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Valentino Rossi: An Apology For His Assen Mistake *SPOILER*

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  1. RP

    RP F1 World Champ

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    (no excuses, he admits he made a mistake, says he made a mistake three times in his first four sentences, unlike Hamilton ramming Raikkonen in the pits and then blaming the rule)

    Valentino Rossi accepted responsibility for his first lap crash at Assen and does not think it will prove too costly for his championship bid.

    The Italian fell and then collected Randy de Puniet's LCR Honda at the start of today's Dutch TT, before rejoining to take 11th.

    The result saw Rossi lose the championship lead to Dani Pedrosa, whose second place puts him four points ahead in the standings.

    "It's a shame. I also want to apologise to de Puniet because it was my mistake," Rossi told Italia1 television.

    "When I turned left the tyre was still cold and I lost it and I caught him with me. I made a mistake. Unfortunately we have this chronic problem at the start when I never manage to have a good getaway, after which I made a mistake."
     
  2. smart_alek

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    Valentino truly loves his sport and respects it. He has a lot of fun doing it, it's fun watching him enjoy it. He isn't a pretentious little bastard.
     
  3. GuyIncognito

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    +1. A true sportsman, and there are very few of them left in any sport these days.
     
  4. kraftwerk

    kraftwerk Two Time F1 World Champ

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    What is this BS, the art of making the idiotic sound sensible .I thought this was Racing and tracking when I lasted looked.

    Why not start a sub section .. The World's Most Sorry Championship. :current leader Rossi :rolleyes:

    For the last time, Lewis Hamilton said sorry to Kimi, the only one person he needed to say it to ok, end off.

    Is every damn thread you start going to be like this... :confused:
     
  5. maxorido

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    +1

    Apparently, and unfortunately, this streak is continuing....
     
  6. RP

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    You do not have to read these threads!! I do not have to like or agree with every thread on FChat, you do not either.

    An apology does not have much merit if after you give it you start blaming something other than yourself in public, which what Hamilton has done. Sort of makes the apology meaningless. You do not have to agree with me, frankly it does matter. You defend his actions, I find his actions as a professional race driver to be a negative to the sport.

    As I said previously, the facts are the facts.
     
  7. moretti

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    Valentino is the greatest thing to EVER happen to motorsport and we can only hope he gets sick of riding bikes and comes over to F1, boy does this sport need someone like him

    I have rarely seen anything from Valentino other than humility , except when he was racing Biaggi :D

    He has great fun, rides hard, makes crap bikes look good and admits if his fellow riders do well, he is a true champion both on and off the track ..... and his end of race antics are things of legend compared to the F1 crowd

    are you belittling Valentino's achievements and honesty ?
     
  8. smart_alek

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    On a bike, the rider makes up more of the difference between machine and man.
     
  9. kraftwerk

    kraftwerk Two Time F1 World Champ

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    John, I'am not into bikes, I have hurt myself to many times on them.

    I know of Rossi, no nothing of his personal traits not that it would matter to me, heard that he did test a F1 car and was very good ,hope he does get into F1, even his name sound's fast..

    The fact that EVEN a thread about motor bikes :rolleyes: starts up by bashing Lewis is my point!!.,as well you know.
     
  10. kraftwerk

    kraftwerk Two Time F1 World Champ

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    If and when I hear/read that the man in question , i.e Kimi was upset that Lewis did not grovel low enough, or was not humble enough or retracted his apology or whatever you think, I will then assume you have a point.

    But to be quite frank ,this is a ridiculous discussion, and one which I find meaningless ,if you think Lewis is a negative to F1, so be it.!! ........I find it quite ironic you have defended Max.

    And its sad because apart from your take on Lewis ,you have a lot of great thing's to say.
     
  11. moretti

    moretti Five Time F1 World Champ
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    I think the point is Steve, that even a multiple world motoGP champion, probably the best in history, can admit he has screwed up.

    I liked him more than Doohan because Doohan could make some arrogant remarks which did not endear him.

    I think the last guy to go from bikes to cars was John Surtees (successful transition ie, WC bikes->WC cars, Nuvolari did it as well, Mike Hawthorn ?)

    anyway, I think Ron is baiting you and you are taking it ... ignoring is bliss :)

    BTW cold winter we're having at the moment, 10 degrees C at night and 26 degrees C during the day, broke out the woolies :D
     
  12. kraftwerk

    kraftwerk Two Time F1 World Champ

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    Maybe..... wrap up warm mate, I wouldn't want you getting a chill...;)
     
  13. ITR1203

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    This is ridiculous. Didn't your golden child Massa blame everything other than himself when he lost his car during the race early this season? The only one in F1 I recall who will admits his own mistakes is Kimi, which I admire very much.
     
  14. gsjohnson

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    No question Ron baits others who have disagreed with him on issues in the past. His threads, although informative, almost always contain a sligh comment relating to a posters previous diasagreeing opinion.
     
  15. tifosi12

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    I thought he apologized for telling everybody he'd be driving a F1 Ferrari soon.
     
  16. kraftwerk

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    Maybe... and Aussie John, gives him the bullets...;)
     
  17. moretti

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    I am a winder-upper extraordinaire, but I like to think I pick my targets and just return volley.

    No harm meant in any of my posts, even when I call drivers wankers, I am just jealous they are getting mucho moolah to do what I pay mucho moolah to do for fun

    At the end of the day I will never be WDC but I will probably have more fun on the track than these guys (not Rossi though, he is mad) and the only interview I get when I come off the track is "you are nuts" or "that was the best spin I've ever seen" , to which I cannot reply because I have too big a grin, Steve McQueen got it right, there is only racing, everything else in between is just waiting for the race.... or something to that effect (you watch the pedants :) )
     
  18. Champboat/Champcar

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    You can`t bash the guy for saying he made a mistake, in the real world how many people admit when they are wrong? Everybody allways blame somebody else, Valentino is a class act , a true racer.
     
  19. PSk

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    #19 PSk, Jun 29, 2008
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    kraftwerk,

    I like Coulthard and Button, but many of the other British racing drivers are all the same. Mansell used to whinge like nobody else, and Lewis is treading down the same path.

    Atleast Mansell was fncken exciting to watch when he was wound up, AND atleast Mansell earned his competitive seat the proper way. Sorry I simply don't like Lewis, I don't like the fact that his being in F1 is all to do with British money for Bernie and I don't like new drivers starting in competitive teams ... makes a mockery of the sport.

    Yes he is fast and yeah he will probably (but I'm not so sure) make WDC one day, but Coulthad and Jensen Button have better attitudes and from what I have seen so far would be a better example to the rest of the world of British sports people.

    I will say that I feel a little sorry for him, because the British have put him up on a unrealistic pedistal where the only way forward is down :(. If he had been correctly humble when paired with Alonso and set the correct expectations to the press then I would like the guy ... instead he talked BS (he should have instead said: It's only my first year and I am working hard to watch and learn, even if I do manage to win a few races ... ) and really caused what he is getting now, ie: British press beating him up for not performing.
    Pete
     
  20. maxorido

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    Actually he did say this. Last year he praised Alonso, and said things like "He's a bloody good driver" and that he was "learning a lot from him". The problem is, journalists know they woln't generate as much buzz with these comments as they would others. You see how you people are taking to his comments like sharks to a bloody leg? You're all falling for it like the sheep journalists and politicians know you can be.
     
  21. PSk

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    Thus I need to eat some humble pie then :).

    Pete
     
  22. moretti

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    if he didn't make them no-one could say anything, but point taken, Kimi gets in the poo for saying NOTHING :)
     
  23. waltk88

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    tifosiron, please be careful with your thread titles. I saw the title ahead of the delayed US broadcast of the race. Too much info, man.
     
  24. kraftwerk

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    Pete, Jim (Maxorido ) said it really, folk just hear what they want to hear, to me It seems Hamilton is doing exactly what everyone has been hoping a driver would do and he gets criticized for it.
     
  25. kraftwerk

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    I wouldn't expect anything less..;)
     

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