Brilliant!!

Yep that was tops.

   Not that he still had the shits or anything.





                          Mmick

Lets face it. He had plenty of time to return to pits, shower, change, consult his media advisor and watch the end of the race. He had that line for some time and was obviously just waiting to use it.

I would have been plenty pissed off but what can you do. That front end is still costing him races.

NB - post content purposely kept cryptic for spoiler reasons.

 

I may even use that in one of my classes.

Just my opinion, I hope devil's advocate is okay for you guys.

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Meh - it all reeks of fabricated drama.
You push hard, sometimes mistakes happen, that being said, it was undoubtedly a terrible move with bad consequence and the guy is a knob for trying to make it stick.

The maker of the quote here had every right to be annoyed with it happening and definitely with the lack of assistance from the marshals afterwards, but that's about it... (Apparently) The Twitter-verse was ablaze from race mechanics who were suggesting that the rider was carrying on like a douche bag afterwards... You can kind of wear that.. he's just been taken out of a race, high adrenalin, yadda yadda.

However...
Maybe it's just me, but if someone comes and apologises to you, you either accept it or you don't.. and you move on. For my money, carrying on like a petulant child and making a smart ass comment in a foreign language whilst smiling and "accepting" the apology just doesn't work.

Yup, I probably hold the rider in question to a higher standard.
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definitely a shit move and he knew it(cause he knows better given his talent). pity.

Quote from: Wells on April 03, 2011, 04:35:42 PM

However...
Maybe it's just me, but if someone comes and apologises to you, you either accept it or you don't.. and you move on. For my money, carrying on like a petulant child and making a smart ass comment in a foreign language whilst smiling and "accepting" the apology just doesn't work.

Yup, I probably hold the rider in question to a higher standard.
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Yep totally agree.

Quote from: techno on April 03, 2011, 03:10:33 PM
That front end is still costing him races.

Not to sure about this, you could be right, but it just seemed like he was going in to hot for those conditions... could still be the front end issues but im leaning towards an overly aggressive move in the wet.

Quote from: cakeman on April 03, 2011, 05:56:47 PM
...but im leaning towards an overly aggressive move in the wet.

Couple of aggressive passes in that section of the race. There was a pretty big squeeze out by the then race leader to take get in to that position.

Drew, can you rename the thread to put "MOTOGP JEREZ SPOILER" in there so we can talk freely.
Surely anyone who cares knows not to read the forum, the newspaper, listen to the radio, etc.

Quote from: Wells on April 03, 2011, 06:06:07 PM
Surely anyone who cares knows not to read the forum, the newspaper, listen to the radio, etc.

you would think so, but I went to check the SMH this morning for the weather and there it is! right in my face!  shut the browser down as fast as I could!

Warning: These links contain potential spoilers if you haven't seen the race.

Best line ever from one of the Eurosport commentators:
http://twitter.com/Spalders/statuses/54600253785112576

Photo that sums it all up: http://bit.ly/fTKS4Y


All in all an action packed race, regardless of the outcome.

Yep I have to say it was a great race and not for who won but for who lost.
And I'm not just talking about those who got taken out but those who were far in front and had it in hand and chucked it down the road and there was more than one of them.

Now onto Moto 2

Quote from: mattyvas on April 03, 2011, 08:35:39 PM
Yep I have to say it was a great race and not for who won but for who lost.
And I'm not just talking about those who got taken out but those who were far in front and had it in hand and chucked it down the road and there was more than one of them.

Now onto Moto 2

You have to feel for Simoncelli. So close to getting his first under the belt!

Ahh good times, thread has spoiler in the title now.  I even obfuscated the link with bit.ly in case it gave something away



Casey could have been smarter from a PR perspective. Even if you are right, sometime you dont need to *say* it. Doohan telling Criville that his "perception of racing needs to be fine tuned" comes to mind.


I reckon it was all a conspiracy to get Spanish riders 1st and 2nd. The marshalls didn't seem to want to help anybody out.

to be entirely cynical that was an planned aggressive Rossi move that paid out in his favour in more ways than one

as for the apology whilst people may think Stoner was a smart ass - who's a bigger ass for not taking his lid off and thus making it a little more sincere?  Those who argue Rossi wanted to get there straight away and thus not take his helmet off is crap - you can easily remove your lid and pass to your cabana boy in the time it takes to walk between garages.  I reckon Rossi kept the lid on as he was smiling even more.  End of the day Stoner has stated it was a race incident and accepted it.  As for the Spanish Monkeys err Marshalls well they will always help a European before anyone else.  I think Edwards got similar treatment with his off.

Rossi keeps that up he wont be popular at PI.  I for one have lost a bit of respect for him.

Good on Stoner for playing it up - after all it was all for the media!

Quote from: techno on April 03, 2011, 03:10:33 PM
Lets face it. He had plenty of time to return to pits, shower, change, consult his media advisor and watch the end of the race. He had that line for some time and was obviously just waiting to use it.

First thing I thought of too. You could just TELL he was waiting to use that line.

That and a snide remark about "oh, is your shoulder still bugging you?" or something to that effect