Pedrosa, Marquez, Crutchlow and Ianone change their opinion about the front tyres....after the race. well, that's pretty fast response from the mich, if you really think the reason they brought last year tyres because of them, not just Rossi.
throughout pre season testing also free practice session in qatar, they've never complain. only after the race, with varying track condition, they change their opinion. and immediately listened by mich.
is it normal response from mich? is it really necessary?
surprisingly, its not just us who think someone in motogp grid play a dirty game. even Marc Marquez and Jorge Lorenzo think the same....thankfully documented.
throughout pre season testing also free practice session in qatar, they've never complain. only after the race, with varying track condition, they change their opinion. and immediately listened by mich.
is it normal response from mich? is it really necessary?
surprisingly, its not just us who think someone in motogp grid play a dirty game. even Marc Marquez and Jorge Lorenzo think the same....thankfully documented.
Fact they took away the harder option which Marquez proffered in testing in favour of the old hard that Rossi preferred? You think this was decided overnight?
The details of this are too unclear for me to have any strong opinion, but I will say that if the Canadian Mounties always get their man, Valentino Rossi always gets his tyre.
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I'd have to ask how many crims are running around in Canada then!
So you choose to dispute what is easier to dispute, the maxim that the Mounties always get their man, rather than that Rossi always gets his tyre. Interesting.
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The same time that Rossi's assertion that Marc Marquez was conspiring against him in PI 2015 :giggle:
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If we are to switch from the tongue in cheek to the totally serious at your whim, when since 2007 has Rossi not got the tyre he wanted?
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Never, every race weekend they get a choice of tyres, he chooses the ones he wants from those.
Nonsense. He got the Bridgestones in 2008, which were not his to choose before considerable machinations.
I have never had a problem with him having whatever tyres he wants anyway as I have rather frequently said, my problem is with the range of tyres available to his competitors, with tyres which suited them not infrequently being withdrawn; again I ask you, what tyre of Rossi's preference, as opposed to tyres preferred by his competitors, has been withdrawn since 2007?
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From SuperbikePlanet:
The late withdrawal of the fourth, stiffer front tyre following the Safety Commission meeting last night raised a few eyebrows. Cal Crutchlow wasn’t happy that a “rat” was leaking things said in the privacy of the Commission. Marc Marquez managed to be diplomatic in the extreme by pointing out that the tyre would probably have helped him but you cannot just change the rules and overcrowd the race schedule. The unspoken suggestion was, of course, that this was the tyre that Valentino Rossi very much wanted to use, although he did not attend the meeting. Was this really a matter of safety or a technical rule? A rat told me that one rider demanded very loudly of Loris Capirossi why he was bringing a special tyre for his friends: “You never do that for me when I have a sh*t weekend!”
The late withdrawal of the fourth, stiffer front tyre following the Safety Commission meeting last night raised a few eyebrows. Cal Crutchlow wasn’t happy that a “rat” was leaking things said in the privacy of the Commission. Marc Marquez managed to be diplomatic in the extreme by pointing out that the tyre would probably have helped him but you cannot just change the rules and overcrowd the race schedule. The unspoken suggestion was, of course, that this was the tyre that Valentino Rossi very much wanted to use, although he did not attend the meeting. Was this really a matter of safety or a technical rule? A rat told me that one rider demanded very loudly of Loris Capirossi why he was bringing a special tyre for his friends: “You never do that for me when I have a sh*t weekend!”
You invented this. Who said the SNS were all the same, and were all focused on Rossi?
Edit: I see that MichaelM et al have already debunked this assertion.
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