The 2013 MotoGP Torpedo Award goes to!!!

My money is on Bradl making more puntting errors in 2013.  He will be desperate to show he is as good as MM, will try to make hader passes that simply wont work a lot of the time....


 


After that I think Iannone will be sending the rest of the Ducs into the long grass along with the CRTs.....


 


MM will have been told to keep it cool and be good....he doesnt have to win title in 2013...and he has to know that if he has any chance of wining he cant take big stupid chances that can end up with him going off as well....

lil red rocket pilot

3444191362039701

Yeah I'm with Dubby and Cliche,


I reckon Iannone cold be the first to give a little tickle to send someone off


He ain't Crazy Joe for nowt

Click to expand...

glt, braj!

Geonerd

3444091362035650

  but he really needs to produce one of JB's Magic ... Rabbits before the end of the day.

Click to expand...

 


Does that make him The Brown Torpedo?

Andy Roo

3444101362035723

 He's been kissed on the .... by a fairy Jum

Click to expand...

 


I thought he was a little qwaire... not Marc, the other one.

Cocksucking would seem to be his forte.

Someone up the hill at Austin... Smith?

Besides the obvious choices....not seeing this said by anyone, but ben spies is also going to be a threat.  Maybe not in the beginning, because he will want to relax that shoulder, but after that he will want to show that last year was just down to bad luck and not him sucking.

Ngads

3452591363108023

Besides the obvious choices....not seeing this said by anyone, but ben spies is also going to be a threat.  Maybe not in the beginning, because he will want to relax that shoulder, but after that he will want to show that last year was just down to bad luck and not him sucking.

Click to expand...

How is he going to do that on a bike that is 2 seconds off the pace?

thedeal

3452601363108224

How is he going to do that on a bike that is 2 seconds off the pace?

Click to expand...

 


Steaming up the inside at the first corner...

Big Jorge

3452621363108402

Steaming up the inside at the first corner...

Click to expand...

^^this

bluegreen

3443891362019336

Never count out Bautista. Never.


 


When the chips are down he's there, taken 'em all out.


 


In the wet, dry, hail, sleet, don't matter to Alvaro, he'll get the job done.

Click to expand...

 


My boy Alvaro currently in the lead. Marc is going to have to try a little harder if he want's this one, Alvaro gutted out another great performance today.

There are only two real contenders in this competition imo, in the MotoGP class.


For the moment, Bautista 1, Barbera (strangely enough) 0

I remember the day Mental Analkiss disowned me from his Christmas list.  It was when I started lambasting Alvaro for being a scud missile after he took out all the Ducatis at Valencia, then later when he torpedoed Lorenzo.  Not to mention he torpedoed himself at Qatar when he ...... up his leg.  Lots of people were singing his praises because he 'appeared' to do well on the .... Suzuki (ignoring the fact he had more DNFs than the US national debt) which would be understandable given Suzuki's efforts, right, but then DePuniet debunked this theory after half a day of testing.  Now the Drone strike artist has attacked Rossi at his home GP.  Cal should send Charlie St. Cloud flowers.

Jumkie

3528181370222574

I remember the day Mental Analkiss disowned me from his Christmas list.  It was when I started lambasting Alvaro for being a scud missile after he took out all the Ducatis at Valencia, then later when he torpedoed Lorenzo.  Not to mention he torpedoed himself at Qatar when he ...... up his leg.  Lots of people were singing his praises because he 'appeared' to do well on the .... Suzuki (ignoring the fact he had more DNFs than the US national debt) which would be understandable given Suzuki's efforts, right, but then DePuniet debunked this theory after half a day of testing.  Now the Drone strike artist has attacked Rossi at his home GP.  Cal should send Charlie St. Cloud flowers.

Click to expand...

Why the need to get all stick and stones at me?


 


If Rossi had of been on the inside of this latest incident Bautista would have been blamed for knocking him down because Rossi had the inside line.  Who gives a toss if it was Rossi's home GP.  He tried to go round the outside.  The inside rider was using that line, bad luck.  The bounce of the fence I must admit looked scary.

Ah because after that exchange it all changed..something memorable for me, unfortunately. Cant say I agree, Bautista has had first turn brain farts before and this is just another in a series that have had frustrating results. These guys build so much for the race only to have a twitchy rider screw it all up. That it was at VR's home GP makes it more infuriating. Im sure u would have been ready to slash ur wrists if u would have had the pleasure of Charlie St. Cloud take out Stoner at PI. But since ur unaffected u simply cant empathize. Im no VR fan but that doesn't "cloud" me from seeing the travesty in Bombista's brain fade. Though of the incidents Alvaro has been involved in, this was more mere 1st+ turn happenstance. Yes seeing VR hit hay bales was scary!  Thats what pissed me off about this incident first (any fan of the sport never wants to see these gladiators hurt).  That is, it made me angry that such a lapse in judgement could so easily cause possible serious injury (its the same .... that pissed me off when everybody was 'ata-boying' Marques when he torpedoed JLo); then after I got over that, seeing VR walk away, secondly it pissed me of from being robbed of a possible battle for the podiums (which I'm certain Vale would have been involved in). Im also tickled Race Direction announced incident was under investigation. Such unashamed ........!  While Marc's torpedoed of Jlo was applauded Bautistas was reviewed?... Lame. Also while im at it. Didnt read anybody mention how dangerous and outraged by the hay bales. Though they are much more dangerous than the wall people were proposing to be moved (or in Noyes case proposing the FIM deem Mugello unfit) because Marc had a self inflicted off. Looks like our poor old boy VR's star has ebbed eh? Back in the day Race Direction would have suspended Bautista for taking out Sir Valentino Rossi. And those hay bales would have put the track on probation. Looks like VR is as good as glue (Karma, she is a random ....., but when she visits, its a .....).  Anyway, Marc is the next big thing.  

Mental Anarchist

3528201370233686

Why the need to get all stick and stones at me?


 


<span style="font-size:14px;If Rossi had of been on the inside of this latest incident Bautista would have been blamed for knocking him down because Rossi had the inside line.  Who gives a toss if it was Rossi's home GP.  He tried to go round the outside.  The inside rider was using that line, bad luck.  The bounce of the fence I must admit looked scary.

Click to expand...

WTF are you on about? Rossi WAS on the inside.

Mick D

3528261370238759

WTF are you on about? Rossi WAS on the inside.

Click to expand...

There were two corners in a row, but I am with you and Jumkie. The problem for me with Bautista apart from the ridiculously overoptimistic first corner move  when he took Jorge out last year is that he doesn't act or react in as predictable a manner as the top riders hence their difficulties when they are back in the field for whatever reason and have to deal with him. Someone said elsewhere that he would have been aware where Valentino was but Valentino wouldn't have been aware where he was which seems reasonable. I suppose no racer should ever just concede any corner to any racer but it seems silly to make such high risk manoeuvres in the first or second corner against bike/rider combinations which are inevitably going to distance him in the race, and his continuing involvement in these incidents with riders who otherwise don't have such incidents seems suspicious.

Yes Vale went around the outside of AB in turn two. Ran a bit wide but well set-up for inside line of turn three. At the time of the actual contact AB was moving from the outside to the inside of the track to set up his corner. I think racing incident ultimately, but MAs comment would have been salient if the contact had occurred on the second corner but has nothing to do with what was happening when contact occurred.

I was going to chime in here but Jums got the bases covered. I'm with him, and so was Ben Spies.