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NOW ACCORDING TO ME THE ALARM BELLS SHOULD BE RINGING IN MOTOGP
Our Rider X exposes a serious problem in the world championship.
I’m not very good at writing but let’s say this is my attempt to make a heartfelt contribution to the activity that earns me my bread. In great quantities too, I am well aware. Maybe it’s also for this that I really love motorcycling. Therefore, you may consider my comments as being very petty or very passionate. As you wish, I don’t care. What I care about is the result.
So we’re at three: three compliments, open, gratuitious from Valentino to Superbike, to its racing. Three offers to race there “one day, when I’m older”. Three times in which he’s said “In superbike you can see the kind of racing we used to enjoy, with lots of overtaking and less electronics”.
Three in less than one month. You know Valentino right? He’s intelligent and he knows how to send a message about one thing whilst talking about something else at exactly the right moment. I would imagine Ezpeleta has had news of it (considering the news has reached me, I who never ever read anything?!) I also guess that he is enjoying those comments as much as one would enjoy a cat sticking its claws into the seat of his pants.
I think Vale is saying what a lot of people are thinking. Motogp now is the least fun it’s been in the past ten years, whoever of us wins. No overtaking and not even a hint of last lap emotions. A journalist was pointing out to me that for four races in 2008 the rider who won the race was already leading the race by the end of the first lap. For as many more, the arrival order was decided in the first few laps.
Yes it’s true. But we’re not seeing any signs from the relevant institutions that there is any willingness to review the formula. The federation, which safeguards the sport (in theory) remains silent. Of course the tv ratings are good however. But is it enough? No, because it takes an instant for it to fall apart.
I won’t sit here and say the fault really lies in the electronics, safe but which makes its presence felt, or in the tyres, very evolved and very funky. I think however it could be both things together. Of course there are strange coincidences, of course we could or should set up a meeting to discuss this, even if it leads nowhere. But it’s a priority even more urgent than that strange and murky thing which is happening with the 250’s. But that’s another story.
I race. I enjoy myself ok, but I don’t understand how anyone watching from the outside, the decision makers, can fail to feel uncomfortable about it. We’ll talk further, about this and more. You’ll see. Ciao.
Rider X
NOW ACCORDING TO ME THE ALARM BELLS SHOULD BE RINGING IN MOTOGP
Our Rider X exposes a serious problem in the world championship.
I’m not very good at writing but let’s say this is my attempt to make a heartfelt contribution to the activity that earns me my bread. In great quantities too, I am well aware. Maybe it’s also for this that I really love motorcycling. Therefore, you may consider my comments as being very petty or very passionate. As you wish, I don’t care. What I care about is the result.
So we’re at three: three compliments, open, gratuitious from Valentino to Superbike, to its racing. Three offers to race there “one day, when I’m older”. Three times in which he’s said “In superbike you can see the kind of racing we used to enjoy, with lots of overtaking and less electronics”.
Three in less than one month. You know Valentino right? He’s intelligent and he knows how to send a message about one thing whilst talking about something else at exactly the right moment. I would imagine Ezpeleta has had news of it (considering the news has reached me, I who never ever read anything?!) I also guess that he is enjoying those comments as much as one would enjoy a cat sticking its claws into the seat of his pants.
I think Vale is saying what a lot of people are thinking. Motogp now is the least fun it’s been in the past ten years, whoever of us wins. No overtaking and not even a hint of last lap emotions. A journalist was pointing out to me that for four races in 2008 the rider who won the race was already leading the race by the end of the first lap. For as many more, the arrival order was decided in the first few laps.
Yes it’s true. But we’re not seeing any signs from the relevant institutions that there is any willingness to review the formula. The federation, which safeguards the sport (in theory) remains silent. Of course the tv ratings are good however. But is it enough? No, because it takes an instant for it to fall apart.
I won’t sit here and say the fault really lies in the electronics, safe but which makes its presence felt, or in the tyres, very evolved and very funky. I think however it could be both things together. Of course there are strange coincidences, of course we could or should set up a meeting to discuss this, even if it leads nowhere. But it’s a priority even more urgent than that strange and murky thing which is happening with the 250’s. But that’s another story.
I race. I enjoy myself ok, but I don’t understand how anyone watching from the outside, the decision makers, can fail to feel uncomfortable about it. We’ll talk further, about this and more. You’ll see. Ciao.
Rider X
