Rossi ditching Ducati for Honda

[tigertim20]

not confirmed,but interesting

http://www.twowheelsblog.com/post/69...marco-melandri

[Crasherfromwayback]

He'd lose a shit load of credibility in my eyes if he did so.

[tigertim20]

some wouldsay he's already losing credibility on the duke as it is. the guy is used to winning, lately he's been spending alot of time mid-grid, hanging out with things like that fucking ugly suzuki that always does shit

[DrunkenMistake]

Shit,
He would run the field if he got off that fucking Duck.
Would be interesting seeing him on a Honda though, replace stoner..

[Mully]

some wouldsay he's already losing credibility on the duke as it is. the guy is used to winning, lately he's been spending alot of time mid-grid, hanging out with things like that fucking ugly suzuki that always does shit

Didn't he lose like a mutherfucker when he first went to Yamaha? Weren't Yamaha rubbish before he went there?

[quallman1234]

Didn't he lose like a mutherfucker when he first went to Yamaha? Weren't Yamaha rubbish before he went there?

Won his first race with yamaha. Perhaps its not the fact he's losing. More that ducati are too strongly committed to a prototype carbon chassis and not listening to his cries?

[Mully]

Won his first race with yamaha

Huh - look at that.

Must be confusing him with Schumacher - went to Ferrari as a champ and made them champs.

I'm blaming concussion from Monday and a shitty week

[tigertim20]

the duke probably has a lot of promise, but it seems to me that for the time being, its an inferior machine. All the talk and crap thats gone on lately 'rossi is over, his shoulder is fucked, the ducati is holding him back, his shoulder is slowing him down' etc makes me want to see him get onto a decent bike like stoner and lorenzo have, and see if he can still win, that way he will either shut the disbelievers up, or we will know one way or the other.

Also, I think stoner is a whining, bitchy cocksucking little motherfucker, and I would like to see his ugly fucking head explode when he's out at practice, and rossi flies past him on a HONDA. the whining little prick would shit himself worrying about losing his job/losing possibly the best bike on the grid

[DEATH_INC.]

Weren't Yamaha rubbish before he went there?

Na, Biaggi beat Fagboy on the H*nda on it, can't have been that bad. The duc is the first time he hasn't been on a real top brand. Funny he ain't winning.

[DEATH_INC.]

Also, I think stoner is a whining, bitchy cocksucking little motherfucker, and I would like to see his ugly fucking head explode when he's out at practice, and rossi flies past him on a HONDA. the whining little prick would shit himself worrying about losing his job/losing possibly the best bike on the grid

The whining little cocksucker won on the Duc tho....

[onearmedbandit]

Stoner proved that the Duc was capable of winning, in the right hands, namely his. No one else has had the same level of success on them. However others have had excellent results on the two big brands, Honda and Yamaha. To me this suggests Stoner is a bit of a freak, able to take the Ducati and make it work, something no one else has been able to do. And that makes him pretty special.

But lets see how many MotoGP championships he wins on the Honda first. Especially if Rossi was to hop back on a similar bike. Now that would make for some interesting racing...

[AllanB]

I read a interesting article recently about Ducati and their carbon frame - supposed that they would not dump it as they are basing a road legal hyper bike on it and if they trash it in Moto why would you want the road bike!

[MIXONE]

Tall poppy syndrome anyone?
Rossi is the goat and always will be.

[Deano]

He's only the goat until someone better comes along. Never say never.

Personally I think Rossi might struggle to keep up with the Stoner nowadays, on equal machinery.

[slowpoke]

Stoner proved that the Duc was capable of winning, in the right hands, namely his. No one else has had the same level of success on them. However others have had excellent results on the two big brands, Honda and Yamaha. To me this suggests Stoner is a bit of a freak, able to take the Ducati and make it work, something no one else has been able to do. And that makes him pretty special.

But lets see how many MotoGP championships he wins on the Honda first. Especially if Rossi was to hop back on a similar bike. Now that would make for some interesting racing...

Don't forget Stoner inherited a Ducati that was obviously a decent weapon, with Capirossi winning and even Bayliss cleaning up in a one off ride (seems even more incredible looking back now). That suggests it was fairly rider friendly. But from that point on it's changed lil' bit by lil' bit into something obviously.....different. Stoner's advantage has been that he is the only guy who had the luxury of gradually adjusting to every lil' step along the way rather having to make one huge readjustment like every other rider who's attempted it.

It's exactly like suspension tuning: if you incrementally changed things over the course of a day the rider could/would adapt, possibly without even realising it. (I guarantee a few race chiefs have done exactly this) Make a large change in one hit though and it's a different story.