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yo - if you are going to indy, i can't wait to punch you in the balls for thinking i'm someone else.
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I'm fairly certain Nicky can live wherever he wants when he's done racing. Some people really enjoy rural areas, particularly millionaires with giant estates. Just sayin.
I think like every competitive personality, they never think the sun has truly set. Instead they believe that better equipment and harder training can overcome age and injury. Nicky is not finishing in last place. Instead he still bests younger guys on similar equipment. While I think we can all agree that he's never going to challenge or lead, he probably views this endeavor very differently. Then there's the few million bucks a year.....I'd hang out and collect that until it was no longer offered. That day is coming in my estimation but who knows for sure.
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yo - if you are going to indy, i can't wait to punch you in the balls for thinking i'm someone else.
I'll be there with several former Powerslide luminaries! Info forthcoming. It'll be a solid group.
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I dunno. Don't recall anyone other than the truly mindless boppers really hating on Lorenzo. I think everyone across the board thought his post win antics were pathetic; and he has the personality of a doorknob. But I loved watching him duke it out with Rossi and listening to the sound of deflating boppers everywhere. There was never an anti-Lorenzo tide that ever came close to tsunami of loathing that Stoner endured. I think it rankled the Rossifans in an extra painful way that Stoner cleaned Rossi's clock on that ...... Ducati.
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i'm debating whether i want to prove to you now - or to see your face when your standing in front of a bad ... mother ...... like myself.
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Oh boy....no please, I like surprises. See you there.
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Sure - he could, go live anywhere. But he's so indebted to his family that I don't think they'd forgive him if he went off to live in Beverly Hills. He's been off the farm for so many years. I doubt he wants to buy a spread and raise cattle. But then again... I remember being surprised when Roberts retired and revealed that his great passion in life had become playing golf.
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ugh - good god - who likes golf. you might as well check yourself into a retirement home.
having a bad ... ranch would be so much cooler.
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When it comes down to it....Nicky will live where his girlfriend wants him to live....if he ever marries her.....which means Orange Country California and not the Kentucky deliverance backwoods....
Assuming his girlfriend doesn't dump him once he retires and is no longer in the spotlight!
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KROP.....How nervous are the MotoGP Factory class teams about using the Spec Software next year given its continued issues (e.g. Bradl at Jerez)?
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ugh - good god - who likes golf. you might as well check yourself into a retirement home.
having a bad ... ranch would be so much cooler.
When you talk to the real titans of Moto GP - the one thing they all agree on is that racing is 95% cerebral and only a bit of big balls. One of the first things people learn to do is to walk the track on foot and then race the track in your head with your eyes closed and plan every corner, mentally. It's very much a form of meditation. Nowadays - a lot of racers try to replace that by playing video games of the track - but the top guys continue to do it the old fashioned way. It's so much more of a Zen practice than beer-chugging fanboys can imagine. And serious golfers are really into any mind-quieting practice that can help them focus on the task at hand with the press standing just out of range of TV cameras zooming in on every little thing they do. I've been in the room with Lawson and Roberts and met Spencer (when he was at the top of his game) and Schwantz and they are the epitome of calm and centered.
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schwantz was silly! he def takes it slow now, he said how he likes to do trails. which i think is bad ....
i never thought of golf being a quiet/zen practice but i guess it is when you are a dude.
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As a kid - he was bat-.... nuts. I saw him ride at Loudon when he was racing AMA Superbike and he'd never been to the track before. It was a club racing weekend with WERA and I was a racing that weekend in an endurance race and he signed up for the endurance race (tho he was already AMA Pro) just to get track time for the following weekend. He was on the ragged edge every second. He used to crash so much then - that while you couldn't help love his spirit - nobody believed he'd survive the insane number of injuries he endured, never mind the the Superbike Championship. If someone had said he'd be a Formula One (what the 500ccc two-stroke series was called then) champion one day, I'd have bet a million dollars against it. Took him a long time to grow up and chill out.
Honda and Yamaha have basically taken control of the spec software development. As for Bradl at Jerez, what you have to remember is that Stefan Bradl is managed by the man who runs Speedweek. Any stories on there regarding Bradl are, how shall we say? Told from a specific perspective ...
Plus, Gunther has more axes to grind than a Canadian lumberjack supply shop.
Also, last year's Magneti Marelli software was nowhere near as good as the software this year. Has anyone checked Aleix Espargaro's results from 2014?
Another question for Krops
How much of Lorenzo's kicking of rossis ... (and everyone else's) at Jerez has to be attributed to an unusual tyre/surface situation. Let's face it Rossi has wiped the floor with him at every other round with varying tyre choices and conditions?
Personally I believe Lorenzo needs a few more solid performances before he can be considered 'back', just as Rossis win at assen in 2013 was mistaken for something more than what it was-an astrrix.
How much of Lorenzo's kicking of rossis ... (and everyone else's) at Jerez has to be attributed to an unusual tyre/surface situation. Let's face it Rossi has wiped the floor with him at every other round with varying tyre choices and conditions?
Personally I believe Lorenzo needs a few more solid performances before he can be considered 'back', just as Rossis win at assen in 2013 was mistaken for something more than what it was-an astrrix.
Honestly, I think this was extremely indicative of the state of MotoGP today. What happened at Jerez is that everything went perfectly for Lorenzo. The tire worked, he felt good, they didn't have any real set up problems with the bike. Rossi and Marquez struggled, Marquez because he was being a .... and riding with people he shouldn't be (this is the second time his mate has injured him in a practice crash) and Rossi because they buggered around trying to get the hard tire to work. In Argentina, Rossi got to work on the hard tire straight away, and benefited. In Austin, everything went Marquez' way, while Lorenzo was ill.
I believe Lorenzo has been back since Sepang 1 (he looked incredibly fit there). But he has been held back by the curse of Harold McMillan ("Events, dear boy, events.")
And thanks, I now have a subject for my OTOR column...
Thanks Krop, and your welcome!
Let's hope we've got a better battle at LeMans, Jerez certainly was a step down on the other rounds so far this season. I guess the tail Enders were happy, they got a fair bit of TV coverage for their sponsors....
Let's hope we've got a better battle at LeMans, Jerez certainly was a step down on the other rounds so far this season. I guess the tail Enders were happy, they got a fair bit of TV coverage for their sponsors....
Talps, you raise an interesting scenario and perhaps one that Krop could answer.
What are the tolerances within the tyre builds?
By this I mean what testing is done to ensure that all tyres that are produced as tyre X are in fact the same as opposed to having manufacturing flaws that could affect their performance by comparison again other tyres of the same compound (not referring to major flaws like chunking but more a flaw that has a slight impact on tyre life, performance and degradation)?
May likely be near impossible to obtain but have always looked at it from a manufacturing view that when building product, you test a certain number and if a batch is flawed you junk the batch. Just wondering if this occurs with B'stone and the other tyre suppliers.
Talps, you have hit it on the head here and it is a little bug bear of mine that 1 good performance does not mean a rejuvenated rider or a return to form as you need consistency in results for form to be returns.
The issue I suspect is that commentators must 'talk up' the series/sport and thus to make mention that a rider is back in form due to one result just sells more headline space.
Krop, good to hear that Lorenzo was looking the goods in Sepang but wast here any rider/s that clearly needed the physical work to be done (no need to answer if controversial, a yes/no will be sufficient
)?Talps, you raise an interesting scenario and perhaps one that Krop could answer.
What are the tolerances within the tyre builds?
By this I mean what testing is done to ensure that all tyres that are produced as tyre X are in fact the same as opposed to having manufacturing flaws that could affect their performance by comparison again other tyres of the same compound (not referring to major flaws like chunking but more a flaw that has a slight impact on tyre life, performance and degradation)?
May likely be near impossible to obtain but have always looked at it from a manufacturing view that when building product, you test a certain number and if a batch is flawed you junk the batch. Just wondering if this occurs with B'stone and the other tyre suppliers.
Talps, you have hit it on the head here and it is a little bug bear of mine that 1 good performance does not mean a rejuvenated rider or a return to form as you need consistency in results for form to be returns.
The issue I suspect is that commentators must 'talk up' the series/sport and thus to make mention that a rider is back in form due to one result just sells more headline space.
Krop, good to hear that Lorenzo was looking the goods in Sepang but wast here any rider/s that clearly needed the physical work to be done (no need to answer if controversial, a yes/no will be sufficient
Yes its always been an issue for me (as we all know) and Bridgestone, this rubber supply, the age of rubber being used-now we are back in Europe are BS digging into the last of the stockpile that was made last year and in storage in Spain.... I think in general at Jerez there we a few surprises-Lorenzo being the obvious one, Marc also surprised me in the race with his injury-holding off Rossi, or more likely Rossi not being able to use the Medium or Hard option here, and also killing his front again similar to Texas. Whilst being the fastest on race day in the Qatar and Argentinian rounds-and also posting the fastest race lap at COTA-a bogie track for him.
And Ducati? Not even really close in the race at all, while being very strong in ALL of the other 3 rounds-all anomalies perhaps but I feel as though the rubber has a lot to do with it. I'm hoping Michelin will provide more compound and construction options next year.....another one for Krop?
Lorenzo's classic style needs good grip to ride fast. That's the main reason he did so well in Jerez. The race was way faster than previous year thanks to the good grip (clouds, cooler temp).
I guess they improved the helmet also...
I guess they improved the helmet also...
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