<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Dion @ Dec 8 2006, 03:19 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>I aint looking forward to seeing him next season!! Move aside old man. His career is over, let someone young ride there <u>... </u>off on a under developed bike and show the world that they have talant.
Even if, and a big IF McWillaims was to come good at the end of the season, so what!!! were is he going?
Also people going on about 800cc being like 250cc, we have been through this bollocks before. A whole load of ...., if your fast your fast.
As for coming up with facts Roger i new that someone would post it, i aint .... hot on computers, is that ok ?
It would also seem that the facts on McWilliams speak for themselves.
He cant even beat John McGuinness on a 250 supercup, weres McGuinness now ? Isle of Man TT, superstock.
McWilliams chooses to go to GPs on maybe .... bikes but thats his choice, so no more "if he had a good ride" bollocks. He aint good enough..
Roger could you check your fact book, on whether or not Neil Hodgson qualifyed on the front row of the 1994 or 95Gp of Argentina i think, the time he rode a 500cc in GPs?
Old chickens give you the ......
MotoGP and WSB: the first attempt
In 1995 he moved full time to 500cc World Championship with WCM, developing a reputation for being a smooth but impetuous rider who crashed a lot - he came 11th in the Championship. For 1996 he moved to Superbikes with Ducati, and this began a frustrating three-year spell in the series, the latter 2 years with Fuchs Kawasaki. 9th was Hodgson's best championship finish in this era. His first podium came at Laguna Seca in 1996.
Return to MotoGP
For 2004 both Hodgson and Xaus went to Ducati's second-string MotoGP team, Team D’Antin Ducati. But the power delivery of the Desmosedici was extreme compared to a WSB Superbike, and the team had limited sponsorships and funds to run a test programme. Resultantly, Hodgson never felt he had the bike set up like he ever wanted it to be, while Xaus's natural extreme style appeared to get more out of the machine. Xaus ended up as rookie of the year, while a disillusioned Hodgson came 17th in the championship
A school boy motocross rider from 1982 through 1989, and was voted Rider of the Year in season 1986-87. Hodgson made the leap to road racing on Easter Sunday 1990 at the meeting at Langburgh, on a Yamaha TZR125. His first win was at the Three Sisters meeting in that same year. He came 8th in his first season in the British Clubman’s Ministock.
In 1992 he moved to the 125cc International Supercup, and became British National 125cc Champion aged 18. He was then selected to compete in the FIM World 125cc Championship as the youngest rider in the series and Britain’s only representative in the class with Team Burnett, placing 24th in the Championship. In 1994 he was selected by HRC as one of only five officially supported riders in 125cc World Championship with Team Burnett. He took part in two 500cc World Championship races for the Harris-Yamaha team.
not sure why you ask about neil hodgson in this thread but here are a few facts, you ask about 94,and 95 argentinian gp regarding hodgson ?
all i no of these races is doohan won both.
and im sure that old chicken as you call him will be giving a lot of racers the ..... next season.
jezzer that is