welcome mate, im enjoying reading through your posts, glad to see you are no longer lurking and your joining in the fun.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<div class='quotemain'>reading your post in the stoner thread you said
But there was an event that happened during this time that forever soured my feeling of Valentino & that was his petulant reaction to the protest from Gibernau’s Honda team at Qatar in ‘04, where he swore that he would see to it that Sete never won another race. Now while this actually came true (shame, shame), the way that Vale saw to it made me wonder why such a great man would need to resort to such tactics. In many other cases Vale & of course many other riders have often played “mind games” but this was stepping over the line IMO.
the way i understood it at the time was, vale got a bit miffed at sete for only grassing up rossi when there were others also sweeping sand off there start slot. also it was a bit of a grey area as to whether they had broken the rule but sete and his team pushed until rossi was punished. the rule said its ilegal to tamper with the start box. so is sweeping sand away classed as tampering ? not imo but sete and co pushed. rossi got pissed about it amd went and had words where sete the poofta said "it wasn't me it was my team manager" when he was seen spouting his gob off. so vale then said "ive been looking for an excuse not to talk to you "and the rest is history.
i understand people thinking vales reaction was childish or unproffesional but he was young and pissed off.
sorry to hyjack your welcome thread, and you probably no all about what ive said and some but i wanted to say it as i saw and heard it at the time.
