Casey Stoner retired young. Why?

[Shaun Harris]

This is the best most sensible thoughts on the subject I have ever read about this topic and comes in the middle of the discussion regarding his up bringing from his parents.



" The fact that he left when he did makes me wonder if he lived their dream, or his dream. I have to think it if was his dream, he would still be doing it.

I can't fathom not racing a motorcycle. I have had plenty of good excuses/reasons for walking away, but i can't. It is almost like it is a part of me. And it costs me a lot of my own money. Stoner was getting paid millions to do it, and one could say his reasons for leaving were weak.

His reasons for quitting were things that somebody like me/us would just laugh at and go on, because we don't want to quit. But if he was living somebody else's dream, then those reasons are good enough for him to justify quitting."


I guess at least he made his parents as well as himself extremelly rich financually.



A Talking heads song something to do with " Burning down the house" springs to mind for some reason here Pritch.

[tigertim20]

You're over thinking it.
as talented as we was, he was a whining little cunt who didn't get everything his way like he wanted so he left.

I would not be surprised if he came back, Id love to see him on a suzuki or aprilia entry next year battling with jorge and MM etc. THAT would be entertaining as fuck

[trustme]

From what I have read he never tired of racing a bike , he tired of all the bullshit that surrounded it. He got tired of the press , the politics, the fame, the constant pressure of attention.
Been a few chuck it in early not the least of whom was Croz.

[wayne]

well said, the press politics etc,
he did testing for honda , not a bad test rider to have to test products

[AllanB]

Reckon once you get to that level all the associated bullshit starts to prey one you.

[Shaun Harris]

From what I have read he never tired of racing a bike , he tired of all the bullshit that surrounded it. He got tired of the press , the politics, the fame, the constant pressure of attention.
Been a few chuck it in early not the least of whom was Croz.

Agreed and also Fact! Buy why did he tire of it so soon, perhaps because he was living some one elses dream in the first place for such a dam long from being a pretend child that he never really got to be which turned him into a bleeting whinging prick that he did become in his later years




Starting kids our real young is super duper cool imo but, let them enjoy the racing and there life untill at least early teenage years where they can then start to make there own educated decisions. For the europeans they get to go home to family and friends after a few hours of driving to a semi NORMAL life, he never ever did.


And now owns a farm in an area he spent his early childhood days before departing offshore, in my mind that is for him to find a part of his true missing self.

[Brian d marge]

Let me just say when u work with bikes every day and you can ride pretty much any bike 　、、the gloss wears off . . Also when the pressures on . . Ie the engines gone bang and the boys in hamamatsu are trying to find out why . . You cant start your job untill they do and uour report on that engine is due later the next day

Fishing looks real good

I have 3 weeks with no motorbikes yeahhhh

Stephen

[trustme]

There is a story of him as a kid on the start line bursting into tears, he felt that everyone was looking at him. He never really associated well with others , his mum home schooled him because of the bullying he suffered , was that a solution or simply compounding the problem, buggered if I know.

I could be a little wrong in details as I'm going from memory of an article I read.

Honda rate him as one of the best test riders ever. They gave him a bike , he came back in saying there was a problem in the motor, they found nothing in any of the data so they sent him back out.
Bang went the motor, he has that uncanny feel.

[Shaun Harris]

Reckon once you get to that level all the associated bullshit starts to prey one you.

C Edwards at 40 and many many others in top level motorsport still at it man and they have all had to deal with the same level and shit that he has re press and pressure etc

[Shaun Harris]

There is a story of him as a kid on the start line bursting into tears, he felt that everyone was looking at him. He never really associated well with others , his mum home schooled him because of the bullying he suffered , was that a solution or simply compounding the problem, buggered if I know.

I could be a little wrong in details as I'm going from memory of an article I read.

Correct and exact details man. To me it was a part of the problem, he never really had a shot at social skill data building

[Brian d marge]

Edwards pissed on stage in england was as funny as fk . . Love togo on the piss with that fella
Bang bang from the honda dakar squad is a lad hahahha
Stephen

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[Shaun Harris]

Let me just say when u work with bikes every day and you can ride pretty much any bike 　、、the gloss wears off . . Also when the pressures on . . Ie the engines gone bang and the boys in hamamatsu are trying to find out why . . You cant start your job untill they do and uour report on that engine is due later the next day

Fishing looks real good

I have 3 weeks with no motorbikes yeahhhh

Stephen

Did my first deep sea fishing trip a couple of weeks back out off New Plymouth with a good mate, that was the first time I have been in a fishing boat since I was 8 years old due to my father drowning at sea whislt going out to fish at Patea, Loved it big time and will be getting out a shit load more now.

[AllanB]

C Edwards at 40 and many many others in top level motorsport still at it man and they have all had to deal with the same level and shit that he has re press and pressure etc

Some people can handle stress, some not so. Does not make either 'better' than the other just different.

[Shaun Harris]

Edwards pissed on stage in england was as funny as fk . . Love togo on the piss with that fella
Bang bang from the honda dakar squad is a lad hahahha
Stephen

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I used to see some real funny things going down in the pit padocks of the GP 2 Stroke area days when I was a 250 team manager in 93 I think it was

[Shaun Harris]

Some people can handle stress, some not so. Does not make either 'better' than the other just different.

True! But also some can handle stress better as they were given better grounding data as kids to go into life with