Rossi vs. Ducati...and more spoilers

[kopfjäger]

I've got a solution..
rehire Stoner.. 

[koko64]

Rossi going up against Stoner, Pedrosa, Lorenzo with a satellite Yamaha?

'Cause I can't see Yamaha giving him a full-factory bike to compete with their own factory riders.

Maybe they might still give him what he wants, they still have a high regard for him. Psuedo factory team?

[gm2]

'Cause I can't see Yamaha giving him a full-factory bike to compete with their own factory riders.

i can, definitely.

[Mugen939]

Rossi going up against Stoner, Pedrosa, Lorenzo with a satellite Yamaha?

'Cause I can't see Yamaha giving him a full-factory bike to compete with their own factory riders.

Just means more podiums for a yamaha bike. They'll definitely do it. Manufacturers don't care about taking care of their star riders, they care about advertising the brand.

[OT]

'Cause I can't see Yamaha giving him a full-factory bike to compete with their own factory riders.

Factory Yamaha will rehire Rossi and send The Ben packing.....bet the ranch on it  

[zooom]

Factory Yamaha will rehire Rossi and send The Ben packing.....bet the ranch on it 

now that is far fetched and crazy...but not impossible...

[ducpainter]

now that is far fetched and crazy...but not impossible...

Why...because a large Japanese corporation would show loyalty to an American employee that hasn't produced at a winning level?

Rossi in tenth is a bigger draw than Ben in ninth...

[zooom]

WELL...here is my reasoning....Rossi had a small tantrum with Yammie when he left, but it was nowhere near as spiteful as when he left Honda, it was a salvagable type of break-up of sorts...it would take a bit of pride swallowing...but doable...

that is on the Rossi side of things....

on The Ben side of things....IF he gets results and it is a measurable seat of the points and starts generating the expected performance they had hoped for, he stands a much better bargaining chip in the whole deal and pushes some of the other early silly season strings around to his favor...

[ducpainter]

<snip>
on The Ben side of things....IF he gets results <snip>

Still waiting...

[BMiller]

Glad to see I'm not the only one who hasn't drank from the Rossi Koolaid.  I'll admit he is/was an amazing rider, but I don't really care for him and I never have...plus I don't think enough credit was given to the Yamaha he was riding.  Putting him on a Ducati doesn't make me like him any better.  I bet if Nicky had shifted to Honda again....he may have already achieved another GP overall win just like Stoner.  Ducati has some work ahead of them and I hope for their sake Rossi can get it together and finish right behind Nicky 

[ZLTFUL]

Glad to see I'm not the only one who hasn't drank from the Rossi Koolaid.  I'll admit he is/was an amazing rider, but I don't really care for him and I never have...plus I don't think enough credit was given to the Yamaha he was riding.  Putting him on a Ducati doesn't make me like him any better.  I bet if Nicky had shifted to Honda again....he may have already achieved another GP overall win just like Stoner.  Ducati has some work ahead of them and I hope for their sake Rossi can get it together and finish right behind Nicky  

Ok...just want to get this straight...So it's not the rider, it's the bike...except when it's the rider and not the bike. But if it's the right rider and the right bike, then it's the rider AND the bike?
Gotcha.

Oh and you don't like Rossi.

Glad we had a chance to clear that up.

[BMiller]

Ok...just want to get this straight...So it's not the rider, it's the bike...except when it's the rider and not the bike. But if it's the right rider and the right bike, then it's the rider AND the bike?
Gotcha.

Oh and you don't like Rossi.

Glad we had a chance to clear that up.

It's a combination of both.  No I don't like Rossi

[gm2]

That thing about nicky would already have another championship is a good one =)

[MadDuck]

OK, there is definitely a bike problem. How truly bad we don't know for sure but it's a hand full and if there is only one rider that has been able to win with it in the past that also speaks volumes about how good/bad it is. If Rossi doesn't like it enough to try harder, i.e. he doesn't think it's close enough for him to try so hard that it increases his chances of crashing over an otherwise better set up bike, then that is a rider problem to some degree also. The other Ducati riders are trying harder and maybe they have more to prove than he does. Then again, Rossi is making loud statements about the bike in any way and any where he can. Do you think he might sit out the next race in two weeks?

[zooom]

  Do you think he might sit out the next race in two weeks?

nope...