2020 MotoGP season ******possible spoilers ******

Just found this gem of a thread. Very nice.... ;-)

I haven't watched qualifying yet.... so.... thanks allot. Hahaha

Referring to posts above: I really WANT to hate MM93, but I just can't bring myself to. I mean, I try, I really do because I'm a Rossi guy. But ultimately I end up admitting to myself that most of the reasons I am a rossi guy also will lead me to be a MM93 guy.

Someone used the term "era-defining" above, and i think that's it. We've all seen Rossi do what Marquez did last weekend. We've seen it, so we knew it was possible before mm started to climb the charts again. Both men have always had a little something left when it counted.

But: Rossi's miracle-well is running dry. You realize this is his 25th season? Incredible. In my book he's the GOAT. But I cannot deny what mm is bringing. And though mm is better than Lorenzo or stoner or any of the other paddock-crybabies we've experienced lately, he still lacks some of that happy-go- lucky, Master of all i see, charisma that is Rossi. But who can blame him: he's not Italian.

The sport will change when rossi leaves. I really hope mm can fill some of that void.

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The Old Man still has it!!!


No MM title this year...

 

Oh FFS Jack! You had it all to lose .....and you succeeded

 

Well ,41 year old finishes 3rd.....
Why would yer bother with F1.

 

Ha!! All those Rossi Haters can suck it!!

Y'all need to hear his after race interview. He's so humble about everything but also tells it like it is. Same with FQ.

So happy for Yamaha riders except FM with that failure. But at least that failure proves all the idiots that said Rossi just quit last week are just that.

 

smiled through the whole race, haha. It was good to see The Man back on a step.... even if not the top step.

 

He's such an inspiring guy and I bet a lot of people buy Yamahas because he rides for them.

I loved that thing he did at the end of the race, climbing on the fence to do his victory dance for the imaginary Rossi supporters

 

Love that interview! (paraphrasing): "I'm not making any excuses for my past results, but now I've got a good one and I need to leverage that with Yamaha".

There's more class and charisma in that man than there is in any other two riders currently on the grid.
And 'ma tell ya, that HEAT? yeah.... it sure affects ME more at 40+ than it did when I was 30. He isn't complaining about it, but I'm sure paying attention.

It's this kind of interview (and of course hundreds more like it) that distinguishes him from the cry-babies of the past. Stoner was always pissed because he would beat Rossi, but everyone gave more attention to Rossi than to him. But then Stoner would be sarcastic and rude to reporters, refuse to show-up for fan-autograph sessions, give pissy one-word answers in interviews for the media, etc. He forgot that he was riding a motorcycle for a living.... how lucky Was he, really? Rossi never forgets that.

 

That may be the dumbest piece of racing "journalism" I've ever read. They could've said "marc bent the ti plate, went back in for surgery". The rest of the extemporaneous fluff was not just unnecessary, it was stupid.

Really? They want to tell us that Honda should've disallowed him to try? Or the docs? Or Puig? Like Marc is 13 yrs old here?

Telling Marc "no" in this situation was nobody's right, nor responsibility. If a rider bears no responsibility for his own actions or decisions because (as the story says) he's simply a victim of his own talent and cannot be relied upon to make good decisions; then neither can the rider accept the credit for strategic winning; setting a pace, stalking another rider, pushing him to make a mistake, tire selection, or any number of other championship- making (or breaking) decisions. Because, after all, he's just an ignorant fool who happens to ride well. 'cuz that's what this article said.


As far as the rest goes: this year's championship is bound to have an asterisk next to it forever. It's a shame for whoever the ultimate champion is, because absolutely none of the issues we've seen so far have been directly covid- related, and yet that will be the narrative proffered by Honda, Puig, and Espeleta. Much like in the hospitals when a patient succumbs to injuries sustained in a car accident: if they also had antibodies then they count it as a covid death.

Pfft. I've had such a gut full of today's broken world. Pfft.

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:sigh: Yup.
Having never been a Doohan fan, I found myself cheering for every spaniard in front of him, hahaha.
But what a heartbreaker for Criville, huh? IF I were him, I'd've told the fans who stormed the track that they had just cost me the win and I was changing my Passport to Mexican.
Idiots. All of them.

It also reminded me of KR Jr; how he always whines that everybody always forgets him when listing the greats from America. But he seems to forget just how forgettable he was for most of his career.

 

Back in 2016 Binder won his first moto3 race from last place, I had been looking forward to him in MotoGP for a long time, glad he hasn’t disappointed.

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Oh that's just awesome.... haha
https://www.autosport.com/motogp/news/151377/yamaha-requests-to-unseal-engines-after-mechanical-woe

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