I reckon !!!!
Hayden had the audacity and outright gall to,
1) out place Stoner in races last year
2)Stay upright, and therefore outplace Stoner in races last year.
Woe betide anyone on a Repsol Honda shod machine that should be so feckless as not to know their place in the line.
It's the same ol' tactic used by Mick Doohan on everyone/anyone who had the ability to be able to stick somewhere near him Whinge whinge bloody moan. "Criville copied my settings"....... "Criville is only able to ride near me cause he copied my settings" ect ect ect.
It's the same ol' tactic used by Rossi on Sete Gibbon, Max Be-aggy pants.......although the whinge at Hee-Haw copting his settings seemed strangely minor.........I don't think that had anything with not being able to go with Hee-Haw, but maybe down to feeling pissed at Yamaha for giving Hee-Haw a pay rise, ( when he , as Rising Sun says, of the vomit coloured leathers, had offered to accept a pay cut, after Yamaha had cried poor) which in itself is rather childish........Although, in the same breath, a bit of a kick in the face to Rossi and JB...........the very people who dragged what was left of Yamaha from the position of sucking it's thumb and clutching (like a childs security blanket) dirty rags once used by Kel Caruthers somewhere in a dark corner of the workshop back to the top of the dias. A feat which akin to the second coming.
( Suzuki actually doing anything since they lost the one rider with the ability, and aparent complete lack of a sense of self presevation in his efforts to drag (and keep) a random assortment of nuts, bolts and various motorcycle looking bits to the top of the podium, is the Biblical equivelant of a second creation..... )
And now this Tactic is being used (somewhat poorly.........in direct comparison to the previous two examples........ahhh the youth of today) By Hee-Haw and Lord Big ears on poor ol' Simo.
This tactic, when you read between the lines, usually comes into play when riders who are doing well identify a threat to their standings or position, and commence with deriding the said individual in the public domain by using their" Lordy-Lordy -look at me and my acheivements....I know what I'm talking about and this guy is dangerous/can't do a thing without my help/is a whinger (???)/is in my way/slower bikes on the track" until the poor sod actually belives what they say and crumples into a heap before dissolving back into the general populus.....AKA Criville and the Gibbon.
The thing that's laughable is watching Hee-Haw and Stoner waffle on, when Simo is doing no worse than
1) Stoner at LCR (c'mon people, it wasn't that long ago....take those coloured glasses off)
2) Stoner in 250's
3) Lorenzo's first year in Moto.
Watching them sit side -by side and "Yes, yes......based on our infinite wisdom, I concur with what Prof Hee-Haw is saying"
..........""Yes, with our combined wisdom and all round nice fellow-always do everything by thbook-never dirty reputations, I determine that Casey and Myself are 100% correct"
.....is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. The only thing that can/will top this is the eventual falling out they will have when the inevitable battle between them occurs.
"Casey is dangerous"
"I used to have respect for Lorenzo....."
Who's worldy wisdom will carry the weight of persuasion then.....
Dear oh dear Simo..........fancy placing you leg exactly where Hee-Haw planned to put his bike and make him crash..........I mean, really........just how stupid are you ???
Hope these inept mind games don't get to Simo, and he has the chance to improve (or not).........Just as Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum had the opportunity to do.
You are very welcome on the forum as far as I am concerned, you are obviously an enthusiastic long-time follower of the sport, and express your opinions (to which you are absolutely entitled even if they differ from mine) in a colourful and amusing way.
However , like some of the posters who I find less admirable from my point of view you are conflating several different arguments in this post, and arguing against what you would like things to be rather than what they are.
Is casey stoner arrogant? Sure, as are all motogp champions with whom I am familiar with the possible exception of nicky hayden. Is stoner rather tightly wound and does he exaggerate the severity of some of these incidents? Quite possibly. But I have no doubt that he genuinely thinks this is a serious safety issue (whether or not you agree with him), to the extent it has become a personal crusade, and that this incident had nothing to do with nicky beating him on occasion last year or nicky copying his lines. I also think his issue with people seeking tows in general is a safety concern rather than with riders trying to discern his lines, with the exception of the rossi thing at estoril where he was looking for any excuse because he was (understandably and justifiably in my view) annoyed with rossi. Unlike mick doohan, he seems relaxed about team-mates having his data too.
Mick doohan when he raced pretty well defined irascible, and what you say about him complaining about other riders, particularly alex criville, stealing his set-up is absolutely as I remember things too. However, whilst I don't know what he complained about in practice and qualifying since we got little coverage here at that time as you know, I don't think he complained about alex seeking tows in the races because alex was copying his lines. By my recollection his complaint was that alex made none of the running in the races, and that his only tactic was to stay with mick the whole race by slipstreaming without attempting to pass, and then try to dive past on the last lap; I had some sympathy with mick finding this annoying.
