MOTOGP Laguna Seca 2009 and performance enhancing drugs (may contain spoilers)

**JayRacer37** · 7th July 2009, 18:25

Originally Posted by discotex

The best you're going to get is a level of fearlessness but your motor skills would be nowhere near fast enough to take advantage of it and you'd crash on the first corner.

Perhaps not the first corner...

But a good case in point was Hopkins in (I think) 2005 on the Suzuki at Sachsenring - He had a painkilling injection in his broken right foot and couldn't feel that he was standing on the brake lever mid corner which caused him to have a fantasmically high highside! And then, due the the NEW breaks in his foot, he couldn't get his ass off the track so they had to red flag it...

**discotex** · 8th July 2009, 23:12

Originally Posted by riffer

Can you imagine the repercussions if there was a death and the rider was shown to be so painkilled he couldn't actually feel how injured he really was?

Originally Posted by JayRacer37

Perhaps not the first corner...

But a good case in point was Hopkins in (I think) 2005 on the Suzuki at Sachsenring - He had a painkilling injection in his broken right foot and couldn't feel that he was standing on the brake lever mid corner which caused him to have a fantasmically high highside! And then, due the the NEW breaks in his foot, he couldn't get his ass off the track so they had to red flag it...

Yep you guys raise some good points.

There is definitely a point where you have to say the risk of permanant damage or further injury is likely.

The hard part is defining that point huh?

I'd like to think/hope the tour Dr. (can never remember his name) is a fairly good judge of how far to take it and obviously he's sticking well withing the anti-doping rules.

**JayRacer37** · 8th July 2009, 23:18

Originally Posted by discotex

Yep you guys raise some good points.

There is definitely a point where you have to say the risk of permanant damage or further injury is likely.

The hard part is defining that point huh?

I'd like to think/hope the tour Dr. (can never remember his name) is a fairly good judge of how far to take it and obviously he's sticking well withing the anti-doping rules.

Dr. Costa.

I think he does a fantastic job - if the riders want to ride he helps him the best he can under the rules. If they shouldn't ride he tells them so, and if they still want to he will help them.