Must be time for a charity race with all the stars eh? Get all them 500GP bikes outta storage and send invites out to all the stars past and presentOriginally Posted by slowpoke
Would be one hell of a spectacle
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Must be time for a charity race with all the stars eh? Get all them 500GP bikes outta storage and send invites out to all the stars past and present
Would be one hell of a spectacle
Geriatric hoon
Of all the many column inches devoted to Stoner's retirement announcement my pick for best comment is this:
"His talent outweighed his ambition."
Alas, I can't remember where I saw that so I can't attribute it.
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I doubt whoever said that has anywhere near the drive and or ambition Stoner has.
2 stroke-less no more!
That's what he said to Rossi!
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No noooo. Stoner told Rossi he's ambition outweighed his talent.
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No no no it was the other way roung he said that Rossi's Ambition out weighed his talent whitch is a bit rich imho.
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Ha ha ha replyed at the same time ah well great minds think alike eh Pete
Never, never give in.
A bit rich? In the circumstances I reckon he was VERY circumspect...................
It's OK to disagree with me. I can't force you to be right.
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Except for our opinions on who is better of the two!
Geriatric hoon
Ahhh but Google will only give the correct answer if you ask the right question.
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For 2013, everything depends on Lorenzo.
As he will be the No.1 alien next year EVERY team will want him and will be prepared to spend whatever on him.
Once he has decided - Rossi will be next to decide. Pedrosa (after Le Mans I believe) has gone to bottom alien.
Therefore if Lorenzo stays Yamaha then Honda will try for Rossi or if Lorenzo goes for Honda then look to see a Pedrosa and Rossi Yamaha team.
None of the others will actually count next year as they are not at the level of the 4 current aliens. Marquez might be - but he is an unknown on a 1000cc. Midway thru 2013 we may finally know if he has it or not. Bautista a chance to be an alien, if given a factory bike with Ohlins perhaps. Bradl doing ok and De Puniet is good and Spies - well - we will have to see but he is quickly looking like another nearly alien but lost it. Dovi and Crutchlow - also goods but never aliens.
Bring on Catalunya!
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I don't see Pedrosa leaving Honda anytime soon. He has been with them his entire career, and consistently shows the ideals that Honda puts above all else.
Be quiet, don't argue, do what you're told, don't take risks, and power away on the straights
I also don't think Rossi would even consider Honda either. We all know it isn't about the money for him anymore (if ever it was), and they have too much of a personality clash.
Lorenzo, well, I would say that he seems committed to Yamaha given that they have done a lot for him and his career, but you can see in the man's eyes that he wants to win. He wants to win another championship and, I imagine, another hundred or so after that. He looks like he wants to be the GOAT, and as though he will do anything to remove himself from the shadow cast over him by Rossi at Yamaha, and by Stoner last season. A move to a reliable manufacturer like Honda, I wouldn't rule out.
My money, however, is on Bradl going to Repsol (he is already satellite Honda after all), Dani staying with Repsol, Lorenzo sticking with Yamaha, and Crutchlow and Spies swapping places. Dovi's factory time is over (sadly) as he showed he couldn't cut it when given the factory Honda. I think Marquez will take a Simoncelli bike next year (factory but not factory) and, depending on who does the worst between Pedrosa and Bradl next year, one of them will be giving up their ride to him in 2014.
For now, anyway. We have the rest of the season to see how everyone stacks up. If I could have it my way I'd put the current crop of factory riders and satellite riders on CRT bikes and grab a handful of 125 riders to put on them in their places. Unfortunately I don't think this will happen.
Geriatric hoon
Cleve and McWild, open minded comments.
Rossi's first preference would be to win on the Duc but if they can't make progress...
Honda have said they will not have two Spanish riders which, either way you look at it, can only mean Pedrosa must be on borrowed time.
"Face" is very important to Asian people, if Honda consider that hiring Rossi would lose them face it won't happen.
So we all wait to see what Lorenzo will do, and while he waits his price just goes up and up.
In the meantime I find myself in the unusual postion of considering becoming a Lorenzo supporter. This retrospective appeal is due simply to the fact that if Stoner wins the title this year, all and sundry will claim that whoever wins next year only did so because Stoner wasn't there.
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