<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jumkie @ Oct 6 2008, 02:28 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>First off, CONGRATS TO
STONER. This was a much-needed boost to his confidence. Great post race interview, very honest and humble I thought.
I predicted
Rossi would finish on the podium (I posed this somewhere). Great battles, he won every single one (except the one against Stoner in this race).
Hayden, what can I say, great ride. It was so refreshing to see him attached to Stoner. I guess he’s not that overrated and bad of a rider after-all, eh Migs. BTW, I’d like to here Babel’s take on why he faded and was eventually passed. I wonder if it had anything to do with tires. What do you think Babel?
Other mentionable:
Toesland! Damn, I did say when I predicted Rossi finishing on the podium, when a few wrote him off because of starting in 12th, that the list of people in front of him had no chance of stopping him. To my credit, I did mention that Toesland had some track knowledge and this might pose a problem, and guess what, I was correct. Ah, I had been worried about this cat after that fierce ride in Qatar. I think I had underestimated him and didn’t factor in what I already knew—that is many tracks he has struggled at is because of lack of familiarity (on top of Michelin giving him .... to deal with). I was most entertained by Toesland (of course this was after I regained my composure from rolling around laugh at Peders cart wheeling in the gravel).
Peders, you suck, enough said.
Sucks for
Vermi, as if he needs that little midget to screw up his home GP. Sucks for his hometown fans, but I invite all you Aussies upset to focus your anger at the cause, ....... Peders.
Oh yeah, as far as people praising
West for finishing a mille-second ahead of Hopper, uhm, it is his home GP right? So he finished ahead of
Hopper in his HOME race, great…I think.
Melandri must be chomping at the bit to get on that outstanding green machine package! Really, I don’t think it could get any worse, could it?
Why is it that you avoid talking about my man Shinya Nakano's impressive form in the race? Don't hate.