Roadracing Is A Contact Sport

[gm2]

http://moto-racing.speedtv.com/article/motogp-noyes-notebook-roadracing-is-a-contact-sport-pt-i

[gm2]

http://moto-racing.speedtv.com/article/motogp-noyes-notebook-butler-roadracing-is-a-contact-sport-pt-ii-rossi/

[Triple J]

Interesting articles. 

[Drunken Monkey]

This was mentioned in the coverage of the latest round of racing. I won't say why in deference to those who haven't seen the race yet 

[gm2]

http://moto-racing.speedtv.com/article/motogp-noyes-notebook-butler-roadracing-is-a-contact-sport-pt-iii/

[Spidey]

Best part of Part III:

While I was working on this text I spoke to a couple of 500GP riders from the more recent "old days” -- Wayne Rainey and Kevin Schwantz -- to get their take on 'contact' and I'll run that after Le Mans. One of the best quotes from Wayne was, “Well, Kevin and I used to run into each other sometimes, but it wasn’t by accident -- We were too good for that

[koko64]

Best part of Part III:

While I was working on this text I spoke to a couple of 500GP riders from the more recent "old days” -- Wayne Rainey and Kevin Schwantz -- to get their take on 'contact' and I'll run that after Le Mans. One of the best quotes from Wayne was, “Well, Kevin and I used to run into each other sometimes, but it wasn’t by accident -- We were too good for that

[sbrguy]

the guy speaking on behalf of the rules is obviously biased, he is defending is job nothing else,

basically what he is saying is as long as he likes exciting racing its ok to do whatever you want and oh yeah if you are a premier popular racer you won't get sanctioned.  his reasoning for rossi is that it was an agressive move but it worked out, the point should have been he should have been penalized for the laguna seca incident but he didn't want to because it would have made the sport look bad basically.  it was a joke of an article.  if you want to let people bush league race then don't even put any penalities out there, if a guy can crash someone else then fine just say its racing but don't ever try to penalize them after that and say you are trying to protect the riders, you are trying to protect your tv ratings that is all.

[gm2]

the guy speaking on behalf of the rules is obviously biased, he is defending is job nothing else,

basically what he is saying is as long as he likes exciting racing its ok to do whatever you want and oh yeah if you are a premier popular racer you won't get sanctioned.  his reasoning for rossi is that it was an agressive move but it worked out, the point should have been he should have been penalized for the laguna seca incident but he didn't want to because it would have made the sport look bad basically.  it was a joke of an article.  if you want to let people bush league race then don't even put any penalities out there, if a guy can crash someone else then fine just say its racing but don't ever try to penalize them after that and say you are trying to protect the riders, you are trying to protect your tv ratings that is all.

i love those experiences where 2 people see something and report TOTALLY different accounts of it  =)