Qatar Motorcycle Grand Prix - Round 19

DavidSim · Nov 21, 2023

Bern1 said:
If any of that is true, I just like Digia a bit more. We'll never know. His results this year, except for the win, will hardly make any other team very excited. Add to that any Ducati intrigue and it seems doubtful he'll get any kind of ride in MotoGP. I'd hate to think that a team would turn him down because he dared defy orders and and the Ducati Big Machine but who knows.

If he does not get a ride in 2024 perhaps he has a better chance in 2025 as lots of contracts will expire and a number of the riders may have their rides in jeopardy if they have a crappy 2024 season.

michaelm · Nov 22, 2023

Keshav said:
People in fact do make poor decisions when intoxicated, because they are intellectually compromised, not because they are morally bankrupt. And that is key. The public make a moral judgement about drunk driving which is an error in logical thinking. The general public make a wrong, blanket assumption that all people who drive drunk do so because they blithely engage in acts of depraved indifference to public safety. IMHO - those that do are in the minority. The great majority of drunk drivers are seriously troubled people with poor impulse control, exacerbated by the disinhibiting effects of alcohol.
Naturally, I agree, that anyone who is convicted of multiple counts of drunk driving should have their license revoked, not because they are bad people per se, but because they're not in control of their impulses. Alcoholism is a physical and spiritual disease. People who have Alzheimers should not be allowed to have a license either, but not because they're "bad people". But because they're incapable of safe driving.

I've been thrown off my bike and badly injured twice, both times by sober drivers who A. Didn't look where where they were going and B. Didn't bother to signal their turn. These are the motherfuckers who need to have their license revoked for a 5 year period. Again, not because they're evil, but because they're ....... stupid and thoughtless.

That's the issue, alcohol has dose related neurological effects, and the moral dimension comes into the decision to drive drunk or to get drunk with no plan other than to drive home, particularly in his case with every alternative in the world. That someone as physically elite as he obviously is including possessing what must be hair trigger reflexes put a car into a ditch suggests he was significantly impaired. If you are drinking don't drive isn't a joke, it is a public health/safety message. Sure he should be dealt with by the law of whatever land he was in like anyone else rather tha being made an example off because he is an elite sportsman, and if as a non habitual offender he kept his road license fine, but I am sorry it is not a trivial matter imo. .

PRS717 · Nov 22, 2023

DavidSim said:
If he does not get a ride in 2024 perhaps he has a better chance in 2025 as lots of contracts will expire and a number of the riders may have their rides in jeopardy if they have a crappy 2024 season.

Well, we know there will be riders who have a crappy 2024 season. I guess the question is, would teams think Digi is the answer? I'm guessing probably not. The KTM pipeline is jammed. He's not getting a factory seat anywhere so if RNF wants a change I have to think they'd go with an up-and-comer from Moto2 as they like to develop younger talent. Will Yamaha have more bikes on the grid? Would Ducati take him back? Me thinks Digi might change his mind about WSBK but I don't know what, if any, seats are available at this point.

ApriliaRS250 · Nov 22, 2023

Keshav said:
I've been thrown off my bike and badly injured twice, both times by sober drivers who A. Didn't look where where they were going and B. Didn't bother to signal their turn. These are the motherfuckers who need to have their license revoked for a 5 year period. Again, not because they're evil, but because they're ....... stupid and thoughtless.

A lot of women actually turn into good drivers.

So i you´re a good driver, watch out for turning women!

JFM01 · Nov 22, 2023

Keshav said:
Conspiracy theories - on the whole, are for the most part, what stupid people use in the vain hope of sounding smart. That, and for making big bucks selling books to other stupid people, like the hundreds and hundreds of books of nonsense about the JFK assassination that continue to be published even now after 60 years.

Thanks for the reminder. Today it's been 60 years since Ted Cruz' dad shot Kennedy - or something like that.

mylexicon · Nov 22, 2023

JFM01 said:
Thanks for the reminder. Today it's been 60 years since Ted Cruz' dad shot Kennedy - or something like that.

If I were to take a swipe at conspiracy theories, I wouldn't start with event that caused US intelligence agencies to create the term "conspiracy theory", and I wouldn't chose a pair of political hits on two brothers, after which the supposed perpetrators were immediately murdered by someone else.

Michelin gave Martin a bum tire because they love Italy and they despise Spain. That's a good place to start

mikesbytes · Nov 22, 2023

mylexicon said:
Michelin gave Martin a bum tire because they love Italy and they despise Spain. That's a good place to start

In the same way they helped Quartararo win the world championship as Michelin is a French company so they wanted a Frenchie to win

DavidSim · Nov 22, 2023

PRS717 said:
Me thinks Digi might change his mind about WSBK but I don't know what, if any, seats are available at this point.

Could he end up doing a year in the MotoAmerica series, he wouldn't be the first MotoGP rider to do so (i.e., Petrucci, Elias, Héctor Barberá).

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