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Schwants talks about Catalunya, I.O.M., Silverstone, Spies, Rossi's options
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So much info to digest. One of the things that stood out was his take on the Marquez incident - in that he refutes what a lot of arm-chair racers have said about a rider being expected to have eyes in the back of his head. That and what he said about the distance that Espagaro attempted to cover - given that he was only riding a 600. I appreciate that he held off giving an opinion until after actually riding the circuit. Seemed like a very fair and balanced take on the whole affair.
Pretty fair and balanced about everything he discussed. Valentino riding for a suzuki team managed by schwantz I would like to see. I think they might have really been able to do something with the sort of money spent on the ducati for the last 2 years. I might even follow him in preference to crutchlow if this eventuated; always liked suzuki.
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A Suzuki team managed by Schwantz, with Rossi in it, and a rich sponsor? Vale and Kevin are good friends, and that would help in making a deal. But what strikes me the most, is that Suzuki are coming back with a bike that looks like an M1 replica, something that could have appeal for JB and Rossi. Let's remember that testing limitations have been lifted, so even if it is a new bike there would be plenty of winter testing time. We'll see. Would it make sense for Suzuki? Oh Yes. But it should be for 2013 in this case.
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Edit to add: Anybody think Rossi would rider for Suzuki, or even that Suzuki will return with something as competitive as .... Ducati are living in a pipe dream. Its about as credible as ..... in the news. Not sure why he added this into his blog, I guess he needs to say the word "suzuki" every time he is published. The brand is as dead as pet rocks.
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Well visit the Moto2 for that event. You'll find the peeps you most agree with disagree with your take here.
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Well visit the Moto2 for that event. You'll find the peeps you most agree with disagree with your take here.
That's cool. As you've pointed out before, truth is not a product of consensus. Friends can disagree.
Agree it is not happening which is pretty much what schwantz said, perhaps wistfully. As opposed to building a competitive thousand bike, I do think valentino et al could have done something with the suzuki 800 last year with similar resources to those devoted to the ducati 800 in that year; if you recall de puniet was surprisingly fast on the suzuki 800 in a one day post-season test.
I would love to see Suzuki back too, my first love was a 600 suzuki gixxer whale tail, and watching Mladin on those gixxers helped. I don't remember the consensus on the board last year of Bautista making the zook look good or was the bike making him look good.
I think people thought that bautista was making the suzuki look good until de puniet got on it for that one-off post season test and went faster than him. It was theorised that they may also have finally managed to sort the bike a bit, and in particular adjust the bike more to the control tyre, generally considered a major problem for them for most of the 800 era; as you no doubt recall they did reasonably well in 2007, with hopkins finishing 4th in the championship and vermeulen winning (albeit in the wet) and placing.
