossi’s narcissism must be cast as villains (in the tale, the queen actual employs a goon to extract Snow White’s guts, that’s right, GUTS and GOON, oh the irony. But I’ll shelve Uccio’s newsworthiness (or perhaps newsworthlessness) for a later post entitled “30 lbs penalty”.