<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jumkie @ Apr 27 2009, 09:19 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Heyduum, first of all, welcome to the forum, hopefully you won’t be a newboot-a-week we get around here only to go back into oblivion next week. Rack up a few posts. Well despite your tired old entrance, you seem like a fellow that we can have a few fruitful exchanges.
Ok, I feel compelled to let you know the guy you quoted is Curve, and I can assure you it was witty sarcasm (which you missed, but understandably). Curve is a puppy with a pit-bull sense of humor. This is why nobody responded to it because mostly everybody is a regular. Actually, he usually responds with a hilarious but effective picture to make his point. Which you will undoubtedly get for your subpar albeit newbie post.
Anyway, as far as your weak defense of Takacrashi in which you chose the lame tactic of shitting on Hayden to somehow tell us its ‘just a racing incident’, reveals more about your understanding of the sport than the actual incident itself. Ah, so you were at Laguna in 02, did you then craw in a cave after that? Just wondering since you cite Hayden on the 800 Honda, again revealing what you know about its development and the series as a whole. It’s an old subject and it might do you some good to search out a few threads (there are plenty) regarding this issue. Notwithstanding, the fact that you mentioned it to pad your feeble defense already tells me where you stand.
Ok, I will agree with you that most all crashes are "racing incidents" if you agree with me that not all "racing incidents" are created equal. This was a bonehead mistake by an over-his-head rookie that doesn't belong in the class. Yes, you disagree, right? Ok, well my contention is he didn't belong in the class in the first place. (Side note, I was already done with this subject until you appeared, but .... it, I have some time). You want to cite that he came 5th in 250's last year as your premise that he belongs, yeah; well he came 11th the year before that, and most all years it was in the double digits. BTW, that 5th classification was with zero wins, zero poles, zero fastest laps, and his entire feeder series win total for 250s is 2 and that was three years ago. He's a token in the series. If you look at the grid, most all of them are made up of champs or runners up. Yuuki made the top 5 once! It’s a very uncharacteristic record for a person to be promoted to MotoGP. Can he ride? Yes. But so can a few top riders in national series and world series, and they are not being offered seats in MotoGP. Its possible he may pan out, but it seems for now he will be a danger to other riders. I hope not. And of course, with this bonehead torpedo, it cast a light and begs the question: Hey, how did this guy even get a seat?
But you know what, I'm not even that bothered about the “racing incident”; it was his ...... reaction to the incident that made me stand up and notice. Take a look at the video again. He slams into Hayden, and his first reaction and body language was a child like pouting of losing his opportunity to play with his toys. Look at it again, check out his youngster reaction of hands on his head, while in the foreground, Hayden is lying on his back, looking like he's convulsing in pain. He took a while to get up and Yuuki doesn't so much as look at the guy. I say .... your own stupid opportunity and run to check on the guy you might have just paralyzed.
Ah, but then read his comments when they asked him about the crash. Yuuki has no explanation; he doesn't know what happened, amazing! And then he turns to confirming what his body language said at the crash site, he was disappointed that he wouldn't be able to put in laps. WTF. Dude, all that should be coming out of his mouth is what a ....... bone head move it was and how he has tirelessly apologized, end of comment. Why pick that first interview to whine about not having the opportunity to put in more laps? No ...., since it was him who took himself out and another rider in the process. Now I've seen Yuuki make an attempt to speak English, but go to his interviews, it seems he has forgotten what little he knew.
As far as not making a big deal if it was Canepa. Fail, again. Go on to an Italian forum, when one of there own is as much grazed, much less shelled, they are way pissed off calling for torture of the guy and his kids.
How many posts do you plan to make before you forget your password?
I am not defending the move by Takahashi, i agree that it was a stupid overzaulous move. I am however defending him as a rider.
About their reactions at the scene, now you're just being a sour Hayden fan. How many times have after a collision between 2 riders have you seen them apollogizing at the scene? Not a lot if my memory serves me right and on top of that, Hayden clearly didn't seem to want any apologie at that moment. Now i don't have any access to post-race interviews so i can't really gudge about that, but i agree TAkahashi ows Hayden a apolagie and maybe he even apolagized, just not in some post race interview.
About Takakhasi "belonging" in the Motogp, he as proven to be a quick but also very consistent rider. In 2007 he finished 11th because he missed a few races because of injury, in 2006 he finished 6th with 2 wins and consistently finishing in the top 5 and 2005 was his rookie season with most finishes well in the top 10. On top of that, from the 5 wildcards he had before that, he retired 1 time and had a 5th, 4th and 2 3rd finishes , again a pretty respectable result.
In his last 3 seasons of 250 he was second fastest Honda rider next to Dovizioso, so is it really that hard to see why Honda wanted him on a Honda in the Motogp?
And maybe after a dissapointing start he won't make any progressionat all , but he could just as well make some nice top 10 finishes this season, we'll just have to wait and see. Same goes for Hayden for that matter.
But is see no reason at all why Takahashi and his riding is being burned down already on this forum.
