MotoGP 2013

[DidJit]

Noyes’ Notebook.

[Maido]

Handbag alert!

http://www.crash.net/motogp/news/190..._comments.html

Interesting to see Superbike Planets take on this spat: http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2013/...vs34flamew.htm
I personally lost alot of respect for that website after reading that. It is probably the most biased piece of reporting I have seen from them. The completely took puigs comments out of context and put their own angle on it. They state

However, with his next statement, it's clear that Puig has little desire to debate on facts and citations.

. Umm clearly they didnt read the letter properly as Puig used nothing but facts to back up his retort. After reading Puigs comments myself I actually came away thinking what a clear calculated man he was, very elequant and well spoken.
Superbike planet always get their panties in a bunch when someone slags off 'merkins' this is a bridge to far however. Also they keep bringing up the old dani bumped nikki chestnut ffs let it go!

[Drew]

Interesting to see Superbike Planets take on this spat: http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2013/...vs34flamew.htm
I personally lost alot of respect for that website after reading that. It is probably the most biased piece of reporting I have seen from them. The completely took puigs comments out of context and put their own angle on it. They state . Umm clearly they didnt read the letter properly as Puig used nothing but facts to back up his retort. After reading Puigs comments myself I actually came away thinking what a clear calculated man he was, very elequant and well spoken.
Superbike planet always get their panties in a bunch when someone slags off 'merkins' this is a bridge to far however. Also they keep bringing up the old dani bumped nikki chestnut ffs let it go!

It's one sided, but all articles are. Other than that, I don't see any problem with it. The guy was being a cunt to Kevin, SB planet reported as such.

[tail_end_charlie]

Interesting to see Superbike Planets take on this spat: http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2013/...vs34flamew.htm
I personally lost alot of respect for that website after reading that. It is probably the most biased piece of reporting I have seen from them. The completely took puigs comments out of context and put their own angle on it. They state . Umm clearly they didnt read the letter properly as Puig used nothing but facts to back up his retort. After reading Puigs comments myself I actually came away thinking what a clear calculated man he was, very elequant and well spoken.
Superbike planet always get their panties in a bunch when someone slags off 'merkins' this is a bridge to far however. Also they keep bringing up the old dani bumped nikki chestnut ffs let it go!

Gotta disagree with you there buddy. Did you read all of Puig's letter. He does start of with facts and figures on comparing the careers of Dani to Kevin. And if going soley by those numbers, he brings up some good points. But that's only the first half of Puig's letter, the second half of the letter is more or less a personal attack on Kevin. First he says that the only reason that Kevin won a World Championship was because Rainey crashed out and was paralized. Well, yeah, but whats the first rule of racing? "To finish first, first you must finish." He then goes on to say that because of that Kevin should not brag about being a World Champion.......................but yet I'm failing to see in any of Kevin's statements where he was bragging about being a WC.

Puig then goes on to trash talk Kevin's school in Texas (which isn't in Texas) and how it has never produced a WC racer, and so therefore is a complete failure. What a load of shit. All you have to do is look at the home page of the website to see that the Schwantz School is not a 'race school', their purpose is to make 'more confident, and safer riders.'

Now, do I think Kevin was a little harsh saying that Dani was "a rider who has been with Honda for eight years and not won anything", yes I do. But Puig makes it look like he's a out of control parent at a T-ball game the way he comes running to defend Dani and starts personally shit-talking Kevin. If I were Dani, I would be sitting in the background telling Puig to shut the hell up, your embarrassing me.

[DidJit]

Storm. Teacup.

[imdying]

Meh, Schwantz. Like Hayden, he was lucky to win a championship. Never really rated him at all. It's not that he lacked talent, he was just a Pedrosa or Sete, not a Rossi or a Doohan.

[Drew]

Meh, Schwantz. Like Hayden, he was lucky to win a championship. Never really rated him at all. It's not that he lacked talent, he was just a Pedrosa or Sete, not a Rossi or a Doohan.

That's funny, because even Rainey said that Kevin's only shortcoming on a bike, was that he didn't know when to stop pushing the limit. He could have a twenty second lead 3/4 of the way through a race, and start adjusting his lines to go faster. He was respected as one of the most talented riders on the track by everyone, he just never seemed to give a fuck about the bigger picture.

Edit; might have been Doohan or Roberts that said that actually.

[pritch]

Well Mr Schwantz has a chance to improve his statistics, he's coming out of retirement to race the Suzuka 8 Hour with Haga and Kagayama.

[roogazza]

Well Mr Schwantz has a chance to improve his statistics, he's coming out of retirement to race the Suzuka 8 Hour with Haga and Kagayama.

I don't think I'd pay to see that, but I loved watching the guy in GPs. Spectacular !

[imdying]

Is Haga doing better in Japan than he did in the UK?

[DidJit]

‏@SofaRacer

Tío Pepe is a 'fino' Sherry, because it's refined. This apéritif by @motomatters whets the appetite nicely for Jerez. http://goo.gl/fb/dMfGG

Nothing new in there really... I just liked SofaRacer’s intro.

[DidJit]

Moto2™ porn...

[cmoore]

Jorge leads the way in FP1, enough said.

[roogazza]

Jorge leads the way in FP1, enough said.

This ones for Vale cmoore, think, wish, hope ? lol
Be good for the championship.
Yamaha should be happier here.

[cmoore]

yep although i wish Crutchlow could match them over the race it looks like both Yamahas will be "fighting for the podium"(Spanish for wining) with hopefully Crutchlow behind them...messing up the Honda points....if only Smith could keep up.....