<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Babelfish @ Aug 7 2006, 08:25 AM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>What are the riders that are not brakes and corner riders?
If you find the perfekt braking point and carry maximum speed through the corner including powering out of it, what more is there in Road Racing?
Anyone that is not a brakes and corner rider surly can't be in MGP? Maybe they should go for dragracing instead?
I'd also like to know what you ment about being better suited.
Was the Yamaha better than the Honda for Rossi or was the Yamaha better for Rossi than the dosen of other riders on it since it came out?
Everyone knows that Rossi makes most of his time through the corners and through braking, I dont know if you race or not but not everyone corners like you stated in your post. Some people brake earlier so that they can take maximum speed through the corner, some people brake almost half way through the corner and then hope to be able to lift the bike up and get better acceleration. We have all seen on many occasion were Rossi has closed down people so dramatically through being able not to run wide were other riders would normally run of the track. This is what makes Rossi so special on a bike, the ability to brake a hell of a lot later than any other rider, whilst being able to make an advantage of it.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Dion @ Aug 7 2006, 10:05 AM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>If the bikes were even a third as vicious as the 500cc bikes then we wouldnt even be talking about Dani, or stoner for that matter!
I would like to see dani ride a 500 MX bike never mind a NSR.
Rossi s hype is due to the fact he is the best, and he is the coolest!
I said it before and i ll say it again if it was not for Rossi, we would be all posting on SBK sites.
Theres only one person i ve seen put in the sheer determination as rossi on final laps, and thats colin edwards. His performance at Assen should keep him in GPs for years! I love the win it or bin it style! Come back Xaus all is forgiven.
What kind of logic is that? people already wrote Dani off because of his size but he's still here isn't he? Dani would handle a 500 just fine. I even think he would be better suited to it actually. His size disadvantage means that he's not able to muscle the bike so he has to let it glide through corner instead of the usual grab the bull by its horns and force it approach. And its not like Dani's the smallest ever! Loris handled it just fine and he's roughly the same size as dani. And I think you forget that Motocycle racing is better suited to smaller people anyway. And what do you mean If it wasn't for Rossi, we'd all be watching SBK? FYI Rossi winning everything has forced me to watch SBK in the first place. This is the first season that I'v been able to watch a full season of Motogp with the same enjoyment and thrill since the 2001 season, like it or not Rossi's dominance has made things predictable and boring.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (vespix @ Aug 7 2006, 10:11 AM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>True, until Nadal left the kindergarten and was shown a racket and a tennis ball. Which takes me back to Rossi and the topic of his lack of competitors. Mike Doohan said that Rossi is better than he was (he said that by the time he announced his wedding, so we might take that with a pinch of salt and put it down to a panic crisis and the strain the guy was inflicting to his life) and Schwantz said he hoped he had Rossi's brains.
To be honest every legend of every sport always say things like that, its called modesty. If I had a penny for everytime someone like Maradona or Pele said "Robinho is the next Pele" or "Messi will be greater than me" I'd be able to buy out Microsoft. IMO if there was ever a race between Rossi and Doohan, Rossi would lose. He would brake to late and run wide or something else, but thats only my opinion. And Nadal's still not an all round court player yet, he's just mastering grass but is still mediocre on hard.
