Dennis Noyes:

https://motomatters.com/analysis/2015/11/09/2015_valencia_sunday_motogp_round_up_how.html#comment-71500

Quote from: Speeddog on November 09, 2015, 05:53:33 PM
Dennis Noyes:

https://motomatters.com/analysis/2015/11/09/2015_valencia_sunday_motogp_round_up_how.html#comment-71500

We often try and brush away unpleasantness in this sport by just saying "That's racing."

And, at the end of the day (and the dawn of the next) that's about the most conclusive thing we can say.

That is racing in its most bitter, most hateful, least heroic guise.

Pretty much sums it up.

Yep.

My tin foil hat thoughts......(and possible late night alcohol related musings)  

Rossi's giant ego did not like a race in which he finished 4th being called the race of the Century.
Ego also does not like that this season was quite likely to be held up one of the great seasons and he knew that he was not going to be able to beat Lorenzo for the title after his lack of pace in the last few races by the end of PI and also the return to some form of the Hondas. So to tarnish the PI race, the season and Marquez (who may well eclipse his feats) is a way to make all of this not as good as his races/seasons etc.

All part of his cunning plan to make everyone else to be douches. Everyone took the bait and jumped in head first. Unfortunately for him, he lost his cool and forced MM wide and had a few too many looks back. That made a lot of people start to question what was going on. He still achieved the tarnishing of the season and his team mate.

Lots of us are questioning MM's motivation and actions. Which is what Rossi wanted.....

End of tin foil hat thoughts........

I will reiterate that I really hope next year we go back to the scheduled programming of fantastic racing. There will be moments where we ask what the? There always is, some of it can be always attributed to "Ambition far outweighing talent" style racing incidents.....

This will be the longest off season and not in a good way. Without these jokers having their "parents", aka Dorna and the factories, checking every time someone puts a mic in front of them, we are sure to hear even more bs. I really hope that the magic unibrow comes up with something spectacular. I would rather have someone I actually like to root for next year. Dani or Iannone would suit me just fine.

Superb article, and sums it up perfectly for me.

http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/race/motogp-race/what-really-happened-in-valencia/

The line about them being assassins is fantastic. Interesting, that in a anonymous poll even the pros were split on what happened in Valencia.

Geez, now I can't use that link I copied. 

Quote from: Triple J on November 10, 2015, 11:52:46 AM
Superb article, and sums it up perfectly for me.

http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/race/motogp-race/what-really-happened-in-valencia/

The line about them being assassins is fantastic. Interesting, that in a anonymous poll even the pros were split on what happened in Valencia.

It wasn't quite perfect. I will never like Jorghey. I don't like his robot style on or off the track. He has all the bad qualities I see in Dani plus the additional douchebag gene that makes him unbearable. He's batshit fast when he hits the front, but has no heart for a good battle. I simply will never respect the guy, not even if he decided to stop and perform mouth-to-mouth on the bird that Demented Joseph took out in PI.

Let it go bro. 

Quote from: Triple J on November 10, 2015, 11:52:46 AM
Superb article, and sums it up perfectly for me.

http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/race/motogp-race/what-really-happened-in-valencia/

The line about them being assassins is fantastic. Interesting, that in a anonymous poll even the pros were split on what happened in Valencia.

I really liked that article because he let the impartial reporter mask drop and flat out say he was a Rossi fan. I really appreciate impartial reporting but sometimes it's just nice to hear them fanboy out.

Quote from: kopfjäger on November 10, 2015, 05:26:06 PM
Let it go bro. 

Not going to happen.

 

http://www.motorsport.com/motogp/news/schwantz-rossi-was-in-trouble-even-without-grid-penalty/

Love the text message.