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Radio Tavullia: Rossi without Burgess in 2014

Burgess has been involved in GP racing since the 70's!  He has nothing else to prove, he's earned a nice and quiet retirement.
 
I'm not at all surprised. In fact i'm surprised he didn't retire a couple of seasons ago.  He is not getting any younger and his wife has been seriously ill. He has achieved more than anyone in their career. I wish him all the best and a very happy retirement.
 
chopperman
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I'm not at all surprised. In fact i'm surprised he didn't retire a couple of seasons ago.  He is not getting any younger and his wife has been seriously ill. He has achieved more than anyone in their career. I wish him all the best and a very happy retirement.


A mate of mine told me about a month ago that this was likely. He is a family friend and JB's missus thinks it was time he gave it away. He also mentioned that he was considering another alternative and linked him to spannering for another rider.....not prepared to say anything more than that at this stage.
 
Lord only knows if the translation is remotely accurate, or if any of this 'article' is more than idle gossip, but this...


 
<span style="font-size:13px;TAVULLIA - Radio Tavullia never lets you down and when it launches its news these are real "bombs."


<span style="font-size:13px;The time of the evening between 22.45 Monday, November 5 and Tuesday 6 when the "bomb" comes to the reporter, precise, dry: "Valentino does not want Jeremy Burgess as its head coach."


 


...makes it sound like Rossi actually wants Burgess gone. (?)


 


I'm sure the Boppers will latch onto the news as proof that poor Vale is still being oppressed, this time by an incompetent crew chief.  :rolleyes:


 


I'd like to think this is BS.  If true, throwing Jeremy Burgess under the bus must rate an all time low as an Excuse-of-the-Day.


 
<span style="font-size:12px;TAVULLIA - Radio Tavullia never lets you down and when it launches its news these are real "bombs." The time of the evening between 22.45 Monday, November 5 and Tuesday 6 when the "bomb" comes to the reporter, precise, dry: "Valentino does not want Jeremy Burgess as its head coach."


 


<span style="font-size:12px;The blast is large and that the impact and damage can produce will evaluate it later.


 


<span style="font-size:12px;Butwhy a relationship that started life in 2000 between Valentine and "Jeremiah" (as Vale calls his crew chief) has enjoyed getting to this point?


 


<span style="font-size:12px;Question from a million dollars and we look good in dall'addentrarci analysis at this time are difficult to verify, what we can say is that when results do not come, while your teammate in the same bike arrives at the finish line about twenty seconds before you, the relationship will inevitably fail.


 


<span style="font-size:12px;If we add to what was stated in an interview that Burgess has issued to the Spanish newspaper Marca on June 13 of this year - "Valentino starts to feel the weight of age, time passes and if he wins another world would be a miracle" - we may have a clearer picture.


 


<span style="font-size:12px;Perhaps that day, and the uncertain is a must, maybe we said Jeremiah had made ​​one beer too releasing an interview that - certainly - did not do happy the Doctor who knows perfectly the theory of Burgess which states: "The result of a race depends on the pilot from 80% and 20% from the middle."


 


<span style="font-size:12px;And the Vale National is one who does not appear but if you take it when someone close to him is not nice to him, and when he takes bad, you're in trouble. Serious trouble.


 


<span style="font-size:12px;Bargess, was born in Australia, Adelaide Hills, born in 1953 (April 16) and has a degree in engineering. Bargess arrived in motorcycle world as a technician in February 1980, supervised the Suzuki Mamola. With the Suzuki worked until 1982, then switched to Honda where he worked for 21 years. Before becoming chief engineer in 1985 as a "simple" technical won the World Cup with Spencer.


<span style="font-size:12px;From head coach has won with Wayne Gardner, Mick Doohan and Vale Rossi.


 


<span style="font-size:12px;In 2000 Bargess arrived at the court of Rossi to "cure" the yellow Honda 500 cc. two-stroke 4 cylinder. A beast, a motorcycle for real pilots. Jeremiah did not trust much of Vale, was used with Doohan, a pilot edgy, Australian like him.


<span style="font-size:12px;That is when he tested for the first time the two-stroke beast said to his crew chief, "Jeremiah, this bike to me you have to put (set) as I say." The second test, in Malaysia, Burgess since that was the bike that Doohan won everything changed nothing: It made ​​us three laps went back to the pits and insisted: "Maybe we have not understood, so the bike I do not want it." At that point, Burgess knew that Vale had talent and also the "Zebedee" and the romance between the two began.


 


<span style="font-size:12px;Until this year.


 


<span style="font-size:12px;We do not know what will happen next year, what we know for sure is that from 2000 until the last Grand Prix this season, Bargess is not on the side of Vale on the track only twice: at Mugello in 2011 and in the next race at Sachsenring the poor health of his wife Claudine.


 


 
 
I doubt vale would throw JB under the bus. Maybe telling him "if you really want to call it a day and retire don't stay out of loyalty to me".


Or here is a thought. Maybe JB has friction at yam so Rossi has said " tell them to shove the job up their bum and i will give you a job in my new moto3 sky team" ??
 
chopperman
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I doubt vale would throw JB under the bus. Maybe telling him "if you really want to call it a day and retire don't stay out of loyalty to me".

Or here is a thought. Maybe JB has friction at yam so Rossi has said " tell them to shove the job up their bum and i will give you a job in my new moto3 sky team" ??


Indeed, playing second fiddle to Wilco wouldn't be at all fun for a man like JB. It's been interesting that Cal has revealed a lot more than VR about the development direction of the M1. Either way unless by some miracle the regs get changed for next season, Yamaha are going to struggle
 
Talpa
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Indeed, playing second fiddle to Wilco wouldn't be at all fun for a man like JB. It's been interesting that Cal has revealed a lot more than VR about the development direction of the M1. Either way unless by some miracle the regs get changed for next season, Yamaha are going to struggle


You mean playing second fiddle to a man like Ramon?
 
For the last three or four seasons it has looked like JB is only staying in the paddock out of loyalty to Rossi. I was really surprised when he went with him to Ducati because that would have been an opportunity to say "you're on your own with this one". A recent highlight for me was watching on TV the practice bike swap pitstops. Rossi looked like he was struggling a bit more than the other guys to swing his leg over and JB is just standing there laughing at him.


 


The GP circus is a long way from home, and when you've had enough it can't be much fun on those long haul flights.
 
I was thinking this might be best for everyone for a while now… Hey, isn't some more of Casey's old crew becoming available as MM's demon manager cleans house?
 
chopperman
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I doubt vale would throw JB under the bus. Maybe telling him "if you really want to call it a day and retire don't stay out of loyalty to me".


Or here is a thought. Maybe JB has friction at yam so Rossi has said " tell them to shove the job up their bum and i will give you a job in my new moto3 sky team" ??


I am not so sure....JB has been making a few comments the last year or so that were quite disparaging towards Rossi at times - his comment in an interview at the Phillip Island GP in 2011 about Rossi giving up on the Duc and how "the rider" and not "the bike" was their main problem is just one example  ....I wouldnt really be that suprised if there was a falling out between them.
 
Mick D
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I was thinking this might be best for everyone for a while now… Hey, isn't some more of Casey's old crew becoming available as MM's demon manager cleans house?


I actually think MM's crew and management are the only things which threaten his career.
 
This is gossip at it's worst. Then to extrapolate that Vale is throwing JB under the bus/they dislike each other? Soap opera fellas...


 


JB leaving wouldn't surprise me. The rest of this is laughable.
 
Mr Squiggle
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I am not so sure....JB has been making a few comments the last year or so that were quite disparaging towards Rossi at times - his comment in an interview at the Phillip Island GP in 2011 about Rossi giving up on the Duc and how "the rider" and not "the bike" was their main problem is just one example  ....I wouldnt really be that suprised if there was a falling out between them.


 


He was pretty honest in Beattie's regular interview with him at Phillip Island this year. Said that he hoped there was maybe a couple of wins left in it for Vale, but the dream of being a championship contender again were over. He just looked genuinely over it.
 
Some of those things he said may have been a motivational tool, he has to know Rossi pretty damn well and how to get him to speed up. If he is going away, I hope they do something nice for him to honor his long winning career.
 
michaelm
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I actually think MM's crew and management are the only things which threaten his career.


MM is rewarding his Moto2 crew by bringing some up to his motogp team next year
 
shovelhead
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MM is rewarding his Moto2 crew by bringing some up to his motogp team next year


Yes, that was rather my point. He will have the whole team involved with the Willairot incident with him next year rather than just the part of it involved with the lap strategy at PI this year.
 
michaelm
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Yes, that was rather my point. He will have the whole team involved with the Willairot incident with him next year rather than just the part of it involved with the lap strategy at PI this year.


 


To be fair, I doubt the guys spannering on his bike were to blame for the Willairot incident. I think the guys who sent him out that day are working in his team already.
 
michaelm
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Yes, that was rather my point. He will have the whole team involved with the Willairot incident with him next year rather than just the part of it involved with the lap strategy at PI this year.


Poor little lost lamb.
 

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