MotoGP @ Phillips Island: 1st practice times

[emaN]

Appreciate your replies lads, but I disagree.
But that's cool.

One thing, if I may; from what I understand, these 800 GP bikes take incredible precision to ride competitively, lap after lap after lap, sometimes on consecutive week-ends.
When an Alien is injured/recovering & riding at a less than optimum physical condition, given the above he's riding with a major handicap.

Me? A Rossi fan?
Forza Vale!!!

[Crasherfromwayback]

Appreciate your replies lads, but I disagree.
But that's cool.

One thing, if I may; from what I understand, these 800 GP bikes take incredible precision to ride competitively, lap after lap after lap, sometimes on consecutive week-ends.
When an Alien is injured/recovering & riding at a less than optimum physical condition, given the above he's riding with a major handicap.

Me? A Rossi fan?
Forza Vale!!!

Care to have a wee wager on who will beat who next season then mate?

[emaN]

Care to have a wee wager on who will beat who next season then mate?

(Just logged into KB for 1st time in a while!)

Hmmm, let you know this time next year
Suffice to say my dislike for Casey was 'upped' as of Valencia's race.

I reckon Hopper & Georgie have kinda reinforced what I meant about the whole "racing injured" thing tho'.
The physical demands must be unreal.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Suffice to say my dislike for Casey was 'upped' as of Valencia's race.

.

Why on earth would that be? Are you worried about your sexuality? You starting to fall for him?

Other than that...sit back and enjoy the show. Stoner is the most agressive, most skilled, most hang it out racer you've probably ever seen, or likely to see for a while.

But of course...that's no good at all.

[merv]

Yeah, so why the dislike, just because he outgunned Elbows to take the win?

[Crasherfromwayback]

Yeah, so why the dislike, just because he outgunned Elbows to take the win?

Because the haters have been proved wrong, yet don't have the balls/decency to admit it Merv.

Stoner would've won the Championship on the Yamaha too. Plenty of people in the know that'll agree with that.

He was there, or there abouts on the Ducati. And 'God' finished 7th on it this year.

Stoner is a freak of nature.

Oscar...where are you now? Don't make me go back and dig up our posts regarding just who is the fastest/what defines the fastest.

Man up.

[denill]

Suffice to say my dislike for Casey was 'upped' as of Valencia's race.

What a strange thing to say?

The guy's a RACER. And he proved that beyond all doubt. It would have been easy to settle for 2nd.

Geeez, it's hard to please some people..................

[denill]

Suffice to say my dislike for Casey was 'upped' as of Valencia's race.

What a strange thing to say?

The guy is a RACER and he sure proved that when he could so easily have just settled for 2nd.

You just can't please some people.......................

[Oscar]

Because the haters have been proved wrong, yet don't have the balls/decency to admit it Merv.

Stoner would've won the Championship on the Yamaha too. Plenty of people in the know that'll agree with that.

He was there, or there abouts on the Ducati. And 'God' finished 7th on it this year.

Stoner is a freak of nature.

Oscar...where are you now? Don't make me go back and dig up our posts regarding just who is the fastest/what defines the fastest.

Man up.

Stoner may be the GOAT in the fullness of time.
I think his only weakness lies between his ears.
Come back when he's won 133 races and we'll talk.

[denill]

Stoner may be the GOAT in the fullness of time.
I think his only weakness lies between his ears.
Come back when he's won 133 races and we'll talk.

So Haydon, like everyone else that's tried, can't ride that thing either. Whats it gonna take to convince people that Stoner can ride?
Makes you wonder how fast that little nutter would go on a decent bike!

That was posted - 30th March 2009 in another thread. That "Thing", being "Ducati". SVR knew something back then..............

It's about the here and now Oscar - not the past.

[sosman]

Yep Stoner is a frrrreak!

from wikipedia:

One feat he achieved that illustrates his passion and "need" for racing was at age twelve. Over one weekend he raced in 5 different categories in all 7 rounds of each capacity. A weekend consisting of 35 different races... Not only did he compete in all these categories and different engine capacities, the young Casey Stoner went on to win 32 out of the 35 races. There were five Australian titles to be won that weekend, Stoner won all 5.

How about that drift on the long left hander QP (Valencia)

[Crasherfromwayback]

Stoner may be the GOAT in the fullness of time.
I think his only weakness lies between his ears.
Come back when he's won 133 races and we'll talk.

There's no way on earth Stoner will be around long enough to beat Rossi's record. I can't see anyone beating that for a very long time.

But Rossi ain't gonna beat Ago's record, so he ain't the GOAT either if records are your thing.

Stoner weak between the ears?

Anyone that sets as many poles, and wins as many races as Stoner did this year, in the style he did it, is one mentally tough MoFo.

I reckon even you Oscar...must've enjoyed seeing the way Stoner rode that thing this year!?

[gixerracer]

Stoner may be the GOAT in the fullness of time.
I think his only weakness lies between his ears.
Come back when he's won 133 races and we'll talk.

Who really gives a fuck about statistics except for BOARING statastions!
Rossi has won a truck load for sure, got lucky early on as Mick retired early.
Rossi was the man of his time no doubt BUT HIS TIME IS UP he even has mentioned racing WSBK which is for the Motogp guy's that cant win at Motogp level.
Stoner is king of the 800 era and for the past few years has been the best rider on the planet and I cant see that changing in the next year or two.
People may not like for what ever reasons but boy do they look stupid when they try and discredit what he has done and he is still very young.

[Crasherfromwayback]

People may not like for what ever reasons but boy do they look stupid when they try and discredit what he has done and he is still very young.

And if we're to compare apples with apples, in the 800cc era (not till then that Stoner got factory equipment), he's won 32 races to Rossi's 21. Two titles each. Says it all really.

[Oscar]

Who really gives a fuck about statistics except for BOARING statastions!
Rossi has won a truck load for sure, got lucky early on as Mick retired early.
Rossi was the man of his time no doubt BUT HIS TIME IS UP he even has mentioned racing WSBK which is for the Motogp guy's that cant win at Motogp level.
Stoner is king of the 800 era and for the past few years has been the best rider on the planet and I cant see that changing in the next year or two.
People may not like for what ever reasons but boy do they look stupid when they try and discredit what he has done and he is still very young.

What the fuck is a "statastions"?

For your information we were talking about the "Greatest of all time.", not the greatest of the moment (which is undoubtedly Stoner).
In a year or two?
Who knows?
Who would have picked Rossi to be in this position two years ago?