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Can't you persuade Casey to step in for Ducati? You know, kidnap his dog or something [emoji1]
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NJ
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I think the bike is slightly better this year but further away from the Yamaha than last year not that you could tell from just looking at the points. This year, there has been really one track where the Honda was better than the Yamaha and that was COTA, Maybe Argentina, but that race turned on a bike swap. This season was set up for a Yamaha runaway but a little bad luck and a lot of rider .... ups have derailed what should have been an easy championship. I think the Honda is better than what Pedrosa has got out of it , but nowhere near as good as what Marquez has got out of it. A weird season indeed.
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Bottom line: Marquez is - in Stoner-fashion - out-riding the Honda's deficiencies. Pedrosa is riding it at what Dani perceives as the limits of safety and of course - within the limitations of his style and distaste for risk. I doubt it has much to do with Dani's size as in the past. Marquez is a freaking skeleton and not of great stature.
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NJ
Rossi went off on A.Asparagus for impeding him in FP2.
https://www.facebook.com/MotoGP/videos/10154804749280769/
I like how he was still raging as he rode past the pit wall and flipped the bird.
https://www.facebook.com/MotoGP/videos/10154804749280769/
I like how he was still raging as he rode past the pit wall and flipped the bird.
I fractured a vertibrae when I was young and it's a long recovery with out sport if you want to do it properly. I'm interested to see what he and his team decide to do.
I don't agree with that, Marquez was the difference at the track. .... even Lorenzo said so after the race.
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Your Mom's House
Why start or stop at this weekend? Why not an asterisk next to every race from his return to Yamaha brokered (coerced) by Carmelo Clause himself. At very least every podium trophy should bare: presented to Team DornaRossi.
If you live in a glass house, don't throw rocks.
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NJ
I thought he was attempting to manufacture a slight, much like the post-Phillip Island 2015 slight he manufactured.
Rossi had plenty of room to clear past Asparagus instead of ranting like a lunatic.
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NJ
Apparently Iannone could race anyway...which I would consider monumental stupidity if he goes through with it. Given he is not racing for a seat anymore at Ducati, or anywhere else since has the Suzuki contract locked own, there's no upside to racing. A lot of downside if he crashes again and that T3 fracture turns into something worse.
Being monumentally stupid would hardly require a drastic behaviour change from him.
I was looking forward to your thesis about the effects of Stoner's development at a track at which he has tested extensively being proven, but it already wasn't looking like Austria. Hard to know on the information published how much risk would be involved, but the potential for a significant result for him would seem low.
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I thought that as well, there was plenty of room to go around him. The chosen one just didn't believe that he should do such things.
Espargaro reveals visit from race director over Rossi run-in
Espargaro reveals visit from race director over Rossi run-in
Espargaro reveals visit from race director over Rossi run-in
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Your Mom's House
Exactly. It's his home GP, friends and family there, not to mention he is after all a racer, sanguine type A personalities. He crashed out of his previous race, likely wants to wash that taste out of his system. Look at Miller, he shouldn't have raced Silverstone either, and he crashed again. These guys aren't like us. Iannone being Italian on a ducati, Misano is like putting blood in a pool to a shark, he practically can't help himself. He'd rather risk being seriously hurt than missing this race. Frankly, that probably doesn't go into his thought processes, they can't really race thinking they're gonna get hurt.
For his sake, I hope either his team or someone with independent perspective shields him from himself. I like Iannone, despite his major mistakes. Given he is racing at a track named for a beloved man who took similar liberties with safety to himself and others, I hope the decision to race is made by someone other than Iannone.
If you live in a glass house, don't throw rocks.
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