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The Rossi Interviews

MdubSTYLIE said:
He is a dirt bag. He is just saying the things he thinks we want to hear. Two things stand out for me. "I don't deserve a teammate like Jorge for what I do for yamaha. " What a joke. We already knew you felt this way by the giant wall he built. He seems to like to help riders until they join gp and become faster than him then he uses psychological warfare on them. Iononne was his friend until they battled then he start treating him different and making ...... comments about him.

Lets take a look at some of his main competitors through out the years.
Max Biaggi. Rossi did a victory lap with a blow up doll with Max's girlfriends name on it.
Sete Gib. He blew a hole in Sete's ankle in the final corner at Jerez.
Casey Stoner. We all know how that went. There was no love between those two.
Jorge Lorenzo. As mentioned from day 1 he had a wall built between the two pits. I guess he wanted another Colin Edwards, someone he could beat regularly and would kiss his .... Jorge went in with number 48 and really looking up to Rossi. It didn't take long for Jorge to see Rossi for who he really is.
Marc Marquez. Do I need to say anything other than the sepang kick. He will never own up to what he did there and neither will his fans. There is no debate as to what went down and will always be the moment anyone not blinded by the yellow stain well have seen Rossi for who he is. And this is to my the second thing he said in this video. His comments toward Marc were pathetic. He is still holding a grudge when he is not the victim here. It will take another 20 to 30 years to what? .... you Rossi. Your legacy is tarnished and looking back the entire thing is nothing but garbage. Your attitude is fake and pathetic and anyone who falls for it has been con'ed by an ....... con artist.
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I am mostly over it now and see little point in rehashing events going forward.

I can understand him being upset about Sepang 2015, although he more or less got what he asked for at the pre-race press conference, was the one who eventually made the non racing/illegal move as you say, and that race was not what cost him the championship, but PI 2015/MM tanked a race he won remains the genesis of it all and his attitude remains irrational imo.
 
MdubSTYLIE said:
This is probably the only gp related website that is happy about Rossi retiring. Because most of us here aren't sheeple.
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Come on, admit it.



You may not like Rossi but you __________ Uccio

Feel free to fill in the blanks (this could make a good game)
 
I’m going to go back on what I said about his laudatory comments about Stoner and Lorenzo. On second thought the comments were quite backhanded, especially concerning Lorenzo.

He still seems to think the Yamaha “owed him” an easy to beat team mate. Still a ......, will always be one.
 
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Bern1 said:
I’m going to go back on what I said about his laudatory comments about Stoner and Lorenzo. On second thought the comments were quite backhanded, especially concerning Lorenzo.

He still seems to think the Yamaha “owed him” an easy to beat team mate. Still a ......, will always be one.
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I actually think he is genuine about Stoner for two prime reasons.

1. The Ducati years humbled him given what he produced
2. His alternates are to praise Lorenzo and/or Marquez, both of whom I feel he dislikes with a greater passion than he does Stoner.


On the Lorenzo side, absolutely agree .............. he did not want a fast team mate but whether that was more at Lorenzo or Yamaha is a question
 
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Gaz said:
I actually think he is genuine about Stoner for two prime reasons.

1. The Ducati years humbled him given what he produced
2. His alternates are to praise Lorenzo and/or Marquez, both of whom I feel he dislikes with a greater passion than he does Stoner.


On the Lorenzo side, absolutely agree .............. he did not want a fast team mate but whether that was more at Lorenzo or Yamaha is a question
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His reputation is also intertwined with Stoner’s whom he beat and was beaten by with both close to their primes. I am obviously biased, but imo few would consider Gibernau, or Biaggi as a premier class rider, to be as formidable as Stoner in that class. As you allude to, he and JB have outright said they thought Stoner’s method of riding the Ducati was basically impossible and involved just about crashing the thing on every corner.

It has been my view going back to 2009 that Rossi had intimated to Yamaha he would retire after beating Stoner 2 out of 3, hence Lorenzo being considered by Yamaha to be their future, then changed his mind. Subsequently he seems to have decided that Lorenzo plotted with MM to deprive him of the 2015 title, something from which he has never resiled.
 
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Gaz said:
I actually think he is genuine about Stoner for two prime reasons.

1. The Ducati years humbled him given what he produced
2. His alternates are to praise Lorenzo and/or Marquez, both of whom I feel he dislikes with a greater passion than he does Stoner.


On the Lorenzo side, absolutely agree .............. he did not want a fast team mate but whether that was more at Lorenzo or Yamaha is a question
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I think he knows he can use the rhetoric that his fans use to this day regarding Stoner, that he only beat Rossi to the 2007 title because the Ducati was by far a better bike (we all know it wasn't).

With Lorenzo, he doesn't have that excuse and Marquez. Well, he knows Marquez is a threat to his legacy.
 
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I think he knows he can use the rhetoric that his fans use to this day regarding Stoner, that he only beat Rossi to the 2007 title because the Ducati was by far a better bike (we all know it wasn't).

With Lorenzo, he doesn't have that excuse and Marquez. Well, he knows Marquez is a threat to his legacy.
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I am attempting to retreat from all this, but my view back then and now was that the Ducati was on many tracks ultimately the faster bike if you could ride it, Rossi was rather good back then and imo extracted pretty much the maximum from the 2007 Yamaha. Being able to ride the 2007 Ducati was rather the trick though, maybe MM could have ridden it as Stoner did but few if any others then or since, including Rossi, would have managed to do so, again imo.
 
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michaelm said:
I am attempting to retreat from all this, but my view back then and now was that the Ducati was on many tracks ultimately the faster bike if you could ride it.
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Yup, and there's the point. Capo was hardly a slouch, he was a championship contender in 2006 yet compared to Stoner he was nowhere. Likewise Melandri, nowhere on the 08 Ducati.
 
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320Dave said:
Not watching this .... speak lol. He can just .... off already.
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Same. I was tempted to watch but after reading the comments, not gonna watch it. Fk him. I was one of his biggest fan back then. Never meet your “hero”, or so they said. Glad I never met the guy lol.
 
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michaelm said:
I am attempting to retreat from all this, but my view back then and now was that the Ducati was on many tracks ultimately the faster bike if you could ride it, Rossi was rather good back then and imo extracted pretty much the maximum from the 2007 Yamaha. Being able to ride the 2007 Ducati was rather the trick though, maybe MM could have ridden it as Stoner did but few if any others then or since, including Rossi, would have managed to do so, again imo.
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I think the notion that MM can ride anything, has some cracks in it, given his performance on this years bike.

What Casey did on that 07 pile of ....., is the greatest thing we have ever seen on a motorbike, in modern times.
It may not I have seen quite as sexy back in 07, but in hindsight, after watching rider after rider fail in subsequent years, it was a moonshot of achievement
 
Albert Tatlock said:
I think the notion that MM can ride anything, has some cracks in it, given his performance on this years bike.

What Casey did on that 07 pile of ....., is the greatest thing we have ever seen on a motorbike, in modern times.
It may not I have seen quite as sexy back in 07, but in hindsight, after watching rider after rider fail in subsequent years, it was a moonshot of achievement
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Marc may not be able to ride anything, can't judge that from this year though. Casey however, he's a rider who didn't play to the ring leaders. Can't prove, but likely the actual GOAT.
 
Albert Tatlock said:
I think the notion that MM can ride anything, has some cracks in it, given his performance on this years bike.

What Casey did on that 07 pile of ....., is the greatest thing we have ever seen on a motorbike, in modern times.
It may not I have seen quite as sexy back in 07, but in hindsight, after watching rider after rider fail in subsequent years, it was a moonshot of achievement
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I have a level of agreement here. I did find it sexy though
 
Barbedwirebikerr said:
Marc may not be able to ride anything, can't judge that from this year though. Casey however, he's a rider who didn't play to the ring leaders. Can't prove, but likely the actual GOAT.
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It is fair to say that by virtue of Stoner repeatedly beating both Lorenzo and Rossi in their prime on that POS Ducati, that he's high up there in the pantheon of GOATs. Until the advent of Fabio it has not seemed Marquez has had anyone who could consistently match him in ability and spirit.
 

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