Wow what a let down , I'm gutted ! soup !
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Wow what a let down , I'm gutted ! soup !
only move more retarded would have been CRT....
itll be greatness beyond belief........
I think many times Spies has shown he isn't really interested in racing as a passion and does it for the money, why not go where it pays?
^
this is what i have noticed..
most interviews, he mentions bicycles.
guess he has commitment issues LOL
Making a few million racing motorcycles then "retiring" to a love of bicycle riding/racing doesn't seem like a bad idea. Great way to get world wide exposure, attention of international sponsorship, and fund your own team in the 2016 Tour de France
It's still better than any of our jobs.
:shrug:
I wish him great success and hope he kicks butt!!!!
Originally Posted By: Wil KitchensIt's still better than any of our jobs.
:shrug:
And who knows job-S better than Wil? [img]<>/wink.gif[/img]
I HAVE had quite a few :p
By the end of the year(or sooner), he's gonna wish he'd rode bicycles instead, unless something dramatically changes with Ducati.
The main thing the Ducati has been missing is a rider...
Maybe spies is that rider... Either way, he gets a free pass all next season... If he does mediocre it is the bike's fault... If he scores some good finishes then he looks like a hero again and possibly gets another good ride... It will be about the least amount of pressure and expectations as a GP ride gets...
Plus, he is probably going to make some decent bank riding it... Not a bad gig if you can get it...
Satellite teams deal with "media" less.
Easy decision for Spies.
Originally Posted By: John BlackThe main thing the Ducati has been missing is a rider...
Maybe spies is that rider... Either way, he gets a free pass all next season... If he does mediocre it is the bike's fault... If he scores some good finishes then he looks like a hero again and possibly gets another good ride... It will be about the least amount of pressure and expectations as a GP ride gets...
Plus, he is probably going to make some decent bank riding it... Not a bad gig if you can get it...
Dude...what planet are you from...Casey Stoner is possibly the best possible rider and he struggled an eeked out a championship....that bike is a piece of crap.....do you really think Hayden and Rossi suck!
Let have Colin write a review on Ducati, it may be more entertaining than his interviews on CRT.
Originally Posted By: Derek Thomas
Dude...what planet are you from...Casey Stoner is possibly the best possible rider and he struggled an eeked out a championship....that bike is a piece of crap.....do you really think Hayden and Rossi suck!
that bike went from being capable of winning races to being +30 seconds back at the finish line overnight... the only thing that changed was the rider...
i don't think rossi and hayden suck, but, hayden has never been top echelon in GPs and rossi is old and has been eclipsed...
from the moment rossi got on the ducati, he knew he was not going to be able to ride it like he wanted and instead of changing himself (too old to do that), he has expected the bike to be changed to suit him... rossi has not been able to give 100% on that bike and at the GP level, if you are not doing that, you are going to be left behind... even if ducati had been able to give him a bike that was perfectly suited to his every need, he is not as good as the lorenzo or stoner anymore... that is just the way of the world...
This thread is now funny considering this weekends results.
Originally Posted By: John Black[quote=Derek Thomas]
Dude...what planet are you from...Casey Stoner is possibly the best possible rider and he struggled an eeked out a championship....that bike is a piece of crap.....do you really think Hayden and Rossi suck!
i don't think rossi and hayden suck, but, hayden has never been top echelon in GPs
uhh...what were you doing in 2006 besides following motoGP?
i would hardly use 2006 as an argument that Hayden is at the top of the GP food chain... 3 other riders won more races than he did that year and his rookie teammate won as many (as well as having a signifigant higher number of poles that year)...
we could also bring into question the circumstances surrounding those 2 wins that season, but, that is hardly necessary...
add to that what he has done previously and since, and i absolutely stand by my original comment...
Well John, at least at the end of the day, I know your opinion and $1 will still buy me a soda....thanks, you make me laugh!
Derek
Winning and being on pole doesn't win championships. The guy with the most points afte the last race wins the championship. The record books will forever show him winning the 2006 title with no astericks. He did something Dani still hasn't done after being the Honda golden boy for longer than Rossi and Hayden were there.
Saying that it is time for Nicky to drop the hammer and start kicking butt again.
yes, nicky won the championship, but, that season will not be remembered as one where he was the dominant rider simply because he was not... i am not sure why that bothers so many people...
and championship or not, pedro will always be considered a better GP rider by anyone who does not have an agenda... it is not even a comparison...
Nicky Hayden 2006 MotoGP World Champion
Dani Pedrosa ZERO MotoGP world Championships, but always considered a better rider by at least one guy because he is fast and has more race wins! Everyone else just has an agenda.... whatever that means, you're right it's not even a comparison [img]<>/smile.gif[/img]
If Dani never wins a MotoGP Championship, in 20 years there will be a footnote about how fast he was and that he never won a championship.
But Nicky will always be listed as a World Champion, no footnote required.
I dunno John,...MotoGP Champion sounds way better to me than "pole sitter" or most race winner but Championship loser
I must say, the flag waving is cute...
Seriously? Stoner out with injuries. Pedrosa starts from the back and gets taken out. Rossi has Italian gods on his side and got on the box because of attrition. At the end of the day the whole MotoGP gig is a joke and the most boring racing around. Even NASCRAP is more exciting these days and I say that with blood running down my chin. CRT is a miserable failure that Esplezeta concocted in a drunken stupor. THE best racing was and will always be on the 500's. Cheaper to operate and far more enjoyable to watch....the very thing that MotoGP better find and real soon or the series will go away.
funny thing is ,is that when Rossi has dnone well on the Duc is when the teams have the least amount of data for the weekend.
IE. wet practices and dry race or dry practices and wet races, this speaks well for the rider IMHO...
the "other" teams had less data this weekend... rossi and ducati had a 2 day test there a couple of weeks ago...
Amen.Originally Posted By: Tad Murley...the very thing that MotoGP better find and real soon or the series will go away.
SBK and AMA DSB has been a lot more entertaining, and the CRT deal with MotoGP (if everyone was on one) would be great, but not when the prototypes still have the spotlight. I think CRT if done like Moto2 and Moto3 would work very well, the manufacturers will never let that happen though.
Still, the MotoGP riders are still the best in the sport, the machinery is the problem. I could agree with seeing the 500's back, unfortunately, this "green" world sees them as big time polluters. They're gone forever I believe.
As far as Hayden vs Pedrosa, I agree with John; but there is no disputing that a "win is a win" no matter how it happened. The only thing that matters is that Nicky was World Champion and Pedrosa hasn't been capable to make that happen. Personally, I'm not a Pedrobot fan and really not a Marquez fan, but for some reason Repsol and Dorna love those two...