The future of Dani

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jumkie @ Jun 12 2009, 10:47 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Repsol's current publicity material (the oil company's, not the Honda team) features their sponsored riders raising a giant checkered flag in exactly the same manner as the iconic photo of the WWII Marines on Iwo Jima. superbikeplanet.com

Poll:

1. Good Taste?
2. Poor Taste?
3. Indifferent?

Poor taste. A Spanish oil company has got no business using the heroism of WWII vets to sell their ethnocentric race ambitions.

It's not an offensive use of the imagery, but Repsol is one of the most ignoble racing sponsors on earth.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Rossi_fan @ Jun 19 2009, 01:42 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Being on a high profile team has nothing to do with Marco not being able to ride the ducati. If he was on the works honda he's be running 2nd in the championship right now, behind vale, casey and whoregay.

If there's anyone who doesn't get enough credit for his skills it's marco.
thats a pretty big if you got there and surely if hes behind vale, casey and whoregay, then he would be 4TH?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BigAl @ Jun 19 2009, 02:05 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>thats a pretty big if you got there and surely if hes behind vale, casey and whoregay, then he would be 4TH?



haha i think he means cuz their all tied for first then he'd be second

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jumkie @ Jun 12 2009, 05:47 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Repsol's current publicity material (the oil company's, not the Honda team) features their sponsored riders raising a giant checkered flag in exactly the same manner as the iconic photo of the WWII Marines on Iwo Jima. superbikeplanet.com

Poll:

1. Good Taste?
2. Poor Taste?
3. Indifferent?
I'm a former Marine and it doesn't bother me one bit, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Athletes are always calling themselves warriors and comparing their sports to battle and war.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (hawkdriver @ Jun 19 2009, 10:22 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>I'm a former Marine and it doesn't bother me one bit, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

I agree, im not a marine or anything but my fam. members are/were and i dont think they'd mind at all. Its a clever ad for sure, imitating something so significant and all...people just read into it more than they should and get insulted.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BigAl @ Jun 19 2009, 02:05 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>thats a pretty big if you got there and surely if hes behind vale, casey and whoregay, then he would be 4TH?




lol ya like the guy below you said, I meant this second since they're all tied for first.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jumkie @ Jun 12 2009, 06:47 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Repsol's current publicity material (the oil company's, not the Honda team) features their sponsored riders raising a giant checkered flag in exactly the same manner as the iconic photo of the WWII Marines on Iwo Jima. superbikeplanet.com

Poll:

1. Good Taste?
2. Poor Taste?
3. Indifferent?
I think its quite ironic seeing the spanish remained neutral during ww2 yet use this image to promote there product. im quite disgusted by it.

And i wasn't in tears jumkie, i had a fly in my eye !